Utafutaji Health and Wellbeing Kwa tarehe ya kutolewa kitabu
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Impacts of Multisectoral Cash Plus Programs After Four Years in an Urban Informal Settlement: Adolescent Girls Initiative-Kenya (AGI-K) Randomized Trial.
(National Library of MedicinePLOS ONE, 2022)Background: The vast majority of adolescent births occur in low- and middle-income countries and are associated with negative outcomes for both the mother and her child. A multitude of risk factors may explain why few ... -
Impacts of Multisectoral Cash Plus Programs on Marriage and Fertility After 4 Years in Pastoralist Kenya: A Randomized Trial
(National Library of MedicineScience Direct, 2022)Purpose: Early marriage has multiple drivers including cultural and social norms alongside lack of educational and economic opportunities. This complexity may explain why few programs have demonstrated marriage delays and ... -
Short- and Long-Read Metagenomics of Urban and Rural South African Gut Microbiomes Reveal a Transitional Composition and Undescribed Taxa
(National Library of MedicineNature Communications, 2022)Human gut microbiome research focuses on populations living in high-income countries and to a lesser extent, non-urban agriculturalist and hunter-gatherer societies. The scarcity of research between these extremes limits ... -
A Two-Mediator Serial Mediation Chain of the Association Between Social Isolation and Sleep Quality in Old Age.
(National Library of MedicineScientific reports, 2022)Poor sleep is a long-term public health issue that has become increasingly prevalent among socially isolated older adults. However, research on the mechanisms explaining the link between social isolation and impaired sleep ... -
Associations of Financial Inclusion With Physical Activity Participation in Later Life
(National Library of MedicineCell Press, 2022)Background: Physical activity (PA) is a vital modifiable psychosocial intervention for promoting healthy longevity but problematically decreases with age. Innovative community-based strategies are recommended by the World ... -
Food Insecurity and Sleep Quality Among Older Adults: Findings From a Population-Based Study in Ghana.
(National Library of Medicine, 2022)Objective: Sleep architecture in older age is an important public health concern. However, little is known about the effect of food insecurity on sleep quality among older people. We provide the first representative study ... -
Co-created Research Agenda to Support Advocacy Toward Social Inclusion for Sexual and Gender Minorities in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Taylor & FrancisResearchGate, 2022)Advocacy actors play a unique role in promoting changes in policy, legal, and social environments for sexual and gender minorities in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, their efforts may be hampered by limited incorporation ... -
Health Systems’ Preparedness to Provide Post-abortion Care: Assessment of Health Facilities in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Nigeria
(National Library of MedicineBMC Health Service Research, 2022)Background: In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, access to abortion is legally restricted, which partly contributes to high incidence of unsafe abortion. This may result in unsafe abortion-related complications that demand ... -
Genetic Associations With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness Link to Atherosclerosis With Sex-Specific Effects in Sub-Saharan Africans.
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Atherosclerosis precedes the onset of clinical manifestations of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). We used carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) to investigate genetic susceptibility to atherosclerosis in 7894 unrelated ... -
DREAMS Impact on HIV Status Knowledge and Sexual Risk Among Cohorts of Young Women in Kenya and South Africa
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Objectives: We sought evidence of DREAMS' impact on uptake of services and sexual risk among adolescent-girls-and-young-women (AGYW). Design: Cohorts of AGYW aged 13-22 years were randomly selected in 2017-2018 and ... -
Tale of 22 Cities: Utilisation Patterns and Content of Maternal Care in Large African Cities.
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Introduction: Globally, the majority of births happen in urban areas. Ensuring that women and their newborns benefit from a complete package of high-quality care during pregnancy, childbirth and the postnatal period present ... -
Meta-Analysis of Sub-Saharan African Studies Provides Insights Into Genetic Architecture of Lipid Traits
(National Library of MedicineNature Communications, 2022)Genetic associations for lipid traits have identified hundreds of variants with clear differences across European, Asian and African studies. Based on a sub-Saharan-African GWAS for lipid traits in the population cross-sectional ... -
COVID-19 and Human Right to Food: Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in Kenya With the Impacts of Government’s Response Measures, a Participatory Qualitative Study.
(National Library of MedicineBMC Public Health, 2022)Background: Globally, governments put in place measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. Information on the effects of these measures on the urban poor is limited. This study aimed to explore the lived experiences of the ... -
Perspective: Food Environment Research Priorities for Africa: Lessons from the Africa Food Environment Research Network
(National Library of MedicineResearchGate, 2022)Over the last 2 decades, many African countries have undergone dietary and nutrition transitions fueled by globalization, rapid urbanization, and development. These changes have altered African food environments and, ... -
Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Kidogo Model in Empowering Women and Strengthening Their Capacities to Engage in Paid Labor Opportunities Through the Provision of Quality Childcare: A Study Protocol for an Exploratory Study in Nakuru County, Kenya
(National Library of MedicineNature, 2022)Worldwide, there is a wide gap between what women can contribute to the economy and what they actually contribute. One of the main barriers to women's engagement in the labor market and productivity at work is the societal ... -
Low Hemoglobin Levels Are Associated with Reduced Psychomotor and Language Abilitiesin Young Ugandan Children.
(National Library of MedicineMDPI, 2022)Children living in Sub-Saharan Africa are vulnerable to developmental delay, particularly in the critical first five years due to various adverse exposures including disease and nutritional deficiencies. Anemia and iron ... -
Carotid Intima-Media Thickness (CIMT) in Adults in the AWI-Gen Nairobi Site Study: Profiles and Predictors.
(National Library of MedicineScience Direct, 2022)Background: Carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) is used as a marker of subclinical and asymptomatic atherosclerotic vascular disease. Increased CIMT is associated with future cerebrovascular and cardiovascular events. ... -
Culturally Relevant Covid-19 Vaccine Acceptance Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa.
(National Library of Medicine, 2022)In sub-Saharan Africa, the reasons for low rates of COVID-19 vaccination and unwillingness to accept the vaccine vary, so country-specific solutions are needed.1 Public health action that is humane, culturally relevant, ... -
Prevalence and Overlap of Known Undernutrition Risk Factors in Children in Nairobi Kenya.
(National Library of MedicineWiley Online Library, 2022)We aimed to describe the co-occurrence of known risk factors for undernutrition and the prevalence of modifiable risks in wasted, stunted and healthy children. Quota sampling was used to recruit healthy [weight for age Z ... -
Lower Limb Amputations Among Individuals Living With Diabetes Mellitus in Low–And Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review Protocol
(National Library of MedicinePLOS ONE, 2022)Background The burden of diabetes mellitus (DM) and its associated complications continue to burgeon, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Lower limb amputation (LLA) is one of the most life-altering ...
