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Hidden Cities, Hidden Gaps: Measuring Facility Readiness for Maternal and Newborn Health Services and its Association with Person-Centered Maternity Care in Urban Informal Settlements of Nairobi, Lusaka and Ouagadougou Cities.
(medRxiv, 2025)In sub-Saharan Africa, maternal and newborn deaths remain disproportionately higher among low-income populations, and they are associated with delivery in poorly equipped facilities and a shortage of staff to manage birth ... -
Investigating the Enablers and Barriers for Hypertension Control in Dakar: A Qualitative System Effectiveness Study.
(BMJ, 2025)Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death worldwide. The leading risk factor, hypertension, is a major public health issue in Senegal, putting the health system under pressure. This qualitative study aimed to ... -
Socio-economic Determinants and Spatial Analysis of Access to Sanitation among Older Adults in Ghana
(Springer Nature, 2025)Access to sanitation is a fundamental human right essential for health and dignity, yet inadequate access remains a significant challenge globally particularly for vulnerable populations like older adults. This study ... -
Meeting the Who Physical Activity Guidelines and Health-related Quality of Life of Single Parents in Ghana
(Frontiers, 2025)Purpose: Improving physical activity (PA) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is critically important for achieving the health-related sustainable development goal (SDG?3). However, data on the association between ... -
Conflict at Work and Incident Chronic Low Back Pain: a Retrospective Cohort of More than 101,000 Adults from Germany
(Springer, 2025)Purpose: Little is known about the relationship between conflict at work and incident chronic low back pain (CLBP). This retrospective cohort study analyzed the association between workplace conflict and the 5-year incidence ... -
Creative Aging: Unraveling the Psychosocial Benefits of Art among Germany's Oldest Old. Findings from the Nationally Representative Study "old Age in Germany (d80+)"
(International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2025)Objective: There is a dearth of studies examining the link between artistic activity and psychosocial outcomes exclusively among the oldest old. Therefore, this study investigates the association between artistic activity ... -
Behavioural Systems Mapping of Solid Waste Management in Kisumu, Kenya, to Understand the Role of Behaviour in a Health and Sustainability Problem
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2025)Poor solid waste management in Kisumu, Kenya, contributes to adverse health, social, and environmental outcomes as a result of open burning, illegal dumping, and reliance on landfills. Taking Kisumu as a case study, we use ... -
Gender Equality and Quality of Life Must Be Central to the Design and Delivery of Sanitation
(BMJ, 2025)Effective sanitation systems must safeguard not just physical health but also dignity, gender equality, and quality of life. Too often, these broader dimensions are overlooked in design and delivery. In this commentary, ... -
Psychiatric Comorbidity and In-hospital Mortality in Patients Hospitalized for Physical Conditions in Germany
(ScienceDirect, 2025)Objective: To investigate the association between psychiatric comorbidity and in?hospital mortality in patients hospitalized for physical conditions in Germany. Methods: This retrospective study utilized hospital data ... -
Behind Closed Doors: Homeboundness and Psychosocial Outcomes. Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Middle-aged and Older Adults
(ScienceDirect, 2025)Objectives: To examine how homeboundness is associated with psychosocial outcomes—including life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and loneliness—among middle-aged and older adults. Methods: Longitudinal data ...
