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Reflections on key methodological decisions in national burden of disease assessments
Summary measures of population health are gaining popularity in the recent years and are increasingly used in different public health reporting systems as an input for setting priorities for health care and social service delivery and planning. This review identifies some of the key methodological choices and challenges that are important to understand when calculating Burden of Disease metrics.
The use of non-prescribed antibiotics; prevalence estimates in low-and-middle-income countries.
In the antibiotic post-era, antibiotic resistance has ceased to be a threat and has become a real public health problem. Antibiotic resistance has been contributing significantly to the morbidity and mortality rates in many settings, particularly through the misuse of non-prescribed antibiotics in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed at estimating through a systematic review and meta-analysis, the prevalence of non-prescribed antibiotic utilisation and describe its primary sources in LMICs.
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A service-learning experience in a free medical centre for undocumented migrants and homeless people
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Community engagement in public health: a bibliometric mapping of global research
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Predictors of institutional delivery service utilization among women of reproductive age in Senegal: a population-based study
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Context matters in understanding the vulnerability of women: perspectives from southwestern Uganda
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Nutritional status of school-age children - A scenario of urban slums in India
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Metaprop: a Stata command to perform meta-analysis of binomial data
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A review and framework for understanding the potential impact of poor solid waste management on health in developing countries
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Smart wearable body sensors for patient self-assessment and monitoring
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Reflections on tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment outcomes in Ghana
Call for papers: Burden of disease
Driven by the impact of the Global Burden of Disease study, several researchers and health institutes have adopted the burden of disease approach to address questions such as 'What are the most prevalent diseases in a country?'. This collection aims to provide a platform for discussing methodological challenges and advances in the burden of disease approach.
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Archives of Public Health is a broad scope public health journal, dedicated to publishing all sound science in the field of public health. The journal aims to better the understanding of the health of populations. The journal contributes to public health knowledge, enhances the interaction between research, policy and practice and stimulates public health monitoring and indicator development. The journal considers submissions on health outcomes and their determinants, with clear statements about the public health and policy implications. Archives of Public Health welcomes methodological papers (e.g., on study design and bias), papers on health services research, health economics, community interventions, and epidemiological studies dealing with international comparisons, the determinants of inequality in health, and the environmental, behavioural, social, demographic and occupational correlates of health and diseases.
Digital public health
In recent years the world has seen a rapid expansion in the development and use of digital technologies. This cross-journal collection is interested in manuscripts that address digital (e-health) interventions and their applications in health care and public health. We are also interested in manuscripts that address the added value of e-health interventions with regard to usual care.
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Herman Van Oyen, Epidemiology and public health, Sciensano, Belgium
Olivier Bruyère, Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Belgium
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The Belgian Association of Public Health (BAPH) is a scientific organisation of research groups and institutions, health workers and policy makers who are active in the field of public health. The aims of the association are:
- to increase the knowledge in different domains of public health
- and to stimulate public health research
Members of BAPH are entitled to a discounted article-processing charge when they publish in Archives of Public Health. To obtain the discount, members should contact the society before proceeding with submission of their article.
Herman Van Oyen, Editor-in-Chief
Herman is currently Director of the Directorate Epidemiology and public health in Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium. He is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Ghent. Professor Van Oyen first worked as a medical doctor in Haiti before going on to study public health, epidemiology and biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomburg School of Public Health where he completed a DrPH. His key research interests include epidemiological methods, survey methodology, health inequality and summary measures of population health. He is author of more than 180 scientific publications, books and book chapters.
Olivier Bruyère, Editor-in-Chief
Olivier is currently Professor of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Public Health Sciences and of Geriatric Rehabilitation in the Department of Rehabilitation and Sport Sciences at the University of Liège in Belgium. He is also head of the Research Unit in Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics at this University. Professor Bruyère is the Chief Executive Officer of the European Society on Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO), President of the Belgian Ageing Muscle Society (BAMS), General Secretary of the Belgian Bone Club (BBC), member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and is a member of the Group for the Respect of Ethics and Excellence in Sciences (GREES). He also works as expert for the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES). His main fields of interest are prevention, rehabilitation and pharmaco-epidemiology related to geriatric or rheumatic conditions. He is Executive Editor of “Aging Clinical and Experimental Research”, Associate Editor of “BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders” and holds positions on the editorial board of various journals. He is author of more than 250 international scientific publications and book chapters.
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