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Jennifer Prah Ruger - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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effects of the world bank s maternal and child health intervention on indonesia s poor evaluating the safe motherhood project
Social Science & Medicine, 2011Co-Authors: John Baird, Jennifer Prah RugerAbstract:Abstract This article examines the impact of the World Bank’s Safe Motherhood Project (SMP) on health outcomes for Indonesia’s poor. Provincial data from 1990 to 2005 was analyzed combining a difference-in-differences approach in multivariate regression analysis with matching of intervention (SMP) and control group provinces and adjusting for possible confounders. Our results indicated that, after taking into account the impact of two other concurrent development projects, SMP was statistically significantly associated with a net beneficial change in under-five mortality, but not with infant mortality, total fertility rate, teenage pregnancy, unmet contraceptive need or percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained health Personnel. Unemployment and the pupil–teacher ratio were statistically significantly associated with infant mortality and percentage deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, while pupil–teacher ratio and female education level were statistically significantly associated with under-five mortality. Clinically relevant changes (52–68% increase in the percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, 25–33% decrease in infant mortality rate, and 8–14% decrease in under-five mortality rate) were found in both the intervention (SMP) and control groups.
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effects of the world bank s maternal and child health intervention on indonesia s poor evaluating the safe motherhood project
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: John Baird, Jennifer Prah RugerAbstract:This article examines the impact of theWorld Bank’s Safe Motherhood Project (SMP) on health outcomes for Indonesia’s poor. Provincial data from 1990 to 2005 was analyzed combining a difference-in-differences approach in multivariate regression analysis with matching of intervention (SMP) and control group provinces and adjusting for possible confounders. Our results indicated that, after taking into account the impact of two other concurrent development projects, SMP was statistically significantly associated with a net beneficial change in under-five mortality, but not with infant mortality, total fertility rate, teenage pregnancy, unmet contraceptive need or percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained health Personnel. Unemployment and the pupileteacher ratio were statistically significantly associated with infant mortality and percentage deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, while pupileteacher ratio and female education level were statistically significantly associated with under-five mortality. Clinically relevant changes (52-68% increase in the percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, 25-33% decrease in infant mortality rate, and 8-14% decrease in under-five mortality rate) were found in both the intervention (SMP) and control groups.
John Baird - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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effects of the world bank s maternal and child health intervention on indonesia s poor evaluating the safe motherhood project
Social Science & Medicine, 2011Co-Authors: John Baird, Jennifer Prah RugerAbstract:Abstract This article examines the impact of the World Bank’s Safe Motherhood Project (SMP) on health outcomes for Indonesia’s poor. Provincial data from 1990 to 2005 was analyzed combining a difference-in-differences approach in multivariate regression analysis with matching of intervention (SMP) and control group provinces and adjusting for possible confounders. Our results indicated that, after taking into account the impact of two other concurrent development projects, SMP was statistically significantly associated with a net beneficial change in under-five mortality, but not with infant mortality, total fertility rate, teenage pregnancy, unmet contraceptive need or percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained health Personnel. Unemployment and the pupil–teacher ratio were statistically significantly associated with infant mortality and percentage deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, while pupil–teacher ratio and female education level were statistically significantly associated with under-five mortality. Clinically relevant changes (52–68% increase in the percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, 25–33% decrease in infant mortality rate, and 8–14% decrease in under-five mortality rate) were found in both the intervention (SMP) and control groups.
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effects of the world bank s maternal and child health intervention on indonesia s poor evaluating the safe motherhood project
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: John Baird, Jennifer Prah RugerAbstract:This article examines the impact of theWorld Bank’s Safe Motherhood Project (SMP) on health outcomes for Indonesia’s poor. Provincial data from 1990 to 2005 was analyzed combining a difference-in-differences approach in multivariate regression analysis with matching of intervention (SMP) and control group provinces and adjusting for possible confounders. Our results indicated that, after taking into account the impact of two other concurrent development projects, SMP was statistically significantly associated with a net beneficial change in under-five mortality, but not with infant mortality, total fertility rate, teenage pregnancy, unmet contraceptive need or percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained health Personnel. Unemployment and the pupileteacher ratio were statistically significantly associated with infant mortality and percentage deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, while pupileteacher ratio and female education level were statistically significantly associated with under-five mortality. Clinically relevant changes (52-68% increase in the percentage of deliveries overseen by Trained Personnel, 25-33% decrease in infant mortality rate, and 8-14% decrease in under-five mortality rate) were found in both the intervention (SMP) and control groups.
Eric D. Green - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the national institutes of health s big data to knowledge bd2k initiative capitalizing on biomedical big data
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2014Co-Authors: Ronald Margolis, Leslie Derr, Michael F Huerta, Jennie Larkin, Mark S Guyer, Michelle Dunn, Jerry Sheehan, Eric D. GreenAbstract:Biomedical research has and will continue to generate large amounts of data (termed ‘big data’) in many formats and at all levels. Consequently, there is an increasing need to better understand and mine the data to further knowledge and foster new discovery. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has initiated a Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) initiative to maximize the use of biomedical big data. BD2K seeks to better define how to extract value from the data, both for the individual investigator and the overall research community, create the analytic tools needed to enhance utility of the data, provide the next generation of Trained Personnel, and develop data science concepts and tools that can be made available to all stakeholders.
Luciano A Rigano - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rapid and sensitive detection of candidatus liberibacter asiaticus by loop mediated isothermal amplification combined with a lateral flow dipstick
BMC Microbiology, 2014Co-Authors: Luciano A Rigano, Florencia Malamud, Ingrid Georgina Orce, Maria Paula Filippone, Maria Rosa Marano, Alexandre Morais Do Amaral, Atilio Pedro Castagnaro, Adrian Alberto VojnovAbstract:Background Citrus Huanglongbing (HLB) is the most devastating bacterial citrus disease worldwide. Three Candidatus Liberibacter species are associated with different forms of the disease: Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus, Candidatus Liberibacter americanus and Candidatus Liberibacter africanus. Amongst them, Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus is the most widespread and economically important. These Gram-negative bacterial plant pathogens are phloem-limited and vectored by citrus psyllids. The current management strategy of HLB is based on early and accurate detection of Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus in both citrus plants and vector insects. Nowadays, real time PCR is the method of choice for this task, mainly because of its sensitivity and reliability. However, this methodology has several drawbacks, namely high equipment costs, the need for highly Trained Personnel, the time required to conduct the whole process, and the difficulty in carrying out the detection reactions in field conditions.
Tilman Polster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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revised version of quality guidelines for presurgical epilepsy evaluation and surgical epilepsy therapy issued by the austrian german and swiss working group on presurgical epilepsy diagnosis and operative epilepsy treatment
Epilepsia, 2016Co-Authors: Felix Rosenow, Thomas Bast, Thomas Czech, Martha Feucht, Volkmar Hans, Christoph Helmstaedter, Hansjurgen Huppertz, Soheyl Noachtar, Frank Oltmanns, Tilman PolsterAbstract:The definition of minimal standards remains pivotal as a basis for a high standard of care and as a basis for staff allocation or reimbursement. Only limited publications are available regarding the required staffing or methodologic expertise in epilepsy centers. The executive board of the working group (WG) on presurgical epilepsy diagnosis and operative epilepsy treatment published the first guidelines in 2000 for Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. In 2014, revised guidelines were published and the WG decided to publish an unaltered English translation in this report. Because epilepsy surgery is an elective procedure, quality standards are particularly high. As detailed in the first edition of these guidelines, quality control relates to seven different domains: (1) establishing centers with a sufficient number of sufficiently and specifically Trained Personnel, (2) minimum technical standards and equipment, (3) continuous medical education of employees, (4) surveillance by Trained Personnel during video electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring (VEM), (5) systematic acquisition of clinical and outcome data, (6) the minimum number of preoperative evaluations and epilepsy surgery procedures, and (7) the cooperation of epilepsy centers. These standards required the certification of the different professions involved and minimum numbers of procedures. In the subsequent decade, quite a number of colleagues were certified by the trinational WG; therefore, the executive board of the WG decided in 2013 to make these standards obligatory. This revised version is particularly relevant given that the German procedure classification explicitly refers to the guidelines of the WG with regard to noninvasive/invasive preoperative video-EEG monitoring and invasive intraoperative diagnostics in epilepsy.
