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2023
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2024
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2025
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2026
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Subnational variations in the quality of household survey data in sub-Saharan Africa
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2025
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Nationally representative household surveys collect geocoded data that are vital to tackling health and other development challenges in sub-Saharan Africa. Scholars and practitioners generally assume uniform data quality but subnational variation of errors in household data has never been investigat...
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Nationwide surveys of awareness of tuberculosis in India uncover a gender gap in tuberculosis awareness
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Communications Medicine
2024
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Nature Communications
2023
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10.1038/S41467-023-40234-9
ISSN:2041-1723
Self-supplied drinking water in low- and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific
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Npj Clean Water
2021
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There is increasing awareness of household self-supply and the role it can play in securing water for domestic needs in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but its scale across the Asia-Pacific has not previously been quantified. This study analysed 77 datasets from 26 countries to estimate th...
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Maps and metrics of insecticide-treated net access, use, and nets-per-capita in Africa from 2000-2020
Amelia Bertozzi-Villa•Caitlin A. Bever•Hannah Koenker•Daniel J. Weiss•Camilo Vargas-Ruiz等 24 人
Nature Communications
2021
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Nature Communications
2021
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2022
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Nature Communications
2024
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Association of parental characteristics with offspring anthropometric failure, anaemia and mortality in India
Rai Rajesh Kumar•Subramanian S. V.•Vollmer Sebastian
Humanities And Social Sciences Communications
2022
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This study used a wide range of information on parental sociodemographic, physical and behavioural characteristics as well as on the presence of non-communicable diseases among parents and examined the association of these attributes with anthropometric failure, anaemia and mortality of their childr...
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10.1057/S41599-022-01054-2
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Rai Rajesh Kumar
Pediatric Research
2022
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India has an unacceptably high burden of vitamin A deficiency (VAD) among children aged 6–59 months. To mitigate VAD and its adverse effects on child health, the Indian government runs a nationwide vitamin A supplementation (VAS) programme. However, the effect of VAS in reducing child morbidity and ...
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Maternal preconceptional and prenatal exposure to El Niño Southern Oscillation levels and child mortality: a multi-country study
Hongbing Xu•Castiel Chen Zhuang•Vanessa M. Oddo•Espoir Bwenge Malembaka•Xinghou He等 7 人
Nature Communications
2024
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El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) has been shown to relate to the epidemiology of childhood infectious diseases, but evidence for whether they increase child deaths is limited. Here, we investigate the impact of mothers’ ENSO exposure during and prior to delivery on child mortality by constructing...
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10.1038/S41467-024-50467-X
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Associations between long-term drought and diarrhea among children under five in low- and middle-income countries
Wang Pin•Asare Ernest•Pitzer Virginia E.•Dubrow Robert•Chen Kai
Nature Communications
2022
•2022/6/30
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Climate change is projected to intensify drought conditions, which may increase the risk of diarrheal diseases in children. We constructed log-binomial generalized linear mixed models to examine the association between diarrhea risk, ascertained from global-scale nationally representative Demographi...
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10.1038/S41467-022-31291-7
ISSN:2041-1723