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Explaining biological differences between men and women by gendered mechanisms
Explaining biological differences between men and women by gendered mechanisms
The principal aim of this study was to explore if biological differences between men and women can be explained by gendere...
Population cause of death estimation using verbal autopsy methods in large-scale field trials of maternal and child health: lessons learned from a 20-year research collaboration in Central Ghana
Population cause of death estimation using verbal autopsy methods in large-scale field trials of maternal and child health: lessons learned from a 20-year research collaboration in Central Ghana
Low and middle-income countries continue to use Verbal autopsies (VAs) as a World Health Organisation-recommended method t...
Dynamics of COVID-19 progression and the long-term influences of measures on pandemic outcomes
Dynamics of COVID-19 progression and the long-term influences of measures on pandemic outcomes
The pandemic progression is a dynamic process, in which measures yield outcomes, and outcomes in turn influence subsequent...
Effect size quantification for interrupted time series analysis: implementation in R and analysis for Covid-19 research
Effect size quantification for interrupted time series analysis: implementation in R and analysis for Covid-19 research
Interrupted time series (ITS) analysis is a time series regression model that aims to evaluate the effect of an interventi...
Candida and the Gram-positive trio: testing the vibe in the ICU patient microbiome using structural equation modelling of literature derived data
Candida and the Gram-positive trio: testing the vibe in the ICU patient microbiome using structural equation modelling of literature derived data
Whether Candida interacts with Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, coagulase negative Staphylococci (CN...
Geographical clustering and geographically weighted regression analysis of home delivery and its determinants in developing regions of Ethiopia: a spatial analysis
Geographical clustering and geographically weighted regression analysis of home delivery and its determinants in developing regions of Ethiopia: a spatial analysis
Nearly three-fourths of pregnant women in Ethiopia give birth at home. However, the spatial pattern and spatial variables ...
Puberty health intervention to improve menstrual health and school attendance among adolescent girls in The Gambia: study methodology of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Gambia (MEGAMBO TRIAL)
Puberty health intervention to improve menstrual health and school attendance among adolescent girls in The Gambia: study methodology of a cluster-randomised controlled trial in rural Gambia (MEGAMBO TRIAL)
Menstrual health (MH) is a recognised global public health challenge. Poor MH may lead to absence from school and work, an...
Are verbatim transcripts necessary in applied qualitative research: experiences from two community-based intervention trials in Ghana
Are verbatim transcripts necessary in applied qualitative research: experiences from two community-based intervention trials in Ghana
Conducting qualitative research within public health trials requires balancing timely data collection with the need to mai...
Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project
Practicalities of implementing burden of disease research in Africa: lessons from a population survey component of our multi-partner FOCAL research project
Collaborative research is being increasingly implemented in Africa to study health-related issues, for example, the lack o...
Epidemiology, clinical and physiological manifestations of dust lung disease in major industrial centers
Epidemiology, clinical and physiological manifestations of dust lung disease in major industrial centers
The present study aims to determine the structure of morbidity in workers contacting industrial aerosols, assess the timel...
Individual and community-level determinants of non-use of contraceptive among women with no fertility desire in Ethiopia: a multilevel mixed-effect analysis
Individual and community-level determinants of non-use of contraceptive among women with no fertility desire in Ethiopia: a multilevel mixed-effect analysis
In Ethiopia, about two-third of women in the reproductive-age do not use any method of contraception. Moreover, evidence o...
Implementing effective community-based surveillance in research studies of maternal, newborn and infant outcomes in low resource settings
Implementing effective community-based surveillance in research studies of maternal, newborn and infant outcomes in low resource settings
Globally adopted health and development milestones have not only encouraged improvements in the health and wellbeing of wo...
Maximizing community participation and engagement: lessons learned over 2 decades of field trials in rural Ghana
Maximizing community participation and engagement: lessons learned over 2 decades of field trials in rural Ghana
Successful implementation of community-based research is dominantly influenced by participation and engagement from the lo...
A simulation study of regression approaches for estimating risk ratios in the presence of multiple confounders
A simulation study of regression approaches for estimating risk ratios in the presence of multiple confounders
Risk ratio is a popular effect measure in epidemiological research. Although previous research has suggested that logistic...
Teaching: confidence, prediction and tolerance intervals in scientific practice: a tutorial on binary variables
Teaching: confidence, prediction and tolerance intervals in scientific practice: a tutorial on binary variables
One of the emerging themes in epidemiology is the use of interval estimates. Currently, three interval estimates for confi...
Going digital: added value of electronic data collection in 2018 Afghanistan Health Survey
Going digital: added value of electronic data collection in 2018 Afghanistan Health Survey
Through a nationally representative household survey in Afghanistan, we conducted an operational study in two relatively s...
RSV: perspectives to strengthen the need for protection in all infants
RSV: perspectives to strengthen the need for protection in all infants
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)—the most common viral cause of bronchiolitis—is a significant cause of serio...
Coauthorship by patients and other stakeholders with limited knowledge of scientific publishing practices
Coauthorship by patients and other stakeholders with limited knowledge of scientific publishing practices
Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, whic...
Development of a women’s empowerment index for Tanzania from the demographic and health surveys of 2004–05, 2010, and 2015–16
Development of a women’s empowerment index for Tanzania from the demographic and health surveys of 2004–05, 2010, and 2015–16
Women’s empowerment is a multidimensional construct which varies by context. These variations make it challenging to...
A detailed explanation and graphical representation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method with its application in health inequalities
A detailed explanation and graphical representation of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method with its application in health inequalities
This paper introduces the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method to be applied in explaining inequality in health outcome acr...
Cannons and sparrows II: the enhanced Bernoulli exact method for determining statistical significance and effect size in the meta-analysis of k 2 × 2 tables
Cannons and sparrows II: the enhanced Bernoulli exact method for determining statistical significance and effect size in the meta-analysis of k 2 × 2 tables
The use of meta-analysis to aggregate the results of multiple studies has increased dramatically over the last 40 yea...
Situating agent-based modelling in population health research
Situating agent-based modelling in population health research
Today’s most troublesome population health challenges are often driven by social and environmental determinants, whi...
Standard multiple imputation of survey data didn’t perform better than simple substitution in enhancing an administrative dataset: the example of self-rated health in England
Standard multiple imputation of survey data didn’t perform better than simple substitution in enhancing an administrative dataset: the example of self-rated health in England
Health surveys provide a rich array of information but on relatively small numbers of individuals and evidence suggests th...
Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology
Whatever can go wrong, need not go wrong: Open Quality approach for epidemiology
Quality assurance is one of the most important aspects of an epidemiological study, as its validity is largely determined ...
Women’s voices on social media: the advent of feminist epidemiology?
Women’s voices on social media: the advent of feminist epidemiology?
Social media have in recent years challenged the way in which research questions are formulated in epidemiology and medici...
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