Portable, and ultrasensitive HR-HPV tests based on nucleic acid biosensors
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2024 Feb 28;14:1357090. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1357090. eCollection 2024.ABSTRACTCervical cancer is the third most common cancer threatening women's health globally, and high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancer worldwide. Given the recurrent nature of HR-HPV infection, accurate screening is essential for its control. Since the commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique is limited by professional equipment and personnel, convenient and ultrasensitive detection methods for HR-HPV are still highly needed. As new molecular detection method...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Chang Ma Minhong Zou Ning Xu Yan Liu Yuru Wang Source Type: research
The availability of essential medicines in primary health centres in Indonesia: achievements and challenges across the archipelago
This study examines the availability of essential medicine in primary health centres (PHCs) across Indonesia, the reasons why medicines are unavailable, and the extent to which communities have access to alternative dispensing points.METHODS: Enumerators visited each of the 9831 PHCs in all 514 districts to assess the availability of 60 essential medicines and identify reasons for any absent medicines. We correlated the results with the national village census to assess the relationship between availability, poverty, and access to alternative dispensing points.FINDINGS: Medicine availability varied greatly. The median avai...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Relmbuss Biljers Fanda Ari Probandari Yuyun Yuniar Harimat Hendarwan Laksono Trisnantoro Nikki Jongeneel Maarten Olivier Kok Source Type: research
Relational Work Is the Work: Virtual Healthcare Transformation for Rural, Remote and First Nations Communities in British Columbia
We describe key approaches, learnings and future considerations to improve the equity of healthcare delivery for rural, remote and First Nations communities. The key lessons include the following: (1) moving beyond a biomedical model - the collaboration framework for health service design incorporated First Nations' perspective on health and wellness; (2) relational work is the work - the RTVS collaboration was grounded in building connections and relationships to prioritize cultivating trust in the partnership over specific outputs; and (3) aligning to the core values of co-creation - working from a commitment to do thing...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: John Mah John Pawlovich Terri Aldred Scott Graham Ray Markham Kim Williams Bob Woollard John Grogan Dee Taylor Nelly D Oelke Alison James Melissa Stewart Sonya Cressman Arianna Hogan Daniel Harper Source Type: research
Can Answers to the Health Workforce Crisis Be Found in Equity-Informed Digital Health?
We present examples and evidence of integrating hybrid models of care as a means of supporting HHRs via DH in the publicly funded health system.PMID:38482656 | DOI:10.12927/hcpap.2024.27273 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Helen Novak Lauscher Chad Kim Sing Chantz Strong Anita Palepu Jason Jaswal Dietrich F ürstenburg Nelly D Oelke Patricia Kay Pearce Kendall Ho Source Type: research
Caregivers' Role in In-Home Video Telehealth: National Survey of Occupational Therapy Practitioners
CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers routinely assist VHA patients with in-home OT video visits, which is invaluable to patients who are older and have complex medical needs. Barriers to caregiver involvement include caregivers' challenges with video telehealth or inability to assist, or lack of available caregivers. By elucidating the caregiver support role in video visits, this study provides clinicians with strategies to effectively partner with caregivers to enhance older patients' access to video visits.PMID:38483462 | DOI:10.2196/52049 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Megan Elizabeth Gately Dylan E Waller Emily E Metcalf Lauren R Moo Source Type: research
Learning process of implementing a cutaneous leishmaniasis capacity-building program, using an innovative pedagogy for rural populations in Colombia
CONCLUSION: Participatory pedagogical models adequate to the context and its participants allow the implementation of effective training programs that develop capacities within the communities. To achieve a significant impact, it is necessary to ensure the continuity and long-term sustainability of capacity building through transfer of knowledge with cooperation between health institutions and the community. In this way, the capacities developed by the community constitute a valuable social capital for achieving transformations within and outside the health field.PMID:38484739 | DOI:10.22605/RRH8201 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Laura Sofia Zuluaga Natalia G ómez-Quenguán Jennifer Estrella-Insuasty Martha Milena Bautista-Gomez Source Type: research
Different "nongrain" activities affect the accumulation of heavy metals and their source-oriented health risks on cultivated lands
In this study, three typical "nongrain" regions (Nanxun (NX), Xiaoshan (XS) and Lin'an (LA)) with intensive aquaculture, tea planting and flower (seedling) growth on cultivated land around the Hangzhou metropolitan area were selected to address the spatial heterogeneity of accumulation levels, sources and source-oriented health risks of heavy metals in soil. The results showed that Hg was the main pollutant in NX and XS, while Cd and As were the major contaminants in LA. Aquiculture and sericultural industries (37.43%), natural sources (23.59%) and industrial activities (38.99%) were the major sources in NX; atmospheric de...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Xufeng Fei Zhaohan Lou Meiling Sheng Xiaonan Lv Zhouqiao Ren Rui Xiao Source Type: research
Last-mile delivery increases vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone
Nature. 2024 Mar 13. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07158-w. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTLess than 30% of people in Africa received a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine even 18 months after vaccine development1. Here, motivated by the observation that residents of remote, rural areas of Sierra Leone faced severe access difficulties2, we conducted an intervention with last-mile delivery of doses and health professionals to the most inaccessible areas, along with community mobilization. A cluster randomized controlled trial in 150 communities showed that this intervention with mobile vaccination teams increased the immunization rate by...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Niccol ò F Meriggi Maarten Voors Madison Levine Vasudha Ramakrishna Desmond Maada Kangbai Michael Rozelle Ella Tyler Sellu Kallon Junisa Nabieu Sarah Cundy Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak Source Type: research
Barriers to Optimal Kidney Health Among Indigenous Peoples
Kidney Int Rep. 2024 Jan 24;9(3):508-511. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2024.01.038. eCollection 2024 Mar.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38481500 | PMC:PMC10927473 | DOI:10.1016/j.ekir.2024.01.038 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Swasti Chaturvedi Maria Eugenia Victoria Bianchi Aminu Bello Harley Crowshoe Jaquelyne T Hughes Source Type: research
Portable, and ultrasensitive HR-HPV tests based on nucleic acid biosensors
Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2024 Feb 28;14:1357090. doi: 10.3389/fcimb.2024.1357090. eCollection 2024.ABSTRACTCervical cancer is the third most common cancer threatening women's health globally, and high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection is the main cause of cervical cancer worldwide. Given the recurrent nature of HR-HPV infection, accurate screening is essential for its control. Since the commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique is limited by professional equipment and personnel, convenient and ultrasensitive detection methods for HR-HPV are still highly needed. As new molecular detection method...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Chang Ma Minhong Zou Ning Xu Yan Liu Yuru Wang Source Type: research
The availability of essential medicines in primary health centres in Indonesia: achievements and challenges across the archipelago
This study examines the availability of essential medicine in primary health centres (PHCs) across Indonesia, the reasons why medicines are unavailable, and the extent to which communities have access to alternative dispensing points.METHODS: Enumerators visited each of the 9831 PHCs in all 514 districts to assess the availability of 60 essential medicines and identify reasons for any absent medicines. We correlated the results with the national village census to assess the relationship between availability, poverty, and access to alternative dispensing points.FINDINGS: Medicine availability varied greatly. The median avai...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Relmbuss Biljers Fanda Ari Probandari Yuyun Yuniar Harimat Hendarwan Laksono Trisnantoro Nikki Jongeneel Maarten Olivier Kok Source Type: research
Relational Work Is the Work: Virtual Healthcare Transformation for Rural, Remote and First Nations Communities in British Columbia
We describe key approaches, learnings and future considerations to improve the equity of healthcare delivery for rural, remote and First Nations communities. The key lessons include the following: (1) moving beyond a biomedical model - the collaboration framework for health service design incorporated First Nations' perspective on health and wellness; (2) relational work is the work - the RTVS collaboration was grounded in building connections and relationships to prioritize cultivating trust in the partnership over specific outputs; and (3) aligning to the core values of co-creation - working from a commitment to do thing...
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: John Mah John Pawlovich Terri Aldred Scott Graham Ray Markham Kim Williams Bob Woollard John Grogan Dee Taylor Nelly D Oelke Alison James Melissa Stewart Sonya Cressman Arianna Hogan Daniel Harper Source Type: research
Can Answers to the Health Workforce Crisis Be Found in Equity-Informed Digital Health?
We present examples and evidence of integrating hybrid models of care as a means of supporting HHRs via DH in the publicly funded health system.PMID:38482656 | DOI:10.12927/hcpap.2024.27273 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Helen Novak Lauscher Chad Kim Sing Chantz Strong Anita Palepu Jason Jaswal Dietrich F ürstenburg Nelly D Oelke Patricia Kay Pearce Kendall Ho Source Type: research
Caregivers' Role in In-Home Video Telehealth: National Survey of Occupational Therapy Practitioners
CONCLUSIONS: Caregivers routinely assist VHA patients with in-home OT video visits, which is invaluable to patients who are older and have complex medical needs. Barriers to caregiver involvement include caregivers' challenges with video telehealth or inability to assist, or lack of available caregivers. By elucidating the caregiver support role in video visits, this study provides clinicians with strategies to effectively partner with caregivers to enhance older patients' access to video visits.PMID:38483462 | DOI:10.2196/52049 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Megan Elizabeth Gately Dylan E Waller Emily E Metcalf Lauren R Moo Source Type: research
Learning process of implementing a cutaneous leishmaniasis capacity-building program, using an innovative pedagogy for rural populations in Colombia
CONCLUSION: Participatory pedagogical models adequate to the context and its participants allow the implementation of effective training programs that develop capacities within the communities. To achieve a significant impact, it is necessary to ensure the continuity and long-term sustainability of capacity building through transfer of knowledge with cooperation between health institutions and the community. In this way, the capacities developed by the community constitute a valuable social capital for achieving transformations within and outside the health field.PMID:38484739 | DOI:10.22605/RRH8201 (Source: Rural Remote Health)
Source: Rural Remote Health - March 14, 2024 Category: Rural Health Authors: Laura Sofia Zuluaga Natalia G ómez-Quenguán Jennifer Estrella-Insuasty Martha Milena Bautista-Gomez Source Type: research
