Severe carbon monoxide poisonings in scuba divers: Asia-Pacific cases and causation
CONCLUSIONS: Scuba fatalities from CO poisoning are uncommon, albeit likely under-reported. Sources of CO include exhaust gases entering the compressor and CO production by pyrolysis or gasification within the compressor or its filter system. Preventive measures include proper installation (including positioning of the air intake relative to combustion exhaust), appropriate maintenance, fitting of pressure-maintaining valves and avoidance of overheating. Formal training of compressor operators, improved diver education, mandatory requirements for installation compliance assessments, safety inspections, and the use of carbo...
Source: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine - August 24, 2022 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: John Lippmann Ian Millar Source Type: research
Severe carbon monoxide poisonings in scuba divers: Asia-Pacific cases and causation
CONCLUSIONS: Scuba fatalities from CO poisoning are uncommon, albeit likely under-reported. Sources of CO include exhaust gases entering the compressor and CO production by pyrolysis or gasification within the compressor or its filter system. Preventive measures include proper installation (including positioning of the air intake relative to combustion exhaust), appropriate maintenance, fitting of pressure-maintaining valves and avoidance of overheating. Formal training of compressor operators, improved diver education, mandatory requirements for installation compliance assessments, safety inspections, and the use of carbo...
Source: Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine - August 24, 2022 Category: Sports Medicine Authors: John Lippmann Ian Millar Source Type: research
The dynamics of institutional arrangements for climate change adaptation in small island developing states in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
This study helps to fill this gap by identifying and analyzing “networks of action situations” through semi-structured interviews with 14 national and international climate change officials and practitioners in four SIDS (Comoros, Maldives, Seychelles, and Singapore) in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans region. We find that there are a few strategic actors inv olved in multiple, mutually reinforcing and sometimes conflicting arrangements, which are simultaneously being shaped and reshaped at different scales. We also find varying patterns of power, politics and participation that act as both drivers of and barriers to ada...
Source: Sustainability Science - July 30, 2022 Category: Science Source Type: research
Inequalities in demand satisfied with modern methods of family planning among women aged 15-49 years: a secondary data analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys of six South Asian countries
Conclusions
South Asia region still has a long way ahead towards achieving universal access to mDFPS. Diverse patterns of socioeconomic inequalities between the countries call for national governments and international development agencies to target the population subgroups for improving the mDFPS coverage. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - June 10, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Sreeramareddy, C. T., Acharya, K., Tiwari, I. Tags: Open access, Global health Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 4350: Between and Within-Country Variations in Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in South Asia
This study aimed to explore variations in Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices between different South Asian Countries (SACs) and within their sociodemographic characteristics including place of residence, mother age, mother education, child sex, and wealth quintiles within the SACs. We extracted 0–23 months age children’s data from the nationally representative survey of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Pakistan. Among all SACs, the early initiation of breastfeeding (EIBF) practice was 45.4% with the highest prevalence in the Maldives (68.2%) and the lowest preval...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - April 5, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Md. Tariqujjaman Md. Mehedi Hasan Mustafa Mahfuz Tahmeed Ahmed Muttaquina Hossain Tags: Article Source Type: research
Global prevalence of dengue and chikungunya coinfection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 43,341 participants
Acta Trop. 2022 Mar 16:106408. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106408. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDengue and chikungunya virus are important arboviruses of public health concern. In the past decades, they have accounted for numerous outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya in different parts of the world. Several cases of concurrent infection of dengue and chikungunya have been documented. However, the true burden of this concurrent infection is unknown. Here, a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data on the prevalence of dengue and chikungunya coinfection in the human population was conducted according to the ...
Source: Acta Tropica - March 20, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ahmad Adebayo Irekeola E A R Engku Nur Syafirah Md Asiful Islam Rafidah Hanim Shueb Source Type: research
Global prevalence of dengue and chikungunya coinfection: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 43,341 participants
Acta Trop. 2022 Mar 16:106408. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106408. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTDengue and chikungunya virus are important arboviruses of public health concern. In the past decades, they have accounted for numerous outbreaks of dengue and chikungunya in different parts of the world. Several cases of concurrent infection of dengue and chikungunya have been documented. However, the true burden of this concurrent infection is unknown. Here, a systematic review and meta-analysis of published data on the prevalence of dengue and chikungunya coinfection in the human population was conducted according to the ...
Source: Acta Tropica - March 20, 2022 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Ahmad Adebayo Irekeola E A R Engku Nur Syafirah Md Asiful Islam Rafidah Hanim Shueb Source Type: research
Emotional distress in COVID-19 patients in Maldives
Researchers are exploring the epidemiology, clinical characteristics, treatment, vaccination and the challenges faced by healthcare authorities. However less focus is being paid towards the impact of COVID-19 ... (Source: BMC Psychiatry)
Source: BMC Psychiatry - March 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Rajib Kumar Dey, Shanooha Mansoor, Abdullah Isneen Hilmy, Sheena Moosa, Shiraany Abdul Rahman, Raishan Latheef, Nihla Rasheed, Fathimath Guraishaa Hassan, Ali Zaadhee, Afa Ibrahim and Sofoora Kawsar Usman Tags: Research Source Type: research
Inequalities in full vaccination coverage based on maternal education and wealth quintiles among children aged 12-23 months: further analysis of national cross-sectional surveys of six South Asian countries
Conclusions
The full vaccination coverage in 12–23 months old children was below 85% in all six countries. Inequalities by maternal education were more profound than household wealth-based inequalities in four of six countries studied, supporting the benefits of maternal education to improve child health outcome. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - February 7, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Acharya, K., Dharel, D., Subedi, R. K., Bhattarai, A., Paudel, Y. R. Tags: Open access, Public health Source Type: research
Redescription of Ptychobothrium belones (Dujardin, 1845) (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea) from needlefishes (Beloniformes: Belonidae) in the Mediterranean Sea
This study confirms that P. belones is an exclusive parasite of needlefishes (Belonidae) but at least one further species infecting S. leiura may exist.PMID:35099708 | DOI:10.1007/s11230-022-10021-z (Source: Systematic Parasitology)
Source: Systematic Parasitology - January 31, 2022 Category: Parasitology Authors: Manel Ch âari Lass âd Neifar Source Type: research
Health Implications of Racialized State Violence Against South Asians in the USA
AbstractSouth Asians, one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the USA today, trace their roots to countries in the Indian subcontinent (e.g., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka) and its global diaspora. With a wide range of cultural, religious, and linguistic diversity, as well as immigration experiences and inequality, South Asians have experienced racialized violence and discrimination since first arriving in the USA in the 1700s. Following September 11, 2001, South Asians and other groups racialized as “Brown,” including Muslim, Sikh, Middle Eastern, and Arab Americans, have expe...
Source: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - January 27, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Association between prelabour caesarean section and perinatal outcomes: analysis of demographic and health surveys from 26 low-income and middle-income countries
Conclusion
Primary PLCS, compared with vaginal birth, is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes in singleton term pregnancies in LMICs. Caesarean births should be audited regularly to monitor trends, appropriateness and context-specific drivers of CS. (Source: BMJ Open)
Source: BMJ Open - January 17, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Opiyo, N., Bellizzi, S., Torloni, M. R., Souza, J. P., Betran, A. P. Tags: Open access Obstetrics and gynaecology Source Type: research
Unequal coverage of nutrition and health interventions for women and children in seven countries
CONCLUSION: Co-coverage of health and nutrition interventions is far from optimal and disproportionately affects poor households in south Asia. Policy and programming efforts should pay attention to closing coverage, equity and opportunity gaps, and improving nutrition delivery through health-care and other delivery platforms.PMID:35017754 | PMC:PMC8722629 | DOI:10.2471/BLT.21.286650 (Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization)
Source: Bulletin of the World Health Organization - January 12, 2022 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Phuong Hong Nguyen Nishmeet Singh Samuel Scott Sumanta Neupane Manita Jangid Monika Walia Zivai Murira Zulfiqar A Bhutta Harriet Torlesse Ellen Piwoz Rebecca Heidkamp Purnima Menon Source Type: research
Opportunities to Enhance Children's Communication Development at School in Underserved Communities
CONCLUSION: Findings suggest building capacity among teachers and training teachers on identified classroom communication support areas to enhance support for children with communication difficulties. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.17003980.PMID:34793257 | DOI:10.1044/2021_LSHSS-20-00148 (Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools)
Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools - November 18, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mariyam Z Zahir Anna Miles Linda Hand Elizabeth C Ward Source Type: research
Opportunities to Enhance Children's Communication Development at School in Underserved Communities
CONCLUSION: Findings suggest building capacity among teachers and training teachers on identified classroom communication support areas to enhance support for children with communication difficulties. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.17003980.PMID:34793257 | DOI:10.1044/2021_LSHSS-20-00148 (Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools)
Source: Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools - November 18, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Mariyam Z Zahir Anna Miles Linda Hand Elizabeth C Ward Source Type: research
