Shoman et al. Globalization and Health (2017) 13:1 DOI 10.1186/s12992-016-0224-2
Published: March 28, 2017https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002271
PLoS Med 14(3): e1002271. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1002271
Objective: To review research on associations of trauma type with PTSD in the WHO World Mental Health (WMH) surveys, a series of epidemiological surveys that obtained representative data on trauma-specific PTSD.
Sexual violence is a major problem in South Africa, with studies showing that up to one in four women have been raped in their lifetime.
Instruction pour lire et comprendre les tableaux de L'Enquête Continue des Prestations des Soins de Santé (ECPSS 2016).
Previous studies have highlighted a range of individual determinants associated with HIV testing but few have assessed the role of contextual factors. The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of both individual and community-level determinants of HIV testing uptake in Burkina Faso.
This technical report contains the results from the FEEDcities Project – Eastern Europe and Central Asia, a cross-sectional survey of the local urban food environment conducted in Chișinău, Republic of Moldova between June and August 2016. It characterizes the vending sites, the food offered and... the nutritional composition of both industrial and homemade street foods. It also describes the nutritional composition of foods sold in supermarkets and fast-food outlets.
The study was conducted within a bilateral partnership between the World Health Organization and the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, in collaboration with the Faculty of Medicine, the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences and the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto (WHO registration 2015/591370 and 2017/698514). The study was funded through a voluntary contribution of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation.
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