Thursday, 07 March 2024

Welcome to the AFRO Library Digest

Please find below a selection of our latest findings in the hope that they will enrich your daily work and life. Click on each publication title to learn more.

Global Health and Leadership

• Women, Business and the Law 2024

• Les Femmes, l’Entreprise et le Droit 2024

• La Mujer, la Empresa y el Derecho 2024

• Investing in women’s health is essential in the era of polycrises
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• Medical Ethics Prototype for Artificial Intelligence Ethics

• Podcasts as a tool to disrupt knowledge hierarchies and silos to decolonize global health

• Why cost-effectiveness thresholds for global health donors should differ from thresholds for Ministries of Health (and why it matters)
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• Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles
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• Don’t judge a book or health app by its cover: User ratings and downloads are not linked to quality
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• Which international co-authorships produce higher quality journal articles?

• From information access to production: New perspectives on addressing information inequity in our digital information ecosystem

• Accelerating progress towards gender equity in health and science

• Making research everybody's business – innovation to introduce Foundation doctors to research

• The resilience of public science and effectiveness of policy handling of technical advice

• The metrics maze in science: navigating academic evaluation without journalistic pressures

• Surge in number of ‘extremely productive’ authors concerns scientists

• “Arming half-baked people with weapons!” Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi
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• Digital Progress and Trends Report 2023

• The Digital Sector: A Driver of Innovation, Growth, and Job Creation
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• How can primary care benefit from digital health applications? – a quantitative, explorative survey on attitudes and experiences of general practitioners in Germany

Communicable and Noncommunicable Diseases

• Declaration for accelerated malaria mortality reduction in Africa: commitment that “No one shall die from malaria”

• Anopheles stephensi ecology and control in Africa
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• Is Anopheles gambiae (sensu stricto), the principal malaria vector in Africa prone to resistance development against new insecticides? Outcomes from laboratory exposure of An. gambiae (s.s.) to sub-lethal concentrations of chlorfenapyr and clothianidin
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• Revisiting the determinants of malaria transmission
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• Uncovering HIV and malaria interactions: the latest evidence and knowledge gaps
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• Individual and community-level determinants of pentavalent vaccination dropouts among under-five children in the sub-Saharan African countries: A multilevel analysis of the recent demographic and health survey

• Prevalence and risk factors for diabetic foot complications among people living with diabetes in Harare, Zimbabwe: a cross-sectional study

• Mortality from non-communicable diseases and associated risk factors in Zambia; analysis of the sample vital registration with verbal autopsy 2015/2016

• Remote Symptom Monitoring to Enhance the Delivery of Palliative Cancer Care in Low-Resource Settings: Emerging Approaches from Africa

• Validation of artificial intelligence-based digital microscopy for automated detection of Schistosoma haematobium eggs in urine in Gabon

• Introduction of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in humanitarian and fragile contexts: Perspectives from stakeholders in four African countries

• Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Self-Management Program on Patients Living with Chronic Diseases
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• The economics of aging with infectious and chronic diseases

Emergency Preparedness and Response

• Four Years Since COVID-19 Day Zero: A Time to Evaluate Past and Future Pandemic Control Policies and Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa?

• "Resilience to emerging infectious diseases and the importance of scientific innovation"

• Health system barriers to the first dose of measles immunization in Ethiopia: a qualitative study

• Correlation of geopolitics, education, democracy with COVID-19 vaccination rate

• Investigating age-related COVID-19 digital health literacy and sense of coherence among adolescents and young adults in schools across Northern Ghana
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• COVID-19 Outbreak: A Call to Arms for the World Healthcare Systems

• Towards a multi-lateral framework for cross-border surveillance and information sharing between Nigeria and neighbouring countries
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• Expressions of pandemic fatigue on digital platforms: a thematic analysis of sentiment and narratives for infodemic insights

Healthier Population

• Who continues to work after retirement age?

• The health consequences of returning to work after retirement: Evidence from a Japanese longitudinal survey

• A systematic review of second-hand smoking mass media campaigns (2002–2022)
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• Continuum of care for maternal and child health and child undernutrition in Angola

• Demographic change and urban health: Towards a novel agenda for delivering sustainable and healthy cities for all

• Violence as a Health Problem/La violencia como problema de salud

• Construct Validity and Test–Retest Reliability of Questionnaires to Assess Workplace Violence Risk Factors (QAWRF): A Tripartite Perspective of Worksite-Specific Determinants in Healthcare Settings
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• Stakeholder perspectives on the future of clean cooking in sub-Saharan Africa and the role of pay-as-you-go LPG in expanding access

• Climate change and economic development in Africa: A systematic review of energy transition modeling research

Life course

• The perceptions and experiences of facility managers in the implementation of safer conception services in public health care facilities

• Implementation of large, multi-site hospital interventions: a realist evaluation of strategies for developing capability

• Evaluating caregiver-child interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of tools and methods

• Critical route for development of medical student leadership competencies in 35 Pan American Health Organization member states: A scoping review and thematic analysis

• How to use communities of practice to support change in learning health systems: A landscape of roles and guidance for management

• Confronting the elephants in the room: reigniting momentum for universal health coverage

• Understanding the role of the Tanzania national health insurance fund in improving service coverage and quality of care

• Bridging the voice of healthcare to digital transformation in practice – a holistic approach
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• National, regional, and global estimates of low birthweight in 2020, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis

• Development and Implementation of Digital Diagnostic Algorithms for Neonatal Units in Zimbabwe and Malawi: Development and Usability Study

• Utilisation of mobile phone interventions to improve the delivery of maternal health services in sub-Saharan Africa: A scoping review protocol
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• ‘It’s about time’: policymakers’ and health practitioners’ perspectives on implementing fertility care in the Gambian health system

• Relational Harm: On the Divisive Effects of Global Health Volunteering at a Hospital in Rural Zambia
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• Navigating Quality Assessment Hurdles in Clinical Laboratory Services: A Comprehensive Review in Resource-Limited Settings
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• Justice at the Forefront: Cultivating felt accountability towards Artificial Intelligence among healthcare professionals

• Practical strategies to achieve resilient health systems: results from a scoping review

• Social and behavior change communication competency among front-line healthcare system actors in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

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