Screening for hepatitis B in the Bronx West African community with a blood pressure cuff: a cohort study

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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 35, July 2024
This Article supports SDG 3 by evaluating a hepatitis B screening programme in which members of the West African community in the Bronx were offered hepatitis B testing when they attended a blood pressure clinic visit following an educational intervention about hypertension. Almost all participants accepted to have hepatitis B screening, showing the effectiveness of its being linked to blood pressure testing.
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Effect of direct-acting antivirals on disease burden of hepatitis C virus infection in South Korea in 2007–2021: a nationwide, multicentre, retrospective cohort study

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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 73, July 2024
This Article supports SDG 4 by documenting significant improvements in fibrosis-based liver disease burden with direct-acting antivirals, among a cohort of patients with chronic hepatitis C.
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Health and population, Asia

Spending on nucleos(t)ide analogues for hepatitis B in medicaid beneficiaries: 2012-2021: Spending on NA for HBV in Medicaid 2012-2021

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Annals of Hepatology, Volume 29, 1 July 2024
This study supports SDG 3 by analyzing expenditures on hepatitis B treatments, promoting better health resource management.
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International Day of Friendship 2025

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International Day of Friendship 2025

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Jul 2025
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A beautiful bush space on Country: Indigenous women's perspectives on the cultural significance of a placenta garden

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Women and Birth, Volume 37, July 2024
The aim of the paper is to understand the culture around birth and indigenous people. This study aimed to understand First Nations women’s perceptions of placenta burial and a dedicated placenta garden in supporting connection to their culture.
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Global; Oceania

Indigenous Australians critically ill with sepsis: Characteristics, outcomes, and areas for improvement

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Australian Critical Care, Volume 37, July 2024
Although Indigenous Australians critically ill with sepsis have similar short and long-term mortality rates, they present to hospital, die in-hospital, and die post-discharge significantly younger. Unique cohort characteristics may explain these outcomes, and assist clinicians, researchers and policy-makers in targeting interventions to these characteristics to best reduce the burden of sepsis in this cohort and improve their healthcare outcomes.
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Māori and Pacific families’ experiences and perspectives of cardiovascular care; A qualitative study

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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, Volume 48, June 2024
Māori and Pacific people want to take charge of their heart health but face challenges. Participants described important obligations to family, community and tikanga (the culturally correct way of doing things). Participants described times when health care undermined existing responsibilities, their dignity and/or their mana, and they felt excluded from treatment as a result.
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Oceania

Metabolic Steatotic Liver Disease - Chapter 16: Fatty liver and viral hepatitis: Prevalence, risk factors, natural course, pathogenesis, and management

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Metabolic Steatotic Liver Disease: Current Knowledge, Therapeutic Treatments, and Future Directions, 2024, Pages 261-275

This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health as this chapter will review the aspects of combined viral hepatitis and FLD, including prevalence, risk factors, natural history, pathogenesis, and management to help inform the reader of the complexity of these liver diseases.

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alth and Wellbeing, Global

World Humanitarian Day 2025

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World Humanitarian Day 2025

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Aug 2025
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Poverty eradication; Zero Hunger; Access to Health Care; Access to justice; Institutional Frameworks and international cooperation for Sustainable Development, Global

Resilient Health - Chapter 73: Immersive technology tools and newmedia for Indigenous culture and wellness

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Resilient Health, 2024, Pages 863-871

This chapter supports UN SDG3 and discusses how Indigenous communities are grounded in the connections among people and between people and the natural world. Especially important is the wisdom of elders and the knowledge that comes from culturally embedded teachings and how unique technological tools can aid in strengthening self-esteem and well-being and rebuild core cultural relationships.

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