Research

Elsevier, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 3, October 2022
Background: There is an urgent need to reduce the burden of depression among older adults in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a task-shared, collaborative care psychosocial intervention for improving recovery from depression in older adults in Brazil. Methods: PROACTIVE was a pragmatic, two-arm, parallel-group, cluster-randomised controlled trial conducted in Guarulhos, Brazil.
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Maternal Cardiac Care
A Guide to Managing Pregnant Women with Heart Disease
2023, Pages 78-82

This content links with Goal 3: Good health and well-being and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by providing underlying pathophysiology, risk factors, and early warning signs of peripartum cardiomyopathy.
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eClinicalMedicine, Volume 52, October 2022

What the world is witnessing these days is a country where older and younger people, men and women, Iranians from inside and outside the country, people with different ethnicities, are unified by a single purpose—FREEDOM.
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Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology -Part A : Molecular and Integrative Physiology, Volume 272, October 2022

This article advances SDG # 14 by looking at the impact that environmental changes and anthropogenic threats are having on marine mammals through the assessment of different stress biomarkers in certain body tissues of chronically affected and bycaught striped dolphins.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, Volume 21, October 2022

This Article supports SDG3 by evaluating whether planned improvements in care equity for hip replacements in England and Wales have been successful.
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Ophthalmology, Volume 129, October 2022

This article provides data collection recommendations that may help provide a framework for understanding how data could be leveraged to close the gap in health care disparities and elevate the standard of care.
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Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 14, October 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16, focusing on the underlying causes of racial disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and outcomes.
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Ophthalmology, Volume 129, October 2022

The purpose of this article is to describe the principle of health literacy and its central role in enhancing health, and how its absence can result in poorer health outcomes.
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The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 14, October 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16 by presenting a call to action to collect race-based performance data for medical professionals, focusing particularly on the Canadian context.
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Ophthalmology, Volume 129, October 2022

This article considers the current and future state of diversity in the ophthalmology workforce, including recommendations on how to achieve this. Diversification is considered an essential step for reducing health disparities in ophthalmology.

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