A5073777702- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
- Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Parasites and Host Interactions
- Community Health and Development
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Urinary Tract Infections Management
Loughborough University
2015-2025
Health and Human Development (2HD) Research Network
2014
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
2013
The University of Queensland
2013
Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations
2013
Inserm
2013
Université Paris-Sud
2013
The University of Tokyo
2013
University of Ulster
2001
Women attain numerous benefits from physical activity during pregnancy. However, due to changes that occur pregnancy, special precautions are also needed. This review summarizes current guidelines for among pregnant women worldwide.We searched PubMed (MedLINE) country-specific governmental and clinical on pregnancy through the year 2012. We cross-referenced with articles referring guidelines, only most recent included. An abstraction form was used extract key details summarize.In total, 11...
Background: There is increasing concern around the use of antibiotics in animal food production and risk transmission antimicrobial resistance within chain. In many low middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, commercial poultry sector comprises small-scale producers who are dependent on credit from dealers to buy day-old chicks feed. The same also supply promote antibiotics. system reliant upon informal relationships among multiple actors as part social capital. This paper aims...
We identified factors in the physical food environment that influence dietary behaviours among low-income dwellers three African cities (Nairobi, Accra, Ho). used Photovoice with 142 males/females (≥13 years). In neighbourhood environment, poor hygiene, environmental sanitation, contamination and adulteration were key concerns. Economic access was perceived as a major barrier to accessing nutritionally safe healthy foods. Home gardening supplemented household nutritional needs, particularly...
To examine ethnic and sex differences in the pattern of skeletal maturity from adolescence to adulthood using a novel longitudinal analysis technique (SuperImposition by Translation And Rotation (SITAR)).Johannesburg, South Africa.607 boys girls black as well white ethnicity Birth Twenty bone health study, assessed annually 9 20 years age.Bone scores (Tanner-Whitehouse III radius, ulna, short bones (TW3 RUS)) longitudinally hand-wrist radiographs were used produce individual mean growth...
Abstract Background Over-prescribing and inappropriate use of antibiotics contributes to the emergence antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Few studies in low middle-income settings have employed qualitative approaches examine drivers antibiotic sale dispensing across full range healthcare providers (HCPs). We aimed explore understandings functions antibiotics; awareness AMR perceived patient or customer demand adherence among HCPs for human animal medicine Bangladesh. Methods used an...
South Africa is undergoing epidemiological and nutrition transitions with associated increases in the incidence of overweight, obesity diet-related chronic diseases. With emergence transition Africa, there an urgent need for interventions to prevent overweight children adolescents as risk factors diseases adolescence may track throughout later life. This research explored potential faith-based organisations (FBOs) be used community prevention by assessing readiness religious leaders engage...
Colistin is one of the last-resort antibiotics for treatment multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative bacterial infections. We determined occurrence and characteristics mcr-1-producing Escherichia coli obtained from live bird markets (LBMs), rural poultry farms (RPFs) household backyard environments (HBPs) in Bangladesh. tested 104 extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing E. isolated during 2017–2018 sources colistin resistance. analysed resistant isolates mcr genes characterized...
Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic may impact diet and nutrition through increased household food insecurity, lack of access to health services, poorer quality diets. primary aim this study is assess the on dietary outcomes mothers their infants young children (IYC) in low‐income urban areas Peru. We conducted a panel study, with one survey prepandemic ( n = 244) 9 months after onset 254). assessed breastfeeding complementary feeding indicators maternal diversity both surveys. During COVID‐19,...
Background: Secular trends are usually monitored through changes in size and earlier maturation. Skeletal maturity has rarely been used as a biological indicator of secular trend.Aim: To observe the skeletal urban South African adolescents between 1962 2001.Subjects methods: Data from Pretoria National Nutrition Survey were compared with cross-sectional survey children Johannesburg–Soweto based Birth to Twenty birth cohort study. Adolescents aged 9–11 years each included analysis. was...
Background To understand how to reduce antibiotic use, greater knowledge is needed about the complexities of access in countries with loose regulation or enforcement. This study aimed explore households Bangladesh were accessing antimicrobials for themselves and their domestic animals. Methods In-depth interviews conducted 48 one urban rural area. Households purposively sampled from two lower income strata, prioritising those under 5-year olds, older adults, household animals minority...
This study developed, validated, and evaluated a framework of factors influencing dietary behaviours in urban African food environments, to inform research prioritisation intervention development Africa. A multi-component methodology, drawing on concept mapping, was employed construct The adapted widely used socio-ecological model (developed high-income country context) developed using mixed-methods approach that comprised: i. Evidence synthesis consisting systematic review 39 papers...
BACKGROUND: Human exposure to intensively farmed livestock is a potential risk for transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria (ARB) but few studies have assessed the relative role animal vs. environmental sources ARB in low-resource community settings. OBJECTIVES:We conducted an observational study compare colonization and gene prevalence abundance humans with high or low poultry rural households, commercial farms, urban markets Bangladesh.METHODS: Extended-spectrum b-lactamase...
Fluro(quinolones) is an important class of antibiotic used widely in both human and veterinary medicine. Resistance to fluro(quinolones) can be acquired by either chromosomal point mutations or plasmid-mediated quinolone resistance (PMQR). There a lack studies on the prevalence PMQR organisms from environmental sources Bangladesh. In this study, we investigated occurrence genes E . coli various water analysed associations between multi-drug (MDR) extended spectrum β-lactam antibiotics. We...
The spatial distribution of clinically important antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and associated genes is to identify the environmental contamination 'hotspots' antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We conducted an integrated survey AMR in drinking water, wastewater surface water (rivers ponds) three settings Bangladesh: rural households, poultry farms, urban food markets. Spatial mapping was via geographic information system (GIS) using ArcGIS software. Samples (n = 397) were analyzed for...
Abstract Introduction Few studies have reported antibiotic purchases from retail drug shops in relation to gender low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Using a One Health approach, we aimed examine dimensions of for humans animals use prescriptions Bangladesh. Methods We conducted customer observations 20 one rural urban area. Customer gender, purchases, prescription were recorded during four-hour observation (2 sessions 2 hours) each shop. included selling human medicine (n = 15); animal...
Anemia is a major public health problem in children under 2 years old Peru and other low- middle-income countries. We aimed to explore facilitators barriers anemia prevention through feeding strategies the Cuna Mas day-care centers urban among infants young (IYC) aged 6-23 months. Qualitative research services (n = 14) Peru. conducted direct observations semi-structured interviews about consumption of animal source foods (ASF) iron supplementation with staff (technical managers, nursery...