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Material incentives and enablers in the management of tuberculosis.
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:18:08 +0100 | Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
CONCLUSIONS: There is limited evidence to support the use of material incentives to improve return rates for tuberculosis diagnostic test results and adherence to antituberculosis preventive therapy. The data are currently limited to trials among predominantly male drug users, homeless, and prisoner subpopulations in the USA, and therefore the results are not easily generalised to the wider adult population, or to low- and middle-income countries, where the tuberculosis burden is highest.Further high-quality studies are needed to assess both the costs and effectiveness of incentives to improve adherence to long-term treatment of tuberculosis. PMID: 22258976 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews)

Refractive Error and Presbyopia in Timor-Leste: The Impact of 5 Years of a National Spectacle Program [Clinical and Epidemiologic Research]
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0100 | Investigative Ophthalmology
Conclusions. The National Spectacle Program has not produced uniform improvement across all service indicators. Evidence-based enhancements may now be initiated. (Source: Investigative Ophthalmology)

Psychological adjustment and retention of Australian Army reservists following a stability operation. - Orme GJ, Kehoe J.
Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:21:09 +0100 | SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated)
Australian Army reservists (n=92) and a comparable group of regulars (n=90) were surveyed at the end of a 7-month deployment on a stability operation in Timor Leste and again approximately 6 months after returning to Australia. Both reservists and regulars... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up
Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:02:08 +0100 | Red Cross Chat
This Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up is courtesy of Scott Waggoner, from Cross Blog: Award-winning Red Cross news and views from Oregon and beyond Welcome to the Worldwide Wednesday Wrap-Up, in which we consolidate the international Red Cross and Red Crescent news into one list of bite-sized links for you. It’s a non-comprehensive sampling of the larger and/or more intriguing aspects of our global work… EAST TIMOR: A team of well-trained Red Cross Volunteers recently helped with a horrific collision in regional East Timor. Four people died and almost 20 more were seriously injured when a troop carrier crashed two hours south of the capital, Dili. Nurses and doctors at the local hospital in Aileu were overwhelmed by the size of the emergency and Cruz Vermelha de Timor-Leste volunte...

Primary eye care in Timor-Leste
Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:00:00 +0100 | British Journal of Ophthalmology
The Vision 2020: Right to Sight Initiative calls for the inclusion of primary eye care (PEC) in primary healthcare interventions. To date, there is no agreement on a definition for PEC or how best to implement it.1 It has variously involved village health workers (VHWs) delivering health education to communities to prevent eye diseases, or general health workers at primary level facilities receiving training in basic eye health education, diagnosis and treatment.2 The Timor-Leste National Eye Health Survey (TLEHS) 2010, a population-based cross-sectional survey of adults aged ≥40 years, enabled exploration of actual and anticipated use of eye health services in Timor-Leste and provided an opportunity to consider a definition of PEC in this context. The majority of Timor-Leste's 1.1...

Patterns of Trauma in Conflict Victims from Timor Leste. - Komar DA, Lathrop S.
Sun, 16 Oct 2011 02:41:16 +0100 | SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated)
Understanding population-level trauma patterns has implications for the recognition of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Trauma data were abstracted from autopsy and anthropology reports for 105 victims from the 1999 conflict in Timor Leste. A signif... (Source: SafetyLit: All (Unduplicated))

Primary eye care in Timor-Leste.
Fri, 14 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 | The British Journal of Ophthalmology
Authors: Ramke J, Blignault I, Hobday K, Lee L, Brian G PMID: 22001152 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: The British Journal of Ophthalmology)

Patterns of Trauma in Conflict Victims from Timor Leste.
Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:00:00 +0100 | Journal of Forensic Sciences
Authors: Komar DA, Lathrop S Abstract   Understanding population-level trauma patterns has implications for the recognition of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Trauma data were abstracted from autopsy and anthropology reports for 105 victims from the 1999 conflict in Timor Leste. A significant number of individuals displayed no evidence of injury. No trauma was found in 25% of the sample, while a further 5% had only minor, nonlethal wounds. Where trauma was evident, sharp force injuries were most common (35%), followed by gunshot (20%) and blunt force (13.33%). Timorese frequencies of trauma differ significantly from percentages found in prior reports of mass killings from Cambodia, Bosnia, Croatia, and Afghanistan but closely resemble reported trauma patterns in Rwanda. D...

An exploratory study of treated-bed nets in Timor-Leste: patterns of intended and alternative usage
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 23:00:00 +0100 | Malaria Journal
Useful guidance to health promotion/behaviour change communication activities for malaria control. (Source: Malaria Journal)