Search Results - "Chandler, I"
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Current accounts of antimicrobial resistance: stabilisation, individualisation and antibiotics as infrastructure
Published in Humanities & social sciences communications (01-12-2019)“…Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the latest issues to galvanise political and financial investment as an emerging global health threat. This paper…”
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Vertical variation of mixing within porous sediment beds below turbulent flows
Published in Water resources research (01-05-2016)“…River ecosystems are influenced by contaminants in the water column, in the pore water and adsorbed to sediment particles. When exchange across the…”
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Antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19: Intersections and implications
Published in eLife (16-02-2021)“…Before the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic began, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) was among the top priorities for global public health. Already a complex…”
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The complexities of simple technologies: re-imagining the role of rapid diagnostic tests in malaria control efforts
Published in Malaria journal (05-02-2016)“…Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are assumed to be simple-to-use and mobile technologies that have the capacity to standardize parasitological diagnosis…”
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Antibiotics, rational drug use and the architecture of global health in Zimbabwe
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-03-2021)“…Rising concerns around antimicrobial resistance (AMR) have led to a renewed push to rationalise antibiotic prescribing in low- and middle-income countries…”
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Intermittent preventive treatment of malaria delivered to primary schoolchildren provided effective individual protection in Jinja, Uganda: secondary outcomes of a cluster-randomized trial (START-IPT)
Published in Malaria journal (18-09-2019)“…Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) of malaria is recommended as policy for certain high-risk populations, but not currently for schoolchildren. A…”
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Interobserver agreement in grading of colorectal cancers-findings from a nationwide web-based survey of histopathologists
Published in Histopathology (01-03-2008)“…Aims: Tumour grade represents a gestalt of all molecular changes in malignancy, reflecting aggressiveness and has been shown to add prognostic information…”
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Patients with positive malaria tests not given artemisinin-based combination therapies: a research synthesis describing under-prescription of antimalarial medicines in Africa
Published in BMC medicine (30-01-2020)“…There has been a successful push towards parasitological diagnosis of malaria in Africa, mainly with rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs), which has reduced…”
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Introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests in private medicine retail outlets: A systematic literature review
Published in PloS one (02-03-2017)“…Many patients with malaria-like symptoms seek treatment in private medicine retail outlets (PMR) that distribute malaria medicines but do not traditionally…”
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The impact of an intervention to introduce malaria rapid diagnostic tests on fever case management in a high transmission setting in Uganda: A mixed-methods cluster-randomized trial (PRIME)
Published in PloS one (13-03-2017)“…Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (mRDTs) have been scaled-up widely across Africa. The PRIME study evaluated an intervention aiming to improve fever case…”
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Motivation, money and respect: A mixed-method study of Tanzanian non-physician clinicians
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-06-2009)“…Poor quality of care is a major concern in low-income countries, and is in part attributed to low motivation of healthcare workers. Non-physician clinicians…”
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Guidelines and mindlines: why do clinical staff over-diagnose malaria in Tanzania? A qualitative study
Published in Malaria journal (02-04-2008)“…Malaria over-diagnosis in Africa is widespread and costly both financially and in terms of morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses. An understanding of…”
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Introducing malaria rapid diagnostic tests at registered drug shops in Uganda: Limitations of diagnostic testing in the reality of diagnosis
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-03-2011)“…In Uganda, around two thirds of medicines are procured from the private sector, mostly from drug shops. The introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests…”
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‘As a clinician, you are not managing lab results, you are managing the patient’: How the enactment of malaria at health facilities in Cameroon compares with new WHO guidelines for the use of malaria tests
Published in Social science & medicine (1982) (01-05-2012)“…In response to widespread overuse of antimalarial drugs, the World Health Organisation changed guidelines in 2010 to restrict the use of antimalarials to…”
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Community case management of malaria: exploring support, capacity and motivation of community medicine distributors in Uganda
Published in Health policy and planning (01-05-2015)“…In Uganda, community services for febrile children are expanding from presumptive treatment of fever with anti-malarials through the home-based management of…”
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Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy
Published in BMJ global health (01-09-2020)“…There is increasing concern globally about the enormity of the threats posed by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human, animal, plant and environmental…”
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Understanding Antibiotic Use in Companion Animals: A Literature Review Identifying Avenues for Future Efforts
Published in Frontiers in veterinary science (08-10-2021)“…Addressing antibiotic use is essential to tackle antimicrobial resistance, a major human and animal health challenge. This review seeks to inform stewardship…”
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Assessment of community-level effects of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in schoolchildren in Jinja, Uganda (START-IPT trial): a cluster-randomised trial
Published in The Lancet global health (01-06-2018)“…Intermittent preventive treatment (IPT) is a well established malaria control intervention. Evidence that delivering IPT to schoolchildren could provide…”
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Water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH): the evolution of a global health and development sector
Published in BMJ global health (04-10-2024)“…Despite some progress, universal access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) by 2030—a remit of Sustainable Development Goal 6—remains a distant…”
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Understanding antimicrobial resistance through the lens of antibiotic vulnerabilities in primary health care in rural Malawi
Published in Global public health (02-11-2022)“…The diminishing effectiveness of antimicrobials raises serious concerns for human health. While policy makers grapple to reduce the overuse of antimicrobial…”
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