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Opening decision spaces: A case study on the opportunities and constraints in the public health sector of Mpumalanga Province, South Africa by Witter, Sophie, van der Merwe, Maria, Twine, Rhian, Mabetha, Denny, Hove, Jennifer, Tollman, Stephen M, D'Ambruoso, Lucia

“…Decentralised and evidence-informed health systems rely on managers and practitioners at all levels having sufficient 'decision space' to make timely locally…”
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Health in South Africa 4: The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa by Mayosi, Bongani M, Flisher, Alan J, Lalloo, Umesh G, Sitas, Freddy, Tollman, Stephen M, Bradshaw, Debbie

“…15 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of…”
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The burden of non-communicable diseases in South Africa by Mayosi, Bongani M, Prof, Flisher, Alan J, Prof, Lalloo, Umesh G, Prof, Sitas, Freddy, DPhil, Tollman, Stephen M, PhD, Bradshaw, Debbie, DPhil

“…Summary 15 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden…”
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The UCL–Lancet Commission on Migration and Health: the health of a world on the move by Abubakar, Ibrahim, Aldridge, Robert W, Devakumar, Delan, Orcutt, Miriam, Burns, Rachel, Barreto, Mauricio L, Dhavan, Poonam, Fouad, Fouad M, Groce, Nora, Guo, Yan, Hargreaves, Sally, Knipper, Michael, Miranda, J Jaime, Madise, Nyovani, Kumar, Bernadette, Mosca, Davide, McGovern, Terry, Rubenstein, Leonard, Sammonds, Peter, Sawyer, Susan M, Sheikh, Kabir, Tollman, Stephen, Spiegel, Paul, Zimmerman, Cathy, Abubakar, Ibrahim, Aldridge, Robert W, Devakumar, Delan, Orcutt, Miriam, Burns, Rachel, Barreto, Mauricio L, Dhavan, Poonam, Fouad, Fouad M, Groce, Nora, Guo, Yan, Hargreaves, Sally, Knipper, Michael, Miranda, Jaime, Madise, Nyovani, Kumar, Bernadette, Mosca, Davide, McGovern, Terry, Rubenstein, Leonard, Sammonds, Peter, Sawyer, Susan M, Sheikh, Kabir, Tollman, Stephen, Spiegel, Paul, Zimmerman, Cathy, Abbas, Mustafa, Acer, Eleanor, Ahmad, Ayesha, Abimbola, Seye, Blanchet, Karl, Bocquier, Philippe, Samuels, Fiona, Byrne, Olga, Haerizadeh, Sonia, Issa, Rita, Collinson, Mark, Ginsburg, Carren, Kelman, Ilan, McAlpine, Alys, Pocock, Nicola, Olshansky, Barbara, Ramos, Dandara, White, Michael, Zhou, Suzanne

“…With one billion people on the move or having moved in 2018, migration is a global reality, which has also become a political lightning rod. Although estimates…”
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Paradox of HIV stigma in an integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: Viewpoints of service users and providers by Ameh, Soter, D'Ambruoso, Lucia, Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier, Kahn, Kathleen, Tollman, Stephen M, Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin

“…An integrated chronic disease management (ICDM) model was introduced by the National Department of Health in South Africa to tackle the dual burden of HIV/AIDS…”
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Global patterns of mortality in international migrants: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Aldridge, Robert W, Nellums, Laura B, Bartlett, Sean, Barr, Anna Louise, Patel, Parth, Burns, Rachel, Hargreaves, Sally, Miranda, J Jaime, Tollman, Stephen, Friedland, Jon S, Abubakar, Ibrahim

“…258 million people reside outside their country of birth; however, to date no global systematic reviews or meta-analyses of mortality data for these…”
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Examining the relationships between body image, eating attitudes, BMI, and physical activity in rural and urban South African young adult females using structural equation modeling by Prioreschi, Alessandra, Wrottesley, Stephanie V, Cohen, Emmanuel, Reddy, Ankita, Said-Mohamed, Rihlat, Twine, Rhian, Tollman, Stephen M, Kahn, Kathleen, Dunger, David B, Norris, Shane A

“…The persistence of food insecurity, malnutrition, increasing adiposity, and decreasing physical activity, heightens the need to understand relationships…”
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Evidence that a tax on sugar sweetened beverages reduces the obesity rate: a meta-analysis by Cabrera Escobar, Maria A, Veerman, J Lennert, Tollman, Stephen M, Bertram, Melanie Y, Hofman, Karen J

“…Excess intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) has been shown to result in weight gain. To address the growing epidemic of obesity, one option is to combine…”
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An integrated approach to processing WHO-2016 verbal autopsy data: the InterVA-5 model by Byass, Peter, Hussain-Alkhateeb, Laith, D'Ambruoso, Lucia, Clark, Samuel, Davies, Justine, Fottrell, Edward, Bird, Jon, Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa, Tollman, Stephen, Kahn, Kathleen, Schiöler, Linus, Petzold, Max

“…Verbal autopsy is an increasingly important methodology for assigning causes to otherwise uncertified deaths, which amount to around 50% of global mortality…”
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Reflections on the global burden of disease 2010 estimates by Byass, Peter, de Courten, Maximilian, Graham, Wendy J, Laflamme, Lucie, McCaw-Binns, Affette, Sankoh, Osman A, Tollman, Stephen M, Zaba, Basia

“…Peter Byass and colleagues raise questions about the recent, high-profile Global Burden of Disease estimates. Please see later in the article for the Editors'…”
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Cohort Profile: Health and Ageing in Africa: A Longitudinal Study of an INDEPTH Community in South Africa (HAALSI) by Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier, Montana, Livia, Wagner, Ryan G, Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa W, Rohr, Julia K, Kahn, Kathleen, Bärnighausen, Till, Collinson, Mark, Canning, David, Gaziano, Thomas, Salomon, Joshua A, Payne, Collin F, Wade, Alisha, Tollman, Stephen M, Berkman, Lisa

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Body Image Satisfaction, Eating Attitudes and Perceptions of Female Body Silhouettes in Rural South African Adolescents by Pedro, Titilola M, Micklesfield, Lisa K, Kahn, Kathleen, Tollman, Stephen M, Pettifor, John M, Norris, Shane A

“…This study aims to examine the associations between BMI, disordered eating attitude, body dissatisfaction in female adolescents, and descriptive attributes…”
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The prevalence of stunting, overweight and obesity, and metabolic disease risk in rural South African children by Kimani-Murage, Elizabeth W, Kahn, Kathleen, Pettifor, John M, Tollman, Stephen M, Dunger, David B, Gómez-Olivé, Xavier F, Norris, Shane A

“…Low- to middle-income countries are undergoing a health transition with non-communicable diseases contributing substantially to disease burden, despite…”
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The effect of a conditional cash transfer on HIV incidence in young women in rural South Africa (HPTN 068): a phase 3, randomised controlled trial by Pettifor, Audrey, Dr, MacPhail, Catherine, PhD, Hughes, James P, Prof, Selin, Amanda, MHS, Wang, Jing, MS, Gómez-Olivé, F Xavier, PhD, Eshleman, Susan H, Prof, Wagner, Ryan G, PhD, Mabuza, Wonderful, BSc, Khoza, Nomhle, MS, Suchindran, Chirayath, Prof, Mokoena, Immitrude, BS, Twine, Rhian, MPH, Andrew, Philip, RN, Townley, Ellen, MSN, Laeyendecker, Oliver, PhD, Agyei, Yaw, BS, Tollman, Stephen, Prof, Kahn, Kathleen, Prof

“…Summary Background Cash transfers have been proposed as an intervention to reduce HIV-infection risk for young women in sub-Saharan Africa. However, scarce…”
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The African Genome Variation Project shapes medical genetics in Africa by Gurdasani, Deepti, Carstensen, Tommy, Tekola-Ayele, Fasil, Pagani, Luca, Tachmazidou, Ioanna, Hatzikotoulas, Konstantinos, Karthikeyan, Savita, Iles, Louise, Pollard, Martin O., Choudhury, Ananyo, Ritchie, Graham R. S., Xue, Yali, Asimit, Jennifer, Nsubuga, Rebecca N., Young, Elizabeth H., Pomilla, Cristina, Kivinen, Katja, Rockett, Kirk, Kamali, Anatoli, Doumatey, Ayo P., Asiki, Gershim, Seeley, Janet, Sisay-Joof, Fatoumatta, Jallow, Muminatou, Tollman, Stephen, Mekonnen, Ephrem, Ekong, Rosemary, Oljira, Tamiru, Bradman, Neil, Bojang, Kalifa, Ramsay, Michele, Adeyemo, Adebowale, Bekele, Endashaw, Motala, Ayesha, Norris, Shane A., Pirie, Fraser, Kaleebu, Pontiano, Kwiatkowski, Dominic, Tyler-Smith, Chris, Rotimi, Charles, Zeggini, Eleftheria, Sandhu, Manjinder S.

“…Given the importance of Africa to studies of human origins and disease susceptibility, detailed characterization of African genetic diversity is needed. The…”
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SARS-CoV-2 incidence, transmission, and reinfection in a rural and an urban setting: results of the PHIRST-C cohort study, South Africa, 2020–21 by Cohen, Cheryl, Kleynhans, Jackie, von Gottberg, Anne, McMorrow, Meredith L, Wolter, Nicole, Bhiman, Jinal N, Moyes, Jocelyn, du Plessis, Mignon, Carrim, Maimuna, Buys, Amelia, Martinson, Neil A, Kahn, Kathleen, Tollman, Stephen, Lebina, Limakatso, Wafawanaka, Floidy, du Toit, Jacques D, Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier, Dawood, Fatimah S, Mkhencele, Thulisa, Sun, Kaiyuan, Viboud, Cécile, Tempia, Stefano, Bhiman, Jinal N, Buys, Amelia, Carrim, Maimuna, Cohen, Cheryl, de Gouveia, Linda, du Plessis, Mignon, du Toit, Jacques, Gómez-Olivé, Francesc X, Kahn, Kathleen, Kgasago, Kgaugelo P, Kleynhans, Jackie, Kotane, Retshidisitswe, Lebina, Limakatso, Martinson, Neil A., McMorrow, Meredith L, Moloantoa, Tumelo, Moyes, Jocelyn, Tempia, Stefano, Tollman, Stephen, von Gottberg, Anne, Wafawanaka, Floidy, Wolter, Nicole

“…By August, 2021, South Africa had been affected by three waves of SARS-CoV-2; the second associated with the beta variant and the third with the delta variant…”
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Quality of integrated chronic disease care in rural South Africa: user and provider perspectives by Ameh, Soter, Klipstein-Grobusch, Kerstin, D’ambruoso, Lucia, Kahn, Kathleen, Tollman, Stephen M, Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier

“…The integrated chronic disease management (ICDM) model was introduced as a response to the dual burden of HIV/AIDS and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in…”
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SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in a Rural and Urban Household Cohort during First and Second Waves of Infections, South Africa, July 2020–March 2021 by Kleynhans, Jackie, Tempia, Stefano, Wolter, Nicole, von Gottberg, Anne, Bhiman, Jinal N, Buys, Amelia, Moyes, Jocelyn, McMorrow, Meredith L, Kahn, Kathleen, Gomez- Olive, F. Xavier, Tollman, Stephen, Martinson, Neil A, Wafawanaka, Floidy, Lebina, Limakatso, Toit, Jacques du, Jassat, Waasila, Neti, Mzimasi, Brauer, Marieke, Cohen, Cheryl

“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections may be underestimated because of limited access to testing. We measured SARS-CoV-2…”
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Effect of a cash transfer intervention on memory decline and dementia probability in older adults in rural South Africa by Rosenberg, Molly, Beidelman, Erika T, Chen, Xiwei, Whiteson Kabudula, Chodziwadziwa, Pettifor, Audrey, Bassil, Darina T, Berkman, Lisa, Kahn, Kathleen, Tollman, Stephen, Kobayashi, Lindsay C

“…Evidence on cash transfers as a population-level intervention to support healthy cognitive aging in low-income settings is sparse. We assessed the effect of a…”
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Disease burden of stroke in rural South Africa: an estimate of incidence, mortality and disability adjusted life years by Maredza, Mandy, Bertram, Melanie Y, Tollman, Stephen M

“…In the context of an epidemiologic transition in South Africa, in which cardiovascular disease is increasing, little is known about the stroke burden,…”
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