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Showing 1 to 20 of 152 for “"unmet need"”.
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Addressing the Unmet Need of Preconception Counseling for HIV Positive Women
… purpose of this DNP project is to address the unmet need of preconception care and family planning counseling provided to women living with HIV (WLWHIV) of childbearing age. The aim is to develop an evidence-based best-practice toolkit to be used by the HIV and OBGYN providers at McDowell …
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Understanding health workers’ views on addressing the unmet need for family planning in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands
… as it has a subnational disparity of highest unmet need for family planning in the Solomon Islands. The aim was to understand health workers’ perspectives on barriers to contraception in this region, and to hear their proposed solutions. Design: This study was based on an exploratory …
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Unmet need for contraception and its determinants among adolescent girls in Uganda: Findings from Demographic and Health Survey (2011).
… 2015). These statistics indicate a problem of unmet need for contraception in Uganda, more so among adolescents, and this calls for more impact studies around adolescent unmet needs for contraception if the problem is to be meaningfully mitigated. Methods An explorative quantitative secondary …
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Postpartum contraceptive use in HIV-positive women who started antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy in Cape Town
… factors associated with at least one episode of unmet need for contraception up to 24 months postpartum in women who began ART during pregnancy in Gugulethu, Cape Town. Methods: This was a retrospective review of data from a broader trial of antiretroviral drug delivery to women living with HIV …
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Trends and determinants of contraceptive use and method choice among young Zimbabwean women from 1988 to 2015
… aims to examine the trends in contraceptive use, unmet need, method choice, and determinants of contraceptive use and method choice among young women aged 15-24 in Zimbabwe from 1988 to 2015. The study utilises six cross-sectional data sets obtained from the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey …
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Unmet Health Care Needs and Adverse Outcomes for Patients with Chronic Disease
… 7 adults with chronic disease report a perceived unmet health care need – a commonly used indicator of limited access to care. Participants with multiple chronic conditions (multi-morbidity) were more likely to report a barrier to care. Furthermore, the most commonly reported reasons for an unmet …
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Forecasting service-enriched senior housing : the case for housing + services innovation in Metropolitan Boston
… with complete data, there is an enormous unmet need for 22,894 units of service-enriched housing by 2030 of which there is unmet need for 10,941 units of subsidized housing. Study recommendations call for increasing the overall supply of service-enriched housing and also reforming the …
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In vitro and in vivo assessments of PCL-TCP composites for bone tissue engineering
Currently, there is an unmet need for bone grafts which is the gold standard of treating patients with trauma related injuries or bone fracture. Autologous bone graft poses no issues of rejection but will result in donor site morbidity and is limited by defect size. Allografts and xenografts are …
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Academia versus industry as a wellspring of new ideas in drug discovery : the case of oncology
The United States population is aging, and the need for novel approaches to treat and manage disease continues to grow. Among the diseases that will impact this population, cancer remains a therapeutic area with significant unmet need. Pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries must continue to …
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Gastric resident systems for large dose drug delivery
… potent compounds for treatment, there remains an unmet need for depot systems that could transform medication adherence. Tuberculosis (TB) is one such disease with a high pill burden, where poor patient adherence to the treatment regimen is a major cause of treatment failure and contributes to the …
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Addressing unmet needs in the small and medium enterprises through use of emerging technologies : a business plan
… steeper learning curve. In order to address this unmet need and huge opportunity, we are building 'T-Desque' a cloud-based travel solution for the Indian market. Our vision is to make the entire travel related processes seamless, efficient and cost effective. Our product will focus on the …
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Stepping in the right direction? Exploring mental health providers’ beliefs about, training in, and use of stepped-care practices
… delivered to a larger number of people are needed to address the large, unmet need for mental health services. Stepped-care models have the potential to address this need and provide benefit to a significant number of patients while managing provider burden. The present study sought to …
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Generation of human inner ear organoids from pluripotent stem cells and an organ-on-chip platform
… of different embryological origins. There is an unmet need for developing a human inner ear model in vitro to mimic both the complex structure and the function of the inner ear outside of the body. Since the human inner ear is difficult to biopsy, a major challenge is to accurately recapitulate …
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Novel acyclic nucleotide phosphonates against RNA viruses
… affect the developing world. The large and unmet need for anti-RNA viral treatments has prompted this study into the design and synthesis of a range of ANPs, which includes a series of ribavirin-based ANP derivatives. The series of compounds was synthesised from a diisopropyl protected …
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Re-thinking highest and best use : implementing smart development in support of smart growth : a case study in Santa Fe, NM
… 100-120% of area median income is a significant unmet need.
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Axiomatic design of a manually powered wheelchair lift mechanism
… designing a mechanism to fill this compelling unmet need. Careful consideration of the functional and physical domains guided us to an effective solution to this design problem. A proof of concept prototype was created to demonstrate the potential of this design solution. This prototype is …
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Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam
… equity in financing fails to account for the unmet need for care. This thesis proposes an improved approach, based on Heckman’s selection model, to estimate the impact of insurance on the cost of health care, after correcting for self-selection biases. To measure socioeconomic-related …
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Imaging Biomarkers of Response to Immune Checkpoint Inhibition in Melanoma
… increased progression-free survival, there is an unmet need for clinical decision-making tools that can be used for monitoring the efficacy of these costly agents, their potential side effects and the identification of patients with the most suitable immunological profile for this treatment …
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Recognition of Cations and Anions by Lanthanide Complexes
… in current research, there is a strong unmet need for novel molecular complexes that readily enable concomitant imaging of multiple ions in different environments with high sensitivity and selectivity.
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An investigation into the molecular mechanisms induced by derivatives of natural products in oesophageal cancer
… poor efficacy and tolerability, highlighting an unmet need for novel chemotherapeutic agents. Artemisinin derivatives, currently used to treat malaria, were recently shown to possess potent anticancer activity. This study investigated the potential of two first generation artemisinin derivatives …
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