Variations in involuntary hospitalisation across countries

Patients' views and readmissions 1 year after involuntary hospitalisation.

BACKGROUND Little is known about the long-term outcome of involuntary admissions to psychiatric hospitals. AIMS To assess involuntary readmissions and patients' retrospective views of the justification of the admission as 1-year outcomes and to identify factors associated with these outcomes. METHOD Socio-demographic data and readmissions were collected for 1570 involuntarily admitted patie...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

Variations in the prevalence across countries of chronic bronchitis and smoking habits in young adults.

The present work aims to assess the international variation in the prevalence of chronic bronchitis and its main risk factor, smoking habits, in young adults of 35 centres from 16 countries. Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function were assessed in 17,966 subjects (20-44 yrs), randomly selected from the general population, in the frame of the European Community Respiratory Health Survey. The...

Variations in attitudinal gender preferences for children across 50 less-developed countries

While a number of studies have examined gender preferences for children by studying behavioral measures, such as skewed sex ratios, sex imbalance in infant mortality, and sibling size/order; attitudinal measures have been analyzed less systematically. Using 50 Demographic and Health Surveys conducted between 2000 and 2008, this paper seeks to advance our understanding of gender preferences in d...

Know Your Noodles! Assessing Variations in Sodium Content of Instant Noodles across Countries

Reducing salt intake is a cost-effective public health intervention to reduce the global burden of non-communicable disease (NCDs). Ultra-processed foods contribute ~80% of dietary salt in high income countries, and are becoming prominent in low-middle income countries. Instant noodle consumption is particularly high in the Asia Pacific region. The aim of this study was to compare the sodium co...