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Felix Lam

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Public Health
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Alemayehu Berhanu Belete
Yigeremu Abebe Asemere
Habtamu Seyoum Tolla
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Lancet Glob Health
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Ultrasound Med Biol
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Recent Articles
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The prevalence of hypoxaemia in paediatric and adult patients in health-care facilities in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Graham H, Jahan E, Subhi R, Azrin F, Maher J, Miller J, et al.
Lancet Glob Health . 2025 Jan; 13(2):e222-e231. PMID: 39890224
Background: Hypoxaemia (low oxygen saturation in blood) is a key predictor of in-hospital mortality, affecting people of all ages with many different conditions. Early detection and treatment of hypoxaemia are...
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Improving effective coverage of medical-oxygen services for neonates and children in health facilities in Uganda: a before-after intervention study
Graham H, Kitutu F, Kamuntu Y, Kunihira B, Engol S, Miller J, et al.
Lancet Glob Health . 2024 Aug; 12(9):e1506-e1516. PMID: 39151985
Background: Medical oxygen services are essential for the care of acutely unwell patients. We aimed to assess the effects of a multilevel, multicomponent health-system intervention on hypoxaemia detection, oxygen therapy,...
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Prevalence of antibiotic use for childhood diarrhoea in Uganda after an ORS scale-up intervention: a repeated cross-sectional study
Lundin V, Lam F, Akinjeji A, Kabunga L, Eriksen J
BMC Public Health . 2024 Aug; 24(1):2084. PMID: 39090599
Background: Diarrhoea kills 500,000 children every year despite availability of cheap and effective treatment. In addition, a large number are inappropriately treated with antibiotics, which do not benefit the patient...
4.
Assessing availability, prices, and market share of quality-assured malaria ACT and RDT in the private retail sector in Nigeria and Uganda
Woldeghebriel M, Aso E, Berlin E, Fashanu C, Kirumira S, Lam F, et al.
Malar J . 2024 Feb; 23(1):41. PMID: 38321459
Background: An estimated 50% of suspected malaria cases in sub-Saharan Africa first seek care in the private sector, especially in private medicine retail outlets. Quality of care in these outlets...
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Predicting the potential impact of scaling up four pneumonia interventions on under-five pneumonia mortality: A prospective Lives Saved Tool (LiST) analysis for Bangladesh, Chad, and Ethiopia
Pfurtscheller T, Lam F, Shah R, Shohel R, Sans M, Tounaikok N, et al.
J Glob Health . 2024 Jan; 14:04001. PMID: 38214911
Background: Pneumonia remains the leading cause of mortality in under-five children outside the neonatal period. Progress has slowed down in the last decade, necessitating increased efforts to scale up effective...
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Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC) evolvement and expanded scope in Ethiopia
Seyoum H, Feleke Z, Bikila D, Yaregal A, Demisie A, Ali S, et al.
Gates Open Res . 2023 Jun; 5:70. PMID: 37362380
As a key partner of Ministry of Health (MOH) Ethiopia, The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) had been implementing the Child Survival Project (CSP) since October 2015. Strengthening DTC was...
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Hypoxaemia prevalence and management among children and adults presenting to primary care facilities in Uganda: A prospective cohort study
Graham H, Kamuntu Y, Miller J, Barrett A, Kunihira B, Engol S, et al.
PLOS Glob Public Health . 2023 Mar; 2(4):e0000352. PMID: 36962209
Hypoxaemia (low blood oxygen) is common among hospitalised patients, increasing the odds of death five-fold and requiring prompt detection and treatment. However, we know little about hypoxaemia prevalence in primary...
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Decentralizing oxygen availability and use at primary care level for children under-five with severe pneumonia, at 12 Health Centers in Ethiopia: a pre-post non-experimental study
Tolla H, Woyessa D, Balkew R, Asemere Y, Fekadu Z, Belete A, et al.
BMC Health Serv Res . 2022 May; 22(1):676. PMID: 35590411
Background: Pneumonia is the leading infectious cause of death in children worldwide, accounting for 15% of all deaths in children under the age of five. Hypoxemia is a major cause...
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Oxygen systems strengthening as an intervention to prevent childhood deaths due to pneumonia in low-resource settings: systematic review, meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness
Lam F, Stegmuller A, Chou V, Graham H
BMJ Glob Health . 2021 Dec; 6(12). PMID: 34930758
Objectives: Increasing access to oxygen services may improve outcomes among children with pneumonia living in low-resource settings. We conducted a systematic review to estimate the impact and cost-effectiveness of strengthening...
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Changes in the availability of medical oxygen and its clinical practice in Ethiopia during a national scale-up program: a time series design from thirty-two public hospitals
Tolla H, Asemere Y, Desale A, Woyessa D, Fekadu Z, Belete A, et al.
BMC Pediatr . 2021 Oct; 21(1):451. PMID: 34649554
Background: Oxygen therapy is a lifesaving treatment, however, in Ethiopia, oxygen is not readily available in many healthcare facilities. In 2015, the Federal Ministry of Health launched a national roadmap...