Theodosia Adom
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Ncube J, Adom T, Aventin A, Skeen S, Nkonki L
Soc Sci Med
. 2024 Jul;
355:117130.
PMID: 39042985
Aims: We synthesised the best-available evidence on economic evaluations of gender-transformative interventions that prevent unintended pregnancy and promote sexual-health in adolescents. We also assessed the methodological quality of the economic-evaluation...
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Ncube J, Adom T, Nkonki L
BMJ Open
. 2022 May;
12(5):e056553.
PMID: 35613786
Introduction: In the context of family planning and reproductive health, a gender-transformative approach involves helping communities understand and challenge the social norms that perpetuate inequalities between men and women, and...
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Adom T, de Villiers A, Puoane T, Kengne A
Nutrients
. 2021 Nov;
13(11).
PMID: 34836281
To address the issue of obesity, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends a set of comprehensive programmes aimed at changing the obesogenic environments to provide opportunities for healthy food options...
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Adom T, de Villiers A, Puoane T, Kengne A
Nutrients
. 2020 Jan;
12(1).
PMID: 31905832
Background: Overweight/obesity is an emerging health concern among African children. The aim of this study was to summarise available evidence from school-based interventions that focused on improving nutrition and physical...
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Adom T, Kengne A, de Villiers A, Boatin R, Puoane T
Int J Environ Res Public Health
. 2019 Dec;
17(1).
PMID: 31861542
Background: Screening methods for childhood obesity are based largely on the published body mass index (BMI) criteria. Nonetheless, their accuracy in African children is largely unknown. The diagnostic accuracies of...
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Adom T, Kengne A, de Villiers A, Puoane T
BMC Public Health
. 2019 May;
19(1):577.
PMID: 31092232
Background: Little is known about the impact of the school environmental context on the emerging trend of childhood obesity in Africa. We examined the association of the schools' contextual factors...
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Kumordzie S, Adu-Afarwuah S, Arimond M, Young R, Adom T, Boatin R, et al.
J Nutr
. 2019 Apr;
149(5):847-855.
PMID: 31034033
Background: Few studies have evaluated the long-term effects of nutritional supplementation during the first 1000 d of life. We previously reported that maternal and child lipid-based nutrient supplements (LNS) increased...
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Adom T, de Villiers A, Puoane T, Kengne A
BMC Obes
. 2019 Apr;
6:14.
PMID: 30984407
Background: There is limited data on risk factors associated with childhood overweight and obesity in Ghanaian school children. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of...
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Diouf A, Adom T, Aouidet A, Hamdouchi A, Joonas N, Loechl C, et al.
Bull World Health Organ
. 2018 Nov;
96(11):772-781.
PMID: 30455532
Objective: To compare the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index (BMI)-for-age definition of obesity against measured body fatness in African children. Methods: In a prospective multicentre study over 2013...
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Bansa D, Awua A, Boatin R, Adom T, Brown-Appiah E, Amewosina K, et al.
BMC Public Health
. 2017 May;
17(1):505.
PMID: 28545513
Background: Although breastfeeding of infants is recommended globally, the fact that maternal toxic metal stores are mobilised into breast milk implies infants, whose mothers live and work in mining communities,...