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Milena M Santric-Milicevic

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ID1862000
NAMEMilena M Santric-Milicevic
GIVEN NAMESMilena M
FAMILY NAMESantric-Milicevic
SIGNATURESANTRIC-MILICEVIC M M
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Belgrade
ORCID0000-0002-0684-359X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS44
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT44
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • Health promotion challenges and opportunities in the Western Balkans: A review of contemporary policies and actions

    Open Access•Jonila Gabrani, Alexander Rommel et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2026

    Background: Countries in the Western Balkans (WBCs) fall behind the European Union in implementing effective health promotion. This study explores the key components of national health promotion policies and action plans in Albania, Federation of BiH, and the Republic of Srpska, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia, with the aim of describing key action trends, gaps, and challenges, and recommendations for health promotion implementation impro…

  • Outpatient pediatric care during the Covid-19 pandemic, Almaty, Kazakhstan 2021–2022

    Open Access•Nailya Kozhekenova, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2025

    Background/objectives: During the COVID-19 pandemic, primary health care systems worldwide adapted to manage cases in outpatient settings, including those involving children. The aim of this study was to investigate the epidemiological characteristics of 27,205 outpatient COVID-19 cases among children (0-17 years) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2022, compared with major epidemiological events and public health measures.…

  • Accreditation Challenges in Polish Medical Education: Balancing the Rapid Surge in Medical Students’ Numbers with Quality Standards

    Open Access•Mateusz Guziak, Anna Joanna Świtajska et al.•ARTICLE•Education Sciences•2025

    To address healthcare workforce shortages, Poland has experienced a significant expansion in medical education, characterized by a tripling of accredited institutions and a fourfold increase in student admissions over the past two decades. However, in 2024, the suspension of admission quotas for six newly established universities was due to concerns over accreditation of medical degree programs (MD). Given the ongoing discussions in the European …

  • Future research directions on physicians in Polish primary healthcare: Workforce challenges and policy considerations

    Open Access•Mateusz Guziak, Maciej Walkiewicz et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Public Health•2025

    This commentary provides an overview of the health workforce situation in Polish primary healthcare (PHC) and attempts to characterize the challenges it currently confronts, framing the scope for further research. We analyse the status of PHC medical doctors, geographical accessibility to PHC, and family medicine training in Poland. Workforce characteristics and policy were assessed through descriptive analysis of official reports, including data…

  • Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: A forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Open Access•Stein Emil Vollset, Hazim S Ababneh et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2024

    BACKGROUND: Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. We have expanded and improved upon previous forecasts produced as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) and provide a reference forecast (the most likely future), and alternativ…

  • Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Open Access•Michael Brauer, Gregory A Roth et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2024

    BACKGROUND: Understanding the health consequences associated with exposure to risk factors is necessary to inform public health policy and practice. To systematically quantify the contributions of risk factor exposures to specific health outcomes, the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 aims to provide comprehensive estimates of exposure levels, relative health risks, and attributable burden of disease for 88 ri…

  • Global fertility in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2021, with forecasts to 2100: A comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Open Access•Natalia V Bhattacharjee, Austin E Schumacher et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2024

    BACKGROUND: Accurate assessments of current and future fertility-including overall trends and changing population age structures across countries and regions-are essential to help plan for the profound social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical challenges that these changes will bring. Estimates and projections of fertility are necessary to inform policies involving resource and health-care needs, labour supply, education, gender equality,…

  • Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease…

    Open Access•Mohsen Naghavi, Kanyin Liane Ong et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2024

    BACKGROUND: Regular, detailed reporting on population health by underlying cause of death is fundamental for public health decision making. Cause-specific estimates of mortality and the subsequent effects on life expectancy worldwide are valuable metrics to gauge progress in reducing mortality rates. These estimates are particularly important following large-scale mortality spikes, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. When systematically analysed, mort…

  • Global age-sex-specific mortality, life expectancy, and population estimates in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1950–2021, and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic: A compr…

    Open Access•Austin E Schumacher, Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2024

    BACKGROUND: Estimates of demographic metrics are crucial to assess levels and trends of population health outcomes. The profound impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on populations worldwide has underscored the need for timely estimates to understand this unprecedented event within the context of long-term population health trends. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2021 provides new demographic estimates for 204 cou…

  • Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (Dalys), and healthy life expectancy (Hale) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territor…

    Open Access•Alize J Ferrari, Damian Francesco Santomauro et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2024

    BACKGROUND: Detailed, comprehensive, and timely reporting on population health by underlying causes of disability and premature death is crucial to understanding and responding to complex patterns of disease and injury burden over time and across age groups, sexes, and locations. The availability of disease burden estimates can promote evidence-based interventions that enable public health researchers, policy makers, and other professionals to im…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of disorders affecting the nervous system, 1990–2021: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Open Access•Jaimie D Steinmetz, Katrin Seeher et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet Neurology•2024

    BACKGROUND: Disorders affecting the nervous system are diverse and include neurodevelopmental disorders, late-life neurodegeneration, and newly emergent conditions, such as cognitive impairment following COVID-19. Previous publications from the Global Burden of Disease, Injuries, and Risk Factor Study estimated the burden of 15 neurological conditions in 2015 and 2016, but these analyses did not include neurodevelopmental disorders, as defined by…

  • A real-world analysis of pharmacotherapy adherence and the factors influencing it in Serbia: A nationwide, population-based, cross-sectional study

    Open Access•Dragana Srebro, Zoran Bukumirić et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2024

    Introduction: Monitoring the pharmacotherapy adherence in society is crucial for identifying occurance and causes of potential inadequate use of drugs and inform providers about the need for better customer counceling. It is necessary component of the strategic planning of the quality of healthcare services. This population- based study aimed to assess the medication intake adherence in the Republic of Serbia and the individual factors and health…

  • The mortality burden related to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 - years of life lost and excess mortality in 13 countries and sub-national regions in Southern and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia

    Open Access•Caoimhe Cawley, Mehtap Çakmak Barsbay et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2024

    Introduction: Between 2021 and 2023, a project was funded in order to explore the mortality burden (YLL-Years of Life Lost, excess mortality) of COVID-19 in Southern and Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Methods: For each national or sub-national region, data on COVID-19 deaths and population data were collected for the period March 2020 to December 2021. Unstandardized and age-standardised YLL rates were calculated according to standard burden o…

  • Recognizing the Frequency of Exposure to Cyberbullying in Children: The Results of the National HBSC Study in Serbia

    Open Access•Milica Kangrga, Dejan Nikolic et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2024

    Nowadays, children are able to enrich their reality via the Internet. Unfortunately, this may increase their risk of becoming victims of cyberbullying. We analyzed the health characteristics and risk behavior of two cohorts of children in Serbia; those who reported being exposed to cyberbullying and those who did not. The statistical differences and logistic regression models were applied to the data on 3267 students collected from 64 schools par…

  • Insights into general practitioners’ self-care across 38 countries during the pandemic: A cross-sectional study

    Open Access•Ivana Keenan, Esther Van Poel et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Psychology•2024

    GPs have navigated the pandemic uniquely, and despite applying self-care practices they faced some level of impact, hence self-care interventions for healthcare professionals should be regarded as essential rather than optional. A long-term investment in strategies focused on improving GPs' self-care is necessary to increase resilience among GPs and ensure their optimal well-being levels are achieved

  • Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

    Open Access•Kanyin Liane Ong, Lauryn K Stafford et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2023

    BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…

  • The Organization of Outreach Work for Vulnerable Patients in General Practice during Covid-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study in 38 Countries

    Open Access•Esther Van Poel, Claire Collins et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected vulnerable populations' access to health care. By proactively reaching out to them, general practices attempted to prevent the underutilization of their services. This paper examined the association between practice and country characteristics and the organization of outreach work in general practices during COVID-19. Linear mixed model analyses with practices nested in countries were performed on…

  • Psychological Distress in the Republic of Serbia, the Association of Social Characteristics and Substance Use on a National Representative Sample of Serbia

    Open Access•Milica Tadic, Zorica Terzić-Šupić et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2023

    This study examined the association between social characteristics, substance use, and psychological distress in a national representative sample of adults in Serbia. It was a secondary analysis of the National Survey on Lifestyles in Serbia: Substance Abuse and Gambling 2018. The study included a total of 2000 participants aged 18 to 65 from the general population in Serbia. Psychological distress was examined using the Kessler 6 questionnaire. …

  • Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020

    Open Access•Dana Bryazka, Marissa B Reitsma et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2022

    BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…

  • Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of …

    Open Access•Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, Jonathan Kocarnik et al.•ARTICLE•JAMA Oncology•2022

    IMPORTANCE: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD 2019) provided systematic estimates of incidence, morbidity, and mortality to inform local and international efforts toward reducing cancer burden. OBJECTIVE: To estimate cancer burden and trends globally for 204 countries and territories and by Sociodemographic Index (SDI) quintiles from 2010 to 2019. EVIDENCE REVIEW: The GBD 2019 estimation methods were used t…

  • The Association between Participation in Fights and Bullying and the Perception of School, Teachers, and Peers among School-Age Children in Serbia

    Open Access•Sanja Stanković, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2022

    Participating in physical fighting and bullying can be a cause of severe injury and death among school-age children. Research evidence can support school and health actors’ efforts to improve school-age children’s development and health capacity for life. The study aims to assess the prevalence of school-age children’s participation in fights and bullying in Serbia, and to examine the relevance of students’ socio-demographic characteristics and p…

  • Practice and System Factors Impact on Infection Prevention and Control in General Practice during Covid-19 across 33 Countries: Results of the PRICOV Cross-Sectional Survey

    Open Access•Claire Collins, Esther Van Poel et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    Infection prevention and control (IPC) is an evidence-based approach used to reduce the risk of infection transmission within the healthcare environment. Effective IPC practices ensure safe and quality healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for enhanced IPC measures and the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized the need for strict adherence to the basic principles of IPC. This paper aims to describe the IPC strategies impleme…

  • Financial Burden of Medical Care, Dental Care, and Medicines among Older-Aged Population in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia

    Open Access•Katarina Vojvodić, Zorica Terzić-Šupić et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    The aim was to explore the factors associated with the financial burden (FB) of medical care, dental care, and medicines among older-aged people in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia using EU-SILC 2017. The highest frequency of FB of medical care and medicines was in Croatia (50% and 69.1%, respectively) and of dental care in Slovenia (48.5%). The multivariate logistic regression analysis with FB as an outcome variable showed that the FB of medical ca…

  • Distress and Wellbeing among General Practitioners in 33 Countries during Covid-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study to Inform Health System Interventions

    Open Access•Claire Collins, Els Clays et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    Emerging literature is highlighting the huge toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline health workers. However, prior to the crisis, the wellbeing of this group was already of concern. The aim of this paper is to describe the frequency of distress and wellbeing, measured by the expanded 9-item Mayo Clinic Wellbeing Index (eWBI), among general practitioners/family physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify levers to mitigate the risk…

  • Participation in Bullying and Associated Health Characteristics, Risk Factors and Leisure Activities: A Profile of School-Age Children in Serbia

    Open Access•Milena M Santric-Milicevic, Aleksandar Stevanović et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    The aim of this study was to examine the prevalence and association of school-age children's participation in bullying, focusing on their health characteristics, risk factors, and leisure activities. We performed a secondary analysis of the original data of the 2017 HBSC study to examine participation in bullying once and multiple times among school-age children in Serbia. For this purpose, a nationally representative sample of 3267 children from…

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  • Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018

    Open Access•Natalia V Bhattacharjee, Lauren E Schaeffer et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 32

    Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)-giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life-is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and mortality. EBF practices are known to vary by population and comparable subnational estimates of prevalence and progress across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are required for planning policy and interventions. Here we present a geospatial analysis of E…

  • The oral health of heroin drug users: Case study in Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Open Access•Zorica Terzić-Šupić, Zorica Terzic Supic et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2013

    Socioeconomic characteristics of IDUs as well as their lifestyles may contribute to oral health problems. Heroin drug users have specific dental needs, and programmes to improve their oral health should be an integral part of strategies to prevent addictions including treatments and harm reduction programmes

  • Cross sectional study on attitudes of Serbian mothers with preschool children: Should a HIV-positive female teacher be allowed to continue teaching in school

    Open Access•Zorica Terzić-Šupić, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•BMC International Health and…•2015

    BACKGROUND: HIV/AIDS continues to be a serious challenge to public health and human rights in the new millennium. The objective of this survey was to identify the correlation between socio-demographic characteristics and knowledge, attitudes and practices of mothers with preschool children, and their attitude towards whether a HIV-positive female teacher should be allowed to continue teaching in school. METHOD: This survey was additional study an…

  • Sociodemographic Predictors of Physical Functioning in the Elderly: A National Health Survey

    Open Access•Milena Kostadinović, Dejan Nikolic et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018

    We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of sociodemographic factors with the presence and different degrees of walking difficulties in elderly above 65 years, and to analyze association between evaluated variables and the presence and degree of waking difficulties. In the population based study, 3540 individuals age above 65 years from Serbia were recruited. Further predictors were analyzed: gender, age, level of education, marital status, body mass …

  • Prevalence and Predictors of Violence Victimization and Violent Behavior among Youths: A Population-Based Study in Serbia

    Open Access•Biljana Obradovic-Tomasevic, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2019

    The study identifies the prevalence of violence victimization and the perpetration among youths, and explores the determinants and predictors using a socio-ecological model. The data of 36 variables from a representative sample of 1722 persons, ages 15-24 years, from the National Health Survey of Serbia in 2013, were analyzed by a multivariate logistic regression modeling. The study shows that 13.4% of youths experienced multi-victimization, whil…

  • Global age-sex-specific fertility, mortality, healthy life expectancy (Hale), and population estimates in 204 countries and territories, 1950–2019: A comprehensive demographic analysis for the Global …

    Open Access•Haidong Wang, Kaja Abbas et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2020

    BACKGROUND: Accurate and up-to-date assessment of demographic metrics is crucial for understanding a wide range of social, economic, and public health issues that affect populations worldwide. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 produced updated and comprehensive demographic assessments of the key indicators of fertility, mortality, migration, and population for 204 countries and territories and selected sub…

  • Prevalence and attributable health burden of chronic respiratory diseases, 1990–2017: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    Open Access•Joan B Soriano, Parkes J Kendrick et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet Respiratory Medicine•2020

    BACKGROUND: Previous attempts to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases have focused only on specific disease conditions, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or asthma. In this study, we aimed to characterise the burden of chronic respiratory diseases globally, providing a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis on geographical and time trends from 1990 to 2017. METHODS: Using data from the Global Burden of Disease…

  • Five insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open Access•Christopher J L Murray, Cristiana Abbafati et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2020

  • Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019

    Open Access•Gregory A Roth, George A Mensah et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the American College…•2020

    Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), principally ischemic heart disease (IHD) and stroke, are the leading cause of global mortality and a major contributor to disability. This paper reviews the magnitude of total CVD burden, including 13 underlying causes of cardiovascular death and 9 related risk factors, using estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study 2019. GBD, an ongoing multinational collaboration to provide comparable and consisten…

  • Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study…

    Open Access•R Lozano, Nancy Fullman et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2020

    BACKGROUND: Achieving universal health coverage (UHC) involves all people receiving the health services they need, of high quality, without experiencing financial hardship. Making progress towards UHC is a policy priority for both countries and global institutions, as highlighted by the agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and WHO's Thirteenth General Programme of Work (GPW13). Measuring effective coverage at the health-system le…

  • Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open Access•Christopher J L Murray, Aleksandr Y Aravkin et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2020

    BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which cases current efforts are inadequate. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) 2019 provides a standardised and comprehensive assessment of the magnitude of risk factor exposure, relative risk, and attribu…

  • Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open Access•Theo Vos, Stephen S Lim et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2020

    BACKGROUND: In an era of shifting global agendas and expanded emphasis on non-communicable diseases and injuries along with communicable diseases, sound evidence on trends by cause at the national level is essential. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) provides a systematic scientific assessment of published, publicly available, and contributed data on incidence, prevalence, and mortality for a mutually exclusive…

  • Brief Commentary: Why We Need More Equitable Human Resources for Health to Manage the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open Access•Charlotte Scheerens, J De Maeseneer et al.•ARTICLE•Frontiers in Public Health•2020

    OPINION article Front. Public Health, 02 November 2020Sec. Public Health Policy Volume 8 - 2020 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.573742

  • Global, regional, and national progress towards Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 for neonatal and child health: All-cause and cause-specific mortality findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study …

    Open Access•Katherine R Paulson, Katherine Paulson et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2021

    BACKGROUND: Sustainable Development Goal 3.2 has targeted elimination of preventable child mortality, reduction of neonatal death to less than 12 per 1000 livebirths, and reduction of death of children younger than 5 years to less than 25 per 1000 livebirths, for each country by 2030. To understand current rates, recent trends, and potential trajectories of child mortality for the next decade, we present the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, a…

  • Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis from the Global Burd…

    Open Access•Marissa B Reitsma, Parkes J Kendrick et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2021

    BACKGROUND: Ending the global tobacco epidemic is a defining challenge in global health. Timely and comprehensive estimates of the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden are needed to guide tobacco control efforts nationally and globally. METHODS: We estimated the prevalence of smoking tobacco use and attributable disease burden for 204 countries and territories, by age and sex, from 1990 to 2019 as part of the Global B…

  • Hearing loss prevalence and years lived with disability, 1990–2019: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open Access•Lydia M Haile, Kaloyan Kamenov et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2021

    BACKGROUND: Hearing loss affects access to spoken language, which can affect cognition and development, and can negatively affect social wellbeing. We present updated estimates from the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study on the prevalence of hearing loss in 2019, as well as the condition's associated disability. METHODS: We did systematic reviews of population-representative surveys on hearing loss prevalence from 1990 to 2019. We fitted nested…

  • Global, regional, and national burden of stroke and its risk factors, 1990–2019: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    Open Access•Valery L Feigin, Benjamin A Stark et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet Neurology•2021

    BACKGROUND: Regularly updated data on stroke and its pathological types, including data on their incidence, prevalence, mortality, disability, risk factors, and epidemiological trends, are important for evidence-based stroke care planning and resource allocation. The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) aims to provide a standardised and comprehensive measurement of these metrics at global, regional, and national leve…

  • The Relationship between Individual and Family Characteristics and Cyberbullying Exposure in a Nationally Representative Sample of School-Aged Children Living in Serbia

    Open Access•Ljiljana Rakić, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    The study provides evidence on the individual and family factors as potential predictors (odds ratio—OR and 95% CI) of cyber-violence among school-aged children (11–17 years old) from 64 schools participating in the 2017 Serbian Study on health behavior in school-age children (HBSC). The standardized international HBSC research protocol was used. The study population was the nationally representative sample of 3267 students of V and VII grades of…

  • Factors Associated with Intention of Serbian Public Health Workers to Leave the Job: A Cross-Sectional, Population-Based Study

    Open Access•Katica Tripković, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2021

    Recruitment and retention of public health workers (PHWs) is crucial for the optimal functioning of the public health system at a time of budget cuts and the threat of a pandemic. Individual and job-related variables were examined by univariate and multivariate logistic regression to identify predictors of the intention to leave a job during the COVID-19 outbreak among Serbian PHWs in 25 institutes of public health ( n = 1663 respondents, of whic…

  • Mapping inequalities in exclusive breastfeeding in low- and middle-income countries, 2000-2018

    Open Access•Natalia V Bhattacharjee, Lauren E Schaeffer et al.•ARTICLE•Nature Human Behaviour•2021•Cited by: 1•References: 32

    Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF)-giving infants only breast-milk for the first 6 months of life-is a component of optimal breastfeeding practices effective in preventing child morbidity and mortality. EBF practices are known to vary by population and comparable subnational estimates of prevalence and progress across low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are required for planning policy and interventions. Here we present a geospatial analysis of E…

  • Population-level risks of alcohol consumption by amount, geography, age, sex, and year: A systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020

    Open Access•Dana Bryazka, Marissa B Reitsma et al.•ARTICLE•The Lancet•2022

    BACKGROUND: The health risks associated with moderate alcohol consumption continue to be debated. Small amounts of alcohol might lower the risk of some health outcomes but increase the risk of others, suggesting that the overall risk depends, in part, on background disease rates, which vary by region, age, sex, and year. METHODS: For this analysis, we constructed burden-weighted dose-response relative risk curves across 22 health outcomes to esti…

  • Cancer Incidence, Mortality, Years of Life Lost, Years Lived With Disability, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years for 29 Cancer Groups From 2010 to 2019: A Systematic Analysis for the Global Burden of …

    Open Access•Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration, Jonathan Kocarnik et al.•ARTICLE•JAMA Oncology•2022

    IMPORTANCE: The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2019 (GBD 2019) provided systematic estimates of incidence, morbidity, and mortality to inform local and international efforts toward reducing cancer burden. OBJECTIVE: To estimate cancer burden and trends globally for 204 countries and territories and by Sociodemographic Index (SDI) quintiles from 2010 to 2019. EVIDENCE REVIEW: The GBD 2019 estimation methods were used t…

  • The Association between Participation in Fights and Bullying and the Perception of School, Teachers, and Peers among School-Age Children in Serbia

    Open Access•Sanja Stanković, Milena M Santric-Milicevic et al.•ARTICLE•Children•2022

    Participating in physical fighting and bullying can be a cause of severe injury and death among school-age children. Research evidence can support school and health actors’ efforts to improve school-age children’s development and health capacity for life. The study aims to assess the prevalence of school-age children’s participation in fights and bullying in Serbia, and to examine the relevance of students’ socio-demographic characteristics and p…

  • Practice and System Factors Impact on Infection Prevention and Control in General Practice during Covid-19 across 33 Countries: Results of the PRICOV Cross-Sectional Survey

    Open Access•Claire Collins, Esther Van Poel et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    Infection prevention and control (IPC) is an evidence-based approach used to reduce the risk of infection transmission within the healthcare environment. Effective IPC practices ensure safe and quality healthcare. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for enhanced IPC measures and the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasized the need for strict adherence to the basic principles of IPC. This paper aims to describe the IPC strategies impleme…

  • Financial Burden of Medical Care, Dental Care, and Medicines among Older-Aged Population in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia

    Open Access•Katarina Vojvodić, Zorica Terzić-Šupić et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    The aim was to explore the factors associated with the financial burden (FB) of medical care, dental care, and medicines among older-aged people in Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia using EU-SILC 2017. The highest frequency of FB of medical care and medicines was in Croatia (50% and 69.1%, respectively) and of dental care in Slovenia (48.5%). The multivariate logistic regression analysis with FB as an outcome variable showed that the FB of medical ca…

  • Distress and Wellbeing among General Practitioners in 33 Countries during Covid-19: Results from the Cross-Sectional PRICOV-19 Study to Inform Health System Interventions

    Open Access•Claire Collins, Els Clays et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2022

    Emerging literature is highlighting the huge toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline health workers. However, prior to the crisis, the wellbeing of this group was already of concern. The aim of this paper is to describe the frequency of distress and wellbeing, measured by the expanded 9-item Mayo Clinic Wellbeing Index (eWBI), among general practitioners/family physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic and to identify levers to mitigate the risk…

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