Slim Haddad
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3583928 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Slim Haddad |
| PRENOMES | Slim |
| SOBRENOME | Haddad |
| ASSINATURA | HADDAD S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9470-4196 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Emerging use of oral nicotine pouches among Canadian adolescents
Adolescents’ impairment due to climate anxiety is associated with self-efficacy and behavioral engagement
The findings are useful to identify and support vulnerable groups that are more likely to experience impairment due to climate anxiety. The feeling of climate self-efficacy was not well developed among some groups of adolescents. Improving adolescents' beliefs in their capacity to help address climate change may be a key strategy to promote pro-environmental actions. As the threat of climate change increases, it will be important to follow the ev…
Birthweight, gestational age, and early school trajectory
This study shows that low birthweight is negatively associated with school entry and age at school entry in Ouagadougou. Efforts to avoid low birthweights should be part of maternal and prenatal health care because the associated difficulties may be difficult to overcome later in the child's life. Further longitudinal studies are needed to better understand the relationship between development at birth and school trajectory
Socioeconomic disparities and concentration of the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the province of Quebec, Canada
As with the H1N1 pandemics of 1918 and 2009, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic revealed social vulnerabilities. Further research is needed to explore the various manifestations of social inequality in relation to the pandemic
Understanding Sexual Health Indicators During Adolescence
Examining the impact of the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic period on youth cannabis use
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic period, there does not appear to be a detrimental effect on youth cannabis use, when adjusted for age-related changes. Further prospective research is needed to explore the impact of the ongoing pandemic response on youth cannabis use onset and progression
Sex‐Related Differences in Adolescent Cannabis Use
BACKGROUND: Boys use cannabis at a younger age and more frequently than girls. It has been suggested these sex differences might vary according to students' relationship to school. We explored whether the association between sex and adolescents' cannabis use varies among schools and according to students' school connectedness. METHODS: The study population consisted of all students from 11 secondary schools in the greater Québec City area. The sa…
Exploring the validity of scores from the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) in Burundi
The present study aimed to validate the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) in Burundi, through a multi-strategy approach used in cross-cultural studies. Respondents were 906 health workers (men = 56%; caregivers 60%). They responded to a bilingual version of RSES. We utilised Confirmatory Factorial Analysis (CFA) with structural equation modelling and a back translation test to explore the structure of the RSES and the reliability of scores from …
Impact of contaminated household environment on stunting in children aged 12–59 months in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Stunting affects 165 million children worldwide, with repercussions on their survival and development. A contaminated environment is likely to contribute to stunting: frequent faecal-oral transmission possibly causes environmental enteropathy, a chronic inflammatory disorder that may contribute to faltering growth in children. This study's objective was to assess the effect of contaminated environment on stunting in Burkina Faso, wher…
Effect of interrupting free healthcare for children
Strengthening systems and scholarship for global health — and public health
Do community health workers perceive mechanisms associated with the success of community case management of malaria? A qualitative study from Burkina Faso
The use of community health workers to administer prompt treatments is gaining popularity in most sub-Saharan African countries. Their performance is a key challenge because it varies considerably, depending on the context, while being closely associated with the effectiveness of case management strategies. What determines community health workers' performance is still under debate. Based on a realist perspective, a systematic review recently hyp…
The divergence between community case management of malaria and renewed calls for primary healthcare
Thirty years after Alma-Ata, there has been an upsurge of interest in community health workers (CHWs) in low- and middle-income countries. This echoes several strategic policies recently endorsed by the World Health Organization and its global call to re-establish the primary healthcare (PHC) policy. However, we are witnessing a reframing of this approach rather than its renewal. In particular, the way CHWs are conceptualized has changed consider…
Combining user fees exemption with training and supervision helps to maintain the quality of drug prescriptions in Burkina Faso
To improve access to health care services, an intervention was implemented in Burkina Faso granting full exemption from user fees. Two further components, staff training and supervision, were added to support the intervention. Our aim in this study was to examine how this tripartite intervention affected the quality of drug prescriptions. Using a mixed methodology, we first conducted an interrupted time series over 24 months. Nine health centres …
Improving equity by removing healthcare fees for children in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the effects on healthcare access inequities of an intervention exempting children under 5 years from user fees in Burkina Faso. METHODS: The design consisted of two complementary studies. The first was an interrupted time series (56 months before and 12 months after) study of daily curative consultations according to distance (<5, 5-9 and ≥10 km) in a stratified random sample of 18 health centres: 12 with the inte…
Debt, shame, and survival
BACKGROUND: The health and well-being of widows in India is an important but neglected issue of public health and women's rights. We investigate the lives of Indian women as they become widows, focussing on the causes of their husband's mortality and the ensuing consequences of these causes on their own lives and identify the opportunities and challenges that widows face in living healthy and fulfilling lives. METHODS: Data were collected in a Gr…
Mapping of initiatives to increase membership in mutual health organizations in Benin
The study highlights the importance of prioritizing sustainable strategies to increase MHO membership. No single MHO initiative has been able to resolve the issue of low membership on its own. If combined, existing initiatives could provide a comprehensive and inclusive approach that would target all entry points and include key stakeholders such as household decision-makers, MHO elected members, healthcare professionals, community leaders, gover…
Measuring women's perceived ability to overcome barriers to healthcare seeking in Burkina Faso
The DHS items can be combined into a reliable and valid, gender-sensitive index quantifying reproductive-age women's perceived ability to overcome barriers to healthcare seeking in Burkina Faso. The index complies conceptually with the sector-cross-cutting capability approach and enables measuring directly the perceived access to healthcare. Therefore it can help to improve the design and evaluation of interventions that aim to facilitate healthc…
Heavy burden of non-communicable diseases at early age and gender disparities in an adult population of Burkina Faso
Our work suggests that social inequality extends into the distribution of non-communicable diseases among social groups and supports the thesis of a differential vulnerability in Burkinabè women. It raises the possibility of an abnormally high rate of premature morbidity that could manifest as a form of premature aging in the adult population. Increased prevention, screening and treatment are needed in Burkina Faso to address high prevalence and …
Health divide” between indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Kerala, India
Policies and programmes designed to benefit the Scheduled Tribes need to promote their well-being in general but also target the specific needs of the most vulnerable indigenous groups. There is a need to enhance the capacity of the disadvantaged to equally take advantage of health opportunities
The gender gap in mobility
These are the first world-wide data to examine the gender gap in mobility. Differences in chronic diseases are the main reasons for this gender gap. The gender gap seems to be greater in regions with the largest loss of human development due to gender inequality
Patients' Choice for Non-Allopathic Providers for Acute Illness
Challenges of scaling up and of knowledge transfer in an action research project in Burkina Faso to exempt the worst-off from health care user fees
BACKGROUND: Systems to exempt the indigent from user fees have been put in place to prevent the worst-off from being excluded from health care services for lack of funds. Yet the implementation of these mechanisms is as rare as the operational research on this topic. This article analyzes an action research project aimed at finding an appropriate solution to make health care accessible to the indigent in a rural district of Burkina Faso. RESEARCH…
Reducing inequalities in health and access to health care in a rural Indian community
BACKGROUND: Inadequate public action in vulnerable communities is a major constraint for the health of poor and marginalized groups in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The south Indian state of Kerala, known for relatively equitable provision of public resources, is no exception to the marginalization of vulnerable communities. In Kerala, women's lives are constrained by gender-based inequalities and certain indigenous groups are marginal…
Gender differences in mobility disability during young, middle and older age in West African adults
The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and the contribution of socio-demographic factors and chronic diseases to mobility disability in West African countries. Data were obtained from the World Health Survey (2002-2003) in which adults≥18 years participated, from Burkina Faso (n=4822), Mali (n=4230) and Senegal (n=3197). Participants reporting mild, moderate, severe, extreme difficulty or inability to move around were defined as…
Quality, cost and utilization of health services in developing countries. A longitudinal study in Zaïre
Women Bargaining to Seek Healthcare
What does quality mean to lay people? Community perceptions of primary health care services in Guinea
The dental care pathway of welfare recipients in Quebec
Exploratory study of the impacts of Mutual Health Organizations on social dynamics in Benin
Do community health workers perceive mechanisms associated with the success of community case management of malaria? A qualitative study from Burkina Faso
The use of community health workers to administer prompt treatments is gaining popularity in most sub-Saharan African countries. Their performance is a key challenge because it varies considerably, depending on the context, while being closely associated with the effectiveness of case management strategies. What determines community health workers' performance is still under debate. Based on a realist perspective, a systematic review recently hyp…
Women’s health in a rural community in Kerala, India
Objectives: To examine the social patterning of women’s self-reported health status in India and the validity of the two hypotheses: (1) low caste and lower socioeconomic position is associated with worse reported health status, and (2) associations between socioeconomic position and reported health status vary across castes. Design: Cross-sectional household survey, age-adjusted percentages and odds ratios, and multilevel multinomial logistic re…
Public and private sector responses to essential drugs policies
Improving equity by removing healthcare fees for children in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: This study evaluated the effects on healthcare access inequities of an intervention exempting children under 5 years from user fees in Burkina Faso. METHODS: The design consisted of two complementary studies. The first was an interrupted time series (56 months before and 12 months after) study of daily curative consultations according to distance (<5, 5-9 and ≥10 km) in a stratified random sample of 18 health centres: 12 with the inte…
Combining user fees exemption with training and supervision helps to maintain the quality of drug prescriptions in Burkina Faso
To improve access to health care services, an intervention was implemented in Burkina Faso granting full exemption from user fees. Two further components, staff training and supervision, were added to support the intervention. Our aim in this study was to examine how this tripartite intervention affected the quality of drug prescriptions. Using a mixed methodology, we first conducted an interrupted time series over 24 months. Nine health centres …
Grand Challenges Canada
Effect of interrupting free healthcare for children
Towards ethically sound participatory research with marginalised populations
Participatory research is increasingly being used with poor and marginalised populations in developing countries. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to ethical considerations in participatory research. We argue that there is a need for additional strategies to promote ethically sound participatory research, especially when working with marginalised groups. We present our experiences from a participatory research initiative w…
Evaluating the Unintended Health Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Strategies
Solidarity or Financial Sustainability
Quality, cost and utilization of health services in developing countries. A longitudinal study in Zaïre
What does quality mean to lay people? Community perceptions of primary health care services in Guinea
Public and private sector responses to essential drugs policies
The dental care pathway of welfare recipients in Quebec
Women's Interlaced Freedoms
Improving the health of poor women is a public health priority worldwide. In this paper, we focus on microcredit — an intervention not explicitly designed to have an impact on health. Microcredit programmes aim to provide the poor with access to credit, thereby improving their opportunities to engage in productive activities. This paper presents a conceptual framework, inspired by Sen's capability approach, Michael Grossman's health production th…
Women’s health in a rural community in Kerala, India
Objectives: To examine the social patterning of women’s self-reported health status in India and the validity of the two hypotheses: (1) low caste and lower socioeconomic position is associated with worse reported health status, and (2) associations between socioeconomic position and reported health status vary across castes. Design: Cross-sectional household survey, age-adjusted percentages and odds ratios, and multilevel multinomial logistic re…
Productivité et profils de pratique des médecins généralistes à Tirana (Albanie)
Solidarity or Financial Sustainability
Can microcredit help improve the health of poor women? Some findings from a cross-sectional study in Kerala, India
Microcredit is not a panacea, but could help to improve the health of poor women by addressing certain issues relevant to the context. In Kerala, SHG participation can help protect poor women against exclusion to health care and possibly aid in promoting their mental health
Women Bargaining to Seek Healthcare
Evaluating the Unintended Health Consequences of Poverty Alleviation Strategies
Monitoring the performance of the Expanded Program on Immunization
BACKGROUND: The greatest challenge facing expanded programs on immunization in general, and in Burkina Faso in particular, lies in their capacity to achieve and sustain levels of immunization coverage that will ensure effective protection of children. This article aims to demonstrate that full immunization coverage of children, which is the primary indicator for monitoring national immunization programs, is sufficient neither to evaluate their pe…
Determinants of parents' reticence toward vaccination in urban areas in Benin (West Africa)
BACKGROUND: Despite the efforts of health authorities, vaccination coverage of targeted child populations is still poor in many regions. Parents' reticence has been identified as one cause of this situation. However, there is little data to explain the phenomenon that could support decision-making. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to uncover the determinants of this reticence toward vaccination among the religious population of the citie…
System-level determinants of immunization coverage disparities among health districts in Burkina Faso
BACKGROUND: Despite rapid and tangible progress in vaccine coverage and in premature mortality rates registered in sub-Saharan Africa, inequities to access remain firmly entrenched, large pockets of low vaccination coverage persist, and coverage often varies considerably across regions, districts, and health facilities' areas of responsibility. This paper focuses on system-related factors that can explain disparities in immunization coverage amon…
Paniya Voices
The PPHA is a potentially useful approach for global health researchers working with marginalized communities to implement research initiatives that will address those communities' health needs in an ethical and culturally appropriate manner
Low coverage but few inclusion errors in Burkina Faso
The community-based process minimized inclusion biases, as the people selected were poorer and more vulnerable than the rest of the population. However, there were significant exclusion biases; the selection was very restrictive because the exemption had to be endogenously funded
Emergency Obstetrical Complications in a Rural African Setting (Kayes, Mali)
Exploratory study of the impacts of Mutual Health Organizations on social dynamics in Benin
Challenges of scaling up and of knowledge transfer in an action research project in Burkina Faso to exempt the worst-off from health care user fees
BACKGROUND: Systems to exempt the indigent from user fees have been put in place to prevent the worst-off from being excluded from health care services for lack of funds. Yet the implementation of these mechanisms is as rare as the operational research on this topic. This article analyzes an action research project aimed at finding an appropriate solution to make health care accessible to the indigent in a rural district of Burkina Faso. RESEARCH…
Reducing inequalities in health and access to health care in a rural Indian community
BACKGROUND: Inadequate public action in vulnerable communities is a major constraint for the health of poor and marginalized groups in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). The south Indian state of Kerala, known for relatively equitable provision of public resources, is no exception to the marginalization of vulnerable communities. In Kerala, women's lives are constrained by gender-based inequalities and certain indigenous groups are marginal…
Gender differences in mobility disability during young, middle and older age in West African adults
The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence and the contribution of socio-demographic factors and chronic diseases to mobility disability in West African countries. Data were obtained from the World Health Survey (2002-2003) in which adults≥18 years participated, from Burkina Faso (n=4822), Mali (n=4230) and Senegal (n=3197). Participants reporting mild, moderate, severe, extreme difficulty or inability to move around were defined as…
Social class related inequalities in household health expenditure and economic burden
Caste-based inequality in household health expenditure reflects unequal access to quality health care by different caste groups. Households with high health care needs and chronic health care needs are most affected by this inequality. Households in the most marginalised castes and with high health care need require protection against impoverishing health expenditures. Special emphasis must be given to funding hospitalisation, as this expenditure…
Grand Challenges Canada
Towards ethically sound participatory research with marginalised populations
Participatory research is increasingly being used with poor and marginalised populations in developing countries. However, there has been relatively little attention paid to ethical considerations in participatory research. We argue that there is a need for additional strategies to promote ethically sound participatory research, especially when working with marginalised groups. We present our experiences from a participatory research initiative w…
Debt, shame, and survival
BACKGROUND: The health and well-being of widows in India is an important but neglected issue of public health and women's rights. We investigate the lives of Indian women as they become widows, focussing on the causes of their husband's mortality and the ensuing consequences of these causes on their own lives and identify the opportunities and challenges that widows face in living healthy and fulfilling lives. METHODS: Data were collected in a Gr…
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