Vesna Bjegović-Mikanović
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6530154 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Vesna Bjegović-Mikanović |
| PRENOMES | Vesna |
| SOBRENOME | Bjegović-Mikanović |
| ASSINATURA | BJEGOVIĆ-MIKANOVIĆ V |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Belgrade |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8299-6555 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Ensuring justice in global health education initiatives – a review of pearls and pitfalls
Global health education initiatives (GHEIs) include various educational programs and opportunities aimed at training a competent global and public health workforce to address major global health issues. Many GHEIs are led by institutions in high-income countries and fail to support the development of local educational capacities that would strengthen health systems and ensure a continuous supply of public health professionals. This analysis explo…
Insights into youth nutritional status in Serbia
The research provided insight into the specific factors associated with and trends of levels of nutritional status of the young, leading to the conclusion that preventive and interventional public health programs and strategies must be fully adapted to their specific needs
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050
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…
Data Mining Approach
Background: Women's happiness and life satisfaction, often summarized as subjective wellbeing, are of great value for most individuals and are associated with various determinants. The countries of the Western Balkan are of particular interest after the political changes in the nineties. Are the women satisfied with their lives today? Methods: We use the most recent datasets of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) for women 15-49 years o…
Europeanization of health policy in post-communist European societies
Predictors of Clinical Inertia and Type 2 Diabetes
With the growing prevalence and complex pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, many patients fail to achieve treatment goals despite guidelines and possibilities for treatment individualization. One of the identified root causes of this failure is clinical inertia. We explored this phenomenon, its possible predictors, and groups of patients affected the most, together with offering potential paths for intervention. Our research was a cross-sectional…
Aligning Best Practices
Background: At present, in Ukraine, there is an insufficient capacity for up-to-date surveillance of the health status of the general population; public health (PH) promotion and disease prevention activities are scarce. Additionally, there is an urgent need to ensure, develop and support an efficient public health workforce (PHW) and appropriately address existing health issues. Ukraine currently introduces PH system reforms in line with its cur…
Factors Influencing Utilization of Preventive Health Services in Primary Health Care in the Republic of Serbia
The use of preventive health services is a long-term health investment due to its potential to help individuals to take care of their health. This study aimed to explore the availability and performance of health services in primary health care (PHC) in the domain of general practice (GP), pediatrics, and gynecology, as well as to analyze the influence of sociodemographic and health determinants on the utilization of preventive health services. T…
Surprising Differences in the Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Non-Roma and Roma Population in Serbia
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is essential for early childhood development, although the use of adaptive milk formulas instead of breastfeeding is widespread nowadays. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of exclusively breastfed infants under the age of 6 months in non-Roma and Roma population and factors associated with this practice. Materials and Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of the Serbian Multiple Indicator Cluster…
Factors Associated with the Leisure-Time Physical Activity (LTPA) during the First Trimester of the Pregnancy
Background : The benefits of physical activity during pregnancy include lower maternal weight gain, a lower likelihood of gestational diabetes, low back pain, preeclampsia, preterm delivery, caesarian delivery, and macrosomia. This study aimed to examine the factors associated with insufficient leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) during the first trimester. Methods : A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynecol…
Prevalence and Predictors of Violence Victimization and Violent Behavior among Youths
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…
Alcohol use, psychological distress, and subjective well-being among young adult university students
Few studies have cross-nationally tested the mediators of the relationship between alcohol use and subjective well-being among university students. This study examined how self-reported psychological distress symptoms mediate the association between alcohol use (drinking frequency and binge-drinking frequency) and subjective well-being among 637 Serbian and 705 Italian university students. Psychological distress mediated the negative relationship…
Testing multidimensional well-being among university community samples in Italy and Serbia
Today well-being attracts the attention of public health professionals who are looking to explore life satisfaction as a whole and its specific domains. In order to contribute in moving the measurement of subjective well-being from a primarily academic activity to the sphere of intervention, we need to assess tools to measure multidimensional well-being (MWB) adopting state-of-the-art statistical techniques. Through structural equation modelling …
The role of mother’s education in the nutritional status of children in Serbia
Objective The present study aimed to identify the role of mother’s education in the nutritional status of children aged 2–5 years in Serbia. Design Nationally representative population-based study. Age- and gender-specific BMI percentiles of children were analysed. In accordance with the WHO growth reference, children with BMI less than the 5th percentile were considered undernourished. Logistic regression was used to calculate the association be…
Education on human rights and healthcare
Ensuring and enforcing human rights in patient care are important to promote health and to provide quality and appropriate healthcare services. Therefore, continued medical education (CME) is essential for healthcare professionals to utilize their sphere of influence to affect change in healthcare practice. A total of 123 participants attended three CME courses. Course topics covered: (i) the areas of human rights and healthcare, (ii) rights, obl…
Education for public health in Europe and its global outreach
INTRODUCTION: At the present time, higher education institutions dealing with education for public health in Europe and beyond are faced with a complex and comprehensive task of responding to global health challenges. REVIEW: Literature reviews in public health and global health and exploration of internet presentations of regional and global organisations dealing with education for public health were the main methods employed in the work present…
Gender Differences in Health Symptoms Associated with the Exposure to Physical Violence in Family
Gender Differences in Health Symptoms Associated with the Exposure to Physical Violence in Family
Education for public health in Europe and its global outreach
INTRODUCTION: At the present time, higher education institutions dealing with education for public health in Europe and beyond are faced with a complex and comprehensive task of responding to global health challenges. REVIEW: Literature reviews in public health and global health and exploration of internet presentations of regional and global organisations dealing with education for public health were the main methods employed in the work present…
Education on human rights and healthcare
Ensuring and enforcing human rights in patient care are important to promote health and to provide quality and appropriate healthcare services. Therefore, continued medical education (CME) is essential for healthcare professionals to utilize their sphere of influence to affect change in healthcare practice. A total of 123 participants attended three CME courses. Course topics covered: (i) the areas of human rights and healthcare, (ii) rights, obl…
Testing multidimensional well-being among university community samples in Italy and Serbia
Today well-being attracts the attention of public health professionals who are looking to explore life satisfaction as a whole and its specific domains. In order to contribute in moving the measurement of subjective well-being from a primarily academic activity to the sphere of intervention, we need to assess tools to measure multidimensional well-being (MWB) adopting state-of-the-art statistical techniques. Through structural equation modelling …
The role of mother’s education in the nutritional status of children in Serbia
Objective The present study aimed to identify the role of mother’s education in the nutritional status of children aged 2–5 years in Serbia. Design Nationally representative population-based study. Age- and gender-specific BMI percentiles of children were analysed. In accordance with the WHO growth reference, children with BMI less than the 5th percentile were considered undernourished. Logistic regression was used to calculate the association be…
Alcohol use, psychological distress, and subjective well-being among young adult university students
Few studies have cross-nationally tested the mediators of the relationship between alcohol use and subjective well-being among university students. This study examined how self-reported psychological distress symptoms mediate the association between alcohol use (drinking frequency and binge-drinking frequency) and subjective well-being among 637 Serbian and 705 Italian university students. Psychological distress mediated the negative relationship…
Prevalence and Predictors of Violence Victimization and Violent Behavior among Youths
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…
Surprising Differences in the Practice of Exclusive Breastfeeding in Non-Roma and Roma Population in Serbia
Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is essential for early childhood development, although the use of adaptive milk formulas instead of breastfeeding is widespread nowadays. This study aimed to examine the prevalence of exclusively breastfed infants under the age of 6 months in non-Roma and Roma population and factors associated with this practice. Materials and Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of the Serbian Multiple Indicator Cluster…
Factors Associated with the Leisure-Time Physical Activity (LTPA) during the First Trimester of the Pregnancy
Background : The benefits of physical activity during pregnancy include lower maternal weight gain, a lower likelihood of gestational diabetes, low back pain, preeclampsia, preterm delivery, caesarian delivery, and macrosomia. This study aimed to examine the factors associated with insufficient leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) during the first trimester. Methods : A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Clinic for Obstetrics and Gynecol…
Aligning Best Practices
Background: At present, in Ukraine, there is an insufficient capacity for up-to-date surveillance of the health status of the general population; public health (PH) promotion and disease prevention activities are scarce. Additionally, there is an urgent need to ensure, develop and support an efficient public health workforce (PHW) and appropriately address existing health issues. Ukraine currently introduces PH system reforms in line with its cur…
Factors Influencing Utilization of Preventive Health Services in Primary Health Care in the Republic of Serbia
The use of preventive health services is a long-term health investment due to its potential to help individuals to take care of their health. This study aimed to explore the availability and performance of health services in primary health care (PHC) in the domain of general practice (GP), pediatrics, and gynecology, as well as to analyze the influence of sociodemographic and health determinants on the utilization of preventive health services. T…
Data Mining Approach
Background: Women's happiness and life satisfaction, often summarized as subjective wellbeing, are of great value for most individuals and are associated with various determinants. The countries of the Western Balkan are of particular interest after the political changes in the nineties. Are the women satisfied with their lives today? Methods: We use the most recent datasets of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) for women 15-49 years o…
Europeanization of health policy in post-communist European societies
Predictors of Clinical Inertia and Type 2 Diabetes
With the growing prevalence and complex pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes, many patients fail to achieve treatment goals despite guidelines and possibilities for treatment individualization. One of the identified root causes of this failure is clinical inertia. We explored this phenomenon, its possible predictors, and groups of patients affected the most, together with offering potential paths for intervention. Our research was a cross-sectional…
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050
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…
Ensuring justice in global health education initiatives – a review of pearls and pitfalls
Global health education initiatives (GHEIs) include various educational programs and opportunities aimed at training a competent global and public health workforce to address major global health issues. Many GHEIs are led by institutions in high-income countries and fail to support the development of local educational capacities that would strengthen health systems and ensure a continuous supply of public health professionals. This analysis explo…
Insights into youth nutritional status in Serbia
The research provided insight into the specific factors associated with and trends of levels of nutritional status of the young, leading to the conclusion that preventive and interventional public health programs and strategies must be fully adapted to their specific needs
Medicine (16 obras) · Environmental health (10 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Population (7 obras) · Public health (7 obras) · Nursing (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Demography (5 obras) · Logistic regression (5 obras) · Economic growth (4 obras)