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  1. Book ; Conference proceedings: 46th Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health Conference 2014

    Dunne, Michael P.

    (Asia Pacific journal of public health ; supplement to volume 27, number 8, November 2015)

    2015  

    Event/congress APACPH Conference (46., 2014, KualaLumpur)
    Author's details guest editors: Michael P. Dunne, Wan Yuen Choo
    Series title Asia Pacific journal of public health ; supplement to volume 27, number 8, November 2015
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    Language English
    Size 121S Seiten, Illustrationen
    Publisher Sage Publications
    Publishing place Thousand Oaks, Calif
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Book ; Conference proceedings
    Note Tagungsdaten: Kuala Lumpur from 17th-19th October 2014
    HBZ-ID HT018896751
    Database Catalogue ZB MED Medicine, Health

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  2. Article ; Online: Why do consumers choose private over public health services? Reflective accounts of health providers in Vietnam.

    Nguyen, Mai P / Tariq, Amina / Hinchcliff, Reece / Dunne, Michael P

    BMC health services research

    2023  Volume 23, Issue 1, Page(s) 900

    Abstract: Background: In Vietnam and many developing countries, private healthcare is increasingly being leveraged by governments to complement public services and increase health service access and utilisation. Extensive understanding of patterns of utilisation ... ...

    Abstract Background: In Vietnam and many developing countries, private healthcare is increasingly being leveraged by governments to complement public services and increase health service access and utilisation. Extensive understanding of patterns of utilisation of private over public health services, and the rationale for such consumer decisions, is important to ensure and promote safe, affordable and patient-centred care in the two sectors. Few studies within the Southeast Asian Region have explored how private and public providers interact (via social networks, marketing, and direct contact) with consumers to affect their service choices. This study investigates providers' views on social factors associated with the use of private over public health services in Vietnam.
    Method: A thematic analysis was undertaken of 30 semi-structured interviews with experienced health system stakeholders from the Vietnam national assembly, government ministries, private health associations, health economic association, as well as public and private hospitals and clinics.
    Results: Multiple social factors were found to influence the choice of private over public services, including word-of-mouth, the patient-doctor relationship and relationships between healthcare providers, healthcare staff attitudes and behaviour, and marketing. While private providers maximise their use of these social factors, most public providers seem to ignore or show only limited interest in using marketing and other forms of social interaction to improve services to meet patients' needs, especially those needs beyond strictly medical intervention. However, private providers faced their own particular challenges related to over-advertisement, over-servicing, excessive focus on patients' demands rather than medical needs, as well as the significant technical requirements for quality and safety.
    Conclusions: This study has important implications for policy and practice in Vietnam. First, public providers must embrace social interaction with consumers as an effective strategy to improve their service quality. Second, appropriate regulations of private providers are required to protect patients from unnecessary treatments, costs and potential harm. Finally, the insights from this study have direct relevance to many developing countries facing a similar challenge of appropriately managing the growth of the private health sector.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Asian People ; Attitude of Health Personnel ; Economics, Medical ; Health Services ; Vietnam ; Private Sector ; Public Sector ; National Health Programs ; Delivery of Health Care
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-08-23
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2050434-2
    ISSN 1472-6963 ; 1472-6963
    ISSN (online) 1472-6963
    ISSN 1472-6963
    DOI 10.1186/s12913-023-09892-9
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  3. Article ; Online: Childhood adversity and death of young adults in an affluent society.

    Dunne, Michael P / Meinck, Franziska

    Lancet (London, England)

    2020  Volume 396, Issue 10249, Page(s) 449–451

    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Child ; Cohort Studies ; Humans ; Risk Factors ; Young Adult
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-08-10
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 3306-6
    ISSN 1474-547X ; 0023-7507 ; 0140-6736
    ISSN (online) 1474-547X
    ISSN 0023-7507 ; 0140-6736
    DOI 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30899-0
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  4. Article ; Online: Contribution of private health services to universal health coverage in low and middle-income countries: Factors affecting the use of private over public health services in Vietnam.

    Nguyen, Mai P / Tariq, Amina / Hinchcliff, Reece / Luu, Hoat N / Dunne, Michael P

    The International journal of health planning and management

    2023  Volume 38, Issue 6, Page(s) 1613–1628

    Abstract: The private sector's contribution to Universal health coverage (UHC) has been increasingly recognised by policymakers in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify service-provider and consumer-level factors affecting choice of ... ...

    Abstract The private sector's contribution to Universal health coverage (UHC) has been increasingly recognised by policymakers in low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify service-provider and consumer-level factors affecting choice of private over public health services in Vietnam. A concurrent mixed-method design was adopted. A quantitative phase explored consumers' health service choice by analysing data from a random national sample of 10,354 individuals aged 16 and over. The qualitative phase investigated how private and public providers organise their services to influence consumer choices by conducting interviews with policymakers, hospital and clinic managers, and health practitioners. The combined results demonstrate that at the individual level, absence of any type of health insurance was the factor most closely associated with the use of private services. Private health services were more likely to be used by people from ethnic majority groups compared to ethnic minorities (odds ratio [OR]: 1.6, 95% CI: 1.4-2.0), and by people living in urban compared to rural areas (OR: 1.1, 95% CI: 1.0-1.3). The service providers suggested that consumers opted for private services that were perceived to have poorer quality in the public sector, such as counselling, physical therapy and rehabilitative care. Additional motivational factors include the private sector's more flexible working hours, shorter waiting times, flexible pricing of services, personalised care and better staff behaviour. The findings can inform national health system planning and coordination activities in Vietnam and other countries that aim to harness the attributes of both the public and private sectors to achieve UHC.
    MeSH term(s) Humans ; Universal Health Insurance ; Vietnam ; Developing Countries ; Health Services ; Insurance, Health
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-07-23
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 632786-2
    ISSN 1099-1751 ; 0749-6753
    ISSN (online) 1099-1751
    ISSN 0749-6753
    DOI 10.1002/hpm.3689
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  5. Article: Variation the in relationship between urban tree canopy and air temperature reduction under a range of daily weather conditions.

    Locke, Dexter Henry / Baker, Matthew / Alonzo, Michael / Yang, Yichen / Ziter, Carly D / Murphy-Dunning, Colleen / O'Neil-Dunne, Jarlath P M

    Heliyon

    2024  Volume 10, Issue 3, Page(s) e25041

    Abstract: Mitigating heat is a vital ecosystem service of trees, particularly with climate change. Land surface temperature measures captured at a single time of day (in the morning) dominate the urban heat island literature. Less is known about how local tree ... ...

    Abstract Mitigating heat is a vital ecosystem service of trees, particularly with climate change. Land surface temperature measures captured at a single time of day (in the morning) dominate the urban heat island literature. Less is known about how local tree canopy and impervious surface regulate air temperature throughout the day, and/or across many days with varied weather conditions, including cloud cover. We use bike-mounted air temperature sensors throughout the day in New Haven, Connecticut, USA, from 2019 to 2021 and generalized additive mixed models across 156 rides to estimate the daily variation in cooling benefits associated with tree canopy cover, and warming from impervious surface cover in 90 m buffers surrounding bike observations. Cooling is inferred by subtracting the bicycle-observed temperature from a reference station. The cooling benefits from tree canopy cover were strongest in the midday (11:00-14:00, -1.62 °C), afternoon (14:00-17:00, -1.19 °C), and morning (8:00-11:00, -1.15 °C) on clear days. The cooling effect was comparatively smaller on cloudy mornings -0.92 °C and afternoons -0.51 °C. Warming from impervious surfaces was most pronounced in the evening (17:00-20:00, 1.11 °C) irrespective of clouds, and during cloudy nights (20:00-23:00) and cloudy mornings 1.03 °C 95 % CI [1.03, 1.04]. Among the hottest observed days (top 25th percentile of reference station daily maxima), tree canopy was associated with lower temperatures on clear afternoons -1.78 °C [-1.78, -1.78], cloudy midday -1.17 °C [-1.19, -1.15], clear midday -1.12 °C [-1.12, -1.11]. We add a broader spectrum of weather conditions by explicitly including clouds, and greater temporal resolution by measuring throughout the day to bike-based urban heat research. Future mobile sampling campaigns may broaden the spatial extent with more environmental variation, representing an opportunity for public science and engagement.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2024-01-24
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2835763-2
    ISSN 2405-8440
    ISSN 2405-8440
    DOI 10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e25041
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  6. Article ; Online: Data demonstrating the

    Wang, Xuehan / Regenold, Maximilian / Dunne, Michael / Bannigan, Pauric / Allen, Christine

    Data in brief

    2023  Volume 50, Page(s) 109545

    Abstract: ... in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines including MDA-MB-231 (Dunne et al., 2019). The data presented ...

    Abstract Thermosensitive liposomes in combination with localized mild hyperthermia can improve the delivery of drug to solid tumor sites. For this reason, thermosensitive liposome formulations of a range of chemotherapy drugs have been designed. Our group previously developed and characterized a thermosensitive liposome formulation of the heat shock protein 90 inhibitor alvespimycin as a companion therapeutic to a thermosensitive liposome formulation equivalent in composition to ThermoDox (i.e., ThermoDXR), with the goal of increasing the therapeutic index of doxorubicin as the combination was revealed to be highly synergistic in a panel of human breast cancer cell lines including MDA-MB-231 (Dunne et al., 2019). The data presented here further describes the effect of the doxorubicin (DXR) and alvespimycin (ALV) combination
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-09-09
    Publishing country Netherlands
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2786545-9
    ISSN 2352-3409 ; 2352-3409
    ISSN (online) 2352-3409
    ISSN 2352-3409
    DOI 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109545
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  7. Article ; Online: Erratum to: OrthoFiller: utilising data from multiple species to improve the completeness of genome annotations.

    Dunne, Michael P / Kelly, Steven

    BMC genomics

    2017  Volume 18, Issue 1, Page(s) 488

    Language English
    Publishing date 2017--27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Published Erratum
    ISSN 1471-2164
    ISSN (online) 1471-2164
    DOI 10.1186/s12864-017-3849-5
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  8. Article ; Online: OMGene: mutual improvement of gene models through optimisation of evolutionary conservation.

    Dunne, Michael P / Kelly, Steven

    BMC genomics

    2018  Volume 19, Issue 1, Page(s) 307

    Abstract: Background: The accurate determination of the genomic coordinates for a given gene - its gene model - is of vital importance to the utility of its annotation, and the accuracy of bioinformatic analyses derived from it. Currently-available methods of ... ...

    Abstract Background: The accurate determination of the genomic coordinates for a given gene - its gene model - is of vital importance to the utility of its annotation, and the accuracy of bioinformatic analyses derived from it. Currently-available methods of computational gene prediction, while on the whole successful, frequently disagree on the model for a given predicted gene, with some or all of the variant gene models often failing to match the biologically observed structure. Many prediction methods can be bolstered by using experimental data such as RNA-seq. However, these resources are not always available, and rarely give a comprehensive portrait of an organism's transcriptome due to temporal and tissue-specific expression profiles.
    Results: Orthology between genes provides evolutionary evidence to guide the construction of gene models. OMGene (Optimise My Gene) aims to improve gene model accuracy in the absence of experimental data by optimising the consistency of multiple sequence alignments of orthologous genes from multiple species. Using RNA-seq data sets from plants, mammals, and fungi, considering intron/exon junction representation and exon coverage, and assessing the intra-orthogroup consistency of subcellular localisation predictions, we demonstrate the utility of OMGene for improving gene models in annotated genomes.
    Conclusions: We show that significant improvements in the accuracy of gene model annotations can be made, both in established and in de novo annotated genomes, by leveraging information from multiple species.
    MeSH term(s) Algorithms ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Animals ; Biological Evolution ; Computational Biology ; Databases, Genetic ; Fungi ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Genome ; Genomics ; Mammals ; Models, Genetic ; Molecular Sequence Annotation ; Plants ; Sequence Alignment ; Sequence Analysis, RNA/methods ; Software ; Transcriptome
    Language English
    Publishing date 2018-04-27
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2041499-7
    ISSN 1471-2164 ; 1471-2164
    ISSN (online) 1471-2164
    ISSN 1471-2164
    DOI 10.1186/s12864-018-4704-z
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  9. Article ; Online: Whose decision? Caesarean section and women with physical disabilities in Northern Vietnam: A qualitative study.

    Nguyen, Thi Vinh / King, Julie / Edwards, Niki / Dunne, Michael P

    Midwifery

    2021  Volume 104, Page(s) 103175

    Abstract: Background: Pregnant women with physical disabilities are more likely to have caesarean sections than are women without disabilities. For some women with disabilities, caesarean birth may not be clinically necessary, as they may lack autonomy in ... ...

    Abstract Background: Pregnant women with physical disabilities are more likely to have caesarean sections than are women without disabilities. For some women with disabilities, caesarean birth may not be clinically necessary, as they may lack autonomy in decision-making to a greater extent than is the case for other pregnant women.
    Objective: To explore the relative influence of health staff, family, friends, and the women themselves on key decisions about childbirth of women with physical disabilities in northern Vietnam.
    Research design/setting: A qualitative approach using a phenomenological design was employed. Fifty-six in-depth interviews were conducted with women with physical disabilities who had given birth in the previous three years in two northern provinces in Vietnam (Hanoi and Thaibinh). Twenty-nine women participated in a first interview and 27 completed follow-up interviews several months later. Additionally, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 maternal healthcare providers. Interviews were transcribed and thematically analysed.
    Results: Twenty-eight of the 29 participants underwent caesarean sections. Two themes were identified: (1) The women reported that caesarean section was mandated by attending doctors "because of their disability". Consistently, the healthcare providers said caesarean section is essential for women with physical disabilities; and (2) The women said that their parents and peers supported caesarean birth. Very few women indicated that they could influence this decision, even though one-third said their personal preference was for vaginal birth.
    Conclusions: Many women with physical disabilities are not given the opportunity to exercise informed choices around childbirth options. Women in Vietnam who live with physical disabilities should be empowered to make informed decisions about childbirth. It is recommended that professional guidelines and training are revised to properly engage women with physical disabilities in joint decision-making for the birth of their children.
    MeSH term(s) Cesarean Section ; Decision Making ; Disabled Persons ; Female ; Humans ; Parturition ; Pregnancy ; Qualitative Research ; Vaginal Birth after Cesarean ; Vietnam
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-10-25
    Publishing country Scotland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1036567-9
    ISSN 1532-3099 ; 0266-6138
    ISSN (online) 1532-3099
    ISSN 0266-6138
    DOI 10.1016/j.midw.2021.103175
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  10. Article ; Online: "Under great anxiety": Pregnancy experiences of Vietnamese women with physical disabilities seen through an intersectional lens.

    Nguyen, Thi Vinh / King, Julie / Edwards, Niki / Dunne, Michael P

    Social science & medicine (1982)

    2021  Volume 284, Page(s) 114231

    Abstract: Background: There is scant research on pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in low and middle-income countries. This qualitative study used an intersectional lens to explore pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities ... ...

    Abstract Background: There is scant research on pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in low and middle-income countries. This qualitative study used an intersectional lens to explore pregnancy experiences of women with physical disabilities in northern Vietnam. Specifically, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental influences were analysed, drawing upon their lived experiences.
    Methods: Two in-depth interviews were conducted at different time-points in 2018 with women with physical disabilities who had given birth in the previous three years. Twenty-nine women participated in the first interview and 27 in the follow-up interview. The interviews were thematically analysed.
    Results: The women were happy and excited when discovering their pregnancy but they also experienced anxiety, fear, and distress. Their ambivalence related to concerns around having a child with disabilities, their capability to carry a pregnancy, and their mothering abilities. Negative community views of disability were internalised by the women. These socio-culturally constructed beliefs led to lack of confidence in their pregnancy journey. This was exacerbated by inaccessible environments that contributed to increased risk of falls, and women who used wheelchairs experienced particular difficulties. Other powerful influences included poverty, lost income, and costs associated with pregnancy. Single mothers with disabilities experienced additional stigma and discrimination as Vietnamese society judged their pregnancies as socially unacceptable.
    Conclusion: This study contributes to knowledge and understanding about women with physical disabilities, specifically how the intersection of gender, disability, socio-economic, and marital status shaped their pregnancy experiences in Vietnam. Multiple challenges were encountered by the women in their pregnancy journey, including negative community views, inaccessible environments, and poverty. The findings highlight the necessity for Vietnamese women with physical disabilities to be actively engaged in talking about their experiences to ensure maternal and child health providers become more sensitive to their pregnancy and motherhood needs.
    MeSH term(s) Anxiety ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Disabled Persons ; Female ; Humans ; Parturition ; Pregnancy ; Qualitative Research
    Language English
    Publishing date 2021-07-15
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
    ZDB-ID 4766-1
    ISSN 1873-5347 ; 0037-7856 ; 0277-9536
    ISSN (online) 1873-5347
    ISSN 0037-7856 ; 0277-9536
    DOI 10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114231
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