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Litvinjenko S, Magwood O, Wu S, Wei X. Burden of tuberculosis among vulnerable populations worldwide: an overview of systematic reviews. The Lacet. 2023; Sep 08. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(23)00372-9
Wu S, Litvinjenko S, Magwood O, Wei X. Defining tuberculosis vulnerability based on an adapted social determinants of health framework: a narrative review. Glob Public Health. 2023;18(1):2221729. doi:10.1080/17441692.2023.2221729
Khalid A, Dong Q, Chuluunbaatar E, Haldane V, Durrani H, Wei X. Implementation Science Perspectives on Implementing Telemedicine Interventions for Hypertension or Diabetes Management: Scoping Review. J Med Internet Res. 2023;25:e42134. Published 2023 Mar 14. doi:10.2196/42134
Wu S, Li Y, Mishra S, Bodner K, Baral S, Kwong JC, Wei X*. Effect of the incremental protection of previous infection against Omicron infection among individuals with a hybrid of infection- and vaccine-induced immunity: a population-based cohort study in Canada. Int J Infect Dis. 2023;127: 69-76. doi:10.1016/j.ijid.2022.11.028
Lau LL, Hung N, Go DJ, Choi M, Dodd W, Wei X. Dramatic increases in knowledge, attitudes and practices of COVID-19 observed among low-income households in the Philippines: A repeated cross-sectional study in 2020. J Glob Health. 2022;12:05015. doi: 10.7189/jogh.12.05015
Popovic I, Soares Magalhaes RJ, Yang Y, Yang S, Yang B, Dong G, Wei, X. Fox, G. J. Hammer, M. S. Martin, R. V. van Donkelaar, A. Ge, E. Marks, G. B. Knibbs, L. D. Effects of long-term ambient air pollution exposure on township-level pulmonary tuberculosis notification rates during 2005-2017 in Ningxia, China. Environ Pollut. 2022;317:120718. doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2022.120718
Haldane V, Dodd W, Kipp A, Ferrolino H, Wilson K, Servano D, Jr., Zhang, Z. Pasang, P., Hu, J., Wei, X.* Extending health systems resilience into communities: a qualitative study with community-based actors providing health services during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. BMC health services research. 2022;22(1):1385. doi:10.1186/s12913-022-08734-4
Wu S, Tannous E, Haldane V, Ellen ME, Wei X. Barriers and facilitators of implementing interventions to improve appropriate antibiotic use in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review based on the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Implement Sci. 2022;17(1):30. doi:10.1186/s13012-022-01209-4
Shen L, Wei X, Yin J, Haley DR, Sun Q, Lundborg CS. Interventions to optimize the use of antibiotics in China: A scoping review of evidence from humans, animals, and the environment from a One Health perspective. One Health. 2022;14:100388. doi:10.1016/j.onehlt.2022.100388
Haldane V, Li BPY, Huang JZK, Huang HY, Sadutshang L, Zhang ZZ, Pasang P, Hu J, Wei X.* Exploring the translation process for multilingual implementation science studies: A collaborative autoethnography, BMJ Global Health, 2022;7(5). doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2022-008674
Dodd W, Brubacher LJ, Kpp A, Wyngaarden S, Haldane V, Ferrolino H, Wilson K, Servano D, Lau LL, Wei X,* Navigating fear and care: the lived experiences of community-based health actors in the Phillipines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science and Medicine, 2022;308:115222. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115222
Xiao W, Chen B, Huang D, Chan O, Wei X, Zhou L, et al. Comparison of Delay in Tuberculosis Diagnosis Between Migrants and Local Residents in an Eastern County of China: An Analysis of the Electronic Data Between 2015 and 2019. Front Public Health. 2021;9:758335. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2021.758335
Popovic I, Magalhães RJS, Yang S, et al. Development and Validation of a Sub-National, Satellite-Based Land-Use Regression Model for Annual Nitrogen Dioxide Concentrations in North-Western China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(24):12887. Published 2021 Dec 7. doi:10.3390/ijerph182412887
Haldane, V., Zhang, Z., Ma, Q. et al. A qualitative study of perspectives on access to tuberculosis health services in Xigaze, China. Infect Dis Poverty 10, 120 (2021). doi:10.1186/s40249-021-00906-4
Ge E, Li Y, Wu S, Candido E, Wei X. Association of pre-existing comorbidities with mortality and disease severity among 167,500 individuals with COVID-19 in Canada: A population-based cohort study. PLoS One. 2021;16(10):e0258154. Published 2021 Oct 5. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0258154
Ge E, Gao J, Wei X, et al. Effect modification of greenness on PM2.5 associated all-cause mortality in a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis cohort. Thorax 2021;0:1-8. doi:10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-216819
Haldane V, Ratnapalan S, Perera N, et al. Codevelopment of COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidelines in lower-middle-income countries: the ‘SPRINT’ principles. BMJ Glob Health. 2021;6(8):e006406. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2021-006406
Wei X, Zhang Z, Chong MKC, et al. Evaluation of a package of risk-based pharmaceutical and lifestyle interventions in patients with hypertension and/or diabetes in rural China: A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2021;18(7):e1003694. Published 2021 Jul 1. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003694
Ke C, Luk AO, Chan JCN, Wei X, Shah BR: Migration and diabetes incidence among Chinese adults in Canada, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan: An international population-based comparative study from 2000 to 2017. Diabetes Res Clin Pract 2021, 180:109062. doi:10.1016/j.diabres.2021.109062
Dodd W, Kipp A, Nicholson B, et al. Governance of community health worker programs in a decentralized health system: a qualitative study in the Philippines. BMC Health Serv Res. 2021;21(1):451. Published 2021 May 12. doi:10.1186/s12913-021-06452-x
Su M, Zhou Z, Si Y, et al. Comparing the Quality of Primary Care between Public and Private Providers in Urban China: A Standardized Patient Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(10):5060. Published 2021 May 11. doi:10.3390/ijerph18105060
Walley JD, Zhang Z, Wei X. Antibiotic overuse in China: call for consolidated efforts to develop antibiotic stewardship programmes. Lancet Infect Dis. 2021;21(5):597. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00196-1
Xiao W, Huang D, Li S, et al. Delayed diagnosis of tuberculosis in patients with diabetes mellitus co-morbidity and its associated factors in Zhejiang Province, China. BMC Infect Dis. 2021;21(1):272. Published 2021 Mar 18. doi:10.1186/s12879-021-05929-8
Ge E, Su M, Zhao R, Huang Z, Shan Y, Wei X. Geographical disparities in access to hospital care in Ontario, Canada: a spatial coverage modelling approach. BMJ Open. 2021;11(1):e041474. Published 2021 Jan 28. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041474
Haldane V, Zhang Z, Abbas RF, et al. National primary care responses to COVID-19: a rapid review of the literature. BMJ Open. 2020;10(12):e041622. Published 2020 Dec 8. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041622
Zou G, Zhang W, King R, et al. Process Evaluation of a Clustered Randomized Control Trial of a Comprehensive Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Cardiovascular Events in Primary Health Care in Rural China. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020;17(11):4156. Published 2020 Jun 10. doi:10.3390/ijerph17114156
Lau LL, Hung N, Go DJ, et al. Knowledge, attitudes and practices of COVID-19 among income-poor households in the Philippines: A cross-sectional study. J Glob Health. 2020;10(1):011007. doi:10.7189/jogh.10.011007
Zhuo C, Wei X, Zhang Z, et al. An antibiotic stewardship programme to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing for acute respiratory infections in rural Chinese primary care facilities: study protocol for a clustered randomised controlled trial. Trials. 2020;21(1):394. Published 2020 May 12. doi:10.1186/s13063-020-04303-4
Wei X, Deng S, Haldane V, et al. Understanding factors influencing antibiotic prescribing behaviour in rural China: a qualitative process evaluation of a cluster randomized controlled trial. J Health Serv Res Policy. 2020;25(2):94-103. doi:10.1177/1355819619896588
Wei X, Zhang Z, Chong MKC, et al. Evaluation of a package of risk-based pharmaceutical and lifestyle interventions in patients with hypertension and/or diabetes in rural China: A pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial. PLoS Med. 2021;18(7):e1003694. Published 2021 Jul 1. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003694
Zou G, Wei X, Deng S, Yin J, Ling L. Factors influencing the implementation of a pilot smoking cessation intervention among migrant workers in Chinese factories: a qualitative study. BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):870. Published 2019 Jul 3. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7223-1
Walker IF, Shi O, Hicks JP, et al. Analysis of loss to follow-up in 4099 multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Eur Respir J. 2019;54(1):1800353. Published 2019 Jul 11. doi:10.1183/13993003.00353-2018
Shahzad M, Upshur R, Donnelly P, et al. A population-based approach to integrated healthcare delivery: a scoping review of clinical care and public health collaboration. BMC Public Health. 2019;19(1):708. Published 2019 Jun 7. doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7002-z