"Africa, Central" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The geographical area of Africa comprising CAMEROON; CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC; CHAD; CONGO; EQUATORIAL GUINEA; GABON; and DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO.
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Africa, Central".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Africa, Central".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Africa, Central" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Africa, Central" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Below are the most recent publications written about "Africa, Central" by people in Profiles.
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Levels and trends of adolescent girl's undernutrition and anemia in West and Central Africa from 1998 to 2017. J Glob Health. 2021; 11:13006.
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Socio-economic predictors of undernutrition and anaemia in adolescent mothers in West and Central Africa. J Glob Health. 2021; 11:13007.
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Levels and trends of adolescent marriage and maternity in West and Central Africa, 1986-2017. J Glob Health. 2021; 11:13001.
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Trends in demographic and clinical characteristics and initiation of antiretroviral therapy among adult patients enrolling in HIV care in the Central Africa International epidemiology Database to Evaluate AIDS (CA-IeDEA) 2004 to 2018. J Int AIDS Soc. 2021 06; 24(6):e25672.
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Weight-for-age distributions among children with HIV on antiretroviral therapy in the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) multiregional consortium. BMC Res Notes. 2020 May 24; 13(1):249.
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Child anthropometry data quality from Demographic and Health Surveys, Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, and National Nutrition Surveys in the West Central Africa region: are we comparing apples and oranges? Glob Health Action. 2017; 10(1):1328185.
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The Specialist Surgeon Workforce in East, Central and Southern Africa: A Situation Analysis. World J Surg. 2016 Nov; 40(11):2620-2627.
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Parental risk factors for oral clefts among Central Africans, Southeast Asians, and Central Americans. Birth Defects Res A Clin Mol Teratol. 2015 Oct; 103(10):863-79.
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Geographical variability in the likelihood of bloodstream infections due to gram-negative bacteria: correlation with proximity to the equator and health care expenditure. PLoS One. 2014; 9(12):e114548.
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Mapping the zoonotic niche of Ebola virus disease in Africa. Elife. 2014 Sep 08; 3:e04395.