Ayuba Issaka

Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute

Community Health Workers (CHWs) play a crucial role in the prevention and management of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The COVID-19 pandemic triggered the implementation of crisis-driven responses that involved shifts in the roles of CHWs in terms of delivering services for people with NCDs. Strategically aligning these shifts with health systems...

Background mHealth technologies are now widely utilised to support the delivery of secondary prevention programs in heart disease. Interventions with mHealth included have shown a similar efficacy and safety to conventional programs with improvements in access and adherence. However, questions remain regarding the successful wider implementation of...

Background Digital-enabled interventions are widely utilised to support the delivery of programs for the secondary prevention of heart disease. They have shown a similar efficacy and safety to centre-based programs and improvements in access and adherence; the key barriers to in-person programs. However, questions remain regarding the successful wi...

Background The use of mobile health (mHealth, wireless communication devices, and/or software technologies) in health care delivery has increased rapidly in recent years. Their integration into disease management programs (DMPs) has tremendous potential to improve outcomes for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), yet a more robust evaluatio...

Objectives We investigated the association between urban/rural location and both type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and pre-diabetes among populations of five West African countries. Design Cross-sectional studies, using the WHO Stepwise (STEPs) survey data. Setting National representative data of both urban and rural areas from Benin, Burkina Faso,...

The disciplinary integration of biology and economy is taking new forms in the postgenomic era, transforming long-standing exchanges between human biology and economics. In this article, we first describe how an emerging area of research in development and health economics has embraced, stabilized, and expanded the emerging field of the Development...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the pre-existing challenges of diabetes management in many countries. It has accelerated the wider use of digital health solutions which have tremendous potential to improve health outcomes for people with diabetes. However, little is known about the attributes and the implementation of these solution...

Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main funding source(s): La Trobe University Introduction mHealth technologies have evolved rapidly in recent years and are now widely implemented for the secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD). While there is increasing evidence of their effectiveness, there ar...

Abstract Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is becoming one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, including among Africans. Knowledge of the association between traditional risk factors and both diabetes and pre-diabetes, and whether these differ by age and sex, is important for designing targeted interventions. Howeve...

Background Racism has been identified as a major source of injustice and a health burden in Australia and across the world. Despite the surge in Australian quantitative research on the topic, and the increasing recognition of the prevalence and impact of racism in Australian society, the collective evidence base has yet to be comprehensively review...

Recent studies demonstrating epigenetic and developmental sensitivity to early environments, as exemplified by fields like the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD) and environmental epigenetics, are bringing new data and models to bear on debates about race, genetics, and society. Here, we first survey the historical prominence of mo...

Introduction Type 2 diabetes Miletus (T2DM) is becoming one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, including among Africans. Knowledge of the association between risk factors and both diabetes and pre-diabetes, and whether these differ by age and sex, are important for designing targeted interventions. However, little is known...

Background Racism has been identified as a major source of injustice and a health burden in Australia and across the world. Despite the surge in Australian quantitative research on the topic, and the increasing recognition of the prevalence and impact of racism in Australian society, the collective evidence base has yet to be comprehensively review...

Background and Aim Various obesity indices such as BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-hip ratio, (WHR) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) are associated with the risk of type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). Given few studies examining the strength of the association in this population, we aimed to identify which obesity indices are most strongly associ...

Background: In Africa, epidemiological data on type 2 diabetes (T2DM) and impaired fasting glucose (IFG) is incomplete, especially in relation to the influence of rapid urbanisation on risk of disease. We investigated the association between urban/rural location and both T2DM and prediabetes among West African populations from five countries. Meth...

Background Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a significant public health concern in many African countries. While the determinants underpinning T2DM are likely to be Africa-specific, knowledge of these risk factors is largely derived from developed countries. This is the first systematic review and meta-analysis to include biological, behavioural...

Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains a public health problem in low-income countries, including African countries. Risk factors of this disease in Africa are still unclear. This study will examine the modifiable and emerging risk factors associated with T2DM in Africa. Methodology: The study will include a systematic review and me...

Aim: To explore how non-diabetic sub-Saharan African migrants residing in Melbourne, construct and interpret type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its risk factors and to provide an evidence-based theoretical framework to inform community-based prevention programs. Methods: Seven focus group discussions (two with women only, two with men only and thr...

Children and young people with chronic health conditions are at greater risk of school absence and poorer educational achievement than their healthy peers. A range of strategies are implemented in home, school and hospital settings to improve the connection of these children and young people to their educational pathways, yet gaps in provision rema...

Participation in early childhood development and education services is an important contributor to how well children develop throughout their early years and their success later in life. This article reports on research which examined how multicultural groups identify and use their community connections to share information and inform decision-maki...