How can donors help build global public goods in health ? [PDF]
Aid to developing countries has largely neglected the population-wide health services that are core to communicable disease control in the developed world.
Das Gupta, Monica, Gostin, Lawrence
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, 2012 Disease and contaminants can both pose major risks to wildlife and human populations. Disease is a natural driver regulating the dynamics of wildlife populations, but some diseases warrant particular attention because they (i) cause major mortalities ...
Maes, T., Pereira, M.G., Shore, R.F
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Location and timing of infection drives a sex-bias in Haemoproteus prevalence in a hole-nesting bird
ParasitologySex biases in prevalence of disease are often attributed to intrinsic factors, such as physiological differences while a proximate role of extrinsic factors such as behavioural or ecological differences may be more difficult to establish.
William Jones +2 more
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Wise Blood: The Principle of Overcoming in Disease and Immunity (Part 1) [PDF]
, 2020 The immune system is an intelligently made system designed for interaction with microbes even in a perfect world; it is more than a defense. However, in a post-fall world, it is primarily a body’s defense system.
Gillen, Alan L., Huy, Keoprommony
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The U.S. Global Health Initiative: Key Issues [PDF]
, 2010 Explores issues of GHI governance, funding allocation, impact measurement, ownership by recipient countries, international partnerships, implementing focus on women and girls, health systems strengthening, and coordination with foreign aid reform ...
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Public health in India : an overview [PDF]
Public health services, which reduce a population's exposure to disease through such measures as sanitation and vector control, are an essential part of a country's development infrastructure.
Das Gupta, Monica
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“Coastal” versus “inland” shorebird species: interlinked fundamental dichotomies between their life- and demographic histories? [PDF]
, 2003 In this contribution I present an extended but testable hypothesis (or “evolutionary scenario”) to explain how and why many life-history features of latitudinal migrant shorebirds, basically characterised by the correlation between habitat choice in the ...
Piersma, Theunis,
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Interactions between health and farm-labor productivity: [PDF]
In the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation, improvement in rural livelihood, and environmental sustainability (World Bank 2007).
Andam, Kwaw S. +3 more
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Avian haemosporidian diversity and transmission across birds and mosquitoes in Botswana
International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and WildlifeAvian malaria parasites circulate globally among birds and their dipteran vectors, yet their diversity and transmission dynamics remain poorly characterised in sub-Saharan Africa.
Antoine Perrin +7 more
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Avian malaria parasite infections do not affect personality in the chestnut thrush (Turdus rubrocanus) on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Jing CL +7 more
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