, 2000 Sanitation, food control, vaccines, and antibiotics have reduced the toll of communicable diseases, saving millions of lives. Smallpox was eradicated in 1977, and poliomyelitis eradication is close. Measles mortality has reduced drastically yet outbreaks occur where immunization lags.
Tulchinsky, Theodore H. +1 more
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Socioenvironmental factors of communicable and non-communicable diseases [PDF]
The Lancet Global Health, 2017 From a clinical case of a tuberculosis diagnosed in Rennes in a Congolese patient, we highlight the need for new socioenvironmental variables to apprehend hazards in social contexts. Beyond the traditional aggregate variables describing socioeconomic characteristics, a collaboration between epidemiology, clinical care, immunology and the social ...
Odile Macchi +6 more
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Communicable Disease Control [PDF]
American Journal of Public Health, 1973 I wish to note two errors in Table 4, page 1582,1 in the number of plague cases reported. In 1971 only two cases were reported rather than 12; neither case died. In 1965, after several revisions, the final case count was 8(2 and CDC Plague Bulletin Number 1, page 2, 1970).
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Key dimensions for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in institutional settings. a scoping review to guide the development of a tool to strengthen preparedness at migrant holding centres in the EU/EEA [PDF]
, 2018 Migrant centres, as other institutions hosting closed or semi-open communities, may face specific challenges in preventing and controlling communicable disease transmission, particularly during times of large sudden influx.
Bella, Antonino +9 more
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Biomedical Research, A Tool to Address the Health Issues that Affect African Populations. [PDF]
, 2013 Traditionally, biomedical research endeavors in low to middle resources countries have focused on communicable diseases. However, data collected over the past 20 years by the World Health Organization (WHO) show a significant increase in the number of ...
Peprah, Emmanuel, Wonkam, Ambroise
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The unfinished agenda of communicable diseases among children and adolescents before the COVID-19 pandemic, 1990–2019 : a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 [PDF]
, 2023 Funding The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Centre for Research Excellence for Driving Investment in Global Adolescent Health and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Correspondence to: Prof Peter Azzopardi, Centre for Adolescent ...
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Economic evaluations of non-communicable disease interventions [PDF]
, 2006 Background Demographic projections suggest a major increase in non-communicable disease (NCD) mortality over the next two decades in developing countries. In a climate of scarce resources, policy-makers need to know which interventions represent value
Fox-Rushby, J, Mulligan, J, Walker, D
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A minimal model coupling communicable and non-communicable diseases [PDF]
, 2023 This work presents a model combining the simplest communicable and non-communicable disease models. The latter is, by far, the leading cause of sickness and death in the World, and introduces basal heterogeneity in populations where communicable diseases
Marvá, M., Venturino, E., Vera, M. C.
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The burden of non communicable diseases in developing countries [PDF]
, 2005 Background: By the dawn of the third millennium, non communicable diseases are sweeping the entire globe, with an increasing trend in developing countries where, the transition imposes more constraints to deal with the double burden of infective and ...
Boutayeb, A, Boutayeb, S
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A Systematic Review on Travel Medicine Practice to Control Transmission of Communicable Diseases [PDF]
, 2019 Background: The number of international travelers is estimated at 900 million per year and is projected to reach 1.6 billion per year in 2020. Travel medicine is devoted to the health of travelers who visit foreign countries.
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