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Risk factors and risk factor cascades for communicable disease outbreaks in complex humanitarian emergencies: a qualitative systematic review

BMJ Global Health, 2018
Background Communicable diseases are a major concern during complex humanitarian emergencies (CHEs). Descriptions of risk factors for outbreaks are often non-specific and not easily generalisable to similar situations.
C. Hammer, J. Brainard, P. Hunter
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Beyond digital twins: the role of foundation models in enhancing the interpretability of multiomics modalities in precision medicine

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This review highlights how foundation models enhance predictive healthcare by integrating advanced digital twin modeling with multiomics and biomedical data. This approach supports disease management, risk assessment, and personalized medicine, with the goal of optimizing health outcomes through adaptive, interpretable digital simulations, accessible ...
Sakhaa Alsaedi, Xin Gao, Takashi Gojobori   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Direction & Dilemma of Tropical Oral Health: a position paper [PDF]

, 2006
A number of tropical and communicable diseases are evident as oral manifestations. The tropical and communicable disease of oral health concern is an issue because, not only it is restricted to tropical countries, it is also affecting an underserved ...
Choudhury, C.R.
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Promotion of access to essential medicines for Non-Communicable Diseases: Practical implications of the UN Political Declaration [PDF]

, 2013
Access to medicines and vaccines to prevent and treat non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is unacceptably low worldwide. In the 2011 UN political declaration on the prevention and control of NCDs, heads of government made several commitments related to ...
Abdraimova, Alleyne, Atun, Barrington, Bigdeli, Cameron, Cameron, Cameron, Caudron, Chaudhuri, Colombo, Di Cesare, Downing, Faith N Mwangi-Powell, Ford, Ford, Frenk, Frost, Gale, Gilks, Goroff, Hans V Hogerzeil, Hardon, Heath, Hogerzeil, Hogerzeil, Jonathan Liberman, Kanavos, Kishore, Laing, Liberman, Lim, Lonn, Lu, Luiz, Marquez, Maxmen, Mills, Moodie, Moon, Outterson, Panchagnula, Perehudoff, Quick, Rachel Kiddell-Monroe, Reddy, Roderick, Sakthi Selvaraj, Sandeep P Kishore, Sanne, Smith, Szabo, Tido von Schoen-Angerer, Twagirumukiza, Twagirumukiza, Veronika J Wirtz, Wagner, Wald, Waning, Yusuf, ‘t Hoen   +60 more
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Communicable or noncommunicable diseases? Building strong primary health care systems to address double burden of disease in India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Between 1990 and 2016, India has seen an epidemiological transition in disease burden and deaths, with a steady rise in noncommunicable disease (NCD) burden.
P. Mohan, S. Mohan, Manisha Dutta
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Bioengineering facets of the tumor microenvironment in 3D tumor models: insights into cellular, biophysical and biochemical interactions

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The tumor microenvironment is a dynamic, multifaceted complex system of interdependent cellular, biochemical, and biophysical components. Three‐dimensional in vitro models of the tumor microenvironment enable a better understanding of these interactions and their impact on cancer progression and therapeutic resistance.
Salma T. Rafik, Deniz Bakkalci, Alexander J. MacRobert, Umber Cheema   +3 more
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Survei Beberapa Faktor Risiko Penyakit Tidak Menular di Kabupaten Rembang (Studi pada Sukarelawan) [PDF]

, 2015
The prevalence of non-communicable disease in Rembang regency was increase 2,21% (2010), 2,40% (2011), and 2,48% (2012). The prevention of non-communicable disease should be focused on its risk factors. A cross-sectional study was conducted to obtain the
Saraswati, L. D. (Lintang), Septyarini, P. (Putri), Susanto, H. S. (Henry)   +2 more
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The general population cohort in rural south-western Uganda: a platform for communicable and non-communicable disease studies.

, 2013
The General Population Cohort (GPC) was set up in 1989 to examine trends in HIV prevalence and incidence, and their determinants in rural south-western Uganda.
Alex Karabarinde, Anatoli Kamali, Biraro, Biraro, Biraro, Brown, Campbell, Carpenter, Carpenter, Conrad, Cristina Pomilla, De Wit, Dermot Maher, Elizabeth H Young, Gale, Georgina Murphy, Gershim Asiki, Hall, Hill, Ivan Kasamba, Jakobsson, Janet Seeley, Jessica Nakiyingi-Miiro, Kaleebu, Kaleebu, Kamali, Kamali, Kamali, Kamali, Kamali, Kasamba, Kasamba, Kasamba, Kazooba, Kengeya-Kayondo, Kengeya-Kayondo, Kengeya-Kayondo, Laban Waswa, Lewis, Maher, Maher, Maher, Maher, Maher, Maher, Maher, Manjinder S Sandhu, Mbualaiteye, Mbulaiteye, Mbulaiteye, Mbulaiteye, Mbulaiteye, Mbulaiteye, McCarthy, McCreesh, McCreesh, McCreesh, Mulder, Mulder, Mulder, Mulder, Nabaitu, Nakibinge, Nakiyingi, Nalweyiso, Nalwoga, Nunn, Nunn, Nunn, Nunn, Nunn, Rebecca N Nsubuga, Robinson, Sam Biraro, Scholten, Scholten, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Seeley, Senkaali, Shafer, Shafer, Shafer, Slaymaker, Spielman, Stranger, Uganda Ministry of Health and ICF International 2012, Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (UNCST), Wagner, Whitworth, Whitworth, Whitworth, World Health Organization, Yirrell, Yirrell, Yirrell   +100 more
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Differences in the Prevalence of Non-Communicable Disease between Slum Dwellers and the General Population in a Large Urban Area in Brazil. [PDF]

, 2017
Residents of urban slums are at greater risk for disease than their non-slum dwelling urban counterparts. We sought to contrast the prevalences of selected non-communicable diseases (NCDs) between Brazilian adults living in a slum and the general ...
Calcagno, Juan I, Costa, Federico, Couto, Ricardo D, Ko, Albert I, Lima, Helena CAV, Rajan, Jayant V, Reis, Mitermayer G, Ribeiro, Guilherme S, Riley, Lee W, Snyder, Robert E   +9 more
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Lifetime risk and multimorbidity of non-communicable diseases and disease-free life expectancy in the general population: A population-based cohort study

PLoS Medicine, 2019
Background Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are leading causes of premature disability and death worldwide. However, the lifetime risk of developing any NCD is unknown, as are the effects of shared common risk factors on this risk.
S. Licher, A. Heshmatollah, K. D. Willik, K. D. Willik, B. Stricker, R. Ruiter, E. D. Roos, L. Lahousse, L. Lahousse, P. Koudstaal, A. Hofman, L. Fani, G. Brusselle, G. Brusselle, Daniel Bos, Daniel Bos, B. Arshi, M. Kavousi, M. Leening, M. Leening, M. K. Ikram, M. Ikram   +21 more
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