Biomedical Research, A Tool to Address the Health Issues that Affect African Populations. [PDF]
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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Cancer survival analysis and spatial distribution during 2014–2016 in Shandong Province, China
We aimed to analyse cancer survival and its spatial distribution in Shandong Province. A total of 609,861 cancer cases from 2014 to 2016 were included in the analysis. Survival analysis was performed using strs in Stata.
Fan Jiang +6 more
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Salmonella enterica subsp. II serovar 4,5,12:a:- may cause gastroenteritis infections in humans
Some serovars of Salmonella are not or rare found to cause salmonellosis in human. In our clinic-based surveillance, three rare Salmonella 4,5,12:a:- strains were recovered from three patients with diarrhea.
Meiying Yan +7 more
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Community-based control of a neglected tropical disease: the mossy foot treatment and prevention association [PDF]
Podoconiosis (endemic non-filarial elephantiasis, also known as mossy foot) is a non-communicable disease now found exclusively in the tropics, caused by the conjunction of environmental, genetic, and economic factors.
AS Kerketta +13 more
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Health in the sustainable development goals: ready for a paradigm shift? [PDF]
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) galvanized attention, resources and accountability on a small number of health concerns of low- and middle-income countries with unprecedented results.
Buse, K, Hawkes, S
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The burden of non communicable diseases in developing countries [PDF]
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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The UK's Global Health Respiratory Network: Improving respiratory health of the world's poorest through research collaborations. [PDF]
Respiratory disorders are responsible for considerable morbidity, health care utilisation, societal costs and approximately one in five deaths worldwide [1-4].
Adab, P +31 more
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ObjectiveTo analyze the relationship between poor sleep and multiple chronic conditions (MCC) among residents aged 18 – 79 years in Beijing in 2017 for providing reference to the prevention and control of chronic disease comorbidity. MethodsA total of 13
Ying-qi WEI, Ai-juan MA, Jin XIE
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Mindfulness interventions reduce blood pressure in patients with non-communicable diseases: A systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]
Purpose Mindfulness based interventions (MBIs) are an emerging area of empirical study, not only in positive psychology, but also in clinical health care.
Abbott +39 more
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Protecting Europe from diseases: from the international sanitary conferences to the ECDC. [PDF]
In the past few decades there has been increased integration of communicable disease policies in Europe. The historical roots of this process date back to the mid-nineteenth century, when national authorities realized that the cross-boundary spread of ...
Coker, Richard, Liverani, Marco
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