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Characteristics and timeliness of intervention in 47 school-based enterovirus outbreaks in Zhejiang Province, China. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
BackgroundHand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) and herpangina (HA) are common infectious diseases in children that can frequently lead to outbreaks. Analyzing the characteristics of school-based outbreaks and evaluating the timeliness of prevention and ...
Chen Y   +8 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

The Vaccine Hesitancy Profiles and Determinants of Seasonal Influenza among Chinese Community Healthcare Workers: A Cross-Sectional Study

open access: yesVaccines, 2022
This paper is an evaluation of seasonal influenza vaccination hesitancy (IVH) and its determinants among community HCWs in Chongqing, a city in southwest China.
Xianxian Yang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cross-sectional study on prevalence and risk factors for falls among the elderly in communities of Guangdong province, China

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2022
Objective This study aims to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of falls among the elderly in Guangdong, China.Methods A cross-sectional study was conducted in six communities of Guangdong province.
Chuan Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forecasting Disease Burden In Philippines: A Symbolic Regression Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Burden of disease measures the impact of living with illness and injury and dying prematurely and it is increasing worldwide leading cause of death both global and national. This paper aimed to propose an index of diseases and evaluate a mathematical model to describe the number of burden of disease by cause in the Philippines from 1990 - 2016. Through
arxiv  

Spicy food consumption is associated with abdominal obesity among Chinese Han population aged 30–79 years in the Sichuan Basin: a population-based cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Few animal experiments and volunteer-based intervention studies have showed a controversial effect of spicy foods on abdominal obesity. We aimed to examine the association between spicy food frequency, spicy flavor, and abdominal obesity among
Xianxian Yang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

South Carolina viral hepatitis academic detailing toolkit [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The goals of this paper are: Increase the number of providers who recognizes Hepatitis A, B, and C as treatable infections ; Increase the number of physicians and healthcare providers who screen their clients/patients for Hepatitis ; Increase the number
South Carolina Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control. STD/HIV/Viral Hepatitis Division
core  

Quantifying optimal resource allocation strategies for controlling epidemics [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Frequent emergence of communicable diseases has been a major concern worldwide. Lack of sufficient resources to mitigate the disease-burden makes the situation even more challenging for lower-income countries. Hence, strategy development towards disease eradication and optimal management of the social and economic burden has garnered a lot of attention
arxiv  

Dengue Situation in Bangladesh: An Epidemiological Shift in terms of Morbidity and Mortality

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2019
The escalating dengue situation in Bangladesh has been emerging as a serious public health problem in terms of morbidity and mortality. Results of analysis of 40,476 cases of Bangladesh occurring during 2000–2017 indicated that 49.73% of the dengue cases
Pulak Mutsuddy   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Systematic Review on Travel Medicine Practice to Control Transmission of Communicable Diseases [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Bachtiar, A. (Adang )   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Direct detection of Corynebacterium striatum, Corynebacterium propinquum, and Corynebacterium simulans in sputum samples by high-resolution melt curve analysis

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Pulmonary infections caused by non-diphtheriae corynebacteria are increasing. However, rapid identification of Corynebacterium species poses a challenge due to the low genetic variation within the genus.
Shuai Xu   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

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