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Added effect of heat waves on mortality in residents of Beijing, 2007 – 2013
Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022 ObjectiveTo explore the added effect of heat wave on mortality in residents of Beijing and to provide evidences for developing public health strategies related to extreme weather events.MethodsThe data on daily mortality, meteorological factors and air ...
Yan-lin NIU, Jun YANG, Hua-liang LIN
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2022 ObjectiveTuberculosis outbreaks in schools are common in China. This study aimed to introduce and evaluate a new screening process to help control outbreaks.MethodsScreening information of students in three schools with tuberculosis outbreaks was ...
Peng Lu +7 more
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Devil in the Landscapes: Inferring Epidemic Exposure Risks from Street View Imagery [PDF]
, 2023 Built environment supports all the daily activities and shapes our health. Leveraging informative street view imagery, previous research has established the profound correlation between the built environment and chronic, non-communicable diseases; however, predicting the exposure risk of infectious diseases remains largely unexplored.
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BMC Infectious Diseases, 2018 Background To determine the linear and non-linear interacting relationships between weather factors and hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in children in Gansu, China, and gain further traction as an early warning signal based on weather variability for
Faxiang Gou +11 more
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The impact of economic crises on communicable disease transmission and control: a systematic review of the evidence. [PDF]
, 2011 There is concern among public health professionals that the current economic downturn, initiated by the financial crisis that started in 2007, could precipitate the transmission of infectious diseases while also limiting capacity for control.
Abubakar, Ibrahim +11 more
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, 2019 The South Carolina Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control publishes Epi Notes, with articles on epidemiology of reportable conditions; surveillance and reporting of diseases/conditions, outbreaks, and events of public health significance ...
South Carolina Bureau of Communicable Disease Prevention and Control
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.In lymphoid organs, antigen recognition and B cell receptor signaling rely on integrins and the cytoskeleton. Integrins act as mechanoreceptors, couple B cell receptor activation to cytoskeletal remodeling, and support immune synapse formation as well as antigen extraction.
Abhishek Pethe, Tanja Nicole Hartmann
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BMC Oral Health, 2017 Background China has undergone a rapid demographic and epidemiological transition with fast ecomonic development since the 1980s. Oral health is becoming a major public health problem as the prevalence of non-communicable diseases has greatly increased ...
Qi Zhang +7 more
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Emergence of protective behaviour under different risk perceptions to disease spreading [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The behaviour of individuals is a main actor in the control of the spread of a communicable disease and, in turn, the spread of an infectious disease can trigger behavioural changes in a population. Here, we study the emergence of the individuals protective behaviours in response to the spread of a disease by considering two different social attitudes ...
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Communicable disease control in Afghanistan
Global Public Health, 2013 Among public health challenges in Afghanistan, communicable diseases still predominate because the epidemiologic transition to chronic disease has not yet occurred. Afghanistan's 10-year journey to improve its response to communicable disease is reflected in varying degrees of progress and innovation, all while long-standing conflict and geographic ...
Waqar R Butt +7 more
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