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Emerging challenges and health system capacity: the case of non- communicable diseases in Pakistan; a review [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Pakistan is facing double burden of disease and the contribution of mortality by non-communicable diseases has over numbered the communicable diseases.
Malik, Muhammad Ashar, Zafar, Mubashir
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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 ...
Catherine Cavalin, Alain Lescoat, Odile Macchi, Matthieu Revest, Paul-André Rosental, Patrick Jégo   +5 more
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GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNICABLE DISEASES [PDF]

Bezbednosni Dijalozi, 2021
Globalization has secured prosperity and has created new opportunities for human development in almost each segment of our modern international community.
Zorica Saltirovska
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Determining the risk-factors for molecular clustering of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) epidemic is driven mainly by the effect of ongoing transmission. In high-burden settings such as South Africa (SA), considerable demographic and geographic heterogeneity in DR-TB transmission exists. Thus, a
Halima Said, Elizabeth Kachingwe, Yasmin Gardee, Zaheda Bhyat, John Ratabane, Linda Erasmus, Tiisetso Lebaka, Minty van der Meulen, Thabisile Gwala, Shaheed Omar, Farzana Ismail, Nazir Ismail   +11 more
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Presymptomatic risk assessment for chronic non-communicable diseases [PDF]

, 2010
The prevalence of common chronic non-communicable diseases (CNCDs) far overshadows the prevalence of both monogenic and infectious diseases combined. All CNCDs, also called complex genetic diseases, have a heritable genetic component that can be used for
AC Morrison, AJ MacGregor, AS Daar, Badri Padhukasahasram, C Kyogoku, C Tysk, CG Loftus, D Bentley, Daryl J. Thomas, DE Reich, Dietrich A. Stephan, E Zeggini, EF Remmers, Elana Silver, Eran Halperin, Heather Trumbower, JC Barrett, Jennifer Wessel, JK Pritchard, JM Chan, JT Salonen, KM Narayan, KM Small, LB Lusted, LJ Scott, MF Doran, Michele Cargill, MS Sandhu, NR Wray, O Kempthorne, Q Lu, Q Yang, R King, S Kathiresan, Thorkild I. A. Sorensen   +34 more
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Use of a digital contact tracing system in Singapore to mitigate COVID-19 spread

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Contact tracing has been essential to reducing spread of COVID-19. Singapore leveraged technology to assist with contact tracing efforts using a Bluetooth-based app and token platform called ‘TraceTogether’.
Bryan W. K. Chow, Yi Ding Lim, Richard C. H. Poh, Amy Ko, Guo Hao Hong, Steffen W. L. Zou, Joshua Cheah, Shaowei Ho, Vernon J. M. Lee, Marc Z. J. Ho   +9 more
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Using generalized structured additive regression models to determine factors associated with and clusters for COVID-19 hospital deaths in South Africa

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background The first case of COVID-19 in South Africa was reported in March 2020 and the country has since recorded over 3.6 million laboratory-confirmed cases and 100 000 deaths as of March 2022. Transmission and infection of SARS-CoV-2 virus and deaths
Innocent Maposa, Richard Welch, Lovelyn Ozougwu, Tracy Arendse, Caroline Mudara, Lucille Blumberg, Waasila Jassat   +6 more
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Evaluation of anakinra in the management of patients with COVID-19 infection: A randomized clinical trial

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
BackgroundThe global COVID-19 pandemic led to substantial clinical and economic outcomes with catastrophic consequences. While the majority of cases has mild to moderate disease, minority of patients progress into severe disease secondary to the ...
Eman Zeyad I. Elmekaty, Aya Maklad, Rawan Abouelhassan, Waqar Munir, Mohamed Izham Mohamed Ibrahim, Arun Nair, Rim Alibrahim, Fatima Iqbal, Ahmad Al Bishawi, Alaaeldin Abdelmajid, Mohamed Aboukamar, Hamad Abdel Hadi, Mohammed Abu Khattab, Hussam Al Soub, Muna Al Maslamani   +14 more
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Distribution and Clonality of drug-resistant tuberculosis in South Africa

BMC Microbiology, 2021
Background Studies have shown that drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in South Africa (SA) is clonal and is caused mostly by transmission. Identifying transmission chains is important in controlling DR-TB.
Halima Said, John Ratabane, Linda Erasmus, Yasmin Gardee, Shaheed Omar, Andries Dreyer, Farzana Ismail, Zaheda Bhyat, Tiisetso Lebaka, Minty van der Meulen, Thabisile Gwala, Adeboye Adelekan, Karidia Diallo, Nazir Ismail   +13 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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