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Editorial: Maternal metabolic health: from preconception to postpartum. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Nutr
Diaz-Castro J   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Challenge of Surveillance and Control of Emerging Communicable Diseases.

open access: yesThe Brazilian journal of infectious diseases : an official publication of the Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
openaire   +1 more source

Endemic, Emerging and Re-emerging Communicable Diseases in Uganda [PDF]

open access: possibleDevelopment, 1999
Fred Wabwire-Mangen and Gakenia Wamuyu Maina review the environmental, social and political factors that explain the inequitable distribution of communicable disease burden in Uganda.
Fred Wabwire-Mangen   +1 more
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Care of non-communicable diseases in emergencies

The Lancet, 2017
Introduction Emergencies include natural disasters such as earthquakes and severe meteorological events, but also armed confl ict and its consequences, such as civil disruption and refugee crises (sometimes termed chronic emergencies). The health component of the humanitarian response to emergencies has traditionally focused on management of acute ...
Slama, S   +7 more
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Emergence of chronic non-communicable diseases in China

The Lancet, 2008
China has experienced an epidemiological transition shifting from the infectious to the chronic diseases in much shorter time than many other countries. The pace and spread of behavioural changes, including changing diets, decreased physical activity, high rates of male smoking, and other high risk behaviours, has accelerated to an unprecedented degree.
Gonghuan, Yang   +6 more
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Communicable diseases in complex emergencies: impact and challenges

The Lancet, 2004
Communicable diseases, alone or in combination with malnutrition, account for most deaths in complex emergencies. Factors promoting disease transmission interact synergistically leading to high incidence rates of diarrhoea, respiratory infection, malaria, and measles.
Máire A, Connolly   +5 more
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A survey of emergency department communicable disease reporting practices

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1991
A group of physicians, nurses, and administrators at all 11 hospitals in the District of Columbia were interviewed to elucidate each hospital emergency department's (ED) system for patient and public health notification of the diagnosis of legally reportable communicable diseases. The hospitals' reporting systems were divided into two groups.
T, Kirsch, R, Shesser
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