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Self-directed disability support: building people’s capacity through peer support and action research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
How are people with disability experiencing and managing the transition towards self directed support and preparing for the NDIS? In this project, small groups of people with disability around Australia met over 6 months to talk about their disability ...
Fisher, KR ; https://orcid.org/   +13 more
core   +2 more sources

Estimating and validating disability-adjusted life years at the global level: a methodological framework for cancer

open access: yesBMC Medical Research Methodology, 2012
Background Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) link data on disease occurrence to health outcomes, and they are a useful aid in establishing country-specific agendas regarding cancer control.
Soerjomataram Isabelle   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Estimation of disability weight for paragonimiasis: a systematic analysis

open access: yesInfectious Diseases of Poverty, 2018
Background Paragonimiasis, caused by helminths of the genus Paragonimus spp., is a neglected tropical disease. Human suffering from paragonimiasis is often misunderstood and its quantification by the disability weight of the disability-adjusted life ...
Yun Feng   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Global, regional, and national trends in mesothelioma burden from 1990 to 2019 and the predictions for the next two decades

open access: yesSSM: Population Health, 2023
Objectives: We aimed to analyze the secular trends in mesothelioma burden, the effect of age, period, and birth cohort, and project the global burden over time. Material and methods: Based on the mesothelioma incidence, mortality, and Disability-Adjusted
Wenmin Zhu   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disability-Adjusted Life Years associated with the pharmaceutical supply chain of five years mebendazole MDA (64 million tablets).

open access: yes, 2018
Disability-Adjusted Life Years associated with the pharmaceutical supply chain of five years mebendazole MDA (64 million tablets).
Claudia Virginia Gonzalez Torres (5954210)   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Cross-national agreement on disability weights: the European Disability Weights Project

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2003
Background Disability weights represent the relative severity of disease stages to be incorporated in summary measures of population health. The level of agreement on disability weights in Western European countries was investigated with different ...
Burström Kristina   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The global burden of neglected zoonotic diseases: Current state of evidence

open access: yesOne Health, 2023
The majority of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, most of which are classified as “neglected”. By affecting both humans and animals, zoonoses pose a dual burden.
Carlotta Di Bari   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long‐Term Follow‐Up of Chemotherapy‐Associated Biological Aging in Women With Early Breast Cancer

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
Women threated with adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer have sustained long‐term increase in p16INK4a,, a robust marker of cell senescence, suggesting a chemotherapy‐associated age acceleration. p16INK4a as well as other biomarkers may identify patients at greatest risk for senescence‐related diseases of aging.
Hyman B. Muss   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Burden of myocardial infarction attributable to road-traffic noise: A pilot study in Belgrade

open access: yesNoise and Health, 2014
The aim of this pilot study was to calculate the disability-adjusted life years (DALY) as a quantification of the burden of myocardial infarction (MI) attributable to road-traffic noise in Belgrade, Serbia. Exposure to road-traffic noise was estimated on
Katarina Paunovic, Goran Belojević
doaj   +1 more source

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