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Preventing emerging zoonoses

2022
Zoonoses are diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans. This POSTnote summarises approaches to preventing zoonoses with pandemic potential by targeting animal-environment-human interactions. It reviews current biosecurity measures in the UK and globally, notes lessons from COVID-19 and identifies future strategies.
Claire Kanja, Cristiana Vagnoni
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Control and Prevention of Emerging Zoonoses

Journal of Veterinary Medical Education, 2003
Emerging and re-emerging zoonoses are zoonotic diseases caused by either totally new or partially new agents or by microorganisms previously known but now occurring in places or in species where the disease was previously unknown. Zoonotic diseases account for the majority of all emerging infectious diseases.
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PREVENTIVE IMMUNIZATION IN A NATIONAL EMERGENCY

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1951
Excerpt The Board of Regents of the American College of Physicians has conferred a great honor upon me in selecting me as the James D. Bruce Memorial lecturer in preventive medicine.
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Preventing Health Emergencies in An Unobtrusive Way

2015
The Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm represents the vision of the next wave of computing. By relying on various computing and networking techniques, AmI systems have the potential to enhance our everyday lives in many different aspects. One area in which widespread application of this innovative paradigm promises particularly significant benefits is
Miori V, Russo D
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Prevention of Peritonitis in Children: Emerging Concepts

Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, 2009
Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is the modality of choice for pediatric patients in all over the world. Peritonitis, still the main complication of PD, causes significant morbidity and mortality. Therefore, prevention of peritonitis is of particular importance.
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Preventive health pamphlets in the emergency department

The Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1998
We conducted a prospective clinical trial to determine the effectiveness of an emergency department informational pamphlet in improving patients' compliance with recommendations that they receive Pap smears, mammograms, and a pneumococcal vaccination. Informational pamphlets were distributed to 1,000 consecutive patients who presented to a university ...
P, Berger, M, Luskin, S, Krishel
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Emerging Strategies in the Prevention of Domestic Violence

The Future of Children, 1999
Responses to domestic violence have focused, to date, primarily on intervention after the problem has already been identified and harm has occurred. There are, however, new domestic violence prevention strategies emerging, and prevention approaches from the public health field can serve as models for further development of these strategies.
D A, Wolfe, P G, Jaffe
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Preventing Emergency Malpractice

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1989
The modern American emergency center has unfortunately become a veritable mine field of potentially litigious encounters. Clinical problems range from the trivial to the catastrophic, chaos is common, and the patient and physician are, at best, strangers eternal.
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Prevention of and Emergency Response to Drowning

New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Deborah C. Girasek, Stephen Hargarten
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Control and prevention of emerging parasitic zoonoses

International Journal for Parasitology, 2008
Emerging zoonoses have been defined as zoonoses that are newly recognised or newly evolved, or that have occurred previously but show an increase in incidence or expansion in geographical, host or vector range. Among parasitic zoonoses, protozoa are particularly likely to emerge.
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