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Pesticide-related illness reported to and diagnosed in primary care: implications for surveillance of environmental causes of ill-health. [PDF]

, 2009
BACKGROUND: In Great Britain (GB), data collected on pesticide associated illness focuses on acute episodes such as poisonings caused by misuse or abuse.
Vera Mann, Mann, Vera, Lesley Rushton, Rushton, Lesley, Mann Vera, Rushton Lesley   +5 more
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Challenges and new strategies for Gulf War illness research

Environmental Disease, 2016
Gulf War illness (GWI) research has generated an abundance of interesting but diverse data. While increased molecular mechanisms have been identified, the high levels of heterogeneity for initial trigger factors, cellular defects, and symptoms ...
Henry H. Q. Heng
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Imaging methods used in the assessment of environmental disease networks: a brief review for clinicians

Insights into Imaging, 2020
Background Across the globe, diseases secondary to environmental exposures have been described, and it was also found that existing diseases have been modified by exposure to environmental chemicals or an environmental factor that has been found in their
Aime Cedillo-Pozos, Sergey K. Ternovoy, Ernesto Roldan-Valadez   +2 more
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Agriculture and livestock sector: GDP, employment, and workplace accidents during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]

Gestão & Produção
The agriculture and livestock sector (A&L) plays a strategic role in addressing the current economic crisis, particularly through food production and distribution, contributing to the preservation and recovery of populations affected by the coronavirus ...
Peterson Diego Kunh, Divair Christ, Silvia Renata Machado Coelho, Sergio Adelar Brun   +3 more
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Evaluation of community health worker's performance at home-based newborn assessment supported by mHealth in rural Bangladesh

BMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background In low to middle-income countries where home births are common and neonatal postnatal care is limited, community health worker (CHW) home visits can extend the capability of health systems to reach vulnerable newborns in the postnatal period ...
Farjana Jahan, Eric Foote, Mahbubur Rahman, Abul Kasham Shoab, Sarker Masud Parvez, Mizanul Islam Nasim, Rezaul Hasan, Shams El Arifeen, Sk Masum Billah, Supta Sarker, Md. Mahbubul Hoque, Mohammad Shahidullah, Muhammad Shariful Islam, Sabina Ashrafee, Gary L. Darmstadt   +14 more
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Schizophrenia in Malaysian families: A study on factors associated with quality of life of primary family caregivers

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2011
Background Schizophrenia is a chronic illness which brings detrimental effects in the caregivers' health. This study was aimed at highlighting the socio-demographic, clinical and psychosocial factors associated with the subjective Quality of Life (QOL ...
Yi Eng J, Hooi Lim S, Midin Marhani, ZamZam Ruzanna, Ahmad Siti NA, Azman Siti FA, Borhanudin Muhammad S, Radzi Rozhan SM   +7 more
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Changing trend in disease burden of mental illness and its risk factors in China, 1990 – 2019

Zhongguo gonggong weisheng, 2022
ObjectiveTo explore changing trend in disease burden of mental illness and its risk factors in Chinese popula-tion from 1990 to 2019 for providing evidences to prevention and treatment of mental illness.
Juan-juan LI, Shu-yong ZHAO, Yuan-ze DU
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Ethnic differences and socio-demographic predictors of illness perceptions, self-management, and metabolic control of type 2 diabetes [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVES: This study investigated ethnic differences in diabetes-specific knowledge, illness perceptions, self-management, and metabolic control among black-African, black-Caribbean,and white-British populations with type 2 diabetes.
Naderali, Ebrahim K., Devendra, D S, Jones, Martyn C., Lauder, William, Jones, M. C., Anderson, J., Anderson, J, Kirk, Alison, Devendra, Devasenan, Lauder, W., Anderson, John, Abubakari, A.R, Abubakari, A.-R., Devendra, D., Abubakari, Abdul-Razak, Kirk, A., Naderali, E.K.   +16 more
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Leptospirosis Associated with the Ingestion of Packaged Foods and Working Environment Conditions: A Case Report

Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2018
The Aim was focused on to describe the diagnosis and evolution of the case of the illness of Weil in male one of 34 years with labor and environmental risk activity to develop Leptospirosis.
Chavez Pagola Jorge Teodoro, Aguirre Rembao Lorenzo Octavio, Toribio Jimenez Jeiry, Salas Casas Andres, Reynoso Vázquez Josefina, Ruvalcaba Ledezma Jesus Carlos   +5 more
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Cost of Illness in Young Children: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study

Children, 2021
Childhood illness is extremely common and imposes a considerable economic burden on society. We aimed to quantify the overall economic burden of childhood illness in the first three years of life and the impact of environmental risk factors. The study is
Sarah Kristine Nørgaard, Nadja Hawwa Vissing, Bo Lund Chawes, Jakob Stokholm, Klaus Bønnelykke, Hans Bisgaard   +5 more
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