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Obesidad: epidemia mundial [PDF]
, 2021 En 1997, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) reconoció formalmente la obesidad como una epidemia mundial1. La epidemia de obesidad es reconocida ahora como uno de los problemas de salud pública más importantes que enfrenta el mundo en la actualidad
Mestanza Sáenz, Milthon
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Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 594-615, November 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines the relationship between information consumption and mental health during the early stages of the COVID‐19 pandemic. Adopting a qualitative approach, we interviewed 39 people in British Columbia, Canada between October and December 2020.
Katelin Albert, Garry Gray
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Disturbance ecology in human societies
People and Nature, Volume 5, Issue 4, Page 1082-1093, August 2023., 2023 Abstract We define societal disturbances as discrete events that abruptly disrupt the functioning of human societies. There is a variety of such events, including hurricanes, floods, epidemics, nuclear accidents, earthquakes and wars, among others. These disturbances can interact, further increasing their impacts.
Juli G. Pausas, Alexandro B. Leverkus
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Urban mortality in Greece: Hermoupolis (1859–1940)
The Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 728-758, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The paper examines mortality patterns in the city of Hermoupolis, on the Greek island of Syros, from 1859 to 1940. It produces important new insights into Mediterranean urban historical demography and is the first comprehensive study of urban mortality in Greece, utilising the largest and one of the longest time series at the individual level ...
Michail Raftakis
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Developing World Bioethics, Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 138-146, June 2023., 2023 Abstract In Brazil, the epicenter of the Zika crisis, brown, black, and indigenous poor women living in municipalities with scarce resources were disproportionally affected. The gendered consequences of the epidemic exposed how intersectional lenses are central to understand the impact of public health emergencies in the lives of women and girls.
Ilana Ambrogi +2 more
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Smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis
Biotropica, Volume 55, Issue 3, Page 699-705, May 2023., 2023 Pathogens can exert selective pressures on the scheduling of reproduction. The smaller size of harlequin toads from populations long exposed to the lethal fungal disease chytridiomycosis suggests that toads from post‐epidemic populations are breeding earlier.
Margarita Lampo +3 more
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EPIDEMIA DA AIDS: SUJEITO E COMUNIDADE CONSTRUINDO RESPOSTAS PARA O PROBLEMA
Revista de Ciências da Saúde Nova Esperança, 2006 O presente artigo é resultado de uma pesquisa bibliográfica que procura pensar a questão da epidemia da AIDS e de investimentos coletivos e subjetivos em busca de respostas para inúmeras dificuldades daí surgidas.
Antônio Carlos Borges Martins
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Revista de Medicina y Cine / Journal of Medicine and Movies, 2021 Durante la epidemia de polio de Estados Unidos durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se cuenta la vivencia de la epidemia desde los ojos de un joven profesor de gimnasia en una comunidad judía.
Antonio Pujol de Castro
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A COVID‐19 model for local authorities of the United Kingdom
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), Volume 185, Issue S1, Page S86-S95, November 2022., 2022 Abstract We propose a new framework to model the COVID‐19 epidemic of the United Kingdom at the local authority level. The model fits within a general framework for semi‐mechanistic Bayesian models of the epidemic based on renewal equations, with some important innovations, including a random walk modelling the reproduction number, incorporating ...
Swapnil Mishra +7 more
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Revista Enfermagem UERJ, 2019 Objetivo: apresentar narrativa dos acontecimentos históricos sobre a epidemia de Influenza e suas interfaces com a saúde pública e enfermagem.
Mercedes Neto, Fernando Porto
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