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Strengthening research preparedness for crises: lessons from Norwegian government agencies in using randomized trials and quasi-experimental methods to evaluate public policy interventions

Health Research Policy and Systems
During public health crises such as pandemics, governments must rapidly adopt and implement wide-reaching policies and programs (“public policy interventions”).
Unni Gopinathan, Ingeborg Elgersma, Therese Dalsbø, Mona Bjørbæk, Atle Fretheim   +4 more
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Multivariate Analysis of Hematological Stress Biomarkers and Welfare Domains in Organic and Intensive Pig Farming in Italy: A Pilot Study

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Intensive or organic farming systems may expose pigs to management or environmental challenges. Our preliminary results concluded that organic farming might enhance adaptive immune function, showing that improvements in welfare can translate into measurable immunological benefits, based on the correlation between welfare assessment and physiological ...
Dorotea Ippolito, Talal Hassan, Antonio Marco Maisano, Stefania Bergagna, Cecilia Guasco, Barbara Miniscalco, Martina Tarantola, Elena Colombino, Claudio Caruso, Ahsan Muhammad, Silvia Mioletti, Laura Tomassone, Massimiliano Tursi, Cristina Vercelli, Giovanni Loris Alborali, Maria Teresa Capucchio   +15 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scale-free network of a dengue epidemic

, 2008
In this work we show that the dengue epidemic in the city of Singapore organized itself into a scale-free network of transmission as the 2000-2005 outbreaks progressed.
Massad, E., Chen, M., Stollenwerk, N., Ma, S., Massad, Eduardo, Ma, Stefen, Aguiar, M., Aguiar, Maíra, Chen, Mark, Stollenwerk, Nico, Struchiner, C.J., Struchiner, Cláudio José   +11 more
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Yellow fever resurgence: An avoidable crisis?

npj Vaccines, 2022
Nicole P. Lindsey, Jennifer Horton, Alan D. T. Barrett, Maurice Demanou, Thomas P. Monath, Oyewale Tomori, Michel Van Herp, Herve Zeller, Ibrahima Soce Fall, Laurence Cibrelus, J. Erin Staples   +10 more
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Classroom air purifiers for reducing school absence: study protocol for a pragmatic, cluster-randomised, parallel, two-arm, group sequential superiority trial

BMJ Open
Introduction Respiratory infections like influenza and SARS-CoV-2 pose significant global health risks due to their high transmissibility and severity.
Unni Gopinathan, Atle Fretheim, Christopher James Rose, Ingeborg Hess Elgersma, Petter Elstrøm, Runar B Solberg, Sverre B Holøs, Arnfinn Helleve   +7 more
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Recent Advances in Virus–Host Interactions, Antiviral Bioactive Compounds, and Breeding for Disease Resistance of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea Virus

Animal Research and One Health, EarlyView.
Basic research on the PEDV infection cycle and virus–host interactions advances the development of anti‐PEDV drugs and disease‐resistant breeding and helps strengthen disease prevention and control while reducing economic losses in the swine industry.
Heyong Wu, Aosi Qi, Shuyu Zhong, Haozhen Du, Shimeng Guo, Hongsheng Ouyang, Hongming Yuan, Daxin Pang, Zicong Xie   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of novel neutralizing determinants for protection against HCV

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Identification of novel neutralizing determinants for protection against hepatitis C virus. Abstract Background and Aims HCV evasion of neutralizing antibodies (nAb) results in viral persistence and poses challenges to the development of an urgently needed vaccine.
Garazi P. Alzua, Anne F. Pihl, Anna Offersgaard, Rodrigo Velázquez‐Moctezuma, Carlos R. Duarte Hernandez, Elias H. Augestad, Ulrik Fahnøe, Christian K. Mathiesen, Henrik Krarup, Mansun Law, Jannick Prentoe, Jens Bukh, Judith M. Gottwein   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

the overweight epidemic

, 2001
Looks in detail the facts behind the overweight epidemic: physical health risks; psychological effects of dieting and poor body image; and direct & indirect costs to all people in ...
Video Education Australasia
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Discrete-Time Household Epidemic Models [PDF]

We present a general Markovian discrete-time SIR household epidemic model based on time units of a day. The model is flexible in how within-household infection depends upon the number of infectives at a given time and the interactions between global ...
Martin, Niamh, Sirl, David, Ball, Frank, Neal, Peter   +3 more
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