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Interventions for Prevention and Control of Epidemic of Vitamin D Deficiency

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2019
Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) remains a significant health challenge globally with its overwhelming effects on skeletal growth and varied associations with extra-skeletal diseases. The last decade has reported a high prevalence of VDD in all age-groups across all zones of India.
Raman Kumar, Marwaha, Aashima, Dabas
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Infection prevention and control in the era of the AIDS/HIV epidemic

Seminars in Oncology Nursing, 1989
The chronology of important events in the AIDS/HIV epidemic is presented in Table 2. Nurses are the largest group of health care workers and persons who provide direct care and handle sharp objects regularly. As the number of persons infected with HIV increases and as more infected persons become ill enough to require care, the opportunity for an ...
M M, Jackson, P, Lynch
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[A special on epidemic prevention and control: precautions in ophthalmic practice in the prevention and control of the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic].

[Zhonghua yan ke za zhi] Chinese journal of ophthalmology, 2020
This article was published ahead of print on the official website of Chinese Journal of Ophthalmology on March 2, 2020. Prevention and control of novel coronavirus pneumonia is now the top priority, and the protection of the eyes in the fight against the epidemic has also been an issue of great concern.
N L, Wang, Y, Jie, F B, Tao
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International Law-making on the Prevention and Control of Epidemics

International Community Law Review, 2022
Abstract International law-making takes various forms. The UN General Assembly has a general mandate for new law-making, but it has not engaged in major treaty making for some time. The International Law Commission (ILC), charged with codification and progressive development of international law, has not in recent years dealt with topics that are ...
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Prevention and control of epidemic kerato-conjunctivitis in a teaching eye institute

Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 1999
To determine if an ongoing infection control program is associated with a reduction in rates of nosocomial outbreaks of epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) and outbreak morbidity from nosocomial EKC in a large teaching eye institute.The number of nosocomial EKC outbreaks, the number of affected patients, and the total number of patient visits were ...
J D, Gottsch   +7 more
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Preventing Asthma Epidemics Due to Soybeans by Dust-Control Measures

New England Journal of Medicine, 1993
The inhalation of soybean dust released during the unloading of soybeans into a silo caused outbreaks of asthma in Barcelona, Spain. This study was designed to determine morbidity due to asthma and serum IgE reactivity before and after the installation of filters in the silo.We measured soybean-allergen concentrations in 136 samples of air collected ...
Josep M. Anto   +10 more
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Optimal Control of Drug Epidemics: Prevent and Treat—But Not at the Same Time?

Management Science, 2000
Drug use and related problems change substantially over time, so it seems plausible that drug interventions should vary too. To investigate this possibility, we set up a continuous time version of the first-order difference equation model of cocaine use introduced by Everingham and Rydell (1994), extended to make initiation an endogenous function of ...
Doris A. Behrens   +3 more
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Optimization methods for decision making in disease prevention and epidemic control

Mathematical Biosciences, 2013
This paper investigates problems of disease prevention and epidemic control (DPEC), in which we optimize two sets of decisions: (i) vaccinating individuals and (ii) closing locations, given respective budgets with the goal of minimizing the expected number of infected individuals after intervention.
Deng, Yan   +2 more
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Designing the intelligent epidemic control robot control system for epidemic prevention and control

2022 IEEE Conference on Telecommunications, Optics and Computer Science (TOCS), 2022
Shuhan Wang, Mingliang Xie, Ji Feng
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