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Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Infectious Disease Epidemiology. [PDF]

, 2019
Much of the intellectual tradition of modern epidemiology stems from efforts to understand and combat chronic diseases persisting through the 20th century epidemiologic transition of countries such as the United States and United Kingdom.
Lewnard, Joseph A, Reingold, Arthur L
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Técnicas de análise de sobrevida

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
As técnicas estatísticas conhecidas como análise de sobrevida são utilizadas quando se pretende analisar um fenômeno em relação a um período de tempo, isto é, ao tempo transcorrido entre um evento inicial, no qual um sujeito ou um objeto entra em um ...
Maria Teresa Bustamante-Teixeira, Eduardo Faerstein, Maria do Rosário Latorre   +2 more
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Development of Multi-Locus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis for Outbreak Detection of Neisseria meningitidis [PDF]

, 2006
Neisseria meningitidis is a major cause of septicemia and meningitis worldwide. Traditional typing methods like pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for identifying outbreaks are subjective and time consuming.
Price, Alicia Anne
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Access to HIV Prevention: Closing the Gap [PDF]

, 2003
Provides a region-by-region analysis of intervention gaps, examines current spending levels versus projected need, and recommends funding and programmatic activities to avert 29 million of the 45 million new HIV infections projected between 2002 and ...

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Global aging: emerging challenges [PDF]

, 2009
This repository item contains a single issue of The Pardee Papers, a series papers that began publishing in 2008 by the Boston University Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future.
Crampton, Alexandra
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Relaxation Penalties and Priors for Plausible Modeling of Nonidentified Bias Sources

, 2010
In designed experiments and surveys, known laws or design feat ures provide checks on the most relevant aspects of a model and identify the target parameters. In contrast, in most observational studies in the health and social sciences, the primary study
Greenland, Sander
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Epidemiología y atención primaria de salud

Revista Cubana de Higiene y Epidemiología
Se analiza el desarrollo de la estrategia de la atención primaria de salud (APS) y de la epidemiología, con la definición de los campos comunes de actuación. Se precisa la importancia de la transferencia de tecnología en el desarrollo y funcionamiento de
Nelly Cristina Valdivia Onega
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Differential trends in the compression of mortality: Assessing the antecedents to current gaps in health expectancy in New Zealand [PDF]

, 2009
Health Expectancies (HEs) for New Zealand show significant differentials between Maori and non-Maori, but also by gender and period. These differentials correlate with findings from both generation and synthetic life-tables relating to New Zealand’s ...
Amey, Ben, Boddington, Bill, Cheung, Jit, Didham, Robert, Pool, Ian   +4 more
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Epidemiological Studies in Japan

Journal of Epidemiology, 1996
The present article provides an overview of epidemiological studies in Japan. The origin of modern epidemiology of Japan can be traced back into the late 19th century. Baron K. Takaki at that time made brilliant epidemiological studies on beriberi and was thus able to eradicate the disease long before vitamin B1 deficiency was identified as the cause ...
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Ensaios clínicos pragmáticos: uma opção na construção de evidências em saúde

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Os autores apresentam e discutem o potencial dos ensaios clínicos pragmáticos como uma alternativa aos ensaios clínicos explanatórios e aos estudos observacionais (Ex.: coorte, caso-controle) para obtenção de evidências que justifiquem o uso de ...
Evandro da Silva Freire Coutinho, Gisele Huf, Katia Vergetti Bloch   +2 more
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