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SimInf: An R package for Data-driven Stochastic Disease Spread Simulations [PDF]

, 2018
We present the R package SimInf which provides an efficient and very flexible framework to conduct data-driven epidemiological modeling in realistic large scale disease spread simulations.
Bauer, Pavol, Engblom, Stefan, Eriksson, Robin, Widgren, Stefan   +3 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changes in mortality and human longevity in Kerala: are they leading to the advanced stage?

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: During the last century, Kerala witnessed drastic mortality reduction and high improvement in longevity. This achievement is often compared with that of developed countries.
Muttikkal B. Thomas, Kuriath S. James
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiological Transition and the Phenomenon of Depression in Indonesia: a Narrative Review [PDF]

Ķazaķstannyṇ Klinikalyķ Medicinasy
Indonesia is experiencing a macro transition (i.e., socio-demographic, economic) that co-occurs with the micro transitions, including epidemiological transitions in health.
Andi Agus Mumang
doaj   +1 more source

Demographic, epidemiological, and health transitions: are they relevant to population health patterns in Africa? [PDF]

Global Health Action, 2014
Background: Studies of trends in population changes and epidemiological profiles in the developing world have overwhelmingly relied upon the concepts of demographic, epidemiological, and health transitions, even though their usefulness in describing and ...
Barthélémy Kuate Defo
doaj   +1 more source

SIR epidemics in monogamous populations with recombination

, 2011
We study the propagation of an SIR (susceptible-infectious-recovered) disease over an agent population which, at any instant, is fully divided into couples of agents. Couples are occasionally allowed to exchange their members.
Damián H. Zanette, Mikhailov, Murray
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Canalization of the evolutionary trajectory of the human influenza virus [PDF]

, 2011
Since its emergence in 1968, influenza A (H3N2) has evolved extensively in genotype and antigenic phenotype. Antigenic evolution occurs in the context of a two-dimensional 'antigenic map', while genetic evolution shows a characteristic ladder-like ...
A Kucharski, A Monto, A Park, A Rambaut, Andrew Rambaut, B Adams, B Finkelman, C Viboud, CA Russell, D Weinreich, DJ Smith, E Goldstein, E O'Dea, E Volz, F Carrat, F Tria, G Chowell, G Hirst, IG Barr, J Gog, J Lin, J O'Brien, J Truscott, J Voeten, K Koelle, K Koelle, K Koelle, K Koelle, M Recker, Mercedes Pascual, MI Nelson, NM Ferguson, R Bush, S Bhatt, S Gould, S Kryazhimskiy, S Park, T Bedford, T Bedford, Trevor Bedford, V Gupta, WM Fitch, YI Wolf, Z Yang   +43 more
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Clinical and Biological Features of Response in Resistant Neuroblastoma to 131I‐Metaiodobenzylguanidine Radiotherapy in the Anti‐GD2 Immunotherapy Era

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background 131I‐metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I‐MIBG) radiotherapy is a key treatment for relapsed and refractory (R/R) neuroblastoma (NB). Patients with R/R disease treated in the modern era are increasingly exposed to anti‐GD2 immunotherapy, which exerts selective pressure and may modify both tumor cell state and microenvironment.
Benjamin J. Lerman, Katherine K. Matthay, Fabienne Hollinger, Catriona Black, Ann A. Lazar, Miguel Pampaloni, Steven G. DuBois, Kieuhoa T. Vo   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social inequalities and cardiovascular disease in South Asians [PDF]

, 2008
The epidemiological transition provides a temporal framework for thinking about the decline of infectious disease and the rise in cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.1 In Europe, the transition began in the late 19th century with improved ...
Brunner, E., Zaman, M.J.
core  

Spreading of Persistent Infections in Heterogeneous Populations [PDF]

, 2010
Up to now, the effects of having heterogeneous networks of contacts have been studied mostly for diseases which are not persistent in time, i.e., for diseases where the infectious period can be considered very small compared to the lifetime of an ...
D. Bleed, D. J. Daley, J. D. Murray, J. Sanz, K. Styblo, K. Styblo, L. M. Floría, R. M. Anderson, T. Daniel, Y. Moreno   +9 more
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