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Nutrients, 2023 Anorexia nervosa is associated with a significant risk of morbidity and mortality. In clinical practice, health risk is assessed and estimated using routinely collected laboratory data. This study will develop a risk score using clinically relevant laboratory parameters.
Ulrich Cuntz +2 more
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Risk Communication in Health [PDF]
, 2012 Policy makers, health professionals, and patients have to understand health statistics to make informed medical decisions. However, health messages often follow a persuasive rather than an informative approach and undermine the idea of informed decisionmaking. The current practice of health risk communication is often biased: Risks are communicated one
Bodemer, Nicolai, Gaissmaier, Wolfgang
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Health risks at the Hajj [PDF]
The Lancet, 2006 Annually, millions of Muslims embark on a religious pilgrimage called the "Hajj" to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The mass migration during the Hajj is unparalleled in scale, and pilgrims face numerous health hazards. The extreme congestion of people and vehicles during this time amplifies health risks, such as those from infectious diseases, that vary each ...
Ahmed, Qanta A +2 more
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Plastics and Health Risks [PDF]
Annual Review of Public Health, 2010 By 2010, the worldwide annual production of plastics will surpass 300 million tons. Plastics are indispensable materials in modern society, and many products manufactured from plastics are a boon to public health (e.g., disposable syringes, intravenous bags). However, plastics also pose health risks.
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Annals of Ibadan Postgraduate Medicine, 2011 Obesity is becoming of interest as a non-communicable disease. There is however a dearth of information on obesity in this environment, as literature in developing countries is limited. Review of health risks of obesity is useful in order to increase the pool of available information in Nigeria and to draw attention to obesity and its attendant health ...
Ogunbode, AM +2 more
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Communicating health risk [PDF]
Occupational Medicine, 1999 Health risk communication is a two way interactive process that involves the exchange of information among interested parties about the nature, magnitude, significance, or control of a risk. Although it has only recently become a topic for scientific research, much has been learned in relation to the strategies and the techniques that contribute to ...
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Mitochondrial DNA. Part B. Resources, 2023 Water flea Ceriodaphnia dubia has been widely used for risk assessments of chemicals and environmental contamination. In this study, the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of this species NIES strain was determined using short-read high ...
Kyoshiro Hiki +5 more
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Decision analysis support for evaluating transmission risk of COVID-19 in places where people gather
Canada Communicable Disease Report, 2021 Background: The coronavirus diseases 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has presented an unprecedented public health challenge. Prior to vaccination, non-pharmaceutical interventions, including closures, were necessary to help control the epidemic.
Valerie Hongoh +7 more
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Globalization and risks to health [PDF]
The EMBO Reports, 2004 As borders disappear, people and goods are increasingly free to move, creating new challenges to global health. These cannot be met by national governments alone but must be dealt with instead by international organizations and ...
Pang, Tikki, Guindon, G. Emmanuel
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Parasites & Vectors, 2018 Background Zika virus (ZIKV) spread rapidly in the Americas in 2015. Targeting effective public health interventions for inhabitants of, and travellers to and from, affected countries depends on understanding the risk of ZIKV emergence (and re-emergence)
Erin E. Rees +4 more
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