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A competing risk model for health and food insecurity in the West Bank [PDF]
, 2010 This paper explores the interactions between the risk of food insecurity and the decision to health insure in the Palestinian Territories. The risk of adverse health conditions is insurable; the risk of food insecurity is a background risk and no market ...
Cavatorta, Elisa, Pieroni, L.
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Applied Water Science, 2020 Heavy metals are potential health risk, especially in mining sites where they deteriorate from sulfide-rich ore bodies. Lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury are very carcinogenic, while others are toxic.
P. Obasi, B. Akudinobi
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Evaluating health risk models [PDF]
Statistics in Medicine, 2010 AbstractInterest in targeted disease prevention has stimulated development of models that assign risks to individuals, using their personal covariates. We need to evaluate these models and quantify the gains achieved by expanding a model to include additional covariates.
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Blood Sugar, Your Pancreas, and Unicorns: The Development of Health Education Materials for Youth With Prediabetes [PDF]
, 2018 Background. The obesity epidemic has led to an increase in prediabetes in youth, causing a serious public health concern. Education on diabetes risk and initiation of lifestyle change are the primary treatment modalities.
Haberlin, Kathryn +6 more
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Chromium Pollution in European Water, Sources, Health Risk, and Remediation Strategies: An Overview
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020 Chromium is a potentially toxic metal occurring in water and groundwater as a result of natural and anthropogenic sources. Microbial interaction with mafic and ultramafic rocks together with geogenic processes release Cr (VI) in natural environment by ...
Marina Tumolo +6 more
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Risk Factors For Multiple Sclerosis In Volyn Region (Ukraine) [PDF]
, 2016 The prevalence rate of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Volyn Region (101.0 per 100000) is the highest in Ukraine. To study MS risk factors in Volyn Region, special questionnaires were distributed among all MS patients residing in Volyn region.
Bobryk, N. (Nataliia) +1 more
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Nature Communications, 2020 More than half of the world’s population currently live in urban areas and are particularly at risk from the combined effects of the urban heat island phenomenon and heat increases due to climate change. Here, by using remotely sensed surface temperature
R. Estoque +6 more
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BMC Geriatrics, 2022 Background Little is known about the incidence of clinical events and treatment patterns among older adults with dementia-related psychosis. Given that dementia-related psychosis comprises various dementia types, this study describes the incidence of ...
Joan Forns +7 more
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COVID-19 Confinement and Health Risk Behaviors in Spain
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a world pandemic due to COVID-19. In response, most affected countries have enacted measures involving compulsory confinement and restrictions on free movement, which likely influence citizens' lifestyles.
R. López‐Bueno +7 more
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Safety Recommendations for Evaluation and Surgery of the Head and Neck During the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]
, 2020 Importance The rapidly expanding novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has challenged the medical community to an unprecedented degree.
Chinn, Steven B. +13 more
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