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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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Development of Sensitive and Reliable UPLC-MS/MS Methods for Food Analysis of Emerging Mycotoxins in China Total Diet Study

Toxins, 2019
With the climatic changes that have taken place during the last decade, the spectrum of fungal pathogens as well as mycotoxins has considerably changed.
Danlei Sun, Nannan Qiu, Shuang Zhou, Bing Lyu, Shuo Zhang, Jingguang Li, Yunfeng Zhao, Yongning Wu   +7 more
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Risk factors for incidence and persistence of disability in chronic major depression and alcohol use disorders: longitudinal analyses of a population-based study [PDF]

, 2014
BackgroundMajor depression and alcohol use disorders are risk factors for incidence of disability. However, it is still unclear whether a chronic course of these health conditions is also prospectively associated with incidence of disability.
Ayuso-Mateos, J., Caballero, F., Cabello, M., Chatterji, S., Cieza, A.   +4 more
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Health Risks of Obesity

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, Fatiregun, AA, Ogunbode, OO   +2 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
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Contamination and antibiotic resistance of multiple pathogens in raw milk from different farms of different regions of China in 2019

Zhongguo shipin weisheng zazhi, 2021
ObjectiveTo understand the contamination of pathogens and the antibiotics resistance characterization in raw milk in China.MethodsA total of 53 raw milk samples collected from 43 pastures in different regions in China from September to November in 2019 ...
GAN Xin, LI Menghan, YAN Shaofei, SUN Xihe, XU Jin   +4 more
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Quantitative Health Risk Assessment [PDF]

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 2003
This issue of the NSW Public Health Bulletin focuses on the application of quantitative health risk assessment in public health decision-making. Over the last decade, these assessments have become a common currency for government, industry, and public health officials. Risk assessment, however, is not a value-free science.
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
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Direct and indirect effects of smoking during pregnancy on child development: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Scientific Reports
Maternal smoking during pregnancy is known to have an adverse impact on child development. This study aimed to elucidate whether maternal smoking during pregnancy has a direct adverse effect on the child development or whether it exerts an indirect ...
Nozomi Tatsuta, Kunihiko Nakai, Makiko Sekiyama, Yu Taniguchi, Miyuki Iwai-Shimada, Mai Takagi, Yayoi Kobayashi, Tomohiko Isobe, Shoji F. Nakayama, Shin Yamazaki, The Japan Environment and Children’s Study Group   +10 more
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Risk attitudes in medical decisions for others: an experimental approach [PDF]

, 2017
The aim of this paper is to investigate how risk attitudes in medical decisions for others vary across health contexts. A lab experiment was designed to elicit the risk attitudes of 257 medical and nonmedical students by assigning them the role of a ...
Abdellaoui, Abdellaoui, Andersen, Andersen, Anderson, Andersson, Attema, Attema, Bardsley, Barseghyan, Bleichrodt, Bleichrodt, Brosig-Koch, Buckley, Butler, Byrnes, Camerer, Chakravarty, Charness, Dohmen, Dyer, Einav, Eriksen, Farquhar, Filippin, Fischbacher, Galizzi, Galizzi, Garcia-Retamero, Godager, Hanoch, Harrison, Harrison, Harrison, Harrison, Hennig-Schmidt, Hertwig, Holt, Holt, Holt, Jagsi, Kahneman, Kessler, Loomes, Lusk, Lévy-Garboua, MacCrimmon, Massin, Mehrez, Michel-Lepage, Müller, Nightingale, Reynolds, Ruggeri, Schosser, Schram, Sommers, Sutter, Ubel, Van der Pol, Verhoef, Weber   +61 more
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