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Home Environmental Health Risks

OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, 2007
Home environmental health risks and the pollution of indoor residential air are becoming increasingly recognized as sources of injury and exacerbation of illness, particularly in vulnerable populations such as pregnant women, infants, children, the elderly, and those living with a chronic medical condition or disability.
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor, Flora Hoodin, Michelle Byrd, Kristin A. Kullgren, Leah LaLonde, Lauren Benkoske, Patrick Smith, Dawn Carson, Karen MacDonald, Susumu Inoue, Brenda Kitchen, Kate Gowans, Gregory A. Yanik   +12 more
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Search for signals of positive selection of circadian rhythm genes PER1, PER2, PER3 in different human populations

Вавиловский журнал генетики и селекции
The diversity of geographically distributed human populations shows considerable variation in external and internal traits of individuals. Such differences are largely attributed to genetic adaptation to various environmental influences, which include ...
A. I. Mishina, S. Y. Bakoev, A. Y. Oorzhak, A. A. Keskinov, Sh. Sh. Kabieva, A. V. Korobeinikova, V. S. Yudin, M. M. Bobrova, D. A. Shestakov, V. V. Makarov, L. V. Getmantseva   +10 more
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Health Information and the Choice of Fish Species: An Experiment Measuring the Impact of Risk and Benefit Information, April 2006 [PDF]

, 2006
An experiment was conducted in France to evaluate the impact of health information on consumers’ choice between two different types of fish. Successive messages revealing risks (methylmercury) and benefits (omega-3s) of consuming the fish, along with ...

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Radiotherapy Delivery in Deep Inspiration for Pediatric Patients—Final Results of the Phase II Feasibility Study TEDDI

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction The TEDDI trial tested the feasibility and reproducibility of deep‐inspiration breath‐hold (DIBH) in pediatric patients referred for radiotherapy. This report presents final results, including patient‐reported outcomes (PRO) and dosimetric comparison of DIBH and free‐breathing (FB).
Daniella Elisabet Østergaard, Anni Young Lundgaard, Laura Ann Rechner, Danijela Dejanovic, Hanne Krogh Rose, Jolanta Hansen, Leila Vaalavirta, Miia Mokka, Marianne Aznar, Peder Skov Wehner, Lisa Lyngsie Hjalgrim, Maja Vestmø Maraldo   +11 more
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Risk Assessment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Concept of Sustainable Risk [PDF]

, 1997
Dr. Mehta examines two dominant approaches for managing health and environmental risks and suggests that they would better serve if ...
Mehta, Michael D.
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Valuation of Health Risks [PDF]

, 2019
Many public policies and individual actions have consequences for population health. To understand whether a (costly) policy undertaken to improve population health is a wise use of resources, analysts can use economic evaluation methods to assess the costs and benefits.
Andersson, H., Hole, A.R., Svensson, M.
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
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Measuring inequalities in the public health workforce at county-level Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in China

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
Background The public health workforce (PHW) is a key component of a country’s public health system. Since the outbreak of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) in 2003, the scale of PHW in China has been continuously expanding, but policymakers and ...
Weiqin Cai, Chengyue Li, Mei Sun, Mo Hao
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A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd, Melissa Taylor, Helen Fulbright, Bob Phillips   +3 more
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