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Trends in age at menarche and adult height in selected African countries (1950–1980)
Annals of Human Biology, 2020 Background: The mean age at menarche remains poorly documented in Africa. Aim: To document levels, trends, and determinants of mean age at menarche in selected African populations.
Michel Garenne
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Climate change and health transitions: Evidence from Antananarivo, Madagascar [PDF]
Demographic ResearchBACKGROUND: Global climate change poses grave risks to population health, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It both threatens the sustainability of nascent epidemiological transitions and raises prospects for counter transitions ...
Jordan Klein +1 more
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2011 In February, 2008, the South Eastern Sydney Illawarra Public Health Unit investigated an outbreak of cryptosporidiosis within the south east region of Sydney, Australia.
Darren J. Mayne +5 more
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Mortality in Russia: the second epidemiological revolution that never was
Демографическое обозрение, 2017 The article looks at different approaches to the conceptualization of the modern stage of mortality reduction (the "new stages” of the epidemiological transition, "the second epidemiological revolution”, the “health transition”).
Anatoly Vishnevsky
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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
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Posibles efectos en la salud asociados con la metalurgia precolombina.
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2005 En el Viejo Mundo algunos investigadores piensan que los efectos adversos en la salud relacionados con la exposición a arsénico influyeron para que se cambiara de usar aleaciones de cobre con arsénico a otras menos tóxicas.
Alvaro Javier Idrovo
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Facilitating an early career transition pathway to community nursing: A Delphi Policy Study
Nursing Open, 2020 Aim To further develop and validate a new model of the early career transition pathway in the speciality of community nursing. Design Delphi policy approach, guided by a previous systematic review and semi‐structured interviews. Methods Four rounds of an
Diane Chamberlain +8 more
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Aktualʹnì Pitannâ Farmacevtičnoï ì Medičnoï Nauki ta Praktiki, 2018 Objective. To study the dynamics of incidence and mortality from thyroid cancer in Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia region in the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Materials and methods.
O. M. Sydorenko +2 more
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Urban-rural differentials in Latin American infant mortality
Demographic Research, 2020 Background: Infant mortality in Latin America has declined dramatically over the past six decades. The health transition in the region began in the main cities and has tended to proceed more rapidly in countries with higher levels of urbanization ...
Jenny Garcia
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International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2021 Background: The aim of the present study was assessing the changes in Iranian household food basket. The Households Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data of 717,432 of Iranian households from 1991 to 2017 were used in this repeated cross-sectional ...
Seyyed Reza Sobhani +2 more
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