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The Maturation of the International Health Crisis Response: The Polish Typhus Epidemic of 1916–1923 Compared to the African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic of 2013–2016: Part I, the Polish Epidemic [PDF]
EpidemiologiaPoland suffered an epidemic of louse-borne typhus from 1916–1923, with 400,000 cases and more than 130,000 deaths. The causative factors were depressed economic conditions and a refugee crisis that engulfed Poland after World War I.
Gregory M. Anstead
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American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1929 Frank G. Boudreau
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Global health security and the International Health Regulations [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2010 Global nuclear proliferation, bioterrorism, and emerging infections have challenged national capacities to achieve and maintain global security. Over the last century, emerging infectious disease threats resulted in the development of the preliminary ...
Oliva Otavio +3 more
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Regional cooperation and health diplomacy in Africa: from intra-colonial exchanges to multilateral health institutions [PDF]
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2020 Tracing the pathways of cooperation in health in sub-Saharan Africa from hesitant exchanges to institutionalized dimensions from the 1920s to the early 1960s, this article addresses regional dynamics in health diplomacy which have so far been under ...
Philip J. Havik
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The World Health Organization’s changing goals and expectations concerning malaria, 1948-2019 [PDF]
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2020 From its inception, in 1948, the World Health Organization made control of malaria a high priority. Early successes led many to believe that eradication was possible, although there were serious doubts concerning the continent of Africa.
Socrates Litsios
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 IntroductionIn this study, we developed a simplified artificial intelligence to support the clinical decision-making of medical personnel in a resource-limited setting.MethodsWe selected seven infectious disease categories that impose a heavy disease ...
Kwanghyun Kim +7 more
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WHO International Health Regulations Emergency Committee for the COVID-19 outbreak
Epidemiology and Health, 2020 To discuss whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak constitutes a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC), World Health Organization (WHO) organized the 15-member International Health Regulations Emergency Committee (EC).
Y. Jee
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Global Health Curricula in Ophthalmology Residency Programs in the United States
Journal of Academic Ophthalmology, 2021 Objective The aim of the study is to investigate the design, content, and administration of global health curricula within ophthalmology residency programs in the United States (U.S.) and share the curriculum utilized in the Department of Ophthalmology ...
Momoko K. Ponsetto +3 more
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BMJ Global Health, 2020 Introduction Nine events have been assessed for potential declaration of a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). A PHEIC is defined as an extraordinary event that constitutes a public health risk to other states through international ...
Lucia Mullen +4 more
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Contemporary Security Policy, 2020 It is often said that “diseases know no borders,” but COVID-19 has once again shown that policy responses certainly do. Governments have implemented bordering practices in a variety of ways to ensure that their own citizens are protected, even when in ...
Adam Ferhani, Simon Rushton
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