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A scoping review of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health promotion programs focused on modifying chronic disease risk factors

open access: yesHealth Promotion Journal of Australia, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 46-74, January 2021., 2021
Abstract Issue addressed Noncommunicable chronic disease underlies much of the life expectancy gap experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Modifying contributing risk factors; tobacco smoking, nutrition, alcohol consumption, physical activity, social and emotional wellbeing (SNAPS) could help close this disease gap.
Karla J. Canuto   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

O método holmesiano de investigação e sua herança na ficção televisiva: os casos de Sherlock e The good wife

open access: yesLumina, 2016
A partir da constatação do método científico e da filosofia de ação propostos por Arthur Conan Doyle para seu detetive Sherlock Holmes, questiona-se a ocorrência desses elementos na ficção televisiva contemporânea. Estabelece-se um paralelo entre a série
Renato Luiz Pucci Junior   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A framework for operationalising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data sovereignty in Australia: Results of a systematic literature review of published studies

open access: yesEClinicalMedicine, 2022
Summary: Background: Racial health disparities are only likely to be meaningfully improved by tailoring public health and clinical interventions to the specific needs of Indigenous people and their communities.
Skye Trudgett   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plant tissue analysis as a tool for predicting fertiliser needs for low cyanogenic glucoside levels in cassava roots: An assessment of its possible use.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
The use of plant tissue analysis as a tool for attaining low cyanogenic glucoside levels in cassava roots, has hardly been investigated. Just as the quality of crops is improved through the use of plant tissue analysis, the same can probably be done to ...
Matema L E Imakumbili   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Visions of civil war and genocide in fiction from Rwanda [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
On October 1, 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Army invaded Rwanda from Uganda, thereby launching a civil war that was to last until the end of the 1994 genocide.
Hitchcott, Nicki
core   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitudes and practices on Schistosomiasis in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review

open access: yesBMC Infectious Diseases, 2018
Background Schistosomiasis remains a global health problem with an estimated 250 million people in 78 countries infected, of whom 85% live in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Hlengiwe Sacolo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enablers and hindrances to health promotion and disease prevention practices among healthcare workers in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa

open access: yesPreventive Medicine Reports, 2021
Health promotion (HP) and disease prevention (DP) practices among healthcare workers (HCWs) are key to achieving universal health coverage. This study identified HP and DP enablers and hindrances and compared them at different healthcare levels in Nelson
Herbert I. Melariri   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Africa’s challenged ENT services: highlighting challenges in Zambia

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Diseases of the ear, nose and throat (ENT) are common and are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. In many low income countries like Zambia, the high ENT disease burden has not received the required resources for treatment.
Lufunda Lukama   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of temperature on the Bulinus globosus — Schistosoma haematobium system

open access: yesInfectious Diseases of Poverty, 2017
Background Given that increase in temperature may alter host-parasite relationships, the anticipated rise in temperature due to global warming might change transmission patterns of certain diseases.
Chester Kalinda   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rapid adaptation of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans to changing temperature

open access: yesEvolutionary Applications, Volume 13, Issue 4, Page 768-780, April 2020., 2020
Abstract Temperature plays a multidimensional role in host–pathogen interactions. As an important element of climate change, elevated world temperature resulting from global warming presents new challenges to sustainable disease management. Knowledge of pathogen adaptation to global warming is needed to predict future disease epidemiology and formulate
E‐Jiao Wu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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