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Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, EarlyView.Abstract There is increasing concern regarding pollutants disrupting the vertebrate thyroid hormone (TH) system, which is crucial for development. Thus, identification of TH system–disrupting chemicals (THSDCs) is an important requirement in the Organisation for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) testing framework.
Lisa Gölz +9 more
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Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, EarlyView.Abstract Efforts to use transcriptomics for toxicity testing have classically relied on the assumption that chemicals consistently produce characteristic transcriptomic signatures that are reflective of their mechanism of action. However, the degree to which transcriptomic responses are conserved across different test methodologies has seldom been ...
Paul Béziers +10 more
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World War II and population change in the Maltese context [PDF]
, 2009 Warfare is associated with marked social consequences that directly and indirectly will influence the reproductive patterns of the population. The present analysis looks that the population changes that occurred during the Second World War (1939-1945 ...
Savona-Ventura, Charles
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Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Evidence on the relationship between public health expenditure and health is mixed and particularly scarce for low‐income countries. Existing studies overlook the subnational distribution of expenditure and rarely distinguish between sources and governance over funding.
Eliana Chavarría‐Pino +3 more
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Effect of Austerity Measures on Infant Mortality: Evidence From Greece
Health Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Governments frequently adopt austerity policies when facing economic crises, yet their long‐term consequences for population health remain incompletely understood. This paper examines the impact of large‐scale fiscal austerity on infant mortality by exploiting the Troika‐led economic adjustment program implemented in Greece beginning in 2010 ...
Robert J. Kolesar, Rok Spruk
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Maternal mortality – a public health problem
IMC Journal of Medical Science, 2012 Maternal mortality is an important indicator which reflects the health status of a community. It can be calculated by maternal mortality ratio (MMR), maternal mortality rate (MMRate), and adult life time risk of maternal death. MMR estimates are based on
Sonia Shirin, Shamsun Nahar
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The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rising numbers of refugees, prolonged displacement and reduced funding have led to challenges in terms of how to address their healthcare needs, with different approaches taken, ranging from parallel mechanisms to arrangements that are integrated (to different extents) within the national health system. Increasingly, global frameworks call for
Maria Paola Bertone +13 more
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Cultural Factors Contributing to Maternal Mortality Rate in Rural Villages of Limpopo, South Africa [Letter]. [PDF]
Int J Womens Health, 2020 Lestari I, Frilasari H, Nugroho HSW.
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Research progress on the role of inflammatory mediators in the pathogenesis of epilepsy
Ibrain, Volume 11, Issue 1, Page 44-58, Spring 2025.In the central nervous system, activated immune cells lead to the overproduction of inflammatory mediators through the corresponding signal pathway. Under the stimulation of inflammatory factors, neuroinflammation ultimately occurs. Overexpression of inflammatory mediators and activated immunocytes plays an important role in the emergence and ...
Yue Yu, Fei‐Ji Sun
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Improving neonatal health in Nepal: Major challenges to achieving millennium development goal 4 [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Globally, more than 40% of all under-five child deaths occur during the neonatal period. Neonatal mortality in Nepal is 33 per 1,000 live births, eight times that of developed regions.
Joshi, R. +2 more
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