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The influence of medical and geographical factors on the appearance and development of allergic rhinitis and eczema among school children in Belgrade [PDF]
Glasnik Srpskog Geografskog Društva, 2014 Allergic rhinitis and eczema represent ailments which are increasingly linked with urban areas. Although they do not belong to illnesses which are predominantly caused by geographical factors, their importance for the development of these ...
Topalović Sanja
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Medical geography: has J.M. May borrowed M. Sorre's 1933 concept of pathogenic complexes?
Cybergeo, 2003 The conceptual and methodological framework of modern medical geography began in 1950s with the publication of the paper by J.M. May entitled: « Medical Geography: Its Methods and Objectives », in 1950 in The Geographical Review.
Rais Akhtar
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2023 IntroductionPhysical and non-physical processes that occur in nature may influence biological processes, such as dissemination of infectious diseases. However, such processes may be hard to detect when they are complex systems.
A. L. Hoogesteyn +6 more
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2006 This article traces the travels of the Scottish physician Archibald Smith through the Peruvian Andes between the 1820s and 1860s. Despite his prominent role in the nineteenth-century Peruvian medical scene, almost nothing has been written on Archibald ...
Jorge Lossio
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Journal of Infection and Public Health, 2020 Objective: This study retrospectively examined the health and social determinants of the COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries from a spatial epidemiological approach. Methods: We used spatial analysis to examine the cross-national determinants of confirmed
Ayodeji Emmanuel Iyanda +7 more
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte +5 more
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Tuberculosis Infection Risk Areas in a Big Urban Center: Boundaries, Objects, Parameters, and Models
Туберкулез и болезни лёгкихThe objective: to build up models for the areas of infectious risk of tuberculosis spread in a big urban center, to evaluate the presence of objects and parameters influencing the probability of development of tuberculosis infection nudi.Subjects and ...
I. A. Bozhkov +4 more
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2004 Este artigo recupera as concepções de espaço incorporadas pela saúde pública entre final do século XVIII e meados do XX. É proposta uma padronização, com base na produção intelectual da área, iniciando-se com a apresentação da obra de Finke (1792 ...
Aylene Bousquat, Amélia Cohn
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background An earlier study on children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya reported a low event‐free survival (EFS), excess treatment abandonment, and high induction mortality.
Gilbert Olbara +7 more
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História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2007 Durante o século XIX, a medicina passou por inúmeras mudanças em seus postulados etiológicos. À geografia médica, disciplina diretamente ligada aos interesses da empresa colonialista européia, coube o mapeamento das doenças em variadas partes do globo ...
Rosa Helena de Santana Girão de Morais
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