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Feminist Geopolitics: Material States [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
No abstract ...
Clark, Nigel   +4 more
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British medicine in the Peruvian Andes: the travels of Archibald Smith M.D. (1820-1870) Medicina britânica nos Andes peruanos: as viagens do médico Archibald Smith (1820-1870)

open access: yesHistória, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Medical geography and its contribution to the aetiology of rare systemic connective tissue diseases : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Geography at Massey University [PDF]

open access: yes, 1975
This thesis is in two interrelated parts. Part One traced the historical development of medical geography since the idea of applying a geographical perspective to medical problems was first mooted in 4 B.C.
Borman, Graham Barry
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Changes in Body Composition in Children and Young People Undergoing Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A retrospective cross-national examination of COVID-19 outbreak in 175 countries: a multiscale geographically weighted regression analysis (January 11-June 28, 2020)

open access: yesJournal 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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On making disability in rural places more visible: challenges and opportunities [Introduction to a special issue] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
This essay prefaces a special issue of the Journal of Rural Studies (JRS) concerned with a sub-field of inquiry that might be termed the rural geography of disability, addressing multiple dimensions of disability, physical and mental, associated with ...
Chouinard, Vera   +2 more
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Characterizing Parental Concerns About Lasting Impacts of Treatment in Children With B‐Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background B‐acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B‐ALL) is the most common pediatric cancer, and while most children in high‐resource settings are cured, therapy carries risks for long‐term toxicities. Understanding parents’ concerns about these late effects is essential to guide anticipatory support and inform evolving therapeutic approaches ...
Kellee N. Parker   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tuberculosis Infection Risk Areas in a Big Urban Center: Boundaries, Objects, Parameters, and Models

open access: yesТуберкулез и болезни лёгких
The 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
doaj   +1 more source

A dimensão espacial nos estudos sobre saúde: uma trajetória histórica The spatial dimension in health studies: a historical trajectory

open access: yesHistória, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Alexandre Yersin's explorations (1892-1894) in French Indochina before the discovery of the plague bacillus. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Alexandre Yersin, the great French discoverer of yersinia pestis, was a keen explorer of unknown lands. At the age of 30, a member of the French Colonial Health service, he set off to fulfil his intimate dream and explore other continents. For almost two
Androutsos, George   +4 more
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