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Delaying the international spread of pandemic influenza. [PDF]

, 2006
BACKGROUND: The recent emergence of hypervirulent subtypes of avian influenza has underlined the potentially devastating effects of pandemic influenza.
Pitman, Richard J, Cooper, Ben, Edmunds, WJ, Richard J Pitman, Cooper Ben S, Cooper, BS, Ben S Cooper, Cooper, Ben S, Gay, NJ, Gay Nigel J, Gay, Nigel J, Pitman Richard J, Edmunds, W John, Pitman, RJ, Edmunds W. John, Nigel J Gay, W John Edmunds   +16 more
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Strengthening pathogen genomic surveillance for health emergencies: insights from the World Health Organization’s regional initiatives

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a rapid scale-up in the use of genomic surveillance as a pandemic preparedness and response tool. As a result, the number of countries with in-country SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequencing capability increased by 40 ...
Oluwatosin Wuraola Akande, Lisa L. Carter, Abdinasir Abubakar, Rachel Achilla, Amal Barakat, Nicksy Gumede, Alina Guseinova, Francis Yesurajan Inbanathan, Masaya Kato, Etien Koua, Juliana Leite, Marco Marklewitz, Jairo Mendez-Rico, Chavely Monamele, Biran Musul, Karen Nahapetyan, Dhamari Naidoo, Rachel Ochola, Mehmet Ozel, Philomena Raftery, Andrea Vicari, Pushpa Ranjan Wijesinghe, Joanna Zwetyenga, Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Céline Barnadas, Mick Mulders, Dmitriy I. Pereyaslov, Jilian A. Sacks, Taylor Warren, Sébastien Cognat, Sylvie Briand, Gina Samaan   +31 more
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Public preferences for vaccination and antiviral medicines under different pandemic flu outbreak scenarios. [PDF]

, 2015
During the 2009-2010 A(H1N1) pandemic, many people did not seek care quickly enough, failed to take a full course of antivirals despite being authorised to receive them, and were not vaccinated.
Yardley, Lucy, Susan Michie, Afrodita Marcu, Marcu, A, Michie, S, Rubinstein, H, Rubinstein, Helena, Michie, Susan, Lucy Yardley, Helena Rubinstein, Marcu, Afrodita, Yardley, L   +11 more
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Reconceptualizing successful pandemic preparedness and response: A feminist perspective

, 2022
Pandemic preparedness and COVID-19 response indicators focus on public health outcomes (such as infections, case fatalities, and vaccination rates), health system capacity, and/or the effects of the pandemic on the economy, yet this avoids more political
Davies, Sara E., Smith, Julia, Herten-Crabb, A, Harman, Sophie, Murage, Alice, Davies, SE, Morgan, R, Morgan, Rosemary, Grepin, KA, Herten-Crabb, Asha, Grépin, Karen A., Wenham, Clare, Smith, J, Wenham, C, Murage, A, Harman, S   +15 more
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Causal systems mapping to promote healthy living for pandemic preparedness: a call to action for global public health. [PDF]

, 2022
COVID-19 has severely impacted population health and well-being globally. Acknowledging that COVID-19 will not be the world's last pandemic, improving healthy living factors (i.e., physical activity, healthful nutrition, healthy weight), which are ...
Faghy, Mark, Pronk, Nicolaas P
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Integral Scientific Advice for Outbreak Response: Lessons learned from an Avian Influenza Simulation in the Netherlands

International Journal of Infectious Diseases
Background: The continuing avian influenza outbreaks in animals pose a public health threat worldwide. Concerns about the risk for humans are raising, now we see spread among different mammal species and animal to human transmission.
Dr Anja Schreijer, Dr. Femke Overbosch, Dr. Tomris Cesuroglu, Dr Charlotte Waltz, Drs. Bart Blokland, Drs Jeanette de Boer, Drs Tim Florschutz   +6 more
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Is female genital mutilation/cutting associated with adverse mental health consequences? A systematic review of the evidence

BMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction The adverse physical consequences of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) have been thoroughly investigated and documented. Yet, we know little about the adverse mental health consequences of the practice.
Sandro Galea, Salma M Abdalla
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Mental health consequences of COVID-19: a nationally representative cross-sectional study of pandemic-related stressors and anxiety disorders in the USA

BMJ Open, 2021
Objective To document the prevalence of anxiety disorders in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design A cross-sectional analysis.Setting A nationally representative sample in the USA between 31 March and 13 April 2020.Participants 1450 English ...
Sandro Galea, Salma M Abdalla, Catherine K Ettman, Gregory H Cohen   +3 more
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Pre-admission statin use and in-hospital severity of 2009 pandemic influenza A(H1N1) disease [PDF]

, 2011
In this group of patients hospitalized with pandemic influenza, a significant beneficial effect of pre-admission statin use on the in-hospital course of illness was not identified.
Brett, Stephen J., Semple, Malcolm G., Openshaw, Peter J. M., Semple, MG, Lim, Wei Shen, Bruce L Taylor, Puja Myles, Read, Robert C., Read, RC, McMenamin, J, Joanne E Enstone, Enstone, JE, McMenamin, Jim, Bruce L. Taylor, Nicholson, KG, Joanne E. Enstone, Jonathan S. Nguyen-Van-Tam, Myles, P, Malcolm G. Semple, Malcolm G Semple, Jim McMenamin, Lim, WS, Taylor, BL, Bannister, Barbara, Nguyen-Van-Tam, Jonathan S., Stephen J Brett, Peter J M Openshaw, Stephen J. Brett, Barbara Bannister, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Brett, SJ, Peter J. M. Openshaw, Karl G. Nicholson, Influenza Clinical Information Network (FLU-CIN), Nguyen-Van-Tam, JS, Taylor, Bruce L., Robert C. Read, Karl G Nicholson, Wei Shen Lim, null null, Enstone, Joanne E., Nicholson, Karl G., Openshaw, PJM, Robert C Read, Myles, Puja, Bannister, B   +45 more
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Pandemic preparedness and cooperative justice [PDF]

Developing World Bioethics, 2020
AbstractBy examining the global public good nature of pandemic preparedness we can identify key social justice issues that need to be confronted to increase citizens’ voluntary compliance with prevention and mitigation measures. As people tend to cooperate on a voluntary basis only with systems they consider fair, it becomes difficult to ensure ...
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