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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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Commonwealth pandemic preparedness plans [PDF]

New South Wales Public Health Bulletin, 2006
This paper describes the work being done by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing to prepare for a possible influenza pandemic. It provides an overview of Australian Government initiatives and explains both the purpose and the content of the Australian Health Management Plan for Pandemic Influenza.
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Influence of COVID-19 on trust in routine immunization, health information sources and pandemic preparedness in 23 countries in 2023

Nature Medicine
It is unclear how great a challenge pandemic and vaccine fatigue present to public health. We assessed perspectives on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and routine immunization as well as trust in pandemic information sources and future pandemic ...
J. Lazarus, Trenton M. White, Katarzyna Wyka, S. Ratzan, Kenneth H. Rabin, H. Larson, Federico Martinón-Torres, Ernest Kuchar, S. A. Abdool Karim, Tamara Giles-Vernick, Selina Müller, Carolina Batista, N. Myburgh, Beate Kampmann, A. El-Mohandes   +14 more
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The pathogenesis of zoonotic viral infections: Lessons learned by studying reservoir hosts

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
Zoonotic viral infections that cause severe disease or even death in some people may be asymptomatic or mild in reservoir hosts. Comparison of the pathogenesis of these two host categories may potentially explain the difference in disease.
Lineke Begeman, Debby van Riel, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Marion P. G. Koopmans, Thijs Kuiken   +4 more
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Pandemic preparedness and forecast [PDF]

Nature Microbiology, 2018
Geographic mapping of pathogen emergence risk, as recently done for viral haemorrhagic fever in Africa, provides an important tool for targeting interventions. More comprehensive preparedness and prediction systems that increase surveillance and forecast infectious disease outbreak growth and spread in real time are also needed.
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Pandemic preparedness through vaccine development for avian influenza viruses

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
Influenza A viruses pose a significant threat to global health, impacting both humans and animals. Zoonotic transmission, particularly from swine and avian species, is the primary source of human influenza outbreaks.
Flavio Cargnin Faccin, Daniel R. Pérez
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Universal healthcare as pandemic preparedness: The lives and costs that could have been saved during the COVID-19 pandemic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2022
Significance The fragmented and inefficient healthcare system in the United States leads to many preventable deaths and unnecessary costs every year.
A. Galvani, Alyssa S Parpia, Abhishek Pandey, P. Sah, K. Colón, Gerald Friedman, Travis Campbell, J. Kahn, B. Singer, M. Fitzpatrick   +9 more
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The role of digital health in pandemic preparedness and response: securing global health?

Global Health Action
Background Digital health technologies, such as mobile applications, wearable devices, and electronic health record systems, have significantly enhanced global health security by enabling timely data collection and analysis, identifying infectious ...
C. Ezenwaji, E. Alum, Ugwu Okechukwu Paul-Chima   +2 more
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Characterising COVID-19 school and childcare outbreaks in Canada in 2021: a surveillance study

BMJ Public Health
Background In January 2021, the Public Health Agency of Canada launched the Canadian COVID-19 Outbreak Surveillance System to monitor outbreaks by setting. Schools and childcare centres were identified as settings of interest, as children play a key role
Kaitlin Patterson, Erin McGill, Demy Dam, Anna Bellos, Cameron Mark Coulby, Rachel McCormick   +5 more
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Point-of-care testing for disasters: needs assessment, strategic planning, and future design. [PDF]

, 2009
Objective evidence-based national surveys serve as a first step in identifying suitable point-of-care device designs, effective test clusters, and environmental operating conditions.
Bangs, Bulut, Cazacu, de la Hoz, Dighe, Diiulio, Ender, Farfel, Gerald J. Kost, Ginocchio, Grandjean, Grondhal, Hiransuthikul, Hurt, Ivers, Kazancioglu, Kost, Kost, Kost, Kost, Kost, Kristin N. Hale, Lam, Louie, Lupisan, Millie, MMWR, Nam K. Tran, Nicole L. Gentile, Nishiura, Pabbaraju, Qadri, Rajendran, Richard F. Louie, Schneider, Shaman, Shaman, Sinigalliano, T. Keith Brock, Tao, Thomas, Tyler K. Kitano, Uckay, Vernon, Vollaard   +44 more
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