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Evaluation of the Rubella Surveillance System in Quebec

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2000
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of information in the rubella surveillance system in Quebec.
Lina Perron, Philippe De Wals, François Milord   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Use of the self-organising map network (SOMNet) as a decision support system for regional mental health planning

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2018
BackgroundDecision-making in mental health systems should be supported by the evidence-informed knowledge transfer of data. Since mental health systems are inherently complex, involving interactions between its structures, processes and outcomes ...
Younjin Chung, L. Salvador-Carulla, J. Salinas-Pérez, J. J. Uriarte-Uriarte, Á. Iruin-Sanz, C. García-Alonso   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Heredity of type 2 diabetes confers increased susceptibility to oxidative stress and inflammation

BMJ Open Diabetes Research & Care, 2020
Introduction and objectiveHeredity of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is associated with greater risk for developing T2DM. Thus, individuals who have a first-degree relative with T2DM (FDRT) provide a natural model to study factors of susceptibility ...
Sue-Anne Toh, Sonia Baig, Muhammad Shabeer, Ehsan Parvaresh Rizi, Madhur Agarwal, Michelle H Lee, Delicia Shu Qin Ooi, Chelsea Chia, Nweni Aung, Geelyn Ng, Yvonne Teo, Vanna Chhay, Faidon Magkos, Antonio Vidal-Puig, Raymond C S Seet   +14 more
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Changing Disease Trends in the Northern Gyeonggi-do Province of South Korea from 2002 to 2013: A Big Data Study Using National Health Information Database Cohort [PDF]

Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2018
Objectives To investigate the chronological patterns of diseases in Northern Gyeonggi-do province, South Korea, and compare these with national data.
Young Soo Kim, Dong-Hee Lee, Hiun Suk Chae, Kyungdo Han   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bringing new tools, a regional focus, resource-sensitivity, local engagement and necessary discipline to mental health policy and planning

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background While reducing the burden of mental and substance use disorders is a global challenge, it is played out locally. Mental disorders have early ages of onset, syndromal complexity and high individual variability in course and response to ...
J. Atkinson, A. Skinner, K. Lawson, S. Rosenberg, I. Hickie   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Extent of Integration of Priority Interventions into General Health Systems: A Case Study of Neglected Tropical Diseases Programme in the Western Region of Ghana [PDF]

, 2016
Background The global health system has a large arsenal of interventions, medical products and technologies to address current global health challenges. However, identifying the most effective and efficient strategies to deliver these resources to where
Aikins, Moses K, Anto, Francis, Bockarie, Moses, Gyapong, John O, Gyapong, Margaret, Mensah, Ernest O   +5 more
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Factors that influence evidence-informed meso-level regional primary health care planning: a qualitative examination and conceptual framework

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023
Background Evidence-informed primary health care (PHC) planning in decentralised, meso-level regional organisations has received little research attention.
Alice Windle, Sara Javanparast, Toby Freeman, Fran Baum   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Planning for Regional Food Equity

, 2021
Problem, research strategy, and findings Scholars in planning and public health have increasingly called attention to inequities in the food system. To evaluate and address these challenges, local and regional governments have developed and implemented a
Y. Mui, M. Khojasteh, Alexandra Judelsohn, Avery Sirwatka, S. Kelly, PATRICIA M. Gooch, S. Raja   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health regionalization in the ABC Region: the interests at stake [PDF]

, 2014
Regionalizing the Brazilian National Health System implies the joint construction of a planning that comprises the interconnection, coordination, regulation, and funding of the network of services within a territory, in a continued process of all kinds ...
Gomes, Mara Helena de Andrea, Silva, Edson Coutinho da   +1 more
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Management of heart failure in Piedmont Region

Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 2016
emerging problem in industrialized countries: it continues to be diagnosed at high rates and has an decreased survival time, raising new problems, such as the need of an adequate medical service organization and resource expenditure. Aim of this analysis
Nicolò Montali, Marco Bobbio, Enrico Cerrato, Giuseppe Azzaro, Bianca Bianchini, Alessandro Bonzano, Maria Vincenza Calì, Rodolfo Cavaliere, Livio Correndo, Antonella Deorsola, Regine Guillevin, Loredana Mainardi, Laura Montagna, Massimo Pistono, Gian Paolo Trevi   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source