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A Hidden Resource: Household-led Rural Water Supply in Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Self supply as a strategy for WASH is defined as "improvement to water supplies delivered largely or wholly through user investment usually at household level." The two research studies reported on in this paper examined self supply in rural Ethiopia ...
John Butterworth   +2 more
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Vectors and Vector‐Borne Diseases: Biology, Epidemiology and Integrated Control Strategies

open access: yesJournal of Applied Entomology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Vector‐Borne Diseases (VBDs), transmitted by arthropods such as mosquitoes, ticks, fleas and sandflies, represent a significant threat to global health. These diseases can be caused by a variety of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and helminths.
Roberta Rinaldi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

SANITARY SURVEILLANCE ACTIONS IN OUTBREAK OF IMPETIGO: EXPERIENCE REPORT

open access: yes, 2021
A Vigilância Sanitária é responsável por ações de prevenção de riscos e intervenções sanitárias decorrentes do meio ambiente, da produção e circulação de bens e controle da prestação de serviços, incluindo o controle de bens de consumo e, processos da produção que se relacionam com a saúde.
Machado, Fabiana Silva   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

Community of practice on sanitary and phytosanitary risk assessment: a step towards a national risk assessment agency? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
With 106.057 ZAR Billion in 2018 (current prices) agriculture represented 2.44% of the GDP of South Africa. Despite this relatively small contribution to the national wealth agriculture remains one of the main employment provider of the country ...
Abolnik, Célia   +2 more
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Game theory of vaccination and depopulation for managing livestock diseases and zoonoses on small-scale farms [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Livestock producers adapt their farm management to epidemiological risks in different ways, through veterinary interventions but also by modulating their farm size and the removal rate of animals.
Boni, Maciej F., Delabouglise, Alexis
core   +1 more source

Influence and convergence to higher standards: The dual examination of pharmaceutical patents in Brazil

open access: yesThe Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Between 2001 and 2021, pharmaceutical patent applications filed in Brazil were examined by the patent office (INPI) and the national health regulator (Anvisa). This paper investigates how health regulators can contribute to patent examination by shifting the set of criteria cited as grounds for 2589 negative decisions from both entities ...
Eduardo Mercadante
wiley   +1 more source

Syncope and work

open access: yesSafety and Health at Work, 2022
Nicola Magnavita   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Zoonotic anxieties: The cultural politics of Nepal's quest for pandemic preparedness

open access: yesMedical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on fieldwork conducted in Nepal (2022–2024) and by paying attention to how local and transnational notions of epidemiological risk are deployed, this ethnography introduces the concept of “zoonotic anxieties” to make sense of the multi‐species relational ethos that contemporary global health regimes propose.
Max D. López Toledano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sanitary Surveillance of natural latex male condoms commercialized in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: analysis of volumetric capacity and burst pressure

open access: yesVigilância Sanitária em Debate: Sociedade, Ciência & Tecnologia, 2014
Objective: The increased importance of using condoms to protect men and women from sexually transmitted diseases and HIV infection has sensitized health authorities to condom quality.
Janete Teixeira Duarte   +2 more
doaj   +6 more sources

One Health in food safety and security education: Subject matter outline for a curricular framework. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Educating students in the range of subjects encompassing food safety and security as approached from a One Health perspective requires consideration of a variety of different disciplines and the interrelationships among disciplines. The Western Institute
Angelos, John A   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

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