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Locating global health in social medicine
Global Public Health, 2014 Global health's goal to address health issues across great sociocultural and socioeconomic gradients worldwide requires a sophisticated approach to the social root causes of disease and the social context of interventions.
S. Holmes +2 more
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Assessing the consistency of community structure in complex networks [PDF]
Physical Review E 84, 016111 (2011), 2011 In recent years, community structure has emerged as a key component of complex network analysis. As more data has been collected, researchers have begun investigating changing community structure across multiple networks. Several methods exist to analyze changing communities, but most of these are limited to evolution of a single network over time.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.The number of circulating tumor cells obtained from prostate cancer patients was increased approximately 5‐fold compared to regular CellSearch when processing 2 mL diagnostic leukapheresis material aliquots and increased by 44‐fold when processing 20 mL DLA aliquots using the flow enrichment target capture Halbach‐array.
Michiel Stevens +8 more
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Lessons from Mexico’s H1N1 Influenza Outbreak
Social Medicine, 2009 1. Mexico needs to rebuild an efficient epidemiological monitoring system which can react in a timely manner to unusual infectious outbreaks. SINAVE, the National Epidemiologic Monitoring System, showed itself incapable of responding opportunely and ...
Latin American Social Medicine Association
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História, Ciências, Saúde: ManguinhosResumen Entre 1970 y 1980, fueron creadas un conjunto de revistas con el objetivo de difundir las ideas de la medicina social latinoamericana en distintos países del continente, en una etapa temprana en la institucionalización de este movimiento que ...
Hugo Spinelli +2 more
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Subpar reporting of pre‐analytical variables in RNA‐focused blood plasma studies
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Pre‐analytical variables strongly influence the analysis of extracellular RNA (cell‐free RNA; exRNA) derived from blood plasma. Their reporting is essential to allow interpretation and replication of results. By evaluating 200 exRNA studies, we pinpoint a lack of reporting pre‐analytical variables associated with blood collection, plasma preparation ...
Céleste Van Der Schueren +16 more
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The Ouro Preto Declaration: Creation of the Latin American Social Medicine Association (1984)
Social Medicine, 2009 Those signing below, attendees of the II Latin American Seminar on Social Medicine, have decided to establish the Latin American Association of Social Medicine.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Cancer‐associated fibroblasts (CAFs) promote cancer growth, invasion (metastasis), and drug resistance. Here, we identified functional and diverse circulating CAFs (cCAFs) in patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa). cCAFs were found in higher numbers and were functional and diverse in mPCa patients versus healthy individuals, suggesting their ...
Richell Booijink +6 more
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GMS Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ausbildung, 2009 [english] Aim: To formulate a guideline on educational objectives and methodology for the implementation of the cross-disciplinary subject “Global Health” in German medical education, on the initiative of the German Medical Students’ Association (bvmd ...
Bozorgmehr, Kayvan +3 more
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Assessing Social Determinants-Related Performance Bias of Machine Learning Models: A case of Hyperchloremia Prediction in ICU Population [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Machine learning in medicine leverages the wealth of healthcare data to extract knowledge, facilitate clinical decision-making, and ultimately improve care delivery. However, ML models trained on datasets that lack demographic diversity could yield suboptimal performance when applied to the underrepresented populations (e.g.
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