Public health concern
Leishmaniasis: An Evolving Public Health Concern in Thailand
... Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease caused by flagellated protozoa of the genus Leishmania. It is transmitted by the bite of an infected sandfly. The 3 main clinical forms of the disease are cutaneous leishmaniasis ...
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Brucellosis in dairy herds: a public health concern in the milk supply chains of West and Central Africa
... (95% CI:0.08-5.3), Dakar (Senegal) 0.2% (95% CI:0.01-1.7) and Niakhar (Senegal) <0.04%. Logistic regression modelling revealed transhumant herds to be at lower risk of infection (adjusted OR: 0.25, 95% CI: 0.13 - 0.5) ...
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Brucellosis in dairy herds: a public health concern in the milk supply chains of West and Central Africa
... Estimated herd seroprevalences were: Lomé (Togo) 62.0% (95% CI:55.0–69.0), Bamako (Mali) 32.5% (95% CI:28.0–37.0), Bujumbura (Burundi) 14.7% (95%CI:9.4–20.8), Bamenda (Cameroon) 12.6% (95% CI:7.6–21.9), Ouagadougou ...
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Abortion, an increasing public health concern in Ecuador, a 10-year population-based analysis
... the public health system, while ...the public health system came from hospitals of the Ministry of Public Health (88%), while the rest were seen among hospitals from the Army, ...
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Influence of rising temperatures and heat waves on mental health outcomes: An alarming public health concern
... mental health of individuals from marginalized communities is more prone to influence of climate change (Manning & Clayton, ...mental health of indigenous populations and women is presented to be ...
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Road Traffic Accidents in Ghana: A Public Health Concern, and a Call for Action in Ghana, (and the Sub Region)
... Some of these vehicles are just under ten years old, these along with the number of ever increasing old cars already in the country continuously swell the numbers of old cars in the country (in comparison with new cars). ...
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Antimicrobial resistance in hospitalized surgical patients: a silently emerging public health concern in Uganda
... Wound swabs were processed in the bacteriology labora- tory of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, within 2 hours of collection. The first wound swab was used to ...
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Dementia as a major public health concern: Intelligence testing revisited
... Mental Health, argued that "the world is in the midst of a rising pandemic of mental disorders and associated chronic diseases and disabilities" based on increasing life expectancy among those at "high ...
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2. Multidrug resistance in pathogenic Escherichia coli; a public health concern
... Iron acquisition mechanisms, adhesins, capsule, serum resistance, and toxins for example hemolysin and cytotoxic necrotizing factor type 1 and 2 are virulence factors present [r] ...
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Prevalence and genotypes of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in wildlife in Korea: a public health concern
... Phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 2) revealed that E. bieneusi genotypes cluster in roughly eight groups. Genotypes of group 1 have no host specificity and were retrieved from different wildlife, domestic animals and humans, ...
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Cough and Cold Medication in Children: A Public Health Concern
... of Health, the Academy of Medicine, the Malaysian Medical Association, the Association of Private Hospital Malaysia, and the Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society 10 ...
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Characteristics of youth sexual and reproductive health and risky behaviors in two rural provinces of Cambodia
... reproductive health is a major public health ...reproductive health services; and that, services offered to youth are not differentiated from those of infants or adults ...Reproductive ...
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Article: Microbiological quality of commercially available poultry feeds sold in Bangladesh
... animal health that contracted the infection from contaminated poultry ...of public health concern may indicate obvious health hazard in terms of direct consumption of contaminated feed ...
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Evaluation of Health Effect of Some Selected Heavy Metals in Maize Cultivated in Katsina State, North West Nigeria
... for Pb in samples from Dabai, Funtua and Kafur is above the limit (>10 −2 ). The trend of risk for developing cancer as a result of consuming the studied maize samples showed: Kafur> Dabai > Funtua> ...
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American Journal of Epidemiology and Infectious Disease
... biggest public health challeng. With immunization being the most public health cost-effective strategy, complete eradication of poliomyelitis remains a major public health ...
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Personal Medical Information Management: The Information Privacy Culture of Asian Countries
... and concern of Asian countries towards the privacy of its personal ...the public universities in Malaysia in order to gauge the ‘power distance’ and ‘collectivistic’ culture characteristic in the ...
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Australia’s response to Ebola Virus disease in West Africa, 2014–15
... other concern prompted assessment by a public health practitioner and, if necessary, transfer to a designated hospital for further ...local public health units during the 3-week ...
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Stillbirths : ending preventable deaths by 2030
... Child Health, Geneva, Switzerland; Nana Kuo, Every Woman Every Child; Ana Langer, Maternal Health Task Force, Harvard University, USA; James Litch, Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth; ...
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Queer religious youth in faith and community schools
... This concern has been translated into education policy: Vanderbeck and Johnson argue that under Section 28, ‘the active promotion of sexual orientation equality would have been deemed by government to undermine, ...
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Smoking cessation: A public health necessity and every pharmacist’s concern
... a public health problem in South Africa and pharmacists at all levels of service can be an integral part of the drive against ...the health care team, often being the first point of contact with the ...
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