• 7 The Pacific islands, with much lower population densities, have also not been spared, with increasing dengue outbreaks since the 1970s. (who.int)
  • First, only about one-third of Seoul is presently in range from artillery along the DMZ, and the northern reaches of Seoul that are within artillery range have much lower population densities than its metropolitan area. (sinonk.com)
  • Florida is one of 50 states conducting the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) with financial and technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (floridahealth.gov)
  • What is the Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)? (floridahealth.gov)
  • National health surveys, such as the BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System), emphasize traditional "leisure-time" physical activity-reflecting a class bias that assumes physical activity to be an aspect of leisure or recreation, rather than a product of manual work or a function of everyday life, e.g., walking or bicycling for transportation. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • It is suggested that relevant departments should strengthen the surveillance of the density and insecticide resistance level of dengue vector Aedes larvae and guide the rational use of insecticides to slow down the development of insecticide resistance. (bmsw.net.cn)
  • Such applications facilitate the planning and implementation of measures for disease prevention and control. (who.int)
  • The high incidence of animal bites in Oman emphasizes the importance of a rabies prevention and control programme. (who.int)
  • Vector control remains the key strategy in dengue prevention and control. (who.int)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • However, polio vaccinations themselves are still administered and supported by the Centers for Disease Control. (truthorfiction.com)
  • The Florida BRFSS is conducted with financial and technical assistance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (floridahealth.gov)
  • According to the Centers for Disease Control, for example, one in two Latino children born in the year 2000 will develop diabetes during their lifetimes, due largely to high obesity rates among Latinos. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
  • Ethical standard This study was approved by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Human Subjects Committee. (cdc.gov)
  • Program (NBCCEDP) [1].This nationwide, comprehensive public health program is administered through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and provides uninsured, underinsured, and underserved women with access to screening services for the early detection of breast and cervical cancer [1]. (cdc.gov)
  • Rabies avoidance and capture recommendations may be found at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (medscape.com)
  • We investigated the influence of bank vole habitats (beech forest, seed plants), vole food supply (beechnut mast), climate factors (winter and spring temperatures), and human population density on spatial and temporal occurrence of NE cases in Baden-Württemberg. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, it has been recommended that control measures should consider the geographical conditions, as well as the social structure, spatial distribution, and density of the affected wild boar population [ 3 , 10 , 11 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In this article, we review and update current knowledge about the distribution and spatial spread of the disease, its observed impact on affected host populations, and models to predict its consequences for host population dynamics. (springer.com)
  • Early published mark-recapture density estimates of at least 5.2 km −2 (Guiler, 1970 ) are considerably higher than ours, but without detailed information on the spatial configuration of the trapping grid, determining the area effectively sampled is difficult. (springer.com)
  • Subsequently the geographical situation relative to major routes and spatial concentrations of power and population was considered to be a major explanatory factor, especially center-periphery constructions at all geographical scales that are continuously changing and never were conceived as being in equilibrium. (springer.com)
  • Lapwings selected local backgrounds that had a higher 3D complexity at a spatial scale greater than their entire clutches compared to nearby control sites. (authorea.com)
  • It is not public utility employees who can monitor street lighting systems, the cleanliness of sidewalks and glazing, and the condition of flower beds and park areas, but AI-based video analytics systems. (securitymiddleeastmag.com)
  • And in 2006, came the remarkable sentence: two years under special surveillance and house arrest, to be served along the sidewalks of via Pisani, a few steps from the Central Station. (worldcrunch.com)
  • Until now this agenda has been developed largely in the context of middle-class, suburban communities, where large blocks, separated land uses, low densities and absent sidewalks make it nearly impossible to walk or bicycle to school, shopping or jobs. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • This theory attempts to explain the prevalence of suicide cases in the rural areas that are sparsely populated that in the urban centres with high population density. (essaywriter.org)
  • 1,000 HIV-1 RNA copies/mL) and with unsuppressed viral load (viremic), the prevalence of unsuppressed HIV (population viremia), sex-specific HIV transmission ratios (number female incident HIV-1 infections/number unsuppressed male PLHIV per 100 persons-years [PY] and vice versa) and examined correlations between a variety of VL metrics and incident HIV. (cdc.gov)
  • The stage of vascular disease in a population is thought to result from the prevalence of vascular risk factors. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Using a multidisciplinary approach we aimed to assess the prevalence of several vascular risk factors in Agincourt, a rural demographic surveillance site in South Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We found a high prevalence of hypertension, obesity in women, and a suggestion of subclinical atheroma despite relatively favourable cholesterol levels in a rural South African population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Rural sub-Saharan Africa is at an early stage of economic and health transition [ 4 ] but there is currently very little published information on the prevalence of vascular risk factors in the population, although such data will be essential in planning future health services. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Among other projects, it included a cross-sectional survey of the prevalence of vascular risk factors in the adult population of Agincourt, which we report here. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The aim of this paper is to describe the prevalence of risk factors for vascular disease in a rural sub-Saharan population aged over 35 years. (biomedcentral.com)
  • israelensis ( Bti ) had no effect upon either vector density (P = 0.820) or infection prevalence (P = 0.325) when managed by a private-sector contractor. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Accelerated elimination of chronic human infections persisting at high prevalence will require active, population-wide campaigns with curative drugs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Ecological changes have favored the geographic expansion of the vector and, since the dengue pandemic in the Asian and Pacific regions, the infection became widely distributed worldwide, reaching Brazil in 1845. (hindawi.com)
  • To battle with a complex disease like dengue, four cornerstones are required to support a robust surveillance system: human cases, virus, entomological and ecological surveillance. (who.int)
  • Ecological and insecticide resistance surveillance of dengue vector Aedes in Yunnan border region of China[J]. Chinese Journal of Vector Biology and Control, 2022, 33(1): 38-43. (bmsw.net.cn)
  • Climate suitability analyses based on ecological niche modeling provide a powerful tool for biological control practitioners to assess the likelihood of establishment of different candidate agents prior to their introduction in the field. (authorea.com)
  • This outbreak underscores the ongoing risks posed by poliovirus importations, the importance of maintaining strong acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance and the need to maintain high population immunity to avoid polio outbreaks in pre-eradication era and outbreaks due to vaccine-derived polioviruses in the post- eradication phase. (who.int)
  • All member countries have established acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance. (cdc.gov)
  • This study aimed to describe the disease spread in the wild boar population in Japan from September 2018, when the first case was reported, to March 2020, based on the surveillance data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • According to UN projections, Shanghai, China's largest city, will have 24 million people by 2020, quadrupling its population over 50 years. (joelkotkin.com)
  • Preparedness for local transmission of Zika virus involves a robust emergency response infrastructure, targeted public health messaging, human and environmental surveillance strategies, and an integrated epidemiologic, clinical, and environmental response. (cdc.gov)
  • In NYC, pregnant women and persons with a Zika-like illness who have been in Zika virus-affected areas should be tested for Zika virus infection. (cdc.gov)
  • One hypothesis suggests that the risk for human infection with hantaviruses increases with the population size of the reservoir host species, which can be driven to high levels in response to events that enhance host survival, promote early breeding, and increase the food supply ( 12 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Therefore, investigations assessing risk for hantaviral infection must evaluate factors influencing the reservoir host population, the human population at risk, and potential factors driving their interaction. (cdc.gov)
  • We observed a faster CSF infection spread in the wild boar population in Japan compared with the CSF epidemics in European countries. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Conditions regarding the wild boar habitat, including forest continuity, higher wild boar population density, and a larger proportion of susceptible piglets, were addressed to increase the infection risk in the wild boar population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • During this European epidemic, measures such as fencing, hunting, trapping, and oral immunization were implemented to control the CSF infection spread [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Infection often occurs early in childhood in endemic areas, but clinical signs appear much later. (bmj.com)
  • Low vaccination rates mean that there is a larger population susceptible to infection, allowing for the virus to easily find new hosts. (ifhanoi-lespace.com)
  • Three rounds of city-wide, cluster-sampled cross-sectional surveys of malaria parasite infection status, spanning 2010 to 2012, were complemented by two series of high-resolution, longitudinal surveys of vector density. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Furthermore, infection risk was only associated with local vector density [OR (95 % CI) = 6.99 (1.12, 43.7) at one vector mosquito per trap per night, P = 0.037] among the minority (14 %) of households lacking screening. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In a cross-sectional, descriptive, surveillance-based study, all data about animal bites and rabies from the national communicable disease surveillance system were analysed. (who.int)
  • In China, such intelligence is particularly critical given the large population spread over a vast area with rapid epidemiological transition bringing numerous challenges, including an aging population and a significant burden of non-communicable diseases. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Controlling risk factors for non-communicable diseases and association from large-scale prospective studies and meta-analyses external causes is essential for the improvement of adult health. (who.int)
  • Prior to 2013, the essential data on the causes of death in China were provided by two sample-based mortality surveillance systems, the nationally representative Disease Surveillance Points (DSP) system of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the vital registration (VR) system of the Chinese Ministry of Health (MOH) [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This state-based telephone surveillance system is designed to collect data on individual risk behaviors and preventive health practices related to the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. (floridahealth.gov)
  • To further improve population health, consistent and comparative evidence on mortality attributable to preventable risk factors is necessary for setting priorities for health policies and programs. (who.int)
  • The control strategies are guided by entomological surveillance. (mdpi.com)
  • According to UN forecasts, by 2050 more than half of the world's population will live in cities. (securitymiddleeastmag.com)
  • The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 infected about a third of the world's population and caused an estimated 20 to 50 million deaths. (sccovid19.org)
  • The presence of a potentially competent Aedes mosquito vector in NYC necessitates a health department-wide response to identify and respond to potential local transmission of Zika virus, including sentinel surveillance and enhanced mosquito control. (cdc.gov)
  • The spread of the mosquito has been surveyed constantly since then, and an integrated vector management (IVM) has been implemented to control its numbers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The spread of this vector in Ticino has actively been surveyed by the cantonal Working Group for Mosquitoes (Gruppo Lavoro Zanzare, GLZ) and control measures have been immediately implemented to prevent the establishment of the mosquito [ 5 , 6 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 16,17 The geographical expansion of the vector, Aedes aegypti, is also well demonstrated by its recent invasion or reinvasion into temperate regions, such as Nepal and Bueno Aires in Argentina, 4,18 and into rural areas in Indonesia and Cambodia. (who.int)
  • The urban and peridomestic habitats of Aedes aegypti offer an opportunity to suppress the vector population through source reduction, careful environment management and urban planning to deprive the Aedes mosquitoes of stagnant water for breeding. (who.int)
  • Objective To investigate the population density and insecticide resistance of dengue vector Aedes in Yunnan border region of China, and to provide a scientific basis for rational use of insecticides to control dengue fever. (bmsw.net.cn)
  • Conclusion There is a high population density of dengue vector Aedes in Yunnan border region, and they have developed resistance to both lambda-cyhalothrin and permethrin. (bmsw.net.cn)
  • Following transition to management by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MoHSW), LA consistently reduced vector densities, first using the same Bti granule in early 2011 [odds ratio (OR) (95 % confidence interval (CI)) = 0.31 (0.14, 0.71), P = 0.0053] and then a pre-diluted aqueous suspension formulation from mid 2011 onwards [OR (95 % CI) = 0.15 (0.07, 0.30), P ≪ 0.000001]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • While existing vector control interventions have dramatically attenuated malaria transmission in Dar es Salaam, further scale-up and additional measures to protect against mosquito bites outdoors are desirable. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This review aims to highlight a recent spread of VHFs in North Africa in the light of political instability associated with massive immigration from the endemic areas of West African countries. (omicsonline.org)
  • This large increase in non-polio AFP cases, which represent AFP cases caused by agents other than poliovirus, probably reflects the excellent implementation of the expanded definition of AFP and highly sensitive surveillance and detection methods used by NPSP in India from 2005 onwards, in contrast to the other polio-endemic countries, i.e. (truthorfiction.com)
  • The quality of campaigns in these remaining countries where polio is endemic has been improved substantially through house-to-house vaccination, greater emphasis on high-risk areas, improved planning and supervision, additional financial resources, and increased technical consultation. (cdc.gov)
  • Mass drug administration entails annual distribution of diethylcarbamazine in combination with albendazole for a minimum of five years in an endemic area. (bmj.com)
  • In epidemiology, an endemic disease is one that is consistently present in a specific geographical location or population. (sccovid19.org)
  • Endemic diseases primarily affect the population within a confined geographical area. (sccovid19.org)
  • In many areas where canine rabies has been well-controlled and declared free of canine rabies, sylvatic rabies remains an endemic source in wildlife. (medscape.com)
  • Some diseases that are common to specific regions include malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, dengue fever in tropical areas, and monkeypox, which has similarities to COVID-19 and can be found in central and western Africa. (sccovid19.org)
  • Aedes albopictus (Stegomyia albopicta), from the mosquito (Culicidae) family, also known as the (Asian) tiger mosquito or forest mosquito, is a mosquito native to the tropical and subtropical areas of Southeast Asia. (wikipedia.org)
  • We performed a cross sectional random sample survey of adults aged over 35 in Agincourt (population ≈ 70 000). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The variation of the body size in adult mosquitoes depends on the density of the larval population and food supply within the breeding water. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mark-recapture analysis and a preliminary epidemiological model developed for the population with the best longitudinal data both project local extinction in that area over a timeframe of 10 to 15 years from disease emergence. (springer.com)
  • and 5) modifying existing Culex mosquito control measures by targeting Aedes species of mosquitoes through the use of larvicides and adulticides. (cdc.gov)
  • Mosquito control is undergoing major changes in Mississippi. (msstate.edu)
  • Instead of just routinely spraying pesticides out of trucks several nights weekly, mosquito control personnel are now trying to get the most control with the least amount of pesticides. (msstate.edu)
  • In this publication, we outline the components of an integrated mosquito control program with emphasis on incorporating surveillance and larviciding into existing programs. (msstate.edu)
  • Eradication of malaria from the United States is attributed more to the short transmission season due to our temperate climate and the use of window screens in homes than to government mosquito control efforts. (msstate.edu)
  • Mosquito control continues to be an important program in public health because of the presence of WNV and SLE, as well as the potential for the reintroduction of other mosquito-borne diseases into Mississippi. (msstate.edu)
  • A cornerstone of the GPEI polio eradication strategy is the goal of reaching all children in the first year of life in the highest-risk countries with multiple doses of OPV, through both national and local vaccination campaigns. (truthorfiction.com)
  • Dr Gezairy pointed out that the polio eradication initiative had reached a critical stage in the Region. (who.int)
  • Specifically, elevated percent density was associated with a higher risk of ER-negative than ER-positive cancer in overweight/obese premenopausal women [OR per standard deviation increment 2.17 (95% CI 1.50-3.16) vs 1.33 (95% CI 1.11-1.61) respectively, P heterogeneity = 0.01]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • These findings could improve the national control strategy against the CSF epidemic among wild boars. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The North American Air Defense Agreement, signed on May 12, 1958 by the United States and Canada, created a continental air defense warning and surveillance system in response to Cold War fears of an airborne attack by the Soviet Union. (espionageinfo.com)
  • A survey conducted by the Youth Risk Behavioural Surveillance System (YRBS), indicated that the leading causes of these premature deaths include instability and social problems among the young generation in the United States. (essaywriter.org)
  • The DSP system was initially established in 1978 in Dongcheng and Tongxian counties of Beijing and expanded to 161 points (each point corresponding to a county or district) in 31 provinces covering around 73 million population in 2004 [ 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • In 2013, the VR and DSP systems were integrated and expanded to 605 points to become the new DSP system under the responsibility of China CDC, covering approximately one quarter of the total population of China and providing representative death data at both national and provincial levels [ 3 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • [ 6 ] These events lead the cancer cell to escape normal cell growth and control mechanisms, to avoid system control mechanisms (ie, immunologic surveillance), and to establish a nutrient supply. (medscape.com)
  • The skills of food insecure participants who were not obese, such as portion control and budgeting, may be useful in weight management interventions for vulnerable patients. (cdc.gov)
  • Research to establish the social determinates of these risk factors and interventions to reduce both individual and population risk are required. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Aedes aegypti was either eradicated or suppressed to a population that eliminated dengue or moderated dengue transmission to low endemicity. (who.int)
  • Population genetics of the invasive Aedes aegypti in southwestern Yunnan[D]. Beijing:Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,2018. (bmsw.net.cn)
  • Moreover, population behaviors, immunity levels, and public health practices can contribute to a disease's endemicity. (sccovid19.org)
  • Program which is responsible for characterizing exposure to persistent toxic substances and the potential for short and long-term adverse human health impacts from that exposure in vulnerable populations. (cdc.gov)
  • It's true that Africa's population is younger than most, with a median age of only 19.7 years, and potentially less vulnerable. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The control measures focus on the aquatic phase of the mosquito with removal of breeding sites and applications of larvicides in public areas whereas private areas are reached through extensive public information campaigns. (biomedcentral.com)
  • By identifying areas with low vaccination rates and implementing targeted vaccination campaigns, we can mitigate the risk of further spread. (ifhanoi-lespace.com)
  • The school psychologist needs to play their role and work towards the promotion of good mental health among the students paying more emphasis on the area of prevention. (essaywriter.org)
  • Since its first appearance in Italy in the 1990s, the species has expanded to most areas of the country [ 3 ] and has further spread to other European countries passively through the various human transportation networks (Mosquito Maps, http://ecdc.europa.eu/ ). (biomedcentral.com)
  • They were among nearly 4,000 displaced people who have reached Tyre, a coastal city 12 miles north of the border with Israel and another way station for those fleeing a conflict that has widened steadily since the deadly Hamas incursion into Israel on Oct. 7. (indiancolumnist.com)
  • Only 10-15 years ago, the main application areas of digital technologies in megacities were city-wide security systems and the management of the technical infrastructure of buildings. (securitymiddleeastmag.com)
  • By 2035, ten of the world's 50-plus megacities (urban areas with more than 10 million people) will be located in the Middle Kingdom. (joelkotkin.com)
  • Since then, substantial progress has been made in vaccination and surveillance and, by the end of the year, 19 of the 23 EMR countries are expected to have interrupted poliovirus transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • Coordination with the European region has led to elimination of the poliovirus reservoir in the border areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The resulting North American Air/Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has since shifted strategies from guarding against long-range bombers to warning of ballistic missile attacks and maintaining space surveillance. (espionageinfo.com)
  • Strategies for Nutrition surveillance, Monitoring and Evaluation. (who.int)
  • Moreover, we descriptively assessed the effect of oral bait vaccination, which started in March 2019 in some municipalities in the affected areas. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Gini coefficients of PPTC and PBPTC decreased from 0.48 and 0.38 in 2010, to 0.35 and 0.28 in 2014, then to 0.35 and 0.22 in 2019, respectively, representing the improvement of pediatric resources distribution according to service population. (frontiersin.org)
  • Data from the 2015 to 2019 Population-based HIV Impact Assessments (PHIAs) surveys from Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe were used for the analysis. (cdc.gov)
  • We conducted a case-control study nested within two mammography screening cohorts, the Mayo Mammography Health Study and the San Francisco Bay Area Breast Cancer SPORE/San Francisco Mammography Registry. (biomedcentral.com)
  • precisely the remote rural areas where geographical conditions favoured disease transmission. (who.int)
  • This overview aims to describe the main patterns of meningitis disease cases and pathogens from 1928 to 2018 in Africa with a special focus on disease conditions "out-of-the-belt" area that is still usually unexplored. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Formerly concentrated in the region of the meningitis belt with Sub-Saharan and Sudanian environmental conditions, the disease extends now outside these historical limits to reach more forested regions in the central parts of the continent. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To control the disease spread among wild boars, intensive capturing, fencing, and oral bait vaccination were implemented with concomitant virological and serological surveillance. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Control measures against infectious diseases aim to reduce the number of susceptible animals to mitigate disease spread within the affected animal population. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This means that transmission is likely to be frequency-dependent with no threshold density for disease maintenance. (springer.com)
  • It has been suggested that devil population numbers may have fluctuated substantially in the 19th century, perhaps in association with disease (Guiler, 1964, 1992). (springer.com)
  • These diseases persist in these areas due to a combination of factors like favorable climate for the disease-causing agents, high population density, and the lack of effective disease control measures. (sccovid19.org)
  • This involves source reduction to eliminate mosquito breeding areas, larviciding areas of standing water to kill the larvae, and carefully timed, strategically placed insecticides aimed at the adult mosquitoes. (msstate.edu)
  • An adult might do so with great care and thick protective gloves or a container, but only to put the animal out of the reach of curious pets and people. (medscape.com)
  • This mapping function is supported by the processing power of computers, whereby multiple layers of additional data, selected as relevant to a particular problem in a geographical area, can be superimposed on maps. (who.int)
  • Comparison with data from 2012 and 2013 indicates that the gap between intervention and non-intervention areas may have almost doubled in the past 6 years. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The effects of those measures have been evaluated using surveillance data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A retrospective study on data collected through passive tick surveillance was conducted to estimate the risk of exposure to tick-borne pathogens in cats and dogs bitten by blacklegged ticks ( Ixodes scapularis ) in the province of Quebec, Canada, from 2010 to 2017. (frontiersin.org)
  • Obesity and elevated breast density are common risk factors for breast cancer, and their effects may vary by estrogen receptor (ER) subtype. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Elevated breast density and overweight/obesity are the two most prevalent risk factors for breast cancer [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Whereas recent work has estimated the population-wide effects of breast density and BMI [ 1 ], few studies have investigated how these risk factors interact. (biomedcentral.com)
  • There is a large potential population health gain if multiple risk factors are jointly controlled. (who.int)
  • New York City (NYC) is home to a large number of persons who travel frequently to areas with active Zika virus transmission, including immigrants from these areas. (cdc.gov)
  • The large increase in the non-polio AFP rate from 1.45 and 1.97 per 100,000 children during 1998-2003 to 16.20 in 2011 further reflects the excellent operational performance of the expanded AFP surveillance in India. (truthorfiction.com)
  • Withholding radical therapy for a large proportion of low-risk prostate cancer until signs of progress is a comparatively new strategy, named active surveillance. (cancercentrum.se)
  • Caryophyllales: Polygonaceae), provides an important opportunity to compare the utility of climate suitability analyses for identifying potential climate-based limitations for successful biological control introductions. (authorea.com)
  • The average cost of rabies postexposure prophylaxis (about US$100) puts lifesaving treatment tragically out of reach for much of the world. (medscape.com)
  • was much more contained in the municipalities implementing an IVM programme, without reaching an evident peak. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The results of the survey strongly support the efficacy of the IVM programme implemented in southern Switzerland compared to municipalities without defined control measures. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We used Wald chi-squared tests to assess for interactions between percent density and BMI. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The phenomenon of increasing returns with city size is explained by higher population densities and connections multiplying the probability of productive interactions, as well as by adaptive valuation of accumulated assets. (springer.com)
  • In unstable countries of North Africa with fragile health services complicated with armed conflicts and population displacement, such infections could be easily confused with other local parasitic and viral diseases. (omicsonline.org)
  • Johns Hopkins University's global map tracking the coronavirus shows that it has barely reached sub-Saharan Africa yet, compared to most of the Northern Hemisphere. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • In the SAMS (SAMS-FU and SAMS-ObsQoL) the quality of life and pelvic symptoms of patients on active surveillance will be investigated and compared to those of patients receiving immediate treatment with curative intent. (cancercentrum.se)
  • Hopefully, SAMS will increase our knowledge on active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer, so that more patients with aggressive cancer will receive curative treatment and fewer patients will receive un-necessary treatment for indolent tumours and thereby maintain their quality of life better. (cancercentrum.se)
  • However, when analyzing breast cancer across ER subtype, we found a statistically significant ( p = 0.008) interaction between percent density and BMI in premenopausal women only. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The survival rate decreased significantly, and the difference between the experimental group and the control group on the 8th day was statistically significant ( χ 2 =77.490, P =0.020), and the pupation rate was 70.00%, which was 90.00% and lower than that of the control group. (bmsw.net.cn)
  • in suburban and urban areas represents a potential threat for public health because of its vectorial competence for at least 26 different arboviruses including dengue, chikungunya, Zika and yellow fever viruses [ 7 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Therefore, surveillance efforts to detect the presence of WNV can sometimes target reporting and testing of these types of dead birds (although many health departments no longer test dead birds). (msstate.edu)
  • The government through the health department have formulated policies that are intended to help in controlling the rate of youth suicide in the country. (essaywriter.org)
  • The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the World Health Organization concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. (who.int)
  • For the quantitative analysis, all patients in a community health center who reported food insecurity from October 2009 through March 2010 (n = 457) were followed through August 2013 and compared with controls matched by age, sex, and race/ethnicity (n = 1,974). (cdc.gov)
  • The Agincourt sub-district is in South Africa's rural north-east, adjacent to Mozambique, where the Wits/MRC (Agincourt) Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit has been monitoring causes of death, births and migration in a population of around 70 000 people since 1992[ 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Though physical activity and overweight/obesity have not been systematically studied for diverse populations, low-income groups and some communities of color clearly face additional jeopardy for health problems that are tied to low levels of physical activity. (plannersnetwork.org)
  • This comprehensive health profile is intended to serve as a tool to monitor progress in the health of the population. (who.int)
  • Active surveillance is recommended by The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, in spite of the fact that results from randomised studies of active surveillance are lacking. (cancercentrum.se)
  • It has now spread over the majority of the range of the species, leading to major population declines. (springer.com)
  • The release of three strains of Aphalara itadori (Shinji) (Hemiptera: Pysllidae), each from a different source locality in Japan, for the biological control of invasive knotweed species, Reynoutria spp. (authorea.com)
  • Breast density represents the relative amounts of dense (fibroglandular) and non-dense (fatty) areas on a mammogram. (biomedcentral.com)
  • CONCLUSIONS: MMR revaccination is immunogenic for the population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Numerous ground-nesting bird populations are in decline, so understanding the effects of camouflage on their nesting behaviour is of relevance to their conservation concern. (authorea.com)