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Injury prevention
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Different health systems-Different mortality outcomes? Regional disparities in avoidable mortality across German-speaking Europe, 1992-2019
Background: Evaluating the impact of health systems on premature mortality across different countries is a very challenging task, as it is hardly possible to disentangle it from the influence of contextual factors such as cultural differences. In this resp ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023A field-based modelling framework of the ecohydrology of schistosomiasis
Successful control of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease, is challenged by the intricacy of the wormâs lifecycle, which depends on aquatic snail intermediate hosts, and involves environmental, ecologic, and socio-economic factors. Current s ...
EPFL2018Gait disturbances as specific predictive markers of the first fall onset in elderly people: a two-year prospective observational study
Falls are common in the elderly, and potentially result in injury and disability. Thus, preventing falls as soon as possible in older adults is a public health priority, yet there is no specific marker that is predictive of the first fall onset. We hypothe ...
Frontiers Research Foundation2014The process of injury prevention within an international sport federation - Elite Alpine ski racing as an example
Since 2006 structured and evidence based research on injury prevention is conducted under the guidance and support of the International Ski Federation (FIS) within the Injury Surveillance System (ISS). The outcome of this work is used directly by the FIS f ...
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