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The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: Hands On

This article describes discussions held at the ICPIC 2015 conference in Geneva, where a one-day session focused on the 2014–2015 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. Topics include the timeline of the international response, linkages between ...

Biomed Central Ltd2016

Digital Pharmacovigilance and Disease Surveillance: Combining Traditional and Big-Data Systems for Better Public Health

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The digital revolution has contributed to very large data sets (ie, big data) relevant for public health. The two major data sources are electronic health records from traditional health systems and patient-generated data. As the two data sources have comp ...

Oxford University Press (OUP)2016

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Derek Pierre Christie

From the point of view of public health and the environment, it can be argued that people who spontaneously walk great distances display a desirable behaviour, whereas those who drive a car without any walking in public space do not. A suggested metric can ...

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Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

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This study concerns the economics of innovation in the area of medical innovation -new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines-, and in particular how innovation contributes to meeting public health needs. Significant advances have taken place in medical scien ...

EPFL2015

Relationship between land cover type and Body Mass Index in Geneva

Stéphane Joost, Idris Guessous, Jens Ingensand, Estelle Rochat, Ivo Widmer, Alain Clémence

Past studies conducted in urban areas analyzed the impact of the presence of green spaces on public health, and highlighted in particular the psychological benefits of interacting with nature. To investigate a supposed relationship between overweight and d ...

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Temporal evolution of bacterial communities associated with the in situ wetland-based remediation of a marine shore porphyry copper tailings deposit

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Mine tailings are a serious threat to the environment and public health. Remediation of these residues can be carried out effectively by the activation of specific microbial processes. This article presents detailed information about temporal changes in ba ...

Elsevier2015

Stratified medicine for mental disorders

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There is recognition that biomedical research into the causes of mental disorders and their treatment needs to adopt new approaches to research. Novel biomedical techniques have advanced our understanding of how the brain develops and is shaped by behaviou ...

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Towards a new tuberculosis drug: pyridomycin - nature's isoniazid

Stewart Cole, Florence Pojer, Claudia Sala, Ruben Hartkoorn, Joao Pedro De Almeida Neres, Swapna Uplekar, Raju Mukherjee, Sophie Magnet

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Wiley Open Access2012

Generalized reproduction numbers and the prediction of patterns in waterborne disease

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Lorenzo Righetto, Marino Gatto

Understanding, predicting, and controlling outbreaks of waterborne diseases are crucial goals of public health policies, but pose challenging problems because infection patterns are influenced by spatial structure and temporal asynchrony. Although explicit ...

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American Public Health Association

The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: Hands On

Digital Pharmacovigilance and Disease Surveillance: Combining Traditional and Big-Data Systems for Better Public Health

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Relationship between land cover type and Body Mass Index in Geneva

Temporal evolution of bacterial communities associated with the in situ wetland-based remediation of a marine shore porphyry copper tailings deposit

Stratified medicine for mental disorders

Comparison Between Reconstructions of Global Anthropogenic Land Cover Change over Past Two Millennia

Towards a new tuberculosis drug: pyridomycin - nature's isoniazid

Generalized reproduction numbers and the prediction of patterns in waterborne disease

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The 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa: Hands On

Temporal evolution of bacterial communities associated with the in situ wetland-based remediation of a marine shore porphyry copper tailings deposit

Digital Pharmacovigilance and Disease Surveillance: Combining Traditional and Big-Data Systems for Better Public Health

Institutions, Innovation and Public Health

Stratified medicine for mental disorders

Big walkers over non-walking drivers: a walking-related metric for evaluating the success of transportation and public health policies

Generalized reproduction numbers and the prediction of patterns in waterborne disease

Towards a new tuberculosis drug: pyridomycin - nature's isoniazid

Comparison Between Reconstructions of Global Anthropogenic Land Cover Change over Past Two Millennia

Relationship between land cover type and Body Mass Index in Geneva