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Disease burden

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A Theoretical Analysis of the Geography of Schistosomiasis in Burkina Faso Highlights the Roles of Human Mobility and Water Resources Development in Disease Transmission

Andrea Rinaldo, Enrico Bertuzzo, Lorenzo Mari, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Yeli Mariam Sou, Marino Gatto

We study the geography of schistosomiasis across Burkina Faso by means of a spatially explicit model of water-based disease dynamics. The model quantitatively addresses the geographic stratification of disease burden in a novel framework by explicitly acco ...

Public Library of Science2015

Sanitation of virus in human excreta and animal manure: a focus on mechanisms underlying inactivation heterogeneity

Tamar Kohn, Loïc Decrey, Shinobu Kazama, Kai Udert

Water, sanitation and hygiene interventions are among the most significant health interventions addressing the worldwide burden of diarrheal disease and environmental enteropathy. It was recently established that despite an increase in global toilet covera ...

2015

Premature deaths attributed to source-specific BC emissions in six urban US regions

Athanasios Nenes

Recent studies have shown that exposure to particulate black carbon (BC) has significant adverse health effects and may be more detrimental to human health than exposure to PM2.5 as a whole. Mobile source BC emission controls, mostly on diesel-burning vehi ...

Institute of Physics Publishing2015

Stratified medicine for mental disorders

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

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 ...

Elsevier Science Bv2014

MP2RAGE provides new clinically-compatible correlates of mild cognitive deficits in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Tobias Kober, Reto Meuli, Cristina Granziera, Guillaume Bonnier, Fabio Amarù

Despite that cognitive impairment is a known early feature present in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients, the biological substrate of cognitive deficits in MS remains elusive. In this study, we assessed whether T1 relaxometry, as obtained in clinically accep ...

Springer Heidelberg2014

Alcohol consumption, alcohol dependence, and related mortality in Italy in 2004: effects of treatment-based interventions on alcohol dependence

Gerrit Gmel

Background: The tradition of consuming alcohol has long been a part of Italian culture and is responsible for a large health burden. This burden may be reduced with effective interventions, one of the more important of which is treatment for Alcohol Depend ...

Biomed Central Ltd2013

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: time for visionary political leadership

Stewart Cole

Two decades ago, WHO declared tuberculosis a global emergency, and invested in the highly cost-effective directly observed treatment short-course programme to control the epidemic. At that time, most strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis were susceptible t ...

Elsevier2013

Global burden of injuries attributable to alcohol consumption in 2004: a novel way of calculating the burden of injuries attributable to alcohol consumption

Gerrit Gmel

Background: Alcohol consumption is a major risk factor for injuries; however, international data on this burden are limited. This article presents new methods to quantify the burden of injuries attributable to alcohol consumption and quantifies the number ...

Biomed Central Ltd2012

Estimating uncertainty of alcohol-attributable fractions for infectious and chronic diseases

Gerrit Gmel

Background: Alcohol is a major risk factor for burden of disease and injuries globally. This paper presents a systematic method to compute the 95% confidence intervals of alcohol-attributable fractions (AAFs) with exposure and risk relations stemming from ...

2011

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: household transmission and associated risk factors

Laurence Läser

Given the global burden of tuberculosis, and more precisely of multidrug-resistant (MDR) tuberculosis (TB), one of the most pressing epidemiological issues is the study and prevention of transmission. The study aims to assess transmission within households ...

2010

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