Coronavirus Disease Mortality: Understanding Regional Differences

Understanding the 2019-novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) and Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Based on Available Evidence - A Review Study

Since December 2019, a new coronavirus, called the 2019-novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), triggers pneumonia outbreak from Wuhan (Huanan seafood market) across China, which now poses major health threats to public health. The Corona Virus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) epidemic by 2019-nCoV is spreading worldwide, and by March 1, 2020, 67 countries, including Iran, have been affected. According to worldw...

Understanding regional differences in maternal mortality : A national case - 2 control study in France

Understanding regional differences in maternal mortality: a national case-control study in France.

OBJECTIVES To assess the risk of postpartum maternal death associated with region, and to examine whether the quality of care received by the women who died differed by region. DESIGN A national case-control study. SETTING France. POPULATION Selected from recent nationwide surveys, 328 postpartum maternal deaths from 2001 through 2006 as cases; and a representative sample (n = 14 878) of ...

Mortality due to Chagas disease in Brazil from 1979 to 2009: trends and regional differences.

INTRODUCTION Studies on mortality due to parasitic diseases such as Chagas disease are useful to understand the epidemiology and to plan and guide control measures for these diseases. We analyzed mortality trends due to Chagas disease in Brazil and regions, between 1979 and 2009. METHODOLOGY Mortality data (underlying cause of death) were obtained from the nationwide Mortality Information Sys...

Understanding Human Coronavirus HCoV-NL63

Even though coronavirus infection of humans is not normally associated with severe diseases, the identification of the coronavirus responsible for the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome showed that highly pathogenic coronaviruses can enter the human population. Shortly thereafter, in Holland in 2004, another novel human coronavirus (HCoV-NL63) was isolated from a seven-month old infa...