Environmental Burden of Childhood Disease in Europe

Environmental Burden of Disease from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator

Environmental Burden of Disease in Europe: Assessing Nine Risk Factors in Six Countries

BACKGROUND Environmental health effects vary considerably with regard to their severity, type of disease, and duration. Integrated measures of population health, such as environmental burden of disease (EBD), are useful for setting priorities in environmental health policies and research. This review is a summary of the full Environmental Burden of Disease in European countries (EBoDE) project ...

The hidden Chagas disease burden in Europe.

Chagas disease in non-endemic countries that is, in countries outside Latin America with exceptional or no vectorial transmission such as in Europe has come to light since the beginning of 2000. The emergence of the disease in those countries was mainly linked to population mobility, notably migration. During the last century, Chagas disease cases were detected in nonendemic countries in North ...

O4: Status of Road Safety and Injury Burden: Europe

Road traffic injuries are an ongoing global health burden and cause more than 1.2 million deaths per year. In Europe, the annual socioeconomic impact accounts for €130 billion. In 2011, the United Nations set a special focus on road safety and injury prevention by the proclamation of the “Decade of Action for Road Safety.” This initiative focuses mainly on developing countries. In Germany, many ...

Childhood pneumococcal disease burden in Argentina.

OBJECTIVES To understand the disease burden of pneumococcal disease (PD), a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality in Argentina, and to draw a baseline against which the need for and effectiveness of vaccination with pneumococcal conjugate vaccines might be measured. METHODS A Markov model was constructed to estimate incidence and mortality rates of PD-meningitis (MEN), bacteremia/s...