Epidemiologic Surveillance in Developing Countries

Institutional and surveillance database use in epidemiologic research in developing countries: revisiting some limitations.

Nutritional surveillance: experiences from developing countries.

Resolution V (paragraph 13) of the World Food Conference held in 1974 (United Nations, 1975) called for ‘. . . a global nutritional surveillance system to be established by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to monitor the food and nutrition conditions of the disadvantaged group...

Effective water supply surveillance in urban areas of developing countries.

Water supply surveillance generates data on the safety and adequacy of drinking water supply in order to contribute to the protection of human health. Most current models of water supply surveillance for urban areas come from developed countries and have significant shortcomings if directly applied elsewhere. There are differences not only in socio-economic conditions but also in the nature of ...

An Early Warning Surveillance Platform for Developing Countries

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Control of Rheumatoid Arthritis in Developing Countries

بیماری روماتیسم قلبی یکی از شایعترین علل مرگ و میر ناشی از بیماریهای قلبی و عروقی در کشورهای در حال توسعه می باشد. براساس بررسیهای انجام شده، میزان شیوع بیماری در جامعه و مدارس از ۱ الی ۲۲ در هر هزار نفر کودک می باشد. تخمین زده میشود که تعداد مبتلایان به بیماریهای مزمن روماتیسم قلبی در کشورهای در حال توسعه ۳۰ میلیون و در کشورهای صنعتی ۱ / ۵ میلیون باشد. بسیاری از موارد مرگ و میر ناشی از این بیم...