EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND IMMUNOLOGICAL SURVEYS IN NETHERLANDS NEW GUINEA

Leprosy in Netherlands New Guinea.

Netherlands New Guinea, which comprises the western half of the island of New Guinea, has an area of about 152,000 SQuare miles and an estimated population of 1,000,000. Only the coastal tribes and a few in the interior, about 300,000 people in all, are under government control. Large areas of the interior are still unexplored, and living conditions there are extremely primitive. Leprosy has no...

Fresh-water Sawfishes and Sharks in Netherlands New Guinea.

Latent Learning in Earthworrns: R. P. Bharucha-Reid .................. Fresh-water Sawfishes and Sharks in Netherlands New Guinea: M. Boeseman .................................................. Inhibition of Audiogenic Seizures by Carbon Dioxide: W. G. AIitchell and R. C. Grubbs .................................. Use of Glycine in Bovine Semen Extenders Stored at 50 and 78°C: J. M. Rakes and 0....

OECD Economic Surveys NETHERLANDS

Integrating immunological and epidemiological models

Disease affects populations in two major and complementary ways: at the individual level, the infected may die or suffer other non-lethal but still undesirable consequences from the disease; at the population level, there may be devastation caused be it by diseases that decimate large numbers of individuals, or by creating endemic situations that are very costly in terms of treatment, preventio...

[The epidemiological transition in The Netherlands].

OBJECTIVE To assess the differences in the pattern of mortality by sex, age and cause of death between 1875-1879 and 1970 for the Netherlands, and the contribution of different causes of death to the decrease of total mortality between these periods. METHODS Mortality data for 1875-1879 were extracted from one of the first publications after the start of the national cause-of-death register, ...