From risk factors to explanation in public health

From risk factors to explanation in public health.

Agent, host and environmental factors offer a powerful approach to elucidating the causes of an outbreak of infectious disease after it occurs. They are less helpful in predicting when an outbreak will occur and do not explain why the conditions for the outbreak arose in the first place. As public health turns its attention toward non-infectious health problems such as obesity or adolescent sui...

Risk factors and public health in Denmark Summary report

PUBLIC HEALTH Fatality Risk Factors for Bicyclists in Croatia

Results. The percentage of bicyclist fatalities among total road fatalities showed a decreasing trend over the years, from 11.6% in 1998 to 8.2% in 2000. The most frequent type of accident involving bicyclist fatalities were accidents in carbicycle collisions (lowest: 74.7% in 1998; and highest: 81.3% in 1997). Most accidents occurred at the beginning and at the end of the bicycle season – mont...

A Sociology Study of Effective Factors in Public Health

The healthiness of a society depends on variety of complicated factors that have genetical and environmental aspects and in an extensive spectrum finds social aspect. This research is going to analyze effective social factors on public healthiness and research method survey is base on measurement. It made in the framework of theories of Adler, Dall, Cokerham, Parsans, Mayner and Dayner. Statist...

Public health risk assessment of chromium intake from vegetable grown in the wastewater irrigated site in Bangladesh

There are many potential risks to human health from heavy metal contamination of vegetables resulting from wastewater irrigated sites. This study was carried out to assess the concentration of chromium (Cr) and the risk to human health by chromium through the intake of locally grown vegetables collected from wastewater irrigated agricultural fields. Twenty-seven samples of 9 (nine) different ty...