Poverty-Related Diseases Attack Simultaneously

Poverty-Related Diseases Attack Simultaneously.

The poverty-related neglected diseases: Why basic research matters

Together, malaria and the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) kill more than 800,000 people annually, while creating long-term disability in millions more. International support for mass drug administration, bed nets, and other preventive measures has resulted in huge public health gains, while support for translational research is leading to the development of some new neglected disease drugs, ...

Livestock Diseases and Poverty

of effective tsetse control if it is implemented as a coordinated effort. The use of traps and insecticide-treated cattle requires a fully coordinated program over a wide area to be at all effective and to provide benefits to farmers over a broad area. Sequential aerial spraying with non-residual insecticides is another way to achieve area-wide control, as is the release of sterile insects to e...

Poverty-related and neglected diseases – an economic and epidemiological analysis of poverty relatedness and neglect in research and development

Background Economic growth in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) has raised interest in how disease burden patterns are related to economic development. Meanwhile, poverty-related diseases are considered to be neglected in terms of research and development (R&D). Objectives Developing intuitive and meaningful metrics to measure how different diseases are related to poverty and neglected in...

Asbestos-related Lung Diseases: A Brief Update

Health risks from asbestos exposures have been evaluated, considering past professional histories when exposures at workplaces were higher than today. A linear no-threshold (LNT) model has been applied, although its relevance is unproven. Fibers are often found in the lungs and pleura of deceased people. Fiber findings do not prove that a disease is caused by asbestos. It is reasonable to assum...