In Dube [2013], Arindrajit Dube criticizes an earlier draft of our paper.1 Some of his concerns – such as our choice of data sets, the time periods we examine, and the inclusion of unemployment rates as a control – we address in the latest version. In this appendix, we briefly respond to two primary criticisms which do not merit in-depth discussion in the main text: first, that our results are ...

BACKGROUND Several countries or regions within countries have an effective national asthma strategy resulting in a reduction of the large burden of asthma to individuals and society. There has been no systematic appraisal of the extent of national asthma strategies in the world. METHODS The Global Asthma Network (GAN) undertook an email survey of 276 Principal Investigators of GAN centres in ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of the practice of leisure-time physical activity in older adults and to analyze its association with environment perception. METHODS Cross-sectional population study conducted from September 2009 to June 2010 with 1.656 individuals aged 60 years or older, living in the urban zone of the city of Florianópolis, Southern Brazil. Leisure-time physical activit...

p o r o t t p 2 a t t p a t i i m c p y Childhood obesity is widely recognized as a major public health problem of global significance.1 In Latin America, the ever-rising rates of overweight and obesity observed over the past three decades have not spared children and adolescents. The most recent data estimate that between 42.4 and 51.8 million children and adolescents (0-18 years) are overweig...

Despite past WHO/UNICEF led global yaws eradication efforts, the disease seems to persist. The true burden is however not known for comprehensive action. Ghana's data showed significant increase in notified cases since the 1970s. Recognizing limitations in routine data, we carried out a yaws treatment survey in 2008 in three purposively selected districts to establish the prevalence and learn l...

We examined IgG antibody to Toxoplasma in sera from 1,693 inhabitants aged 20-85 years in Jakarta. The seroprevalence rate was 70%, without any significant differences between males (71%) and females (69%). Some epidemiological factors contributing to the high prevalences of antibody to Toxoplasma in inhabitants of urban areas in Indonesia were discussed.

background: mothers are highly vulnerable to depression within the first year after childbirth. approximately 10-20% of mothers suffer from depression during this period, and half of these women with symptoms of prominent postpartum depression (ppd) remain undiagnosed. the edinburgh postnatal depression scale (epds) is the most widely applied screening instrument for ppd evaluation. in this stu...