The effect of Covid-19 pandemic on non-communicable disease prevention and management services in the primary health care system Iran

OBJECTIVES To describe trends in major communicable diseases in Syria during the ongoing conflict, and the challenges to communicable disease surveillance and control in the context of dynamic, large-scale population displacement, unplanned mass gatherings, and disruption to critical infrastructure. METHODS A rapid review of the peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed literature from 2005 to 2015...

The Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA) consists of communicable disease authorities from various Australian Government agencies and state and territory health authorities, in addition to expert bodies and individuals in the specifi c areas of communicable disease epidemiology, clinical management, disease control and laboratory diagnosis. The CDNA provides national public health lea...

BACKGROUND Easy-to-collect epidemiological information is critical for the more accurate estimation of the prevalence and burden of different non-communicable diseases around the world. Current measurement is restricted by limitations in existing measurement systems in the developing world and the lack of biometry tests for non-communicable diseases. Diagnosis based on self-reported signs and s...

Philosophical theories of collective action have produced a number of alternative accounts of the rationality and morality of self-interest and altruism. These have obvious applications to communicable disease control, the avoidance of antibiotic resistance, the responsibility of healthcare professionals to patients with serious communicable diseases, and the sharing of personal data in epidemi...

Although strengthening health-care systems is receiving increased attention, strengthening public health systems and institutions could save far more lives at lower cost. Public health institutes monitor, implement, and oversee programmes to prevent disease. Life-saving and cost-saving programmes include immunisations, control of communicable diseases including diarrhoeal disease, reduction of ...

OBJECTIVE The paper identifies the relative amount of research devoted to non-communicable disease in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). DESIGN A bibliometric analysis of a subset of journals published in LMICs was performed. MEASUREMENTS Seventy-six peer-reviewed journals focused on general medicine or public health published in 46 LMICs and indexed from 1998 to 2003 in MEDLINE. A t...

" Neither the European Commission nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission is responsible for the use which might be made of the following information " Leg i on n ai res ' di sease • The European community strategy against antimicrobial resistance • Legionnaires' disease clusters associated Peer-reviewed European information on communicable disease surveillance and control O u t b r e...

• ClinicalTrials.gov was searched in July 2015 for all trials with a study start date from January 2000 to December 2014 in five Latin American countries: Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.1 • Studies were classified as either related to communicable or non-communicable disease according to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Disease10, with studies that d...