نتایج جستجو برای: epidemiologic transition

تعداد نتایج: 283342  

Journal: :Occupational and environmental medicine 2001
D Coggon

Ethical aspects of medical research have had a high public profile in the UK lately. There has been concern, for example, about the level of information provided to participants when consenting to clinical trials; regarding the retention of organs removed at necropsy without the knowledge or permission of next of kin; and about the rights and wrongs of cloning human tissues. In general, occupat...

2005
ABDEL R. OMRAN Abdel R. Omran

A lthough demography continues to be the most prominent discipline concerned with population dynamics, involvement of other disciplines is highly desirable. The case for a multidisciplinary approach to population theory has been aptly stated by Kurt Mayer: “Any meaningful interpretation of the cause and effects of population changes must . . . extend beyond formal statistical measurement of the...

2013
Rajah Rasiah Khalid Yusoff Amiri Mohammadreza Rishya Manikam Makmor Tumin Sankara Kumar Chandrasekaran Shabnam Khademi Najmin Abu Bakar

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) related deaths is not only the prime cause of mortality in the world, it has also continued to increase in the low and middle income countries. Hence, this study examines the relationship between CVD risk factors and socioeconomic variables in Malaysia, which is a rapidly growing middle income nation undergoing epidemiologic transition. METHODS Using da...

Journal: :American journal of physical anthropology 2016
Charlotte J Houldcroft Simon J Underdown

High quality Altai Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes are revealing which regions of archaic hominin DNA have persisted in the modern human genome. A number of these regions are associated with response to infection and immunity, with a suggestion that derived Neanderthal alleles found in modern Europeans and East Asians may be associated with autoimmunity. As such Neanderthal genomes are an ind...

2012

A silent pandemic of chronic diseases is gradually enveloping the world population, spreading to all corners of the globe. This distinct spectrum of human afflictions is systemically replacing infectious and parasitic diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, thereby producing one of the greatest public health challenges of all time. According to global mortality data ...

Journal: :The West Indian medical journal 2008
E E Chung

There is an increase prevalence of chronic non-communicable diseases in the Caribbean as the region undergoes an epidemiologic transition from infectious to chronic non-communicable diseases. Numerous studies have identified hypertension, obesity, diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidaemia as risk factors for the development of coronary atherosclerosis. The Caribbean Cardiac Society recognizes that ...

Journal: :MEDICC review 2011
Agustín Lage

The article presents global data on access to pharmaceuticals and discusses underlying barriers. Two are highly visible: pricing policies and intellectual property rights; two are less recognized: the regulatory environment and scientific and technological capacities. Two ongoing transitions influence and even distort the problem of universal access to medications: the epidemiologic transition ...

2012
Sreejith Parameswaran

India has a population of 1.2 billion and in the recent years has registered impressive economic growth. The mean per capita gross national product has grown; however approximately 70% of the population still lives on less than Rupees 60 per day. It is evident that an epidemiologic transition is taking place in India with a decline in the burden of infectious diseases along with a significant r...

2012
Young-Ho Khang Sang-il Lee

In recent years, health inequalities have become an important public health concern and the subject of both research and policy attention in Korea. Government reports, as well as many epidemiological studies, have provided evidence that a wide range of health outcomes and health-related behaviors are socioeconomically patterned, and that the magnitude of health inequalities is even increasing. ...

Journal: :Ciencia & saude coletiva 2008
Guilherme Loureiro Werneck

This paper reviews some conceptual and practical issues regarding the application of georeferenced data in epidemiologic research. Starting with the disease mapping tradition of geographical medicine, topics such as types of georeferenced data, implications for data analysis, spatial autocorrelation and main analytical approaches are heuristically discussed, relying on examples from the epidemi...

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