Phthalates are associated with a variety of health outcomes, but sources that may be targeted for exposure reduction messaging remain elusive. Diet is considered a significant exposure pathway for these compounds. Therefore, we sought to identify primary foods associated with increased exposure through a review of the food monitoring survey and epidemiological data. A search in PubMed and Googl...

BACKGROUND While formal reporting, surveillance, and response structures remain essential to protecting public health, a new generation of freely accessible, online, and real-time informatics tools for disease tracking are expanding the ability to raise earlier public awareness of emerging disease threats. The rationale for this study is to test the hypothesis that the HealthMap informatics too...

Abstract Monitoring of sewer networks (SNs) is an important task whose planning can be related to various purposes, for example contaminant detection and epidemiological studies. This paper proposes two different approaches the identification a monitoring system in SNs. The first one best points starting from knowledge hydraulic behavior with respect specific sensor threshold values through opt...

Kuru is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy restricted to the Fore people and their neighbours in a remote region of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. When first investigated in 1957 it was found to be present in epidemic proportions, with approximately 1000 deaths in the first 5 years, 1957-1961. The changing epidemiological patterns and other significant findings such as ...

Dengue hemorrhagic fever cases in Bali have increased the past decade. Control and eradication efforts must be optimized. In order to create dengue-free zones, accurate information a comprehensive strategy for accelerating dengue vector management are required. This paper is based on empirical, field, epidemiological studies program evaluations guided by health belief model approach. this regar...

INTRODUCTION The diseases caused by Leishmania are spread worldwide and represent a significant public health problem. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to present the results of epidemiological surveillance of leishmaniasis in humans in Montenegro in the period from 1992 to 2013. METHODS The study was planned and realized as a descriptive epidemiological study.The sample included patient...

[b]Abstract Introduction.[/b] Web information systems can serve as a diagnostic tool for Internet users and to support the epidemiological work of doctors and health care providers. As part of this work, a system for detecting and calculating cardiovascular risk has been created. [b]Objectives[/b]. 1) Application of web-based risk assessment of cardiovascular death; 2) an attempt to evaluate th...

An important aspect of the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) is a greater emphasis on 9 reducing the health impacts of urban ambient air pollution (AAP) in developing countries. Meanwhile, 10 the burden of disease attributable to AAP in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is growing, yet estimates of its 11 impact in the region are likely underestimated due to a lack of air quality monitoring, the ...

High-throughput whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a revolutionary tool in public health microbiology and is gradually substituting classical typing methods in surveillance of infectious diseases. In combination with epidemiological methods, WGS is able to identify both sources and transmission-pathways during disease outbreak investigations. This review provides the current state of knowledge on...