Introduction: For 10 years, Brazil has presented a significant flow in cruise ships with 597 011 travelers in 2015. Cruise ships represent a major mass gathering capacity, generating more risk of outbreaks and epidemics. Moreover, visiting several places presents travelers with the possibility of contact with some tropical diseases, which demands the development of specific pol...

To cite: Horga M, Gerdts C, Potts M. Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care 2013, 39, 2–4. BACKGROUND In 1957, along with many countries in Eastern Europe, Romania liberalised its abortion law. The Soviet model of birth control made surgical abortion easily available, but put restrictions on access to modern contraceptives, leading to an exceptionally high abortion rate. By the...

According to WHO, road traffic injuries are the eighth leading cause of death globally, and the leading cause of death among young people aged 15–29 years. Data from the European Road Safety Observatory in 2011 suggest that road traffic accidents in the member countries of the European Union (EU) annually claim around 34 000 lives and cause more than 1.1 million injuries, representing an estima...

The incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is estimated at 0.2 to 0.5 per 100 000 per year. One estimate was derived from an extrapolation of mortality and autopsy data from studies performed several decades ago. Kalbag and Woolf provide mortality figures from the British Registrar General. From 1952 to 1961 an average of 21.7 deaths from CVT were reported annually in a population of 56 ...

Non-traumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) usually caused by aneurysm rupture is a potentially devastating condition, feared both by patients and physicians. It is estimated that death from SAH occurs before hospital admission in 12% to 15% of cases1. The epidemiology of SAH shows some particularities which professionals involved with health policies and the care of people with this disorder s...

OBJECTIVES Our objective was to estimate the incidence of influenza-associated hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths in Central American Region. DESIGN AND SETTING We used hospital discharge records, influenza surveillance virology data, and population projections collected from Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua to estimate influenza-associated hospitalizations and...

INTRODUCTION Type 2 diabetes poses an increasing public health burden in South Africa (SA) with obesity as the main driver of the epidemic. Consumption of sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs) is linked to weight gain and reducing SSB consumption may significantly impact the prevalence of obesity and related diseases. We estimated the effect of a 20% SSB tax on the burden of diabetes in SA. METHOD...

In this issue, Arntz and colleagues published an interesting report on the daily (circadian), weekly (circaseptan) and monthly (circannual) variation in the occurrence of sudden death in West Berlin during the 5-year period from 1987 to 1991. The city of West Berlin, with about 2 million inhabitants, offered a unique opportunity of studying a population that was clearly defined within ‘the Wall...

The current supplement presents an overview of cholera disease burden and critical issues for the diagnosis, detection, prevention, and control of cholera in Africa. In 2013, the seventh cholera pandemic reached its 43rd year in Africa, with no evidence that it will end soon. More than 20 African countries have reported cholera to the World Health Organization (WHO) every year between 2007 and ...