They also provide day-to-day supervision of public health conditions, and can monitor communicable disease and vaccine efficacy and coverage. In addition, they support standards of clinical laboratories in biochemistry, microbiology, and genetic screening. Reference laboratories are specialized central ...
Usefulness of screening large numbers of contacts for tuberculosis: Questionnaire based review. Reports on the results of a questionnaire survey on consultants in communicable disease control and medical officers in England and Wales regarding their e... Stoddart,Helen,Noah,... - 《Bmj British Medica...
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), notably cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes mellitus, are largely driven by metabolic syndrome (MetS), a cluster of critical risk factors. Despite extensive research, the progression of MetS, especially in Indonesia, has received limited attention. This research...
While the country is progressing toward universal health coverage, prevention and control strategies in Ethiopia should consider the double burden of common infectious diseases and non-communicable diseases: lower respiratory infections, diarrhea, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and ...
BACKGROUND: The high co-morbidity of mental disorders, particularly depression, with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease (CVD),... I Petersen,A Bhana,N Folb,... - 《Trials》 被引量: 8发表: 2018年 Sociodemographic profile and social support for post-stroke depressi...
This is an important finding because a potential downside of population-based screenings are concerns about possible negative mental health implications of alerting individuals about underlying disease risk factors when they may have limited options to prevent or treat the respective diseases. ...
The fol- lowing factors are likely to lead to increases in disease burden due to CDs in the near future: Increased drug resistance for diseases such as TB, malaria and HIV; climate change and ecological system changes due to urbanization and industrialization (for malaria, dengue fever); ...
in 2015 evaluated DS consumption in patients with cardiac disease; this study showed that DS use is common in cardiac patients, and 45% of them consumed DS [53]. Gohar et al., in a Cross-sectional questionnaire survey in 2008 on hypertensive patients in the UK, showed that the prevalence...
Moreover, evidence suggests that CHWs are interested in deliveringcardiovascular disease prevention services within their communities [24] and thus it is crucial to understand their level of knowledge, attitudes and perceived role in addressingNCDs as part of the feasibility of involving them in the ...
The WHO has ranked environmental hazardous exposures in the living and working environment among the top risk factors for chronic disease mortality. Worldwide, about 40 million people die each year from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) including cancer, diabetes, and chronic cardiovascular, neurological ...