Following the scale-up of intervention efforts, malaria burden has decreased dramatically in Solomon Islands (SI). Submicroscopic and asymptomatic Plasmodium vivax infections are now the major challenge for malaria elimination in this country. Since chil
The original case definition criteria were fulfilled by 240 patients, 168 (70.0%) of whom were from Central America (including Panama), 42 (17.5%) of whom were from the Caribbean, and 30 (12.5%) of whom were from South America. The Central America group contained the highest proportion of...
Occupational Health and Safety Act definition of workplace harassment includes harassment on the basis of sex and gender. https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standards-act-0/equal-pay-equal-work#section-2 British Columbia Ministry of Health In 2008, a report was released on a...
Unification of the definition of ‘severeP. vivaxcase’ recently by the WHO has facilitated the reporting of such cases by the personnel of health treatment facilities [42]. This was done through the modification of the definition of ‘severeP. falciparumcase’. Severe vivax malaria is defined ...
As there are substantial differences in the definition of coverage of greenspace, vegetation density, and proximity to greenspace, health studies generally analyzed associations between a single greenspace-related index and mortality. The lack of comparison of mortality risks across multiple greenspace ...
Understanding is growing of the unique genetic risk factors and gene–environment risk interactions in IIM, and of the influence of infections, medications (including statins and immune-checkpoint inhibitors), malignancy and geography. This is a preview of subscription content,log in via an institution...
Historically, the definition of research goals in epidemiology has often referred to the wider "circumstances […] under which human disease is prone to develop" [60, p. 539]. But over time the defi- nition narrowed, influenced by biomedical, causal, and downstream perspectives. In the ...
Other epidemiological studies of prostate cancer have relied in part on self-reported exposure to Agent Orange, which has been shown not to be a valid indicator of serum TCDD levels [81]. Many of these studies also used the VA’s presumptive definition of Agent Orange exposure, which classifie...
1990 CPH-I-18 (1993) A guide to state and local census geography. U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of the Census, June 1993. U.S. GPO:1993-341-833/84018 Bureau USC (2005) Historical poverty tables—poverty by definition of income. R&D ...
Historically, the definition of research goals in epidemiology has often referred to the wider “circumstances […] under which human disease is prone to develop” [60, p. 539]. But over time the definition narrowed, influenced by biomedical, causal, and downstream perspectives. In the ...