IN a recent message to the National Legislative Assembly, General Jorge Ubico, the president of Guatemala, gives the following details concerning health conditions in that country during 1939. 324,031 treatments were given to 67,371 malaria patients, 85,407 persons were treated for intestinal ...
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This multi-level multi-method needs assessment using the building blocks framework highlights contextual factors in Guatemala’s public health system that have been important in informing the implementation of a hypertension control trial. Long-term needs that are not addressed within the scope of this...
Contraceptive commodity sales have been used to indicate healthcare behavior in certain epidemics [24–26]. This is primarily the case with Zika outbreak studies. Therefore, authors have investigated changes in the sales of contraceptives at the country level and pre-, during, and postoutbreak sale...
Since its re-introduction in 1986, Brazil has become a hotspot for dengue and has experienced yearly epidemics. As a notifiable infectious disease, Brazil uses a passive epidemiological surveillance system to collect and report cases; however, dengue burden is underestimated. Thus, Internet data ...
R Hahn,MC Inhorn 摘要: PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEMS 1. The Anthropology of Childhood Malaria in Tanzania 2. Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in the Medical Marketplace of India: Implications for Effort to Improve Global Respiratory Health 3. Situating Stress: ...
The efficacy of social distance and ventilation effectiveness in preventing COVID-19 transmission. Sustain. Cities Soc. 2020, 62, 102390. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Vokó, Z.; Pitter, J.G. The effect of social distance measures on COVID-19 epidemics in Europe: An interrupted time series ...
2. Inequality, Revolts and Epidemics: The Seedbed for Health Philanthrocapitalism This section seeks to position the evolution of philanthrocapitalism in the context of economic history, evolution, and complexity theory. Humans, like other primates and many other social animals, are a hierarchical ...
Annis, S. Physical access and utilization of health services in rural Guatemala.Soc. Sci. Med. Part D Med. Geogr.15, 515–523 (1981). ArticleCASGoogle Scholar Parker, E. & Campbell, J. Measuring access to primary medical care: some examples of the use of geographical information systems....
The World Health Organization (WHO) Global status report on non communicable diseases 2010[1] ranked the monitoring and surveillance of risk factors as a top priority to tackle growing NCD epidemics in low-resource settings. Increasingly, public health is turning to social determinants of health to...