Mothers' knowledge and attitudes to sudden infant death syndrome risk reduction messages: results from a UK survey Objective To investigate mothers' knowledge of reducing the risks for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and attitudes towards safer sleep practices. AS Pease,PS Blair,J Ingram,......
The risk of manmade climate change is one that people would not be aware of without scientific research. People experience a great deal of weather and climate variability over the seasonal cycle and from year to year. People would not be aware of the scientific research on climate change if ...
Most of emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are of animal origin and transmitted under natural circumstances from either, wild or domestic vertebrate animals giving the way of zoonotic infection or epidemics. Zoonotic diseases carry a common ancient history between human and animals as a result...
Objective To investigate mothers' knowledge of reducing the risks for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and attitudes towards safer sleep practices.Pease, Anna S.Univ Bristol Sch Social &Blair, Peter S.Community Med Ctr Child &Ingram, Jenny...
[89]. They commonly have a high skeletal content, which lowers their water storage capacities [90]. The persistent rain quickly saturated the soils, which were already strongly waterlogged due to previous rainfall [86]. Saturation conditions of the sediments are a crucial driver for flash flood ...
A large cross-sectional study of 6835 patients presenting with fever and cough/sore throat across 13 Peruvian cities found influenza A and/or B viruses to be the etiologic agent for 34% of these patients [2]. Even in the tropical climate of the Peruvian Amazon rainforest, influenza has ...
Imagine a house that is situated next to a river that is known to overflow its banks when heavy rain occurs. Now, imagine a house that is situated on a hill, 100 meters from the river. We do not know when the river will overflow, but we do know which house is more likely to be ...
The African continent has high sensitivity to a changing climate because of the prevalence of factors that increase the degree to which stress is experience by the system, such as widespread poverty, overdependence on rain-fed agriculture, inequitable land distribution and poor governance (Watson et...
Smoyer KE, Rainham DG, Hewko JN: Heat-Stress-Related Mortality in Five Cities in Southern Ontario. International Journal of Meteorology. 2000, 44: 190-197. CAS Google Scholar Harlan SLB, AJ Prashad, L Stefanov WL, Larson L: Neighborhood Microclimates and Vulnerability to Heat Stress. Social...
He notes that this process resets itself as the nature of the risk changes, or if there is a need to update the messages, based on the public’s response to the risk and warning message. Quarantelli [33] later expanded on the WPF, proposing that the first phase of assessment, involving...