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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Epidemiological Transition"”.
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Depression and metabolic syndrome across epidemiological transition
Background: Depression and metabolic syndrome (MetS) are growing global health concerns, but limited research focuses on African-origin populations. This study investigates the association between MetS and depression among individuals in Ghana, South Africa (SA), Jamaica, Seychelles, and the United …
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Hepatitis A seroprevalence in South Africa: Are we in epidemiological transition?
Hepatitis A virus (HAV) is the most common cause of viral hepatitis worldwide. Infection with HAV is vaccine preventable, however, a vaccine against HAV is not included in the Expanded Programme on Immunization in South Africa (SA). South Africa was considered to be a high endemic country for …
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Analysing the socioeconomic determinants of hypertension in South Africa: A structural equation modelling approach
Epidemiological research has long since observed that the prevalence of hypertension varies across populations' socioeconomic strata. Higher socioeconomic status (SES) has been consistently associated with lower levels of blood pressure in most studies from Europe and North America, while research …
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Dengue and development: a critical political ecology
… conventional thinking by policy makers about epidemiological transition and the social determinants of health.</p> <p>The dissertation addresses the dearth of research into the world's neglected tropical diseases (NTDs); in particular, gaps in our understanding of the biopolitical and …
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The 8-year incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes in five African-origin populations
… African-origin populations. The Modeling of Epidemiological Transition Study (METS, 2009) enrolled 2,506 African-origin participants, aged 25-45, from five countries and its ancillary study; METS-Microbiome, continued yearly research visits in 2,085 participants (2018-2019). The countries …
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Associations between socioeconomic status and prevalence, incidence and complications of type 2 diabetes in China
… which are contributing to socioeconomic and epidemiological transition. Socioeconomic status (SES) is an important determinant of health. Evidence from developed countries shows that, during the epidemiological transition NCDs arise initially in population sub-groups of high SES and then …
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Life course socioeconomic circumstances and cardiovascular disease risk in Central and Eastern Europe
… and that they may vary by the stage of the epidemiological transition and by local context.
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Evaluating the prognostic value of risk factors contributing to cardiovascular disease and established risk score estimations
… worldwide, with South Africa experiencing epidemiological transition. Although predictive models, such as the Framingham Risk Score (FRS), are widely used to predict CVD risks, these models often lack accuracy for diverse populations, including those in South Africa. Therefore, there is an …
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Patient case records of the Royal Free Hospital, 1902-1912
… stands out, which has raised issues relating to epidemiological transition hypotheses and the wider physical condition of the population during the period of this study. Hospital doctoring has been considered alongside the medical and surgical treatments afforded the patients, in order to …
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Access to acute stroke care: a description of stroke patients' journey to a district hospital
… decades, with the population undergoing a rapid epidemiological transition, with a rise in the incidence of stroke risk factors together with the gradual aging of the population. Evidence-based guidelines for acute stroke care are often not feasible in resource challenged settings but even when …
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Design of a mobile kit for cardiovascular disease screening in resource constrained environments
… (CVDs). In countries that are making this epidemiological transition, such as India, chronic diseases are also a hindrance to economic health as a large portion of deaths occur when people are still active in the work force. There are various policies that may be implemented to curb the …
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The epidemiology of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDS) and NCD risk factors in adolescents & youth living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
… countries (LMIC), is currently undergoing an epidemiological transition with a growing burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) co-occurring with an existent burden of infectious diseases like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). South Africa continues to have the biggest HIV epidemic …
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Essays on political economy
… violent conflict. Exploiting the international epidemiological transition starting in the 1940s, we construct an instrument for changes in population (Acemoglu and Johnson, 2007) and find that countries with higher (exogenous) increases in population experimented larger increases in social …
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Socioeconomic status and diabetes among Mexican adults
… at early stages of the nutritional and epidemiological transition.
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Prevalence of overweight and obesity among 6-13 year old Kuwaiti school children: secular trends, risk factors and their implications
… picture of the influence of the demographic and epidemiological transition on health habits, lifestyle changes, dietary patterns and obesity risk among 6-13 year old Kuwaiti school children. A sample of 1536 Kuwaiti school children was recruited in 2001 through a multi-stage cluster and …
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Effect of diabetes and HIV on radiographic manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis
Due to the epidemiological transition, diabetes prevalence in South Africa is increasing, while HIV prevalence remains high. Diabetes, along with HIV, has been found to be a significant risk factor for the development of tuberculosis. Early detection and treatment of tuberculosis is essential to …
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The relationship between household wealth and HIV prevalence in Ethiopia
… illustrates the main findings of the conflicting epidemiological literature on the socioeconomic determinants of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and presents a summary of the major studies on wealth, education and place of residence as risk factors for HIV prevalence. Part C (Article) presents the …
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The impact of body fat and its distribution on risk factors for cardiovascular disease in black South African women
… In South Africa, a country currently undergoing epidemiological transition, the prevalence of obesity is high, particularly in urban black women. Early detection of overweight and obese individuals is essential for the management of obesity and its related co-morbidities; however, there is no …
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Essays on human capital and economic development
In this dissertation I discuss how the allocation of human capital, in the form of education, across groups and sectors impacts economic development. Particularly, in Chapter 2, I provide evidence that improvements in life expectancy achieved along the 20th century impeded countries from moving …
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Understanding blood pressure dynamics in the South African population: a latent variables approach to the analysis and comparison of data from multiple surveys
… burden, and, because of the rapid demographic transition towards larger and older populations, the burden is bound to increase rapidly in the coming years, unless age‐specific values of blood pressure are substantially reduced to compensate for the unfavourable demographic changes. Achieving …
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