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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Global Burden of Disease"”.
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Machine Learning for Injuries Cause of Death Assignment: A New Method for the Global Burden of Disease Study
Globally, injuries were responsible for 8% of deaths in 2017 and have been a neglected source of burden, especially in many low income countries.1,2 Effective public health interventions and decision making rely on accurate estimates of injuries burden; however, inconsistent and unreliable coding …
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Tobacco use and cessation counseling in a population of health professions students in South Africa
Tobacco is a leading risk factor for the global burden of disease in both developed and developing countries. The morbidity and mortality caused by tobacco can be prevented efficaciously and cost-effectively by active intervention from health professionals. In developing countries, a limited number …
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Learning Styles, Critical Thinking Aptitudes, and Immersion Learning in Physician Assistant Students
… changes in healthcare delivery systems and the global burden of disease along with the overwhelming corpus of new knowledge call for a re-evaluation of the educational process of health profession programs. The focus on how best to optimize the learning process necessitates an acknowledgement of …
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Personal Responsibility for Health; Should we Bear the Costs of our Risky Health Affecting Choices?
What role, if any, the concept of personal responsibility for health should play in health policy is a burning question. Human beings have long known that their behaviour can cause ill-health, but it is only in the last century that we have come to understand that our behaviour is causally …
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Developing Interpretable Data Mining Frameworks for Addressing Biomedical Challenges in Genomics and Imaging
The global burden of disease has evolved significantly in recent decades. Since the early 2000s, we have witnessed multiple widespread outbreaks of respiratory viruses including Influenza A and SARS-CoV-2, alongside a marked increase in chronic conditions such as diabetic retinopathy (DR). These …
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Cardiac mitochondrial respiration in two rodent models of obesity
Obesity is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and is closely associated with the development of type II diabetes. Recent studies have demonstrated that increased circulating free fatty acid (FFA) levels may have detrimental effects on the diabetic heart. In this study, we …
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Where does the time go? An investigation of self-reported time allocation
… recognized as a substantial contributor to the global burden of disease, as well as economic productivity. Behavioral activation has been shown to be an efficacious treatment for depression, drawing on the work of early behavioral theorists and research on the quantitative matching law. …
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La Decisione Condivisa nella Schizofrenia - Analisi delle evidenze e creazione di un Supporto Digitale per la gestione degli effetti collaterali degli antipsicotici: PROTECTS-SE
La schizofrenia si posiziona tra le prime 20 cause di disabilità a livello globale, come evidenziato dal Global Burden of Disease Report. Questa condizione complessa si manifesta precocemente e comprende uno spettro di sintomi. I sintomi positivi includono deliri e allucinazioni, mentre i sintomi …
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Identifying strategies to inform interventions for the secondary prevention of stroke in UK primary care
Stroke is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease in adults. With the risk of recurrent stroke high, preventative medicines aimed at risk factor reduction are the method of choice for addressing the challenge of increased morbidity and mortality and improving patient outcomes. …
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Non-communicable diseases and economic outcomes in South Africa: a cohort study for the period of 2008-2018
Background: The total number of people living with non-communicable diseases in South Africa currently is unknown even though non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was accountable for 60% of the top ten causes of death in South Africa for the year 2015. In 2016, according to Stats SA, noncommunicable …
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Dietary composition in the context of development: a re-examination of the nutrition transition
A representation of the quality of an individual’s dietary consumption in its entirety through a single measure that is succinct yet holistic has been sought by those within the nutrition research community for many years. The emergence of the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) and its …
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Depression amongst caregivers of children and adolescents with perinatally acquired HIV in Cape Town, South Africa
… health disorder. It adds significantly to the global burden of disease and is responsible for the most years of life lost to disability in both men and women (Rehm & Shield, 2019). The successful roll-out of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to those living with HIV has resulted in the emergence of …
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Prevalence, and outcomes of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Background: While eradicated in other parts of the world, Rheumatic Heart Disease, nevertheless, remains one of the most common acquired heart diseases in low- to middle- income countries; in sub-Saharan Africa, there was an estimated prevalence of 10 persons per 1,000 population in 2015. In the …
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Measuring ambient air quality using low-cost sensors
… is the leading environmental risk factor for the global burden of disease. Accurate and reliable air quality measurements can help identify sources of pollution, enabling mitigation strategies that lead to longer, healthier lives and reduce the economic impact caused by air pollution. Low-cost …
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Neurosurgery in Resource-Poor Settings: Improving Access to Surgical Education and Outcomes Analysis of Spine Surgery in a Training Hospital in Cambodia
… has historically been a neglected topic in the global health sphere. However, up to 30% of the global burden of disease is surgical in nature and great strides have been made in the past few years to spotlight and begin to rectify the huge gap in access to safe, timely, and affordable surgical …
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Translational Studies of Acute and Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury: Molecular Profiling of Tissue and Biofluids
… injury (TBI) is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. Despite the growing awareness of TBI and years of research into biomechanics and pathophysiologic mechanisms, there is still a lack of effective therapies to treat patients. To better understand the genomic landscape in …
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Nutrition interventions in people experiencing severe mental illness
… illness (SMI) have a reduced life expectancy of 15-years when compared to the general population, primarily driven by preventable cardiovascular disease and other cardiometabolic complications. There is a large body of literature describing poor physical health in people experiencing SMI, but …
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Improving access to surgery in low- and middle-income countries through improved emergency and essential surgical care provision at district hospitals
Surgical conditions contribute to one-third of the global burden of disease, yet many individuals in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) lack access to emergency and essential surgical care. In South Africa, 86% of the population resides within 2-hours of a district hospital equipped with …
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Transcendental meditation on blood pressure in hypertensive patients as an alternative/adjuvant to pharmacotherapy
… pressures are associated with greater risks of cardiac disease. Less than half of the population with hypertension are aware of their diagnosis and those who are aware are not always adequately treated. Proper management of hypertension has the potential to reduce the global burden of disease …
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Magnetism of anthropogenic airborne particulate matter
The global burden of disease associated with ambient particulate matter (PM<sub>2.5</sub>) pollution is the leading threat to life expectancy according to the Air Quality Life Index (AQLI) 2023 report. The study of airborne PM is key to understanding both its source, and its impact on human health. …
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