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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Premature deaths."”.
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Pharmaceutical pricing : assessing the impact of factors influencing HIV/AIDS and AIDS related medicine prices in Zimbabwe
… to find means and ways of reducing the number of premature deaths due to AIDS. Access to affordable drugs will have great impact on reducing these premature deaths in the country. However high AIDS and opportunistic infections drug prices have rendered these medicines unaffordable and inaccessible …
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Modeling and Fundamental Design Considerations for Portable, Wearable and Implantable Electronic Biosensors
… biosensors can go a long way in preventing these premature deaths by frequent or continuous self-monitoring of vital health parameters.
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Air quality impacts of crop residue burning in India and mitigation alternatives
… First, this thesis estimates the premature deaths as 43,000-73,000 valued at 10-23 billion USD in India attributable to exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from crop residue burning, and finds Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh contribute the majority (83%-95%) over …
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
… governing laws and policies, have to do with the premature deaths of Black people? I start with examining the role of changes in law and policy governing how schools are allocated federal Title I funding for “equitable” support of children from lower-income families and households in Black student …
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Inequities in Air Pollution Exposure in the U.S.: An Exploration of Disparity Metrics Across Geographic and Temporal Scales
… is responsible for the largest share of premature deaths associated with air pollution. Despite declines in average annual concentrations, significant disparities in 𝑃𝑀₂.₅ exposure between racial and ethnic groups continue to persist. Existing research characterize 𝑃𝑀₂.₅ exposure …
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The Premature Loss of the Black Male and Its Implications on the Black Family System and Community: A Proposed 12-Step Grief Support Group Model
<p>Premature deaths, ages 15–44, and loss of Black males through homicide, along with suicide and systemic violence, and incarceration, create lifelong emotional and psychological trauma for those who remain behind in Black family settings and society. U.S. social injustices against Black …
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Modular Plancha Cookstove Design for Capacity Building in Santa Catarina, Guatemala
… cookstoves and open fires leads to 3.2 million premature deaths every year (World Health Organization, 2022). In Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala, women spend much of their time cooking and primarily use wood fuel, which disproportionately exposes them to air pollutants. An efficient, modular, …
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Libertas Reborn: A Legend of Florence and Leigh Hunt's Literary Revival
According to traditional accounts, following the premature deaths of Keats, Shelley, and Byron in the 1820s, literature in England fell into a sort of slumber until the late 1830s and early 1840s, when a new generation-a generation we now call the Victorians-came on the scene. Literary scholarship …
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Making Air Quality Count: Low-cost sensors, Public Health and Urban Planning
… air pollution is responsible for ~ 4.2 million premature deaths every year making it the world’s single largest environmental health risk. Although 90% of this burden is borne by countries in the Global South, effective air pollution governance and monitoring in many of these countries is …
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The Ethical Justification of Increasing Awareness of Preventive Medicine among Healthcare Professionals, Patients and the General Public in the United States
… well as to prevent diseases, disabilities, and premature deaths. It aims to fulfill its mission through the combined form of clinical intervention and health promotion. In the recent years, preventive medicine has begun to lean more towards the clinical interventions, taking away from the health …
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Real-Time Air quality index application for the City of Cape Town: An event-Driven system with Kafka, CQRS and Clojure
… Health Organization estimates around 3.7 million premature deaths world-wide were due to ambient air pollution in 2012, 88% of which occurred in low to middle income countries such as South Africa. This project focuses on the development of an event-driven real-time air quality index application …
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Factors associated with outcomes of patients placed on tuberculosis treatment in the western geographic service area of Cape Town
… problem and in 2012 accounted for 7.40% of premature deaths. The Province has also experienced an increase in TB incidence in the past 20 years. Objectives The aims of the study were to describe the distribution of tuberculosis and identify risk factors associated with TB treatment outcomes …
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Effects of Fuel Split Ratio on NOₓ Emissions of a Lean-burn Staged Combustor
… leading to potentially 16,000 annual premature deaths globally. To cope with the expected increase in air traffic demand in the near future, aircraft-based lean-burn staged combustion becomes a promising solution in reducing NOₓ emissions. This thesis investigates the effects of a …
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Impact of urban form on concentration of air pollutants within street canyons at pedestrian level
… that in 2018 air pollution caused eight million premature deaths worldwide. The same report highlighted that outdoor air pollution was responsible for 4.2 million deaths. This implies that further efforts and mitigations are needed to reduce individuals’ exposure to harmful air pollutants. In …
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Characterising recent mortality trends in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in England using linked hospital and mortality data
… from 1.6 to 2.2 (P<.001). Potentially avoidable deaths comprised 59-2% and 60.2% of all deaths in people with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and schizophrenia respectively. The results showed that comorbidity with mental illness in people with a main diagnosis of CVD causes between 12-46% excess …
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Fatores de risco e seu reconhecimento: como a ignorância e a adoção de estratégias podem influenciar no desenvolvimento de doenças cardiovasculares
… besides generating a considerable number of premature deaths. The appearance of morbidities associated with CVD requires significant investments in research, surveillance, prevention, health promotion and the defense of a healthy life. Based on this, the present work had the objective to …
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Public health impacts of excess NOx̳ emissions from Volkswagen diesel passenger vehicles in Germany
… to estimate mortality outcomes in terms of early deaths and of life-years lost. Integrated over the sales period (2008 - 2015), I estimate median premature mortality impacts from VW excess emissions in Germany to be 1,200 premature deaths in Europe, corresponding to 13,000 life-years lost and 1.9 …
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Health Risks from On-Road Truck Emissions in Little Village, Chicago Pre- and Post-COVID Pandemic
… impact assessments estimate approximately 0.64 premature deaths annually among adults aged 35 and older attributable to truck-related PM2.5 exposure, corresponding to an annual economic burden of approximately $5.5 million. The findings imply that localized reductions in truck emissions may lead …
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Expanding the South African Rapid Mortality Surveillance to cover provincial mortality
… health strategies and policies to reduce premature deaths and improve quality of life. However, estimating consistent levels and trends in mortality for a developing country like South Africa with incomplete vital registration and errors in censuses or survey data is difficult. This …
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Investigating Aerosol Composition with Low Cost Optical Particle Counters
… to human health and contributes to millions of premature deaths a year globally. Access to source attribution and compo-sitional data of PM can have many benefits from easier regulation to enabling a better understanding of the negative health effects associated with PM. Acquiring composi-tional …
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