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Showing 1 to 20 of 240 for “"World Health Organisation"”.
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A revision of the World Health Organisation psychiatric disability assessment schedule
… and validate a contemporary revision of the World Health Organisation-Psychiatric Disability Assessment Schedule (1988). Data used was based on data from the WHO Collaborative Study on Determinants of Outcome of Severe Mental Disorders (Sartorius et al., 1986). The second aim of this study …
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Road traffic crash fatalities: An examination of national fatality rates and factors associated with the variation in fatality rates between nations with reference to the World Health Organisation Decade of Action for Road Safety 2011 - 2020
… the Decade of Action for Road safety by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The WHO has published baseline road traffic crash (RTC) fatality data for all member nations. The WHO has also suggested five Pillars of Action, mechanisms that may be instigated at the national level within the …
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New advances in the chemotherapy of Glioblastoma multiforme
… mainly the brain. It is classified by the world health organisation as a grade IV glioma. It is indeed a very deadly tumor with an average life expectancy after diagnosis of about 14 months even after surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. This review analyses the most recent therapy …
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Understanding obesity : psychological cues and antecedents of eating behaviour
Obesity has been described by the World Health Organisation as a global epidemic, and is perceived as a major health concern due to the associated medical, psychosocial, and economic problems. One approach of understanding obesity is directed towards exploring the psychological and social …
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The impact of chest radiography on the diagnosis, clinical management and outcome of acute lower respiratory infections in children
… of 522 children aged 2 to 59 months who met the World Health Organisation case definition for pneumonia. The main outcome was time to recovery, measured in a subset of 398 participants who offered a telephone number. Subsidiary outcomes included diagnosis, elements of clinical management and …
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A correlation of physicochemical properties of selected medicinal compounds to their anatomical therapeutic chemical classification
… (ATC) classification system managed by the World Health Organisation is nowadays considered the most widely used drug classification system (Chen et al., 2012). Identification of rules defining classification at the molecular level as per the ATC classification system would prove beneficial …
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Hand hygiene barriers and facilitators in Vietnam
… hygiene programs that are appropriate for the healthcare settings in Vietnam that are different to middle to high resourced healthcare setting. Methods This mixed methods research is presented as a series of published peer-reviewed journal articles. Collectively, the publications describe …
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Cytochrome C biosensor for the determination of trace level arsenic and cyanide compounds
… Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.
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Physical inactivity among high school learners in Belhar - a public health concern
For many decades, the World Health Organisation had highlighted the growing importance of chronic non-communicable diseases in developed and developing countries, with an increase in lifestyle-related diseases. Physical inactivity has been identified as one of the risk factors, in addition to other …
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Perceived benefits of, barriers and helpful cues to physical activity among tertiary institution students in Rwanda
… particularly from data obtained from the World Health Organisation, physical inactivity or sedentarism is one of the leading causes of the major non-communicable diseases, which contributes substantially to the global burden of diseases, death and disability. The burden of mortality, …
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Autofocusing and image segmentation in microscopy for automatic detection of tuberculosis in sputum smears
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared that tuberculosis (TB) is a global emergency. With the common combination of TB and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, the number of people dying from TB has increased enormously (WHO, 1996). The smart microscope that is under development in the MRC/UCT …
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Synthesis of aminomethylthiazole analogues for evaluation as antiplasmodial agents
The World Health Organisation has estimated that about 219 million cases of malaria occurred in 2010 with an estimated 660,000 fatalities resulting. The disease is caused by five species of protozoan parasites of the genus Plasmodium with Plasmodium falciparum being the most virulent. Among the …
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The economics of tobacco control in low- and middle-income countries
… documents and technical manuals produced by the World Health Organisation and the World Bank which provide a more thorough justification of these policy measures. This thesis seeks to examine the application of these tobacco control policy measures on tobacco consumption in low and middle-income …
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An epidemiological study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in Scotland: The Scottish Heart Health Study
The Scottish Heart Health Study was conducted in response to a report by a Working Group of the Chief Scientist Organisation and followed an initial of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit. The aims of the study were to establish the levels of coronary risk factors in Scotland, to determine the …
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Assessment of the association between HIV-infected mothers and the mortality of children less than two years in Khayelitsha health district of the Western Cape : a case-control study
… in the first year of life and, according to the World Health Organisation, the mortality of children in the second year of life is due mostly to environmental factors and infections. Since 196O the infant mortality rate and the under- five-year mortality rate declined globally. However, the South …
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Soluble expression of plasmodium falciparum glutamine synthetase and three-dimensional structure by single particle reconstruction
… resistance to existing anti-malarial drugs. The World Health Organisation recommended interventions are unlikely to eliminate the growth of resistance and it would therefore be prudent to continue the search for new drug targets for the continued combatting of malaria. Plasmodium falciparum is …
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Basil cell carcinoma: an immunohistochemical assessment of P53, BCL-2 and CD138 in low and high-risk histological subtypes
… in females in South Africa. The cost to the health sector is expected to rise given the increasing global incidence rates, particularly of aggressive BCCs. Improved understanding of BCC is paramount to enhance early detection and screening which could potentially offset these rising costs. …
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Living with lymphoedema in Ireland: a mixed methods exploration of patient and service provider perspectives
… three involved administering a postal survey and World Health Organisation (WHO) quality of life measure to 735 patients. Following integration of the mixed methods data, two super-ordinate themes emerged: lymphoedema - an unacknowledged condition; and the legacy of lymphoedema’s association with …
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