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How may the reduction of some cardiovascular diseases affect brazilian population’s life expectancy?
(Brazilian Association of Population Studies, 2021)
This study aimed to analyze the impact of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) on life expectancy (LE) in the Brazilian population; and to identify how the hypothetical reduction in mortality from 5 to 30%, as well as the ...
Barriers to dog rabies vaccination during an urban rabies outbreak: Qualitative findings from Arequipa, Peru
(Public Library of Science, 2017)
BACKGROUND: Canine rabies was reintroduced to the city of Arequipa, Peru in March 2015. The Ministry of Health has conducted a series of mass dog vaccination campaigns to contain the outbreak, but canine rabies virus ...
Modeling scenarios for the end of AIDS
(Oxford University Press, 2014)
At the end of 2012, 3 decades after the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was first identified, neither a cure nor a fully preventive vaccine was available. Despite multiple efforts, the epidemic remains an exceptional ...
Endemic Cardiovascular Diseases of the Poorest Billion
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)
The poorest billion people are distributed throughout the world, though most are concentrated in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) data can be sparse in low- and middle-income countries ...
The value of process evaluation for public health interventions: field-case studies for non-communicable disease prevention and management in five countries
(Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2022)
Complex interventions are needed to effectively tackle noncommunicable diseases. However, complex interventions can contain a mix of effective and ineffective actions. Process evaluation (PE) in public health research is ...
Engagement of adolescents in a health communications program to prevent noncommunicable diseases: Multiplicadores Jóvenes, Lima, Perú, 2011.
(National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, USAUS, 2015)
Background: Several risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including obesity, are associated with behaviors established in infancy that persist throughout adolescence and adulthood. As such, adolescents should ...
Engagement of adolescents in a health communications program to prevent noncommunicable diseases: Multiplicadores Jovenes, Lima, Peru, 2011
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Several risk factors for noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), including obesity, are associated with behaviors established in infancy that persist throughout adolescence and adulthood. As such, adolescents should ...
Isoniazid Preventive Therapy in Contacts of Multidrug-resistant Tuberculosis.
(American Thoracic Society, 2020)
RATIONALE: The World Health Organization recommends the use of isoniazid alone or in combination with rifapentine to treat latent tuberculosis infection. The recent rise of drug-resistant tuberculosis has complicated the ...