The concept of epidemiological intelligence, as a construction of information societies, goes beyond monitoring a list of diseases and the ability to elicit rapid responses. The concept should consider the complexity of ...

BACKGROUND: Successful vaccination strategies against norovirus will require understanding the burden of disease and relevant genotypes in populations. However, few data are available from cohort studies of adults living ...

BACKGROUND: Unexpected death of a loved one (UD) is the most commonly reported traumatic experience in cross-national surveys. However, much remains to be learned about posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after this ...

© 2018, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All rights reserved. Background: Confusion in observational epidemiological studies distorts the relationship between exposure and event. “Step by step” regression models, diverts the ...

In this article, we consider environmental and demographic fuzziness when the varying uncertainties are modelled by Fuzzy Set Theory. In the first case the uncertainties are considered in the parameters of the model, ...

In this study we consider the SIS epidemiological model (susceptible-infected-susceptible) in which the transmission and recuperation rates are considered fuzzy sets. The concepts of possibility measures and fuzzy expectancy ...

OBJECTIVE: This study aims to establish a national methodological model for epidemiological studies on professional soccer player injuries and to describe the numerous relevant studies previously published on this topic. ...