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The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: from 25 years of inaction to a global transformation for public health
(Elsevier, 2018)
The Lancet Countdown tracks progress on health and climate change and provides an independent assessment of the health effects of climate change, the implementation of the Paris Agreement, 1 and the health implications of ...
Behavioural response to a sudden health risk: dengue and educational outcomes in Colombia
Epidemics tend to have a debilitating influence on the lives of directly afflicted families. However, the
presence of an epidemic can also change the behaviour and outcomes of those not directly affected. This paper
makes ...
Environmental health risk perception: adaptation of a population-based questionnaire from Latin America
(MDPI, 2021)
BACKGROUND: Environmental risk assessments and interventions to mitigate environmental risks are essential to protect public health. While the objective measurement of environmental hazards is important, it is also critical ...
Distribution of Short-Term and Lifetime Predicted Risks of Cardiovascular Diseases in Peruvian Adults
(Wiley, 2015)
BACKGROUND: Short-term risk assessment tools for prediction of cardiovascular disease events are widely recommended in clinical practice and are used largely for single time-point estimations; however, persons with low ...
Health Council of the Netherlands and evaluation of the fifth generation, 5G, for wireless communication and cancer risks
(World J Clin Oncol, 2021)
Currently the fifth generation, 5G, for wireless communication is about to be rolled out worldwide. Many persons are concerned about potential health risks from radiofrequency radiation. In September 2017, a letter was ...
Global Shifts in Cardiovascular Disease, the Epidemiologic Transition, and Other Contributing Factors: Toward a New Practice of Global Health Cardiology
(Elsevier, 2017)
One of the major drivers of change in the practice of cardiology is population change. This article discusses the current debate about epidemiologic transition paired with other ongoing transitions with direct relevance ...
Condom Use by Partner Type Among Military and Police Personnel in Peru
(SAGE Publications, 2012)
The aim of this study was to analyze the rates of condom use among military and police populations in Peru, focusing on differences in use by type of partner. A Knowledge Attitudes and Practices survey was conducted among ...
Towards a comprehensive global approach to prevention and control of NCDs
(BioMed Central, 2014)
Background: The “25×25” strategy to tackle the global challenge of non-communicable diseases takes a traditional approach, concentrating on a few diseases and their immediate risk factors. Discussion: We propose elements ...
Latin America and the Caribbean Code Against Cancer: Developing Evidence-Based Recommendations to Reduce the Risk of Cancer in Latin America and the Caribbean
(American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2019)
Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has a population of more than 650 million inhabitants (8.5% of the world population), with a cancer incidence of more than 1.4 million new patients and more than 670,000 deaths in 2018. ...