1 Danish Epidemiology Science Centre, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. 2 Department of Biostatistics, Institute of Public Health, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. 3 Perinatal Epidemiology Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Paediatrics, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark. 4 Department of Epi...

Field Epidemiology in Africa Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, Fred Wabwire-Mangen, Mufuta Tshimanga African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), Makerere University School of Public Health, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Zimbabwe Field Epidemiology Training Program, Department of Community Medicine, Harare, Zimbabwe Corresponding author: Sheba Nakacubo Gitta, African Field ...

BACKGROUND Epidemiology is a data-intensive and multi-disciplinary subject, where data integration, curation and sharing are becoming increasingly relevant, given its global context and time constraints. The semantic annotation of epidemiology resources is a cornerstone to effectively support such activities. Although several ontologies cover some of the subdomains of epidemiology, we identifie...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 2 Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 3 Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY. 4 Department of Family Medicine...

the present study aimed to explore some risk factors affected the mean of the number of tuberculosis (tb) in west azerbaijan province, iran between 2001 and 2010.our time series study analyzed the data of 2,560 tb patients as registered with tb patients care system in west azerbaijan province from early 2001 to 2010. a checklist was prepared for collecting the data and they were then analyzed i...

background and objectives : hepatitis c virus genotyping appears to be vital for predicting the response to antiviral therapy. the present study aimed to analyze the hcv genotypes in relation to persistence or clearance of the virus in residents of hamadan province, west-iran. material and methods : a total of 1159 recorded questionnaires of hcv infected people were evaluated in this prospectiv...

background:  cancer is the third leading cause of death in iran, and its trend is increasing in recent years. national reports state that cancer registries in shahroud district had 204% coverage in 2008. this study investigated cancer situation in shahroud with complete details between 2000–2010. methods: data was obtained from national cancer registry software and analyzed after removing the r...

background : the objective of this study was to describe cigarette smoking prevalence among adults in lebanon and to evaluate the profile of light cigarette smokers compared to never and heavy smokers. methods : data were taken from a cross-sectional study carried out from october 2009 to september 2010, using a multistage cluster sampling all over lebanon. lebanese residents aged 40 years and ...

purpose : to review epidemiological aspects of uveitis in asia and compare it with few major reports from outside of this continent methods : we have reviewed 522 articles concerning the causes and patterns of uveitis and 22 major epidemiology reviews, registered from 1962 to 2009 in medline-database. we have selected 7 major reviews from asia and compared it with five major articles from afric...