Biosecurity: Reducing the burden of disease

Reducing the burden of inherited disease: the Human Variome Project.

Initiatives in Medical Volunteerism Aimed at Reducing the Burden of Orthopedic Disease in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

While infectious disease garners much attention and research funding globally, initiatives aimed at treating traumatic orthopedic injuries are underfunded despite such injuries accounting for a significant degree of morbidity worldwide. In recent years, a number of organizations have sought to alleviate this burden through treatment and educational initiatives in low- and middle-income countrie...

Reducing the Global Burden of Cardiovascular Disease, Part 1

The epidemiological transition in the 20th century was accompanied by a fall in deaths and disability from communicable diseases and an increase in noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Of the NCDs, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. In 2013, the World Health Organization launched the 25×25 Global Action Plan, an ambitious road map for countri...

Disease monitoring and biosecurity

Understanding and detecting diseases of amphibians has become vitally important in conservation and ecological studies in the twenty-fi rst century. Disease is defi ned as the deviance from normal conditions in an organism. The etiologies (causes) of disease include infectious, toxic, traumatic, metabolic, and neoplastic agents. Thus, monitoring disease in nature can be complex. For amphibians,...

The Effect of Resilience Training on Reducing the Care Burden of Families with Schizophrenic Patients

Introduction: Schizophrenia is the most severe chronic psychiatric disorder that associated with impaired social and occupational abilities. In addition to the patient this disorder also affects the entire family system. The care burden is the psychological, physical and social stress that comes to caregivers as a result of long-term care. Therefore it causes many problems such as burnout, anxi...