Onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy an unrecognised important preventable public health problem

Eliminating onchocerciasis as a public health problem.

Onchocerciasis as a disease of public health significance, which affects people of 35 countries in Africa, America and the Arabian Peninsula (Figures 1 and 2) did not receive much attention until after World War II. By then the blindness produced by onchocerciasis had been fairly well described in studies from west and central Africa, and the transmission of Onchocerca volvulus by Simulium flie...

Suicide: a preventable public health problem.

The health of students in institutes of higher education: an important and neglected public health problem?

BACKGROUND A survey of students in three UK higher education establishments was undertaken to obtain information about students' physical and emotional well-being, their attitudes to, and beliefs about health, and the prevalence of risk factors for future ill health. METHODS Health was measured by the prevalence of longstanding illness and by the SF-36 health status measurement tool. Survey r...

Report of the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy

BACKGROUND Recently, several epidemiological studies performed in Onchocerca volvulus-endemic regions have suggested that onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE) may constitute an important but neglected public health problem in many countries where onchocerciasis is still endemic. MAIN TEXT On October 12-14th 2017, the first international workshop on onchocerciasis-associated epilepsy (OAE)...

Childhood obesity, unrecognised public health challenge in Nepal.

Most of emphasis in the past years had been allotted to alleviation of poverty and undernutrition in the children of Nepal. The concept of being bigger is healthier had been the conviction among the population. But it is being obliterated gradually in most part of the world because of rapid emergence of childhood obesity in the last two decades. The childhood obesity has now recognized as a glo...