Viral abundance and its public health implications

Dementia and Its Implications for Public Health

INTRODUCTION With the aging of the U.S. population, a better understanding of the presentation and impact of dementia is essential to the future of public health. Dementia refers not to a single disorder but to a number of syndromes characterized by diverse behavioral, cognitive, and emotional impairments. Because dementia is costly in terms of both personal suffering and economic loss, an unde...

Stigma and its public health implications.

Public health implications

Objective-To investigate the risk of cancer in children living close to overhead power lines with magnetic fields of : 0.01 microteslas (,uT). Design-Cohort study. Setting-The whole ofFinland. Subjects-68 300 boys and 66500 girls aged 0-19 years living during 1970-89 within 500m of overhead power lines of 110-400kV in magnetic fields calculated to be ,0-01 [LT. Subjects were identified by recor...

Epidemiology of a tick-borne viral infection: theoretical insights and practical implications for public health.

The morbidity of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) varies yearly by as much as 10-fold among the people of Western Siberia. This long-term variation is dependent on many factors such as the density of the tick populations, the prevalence of TBE virus (TBEV) among sub-adult ticks, the yearly virulence of the TBEV, and prophylactic measures. Here we highlight the role of small mammal hosts in the cir...

Helicobacter pylori public health implications.

Population Helicobacter pylori screening and treatment has the potential to dramatically reduce global gastric cancer mortality. There is overwhelming evidence that the infection is a major cause of distal gastric adenocarcinoma. There is also randomized controlled trial evidence that H. pylori eradication reverses or ameliorates histological changes in the gastric mucosa that are important in ...