background: more than a billion people have some form of disabilities worldwide. persons living with a disability have many needs (including physically, mentally, and socially needs). estimating the size of disabled population is a challenge in health systems. an innovative indirect method to estimate the size of populations is network scale up (nsu) having widely used for hidden populations. t...

The recognition that AIDS originated as a zoonosis heightens public health concerns associated with human infection by simian retroviruses endemic in nonhuman primates (NHPs). These retroviruses include simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), simian T-cell lymphotropic virus (STLV), simian type D retrovirus (SRV), and simian foamy virus (SFV). Although occasional infection with SIV, SRV, or SFV in...

BACKGROUND Older persons report poor health status and greater need for healthcare. However, there is limited research on older persons' healthcare disparities in Uganda. Therefore, this paper aimed at investigating factors associated with older persons' healthcare access in Uganda, using a nationally representative sample. METHODS We conducted secondary analysis of data from a sample of 1602...

To the Editor: We report results of the effect of inactivated seasonal influenza vaccination on risk of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 in a cohort of nurses in Canada who participated in a recent randomized controlled trial that compared the effectiveness of surgical masks with that of N95 respirators in preventing influenza (1). From September 23, 2008, through December 8, 2008, a total of 446 nurses fr...

Predictive control of ankle stiffness at heel contact is a key element of 1 locomotor adaptation during split-belt treadmill walking in humans 2 3 Tetsuya Ogawa, Noritaka Kawashima, Toru Ogata, Kimitaka Nakazawa 4 Department of Rehabilitation for the Movement Functions, Research Institute, National 5 Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities, 4-1, Namiki, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan 6 ...

A fusion protein vaccine consisting of human papillomavirus 6 L2E7 with Alhydrogel was developed for the treatment of genital warts. Twenty-seven subjects with genital warts received 3 immunizations over 4 weeks in an open-label study. The vaccine was well-tolerated, and all subjects made serum IgG antibodies, predominantly IgG1, against L2E7. Nineteen of 25 tested persons made antigen-specific...

This research discusses the problem where companies have not hired people with disabilities. The company in Kupang City is one of that really able to hire However, so far does a single worker who comes from among Based on Law No. 8 2016 concerning Persons Disabilities article 53 paragraph (1) states, Government, local governments, State-owned Enterprises and Regional-Owned are required employ a...

Research on neighborhood effects faces enormous methodological challenges, with selection bias being near the top of the list. In this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2014;180(8):776-784), Professor Jokela addresses this issue with novel repeated measures data and models that decompose putative effects into those within and between persons. His contribution shows that within-person neighb...