Early inMay, six weeks after the first case of Ebola virus disease had been confirmed in west Africa and rapidly spread into three of the poorest countries in the world, the director general of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, declared a public health emergency of international concern. It is “an extraordinary event and a public health risk to other states for which a coordinated r...

A research program financed by the MIUR (1998–2000) was carried out with the participation of eight Research Units of Italian Universities: Bologna (Coordinator: Fiorenzo Facchini), Ferrara (Coordinator: Carlo Peretto), Pisa (Coordinator: Carlo Tozzi), Rome (Coordinator: Pietro Passarello), Milan (Coordinator: Leone Fasani), Turin (Coordinator: Giacomo Giacobini), Bari (Coordinator: Vittorio Pe...

REPORT VERSION: first REPORT PREPARATION DATE: 2003.06.30 CLASSIFICATION: Public DELIVERABLE NO: D3.5 DUE DATE: Month 18 DELIVERY DATE: Month 18 PROJECT START DATE: 2002.01.01 PROJECT DURATION: 36 months RESPONSIBLE PARTNER: UCL PARTICIPATING PARTNERS: UCL, SICS PROJECT COORDINATOR: Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB PROJECT PARTNERS: EPFL Lausanne, INRIA Paris, KTH Stockholm, UCL Louvain...

Contributor .................. : ULANC, FBK, IPVS, IAAS, Imperial Author ........................... : Gerd Kortuem, Reference Number .... : ALLOW.USTUTT.D8.4.2011-08-30 Version .......................... : 1.0 Date .............................. : 2011-08-30 Classification ............... : Public Circulation ................... : Project Team Contract Start Date ... : 2008-02-01 Duration: 36 ...

REPORT VERSION: first REPORT PREPARATION DATE: 2004.06.30 CLASSIFICATION: Public DELIVERABLE NO: D3.6 DUE DATE: Month 30 DELIVERY DATE: Month 30 PROJECT START DATE: 2002.01.01 PROJECT DURATION: 36 months RESPONSIBLE PARTNER: UCL PARTICIPATING PARTNERS: UCL, SICS PROJECT COORDINATOR: Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB PROJECT PARTNERS: EPFL Lausanne, INRIA Paris, KTH Stockholm, UCL Louvain...

background: despite many media campaigns by government and private sectors highlighting, water and sanitation treat­ment plans and policies, the public health problems are still common in different socioeconomic areas. the objective of our study was to explore the major public health problems prevailing in two different socio economic areas in karachi, pakistan. methods: a cross sectional surve...

introduction: among the united arab emirates (uae) population more and more people now consider travelling abroad. this is potentially problematic because travelling enhances exposure between hosts and pathogens and so people that travel are putting their health at risk. this concern makes it necessary that public education is provided to inform people of the risks of travelling abroad so that ...

background: due to embargoes and sanctions from 1979 until 2015, impact on scientific research in iran may be critical. public health is the main example of this burning point. in this paper, the aim was to map the scientific research in public health in iran until 2014 with area studies as well as networks of countries involved. methods: we used bibliographic analyses using vos viewer software...

b ackground: we tried to investigate the hair contamination of pet dogs and farm sheepdog with toxocara eggs in terms of the different sex and age groups in north-west of iran (urmia and its sub- urbs). m ethods: hair samples were collected from a total of 138 pet and farm sheepdogs from november 2008 to june 2009 in urmia city and the suburb (west azerbaijan-iran) and examined for the pres- en...