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BACKGROUND Cancer rates of the head and neck are traditionally linked to public health issues. OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology of head and neck cancer in the United States. DESIGN AND SETTING National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) program. RESULTS A total of 75,000 cases of head and neck cancer were diagnosed in 2001. Incidence is rising in thy...
This study describes the epidemiology of cocaine and heroin abuse in urban Canada as part of an initial report on a national substance abuse surveillance system, the Canadian Community Epidemiology Network on Drug Use. Data pertaining to prevalence of use, law enforcement, treatment, morbidity and mortality of cocaine and heroin were obtained from the appropriate health and law enforcement inst...
For over a half of a century, Native American populations have participated in numerous studies regarding the epidemiology, prevention and treatment of infectious diseases. These studies have resulted in measures to prevent morbidity and mortality from many infectious diseases. The lessons learned from these studies and their resultant prevention or treatment interventions have been applied aro...
Over a decade ago, an editorial in The Lancet voiced serious concern over the degree to which epidemiology had abandoned its traditional emphasis on issues of obvious importance to public health. Journal papers were increasingly occupied with refi ning statistical methods to address individual risk factors on a biological and molecular level. Appealing as the potential of molecular epidemiology...
Sir, The paper by Suliman et al ‘The reverse epidemiology of plasma total homocysteine as mortality risk factor is related to the impact of wasting and inflammation’ [1] tries to address the very important issue of the strange opposite clinical behaviour of some well-recognized mortality risk factors [in the paper, total homocysteine (tHcy) levels] in the haemodialysis population as compared to...
Epidemiology is considered the basic science of public health, and with good reason. Epidemiology is: a) a quantitative basic science built on a working knowledge of probability, statistics, and sound research methods; b) a method of causal reasoning based on developing and testing hypotheses pertaining to occurrence and prevention of morbidity and mortality; and c) a tool for public health act...
The Guatemalan NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) TulaSalud has implemented an m-health project in the Department of Alta Verapaz. This Department has 1.2 million inhabitants (78% living in rural areas and 89% from indigenous communities) and in 2012, had a maternal mortality rate of 273 for every 100,000 live births. This m-health initiative is based on the provision of a cell phone to commun...
Introduction The infections associated with mechanical ventilation are a major cause of morbidity and mortality in critically ill patients. Limited studies report increased mortality and ICU stay, requirement for mechanical ventilation and higher costs in ventilator-associated Tracheobronchitis (TAV) in comparison to patients with ventilatorassociated pneumonia (NAV). These studies do not descr...
Addressing disparities in colorectal cancer burden: how far could equal health care access bring us?
Enthusiasm over scientific progress in prevention, early detection, and treatment of colorectal cancer (CRC) remains tempered by the sobering recognition that racial and ethnic disparities in CRC screening, incidence, and mortality exist in the US. According to 2004-2008 data from the NCI’s Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program, the incidence of CRC is approximately 24% high...
Infant mortality and morbidity present important challenges to those concerned with community health. We did this research to study epidemiology of diseases of infancy in city of Tehran. During 15 days, of 6395 deliveries in Tehran hospitals a cohort of 6267 live births entered this study. Follow up data were gathered in 1st, 3rd, 6th and 12th months of birth. In this period, 5382 occurrence of...
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