نتایج جستجو برای: prevalence studies

تعداد نتایج: 1654906  

Journal: :International Journal for Equity in Health 2009
David P Thomas

BACKGROUND In Australia, national smoking prevalence has successfully fallen below 20%, but remains about 50% amongst Indigenous Australians. Australian Indigenous tobacco control is framed by the idea that nothing has worked and a sense of either despondency or the difficulty of the challenge. METHODS This paper examines the trends in smoking prevalence of Australian Indigenous men and women...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2013
Zunyou Wu Jie Xu Enwu Liu Yurong Mao Yan Xiao Xinhua Sun Yufen Liu Yan Jiang Jennifer M McGoogan Zhi Dou Guodong Mi Ning Wang Jiangping Sun Zhongfu Liu Lu Wang Keming Rou Lin Pang Wenge Xing Juan Xu Shuo Wang Yan Cui Zhijun Li Marc Bulterys Wen Lin Jinkou Zhao Ray Yip You Wu Yang Hao Yu Wang

BACKGROUND Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has rapidly spread among men who have sex with men (MSM) in China in recent years; the magnitude of the epidemic is unclear. We sought to test 3 hypotheses: (1) The prevalence of both HIV and syphilis among MSM in China is high, (2) the 2 epidemics each have unique geographical distributions, and (3) demographic and sexual behavior characteristics a...

Journal: :The British journal of nutrition 2014
Sigrun Henjum Mari Manger Eli Skeie Manjeswori Ulak Andrew L Thorne-Lyman Ram Chandyo Prakash S Shrestha Lindsey Locks Rune J Ulvik Wafaie W Fawzi Tor A Strand

The main objective of the present study was to examine the association between dietary Fe intake and dietary predictors of Fe status and Hb concentration among lactating women in Bhaktapur, Nepal. We included 500 randomly selected lactating women in a cross-sectional survey. Dietary information was obtained through three interactive 24 h recall interviews including personal recipes. Concentrati...

Journal: :Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2003
D M Schellenberg J J Aponte E A Kahigwa H Mshinda M Tanner C Menendez P L Alonso

Between July 2000 and June 2001, we used weekly active case detection (ACD) of clinical malaria episodes in 618 children aged < 5 years to describe the epidemiology of malaria in Ifakara, southern Tanzania. Plasmodium falciparum-positive blood slides prepared from children with axillary temperature 37.5 degrees C were used to define clinical malaria and a rolling cross-sectional survey document...

Journal: :Ecology of food and nutrition 2016
Ahmed A Abdurahman Khadijeh Mirzaei Ahmed Reza Dorosty A Rahimiforoushani Haji Kedir

The aim of this study was to examine the association between household food insecurity and nutritional status among children aged 24-59 months in Haromaya District. Children (N = 453) aged 24-59 months were recruited in a community-based cross-sectional survey with a representative sample of households selected by a multistage sampling procedure in Haromaya District. Household Food Insecurity A...

Journal: :The Southeast Asian journal of tropical medicine and public health 2001
B V Babu A S Acharya G Mallick P K Jangid A N Nayak K Satyanarayana

A cross-sectional survey was undertaken to determine the prevalence of disease due to lymphatic filariasis in Khurda district of Orissa, India. The total disease attributable to filariasis was significantly higher in males (14.79%) than females (10.04%). However, elephantiasis is more prevalent in females, and adenolymphangitis is more prevalent in males than their counterparts. The prevalences...

Journal: :international journal of occupational and environment medicine 0
kr shafizadeh school of geography, earth and environmental science, university of birmingham

background: musculoskeletal disorders (msds) are common among employees throughout the world, particularly in high risk groups such as nurses. objective: to determine the prevalence of msds among nurses in a large hospital in ahwaz, southwestern iran, and to examine its correlation with gender, age, shift working, years at service and smoking. methods: using a self-reported questionnaire-based ...

Journal: :international journal of health policy and management 2014
thomas harder

decisions in healthcare should be based on information obtained according to the principles of evidence-based medicine (ebm). an increasing number of systematic reviews are published which summarize the results of prevalence studies. interpretation of the results of these reviews should be accompanied by an appraisal of the methodological quality of the included data and studies. the critical a...

Journal: :Journal of Mixed Methods Research 2016

Journal: :The Medical journal of Australia 2002
Stephanie A Knox Helena Britt

OBJECTIVE To determine whether doctor-patient encounters in general practice with patients from a non-English-speaking background (NESB) differ from encounters with patients of English-speaking background (ESB) in terms of the type of practice where the encounters occur and the type of problems managed. DESIGN AND SETTING A national cross-sectional survey of GP-patient encounters from a sampl...

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