www.thelancet.com Published online May 5, 2015 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60503-7 1 Public health interventions rarely introduce health innovations to every individual in a population all at once. Rather, practitioners target some people for early adoption, hoping that the innovation will spread by word of mouth through social networks. Selection of optimum targets for health inter...

Objective To investigate the relationship between the fat intake and the morbidity of hyperglycemia(the fasting blood glucose over 6.1mmol/L, or the blood glucose one hour after the meal over 11.1mmol/L, or the blood glucose two hours after the meal over 7.8mmol/L, or the participants diagnosed diabetes previously) of middle aged and elderly people in Zhang Fang village, Fang Shan District, Bei...

INTRODUCTION Landmines are indiscriminate weapons that mainly injure poor populations in the developing world. Pre-hospital treatment by village-based paramedics and first responders has reduced mortality, but little is known about the social impact of paramedic and first responder training in villages. The aim of this study was to understand how villagers in socially deprived, mine-infested vi...

The study examined the natural and social capital of Bo Hon villagers in central Vietnam, before and after resettlement within Binh Thanh commune due to the building of Binh Dien Hydroelectric dam on the Huu Trach River. (1) Background: The two-fold aim was to develop solutions to the impacts of resettlement on natural and social capital, and strategies for timely intervention and new livelihoo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the knowledge and beliefs about malaria transmission and practices for vector control in eight villages on the coastal plain of Chiapas, Mexico. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted during May and June 1995 in Chiapas, Mexico. A questionnaire to investigate family structure, knowledge on malaria transmission, preventive measures and attitudes to...

An ethnobotanical study was conducted to document local knowledge and potentials of wild edible tubers that has been reported and sighted and to investigate and record their distribution in Pulau Redang and nearby islands of Terengganu, Malaysia. Information was gathered from 42 villagers by using semi-structured questionnaire. These respondents were selected randomly and no appointment was mad...

From 2005, 12 telecentres were implemented in the rural villages of Samoa as part of the national information and communication technology (ICT) strategy for development. The aim for the telecentres is to ensure the people of Samoa can be connected locally and globally. The telecentres provide access to ICT tools in villages where many have never seen a computer before. For the most, villagers ...

year during the respective seasons and the authorities are unable to cope with the precautionary work when the diseases have taken their foothold, and the people have been scared into a panic, so much so that sanitary or medical advice counts for nothing. Invariably the villagers resort to methods objectionable and mischievous, that is lodging in non-infested localities and thus spreading the d...

In a survey of 974 villagers (408 males, 566 females; ages = 11-82 years) of the Ai (n = 496; 212 males, 284 females) and Lemanak (n = 478; 196 males, 282 females) rivers in the district of Lubuk Antu in Sarawak's Sri Aman Division during July 1993, goiter was found in 31.8% of the subjects. The goiter prevalence was higher in the more interior Ai river area than in the Lemanak river area (36.9...

We analyzed the epidemiological data of all people who were involved in the search and rescue operation in Lubuk Yu, a natural recreational forest with waterfall and stream. The hospital admission records of the cases who fulfilled the case definition and the environmental samples result taken at Lubuk Yu recreational area were studied. 153 people were exposed to this outbreak, 85 (55.5%) were ...