The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risk (COFEPRIS by its initials in Spanish) is the state body responsible for transversely regulating various sectors of the Mexican economy, among them health services and inputs. Both cases are related to the rational use of medicines. The pharmaceutical policy of the Mexican Government is to prevent health risks by strengthening the e...

Illegal municipal waste dumping practices in developing countries may be impacted by many factors such as socioeconomic, demographic, availability of collection facilities, recycling sites, and spatial characteristics. This study uses regression analysis to identify which primarily impact illegal practices. For this purpose, 8 variables explain the data for 177 subdistricts used analysis. ordin...

This study uses information from the Central Pennsylvania Women’s Health Study (CePAWHS) to analyze health risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes in the Amish population of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A survey was conducted with 288 Amish woman and 2002 women from central PA. This study focuses specifically on how age (≤34 vs. ≥35), conception status (preconceptional, pregnant, interco...

PURPOSE To date, studies pertaining to possible links between body modification and risk-taking behaviours have been conducted mainly among targeted groups. The objective of this study is to examine the influence of a number of risk-taking behaviours on the probability of being pierced or tattooed among a general adolescent population. METHODS Data come from a cross-sectional study conducted ...

The term "triangle of death" was used for the first time by Senior and Mazza in the journal The Lancet Oncology referring to the eastern area of the Campania Region (Southern Italy) which has one of the worst records of illegal waste dumping practices. In the past decades, many studies have focused on the potential of illegal waste disposal to cause adverse effects on human health in this area....