The consultant in communicable disease control and global public health speaks to Francesca Robinson about her passion for promoting women leadership

background world health organization/international society of hypertension (who/ish) charts have been employed to predict the risk of cardiovascular outcome in heterogeneous settings. the aim of this research is to assess the prevalence of cardiovascular disease (cvd) risk factors and to estimate the cardiovascular risk among adults aged >40 years, utilizing the risk charts alone, and by the ad...

Acinetobacter baumannii in China: comparison with PFGE typing. 2 Yuan Hu, Boqing Li, Dazhi Jin, Zhigang Cui, Xiaoxia Tao, Binghua Zhang, 3 Jianzhong Zhang 4 5 1 State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, National 6 Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for 7 Disease Control and Prevention, 2 Binzhou Medical College, Yantai, china, 3 8...

conclusions schistosomiasis is one of the major tropical and communicable diseases in the eastern mediterranean region (emr). however, today it is eliminated in iran by schistosomiasis control practices. results on the basis of our results, using a national program for schistosomiasis control based on active and passive case finding, snail control programs, education of people, conducting train...

BACKGROUND In recent years, problems like insufficient coordination, low efficiency, and heavy working load in national communicable disease surveillance systems in China have been pointed out by many researchers. To strengthen the national communicable disease surveillance systems becomes an immediate concern. Since the World Health Organization has recommended that a structured approach to st...