There is a growing understanding that several infectious agents are acquired in early life and this is the reason why available vaccines target the new born, infants, and adolescents. Infectious agents are associated with cancer development and it is estimated that about 20% of the world's cancer burden is attributed to infectious agents. There is a growing evidence that certain infectious agen...

BACKGROUND The Carlos III Health Institute (Instituto de Salud Carlos III - Spain) allocates funding to health research support in the Spanish National Health System (NHS). This study aimed to analyse the correlation of health research fund allocations in the NHS and the burden of disease in Spanish population. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Burden of disease measures were calculated: disabil...

OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of presentations and infectious-disease burden at primary health care (PHC) services in young children in two remote Aboriginal communities in tropical northern Australia. METHODS Children born after 1 January 2001, who were resident at 30 September 2005 and for whom consent was obtained, were studied. Clinic records were reviewed for all presentations bet...

background: gastrointestinal and liver diseases (gild) constitute a noteworthy portion of causes of death and disability in iran. however, data on their prevalence and burden is sparse in iran. the global burden of disease (gbd) study in 2010 has provided invaluable comprehensive data on the burden of gild in iran methods: estimations of death, years of life lost due to premature death (yll), y...

Introduction: Biases in the measurement of COVID-19 burden and uncertainty estimation corresponding epidemiologic indexes are known common phenomena infectious diseases. We investigated to what extent healthcare access (HCA)-related supply/demand interfered with registered data on Poland.

BACKGROUND Infectious disease burden estimates provided by a composite health measure give a balanced view of the true impact of a disease on a population, allowing the relative impact of diseases that differ in severity and mortality to be monitored over time. This article presents the first national disease burden estimates for a comprehensive set of 32 infectious diseases in the Netherlands....

BACKGROUND Persistent and heavy rainfall in the upper and middle Huaihe River of China brought about severe floods during the end of June and July 2007. However, there has been no assessment on the association between the floods and infectious diarrhea. This study aimed to quantify the impact of the floods in 2007 on the burden of disease due to infectious diarrhea in northwest of Anhui Provinc...

Systematic health inequalities exist in all European countries today. Individuals with lower socio-economic status suffer disproportionally from adverse health outcomes. While this is widely accepted for chronic diseases, a literature review covering the years 1999-2010 reveals that infectious diseases are also distributed unevenly throughout society, with vulnerable groups bearing a disproport...