BACKGROUND Cervical cancer has been a leading female cancer in Thailand for decades, and has been second to breast cancer after 2007. The Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) has provided opportunistic screening with Pap smears for more than 30 years. In 2002, the MoPH and the National Health Security Office provided countrywide systematic screening of cervical cancer to all Thai women aged 35-60 y...

Objetivo: Identificar cambios en la tendencia anual (TA) de las características Licencias Médicas por Depresión del Fondo Nacional Salud Región Ñuble, Chile 2008-2017. Materiales y Métodos: Estudio descriptivo que incluyó 34.467 estas licencias médicas registradas Comisión Medicina Preventiva e Invalidez Secretaria Ministerial según número licencias, tipo licencia, diagnóstico CIE-10, entidad p...

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Cancer is the second main cause of death in Argentina, surpassed only by cardiovascular disease. However, analytical approaches isolating some of the known effects, such as age at death, period of death and birth cohort, have never been performed in cancer mortality studies in Argentina. The aim of this study was to analyze cancer mortality trends in a representative region ...

Abstract Aim Pelvic fractures (PF) are relatively uncommon but significant injuries accounting for approximately 3% of all skeletal injuries. We aimed to assess the burden PFs across high health expenditure countries by describing trends in PF incidence rates over last three decades. Method Using Global Burden Disease (GBD) Study database, we extracted sex specific age-standardised (ASIRs) from...

This paper explores European and national trends in specialised drug treatment entry for cannabis-related problems. The analysis is based on data for the years 2003-2014 from 22 European countries. Between 2003 and 2014, the overall number and proportion of primary cannabis-related first-time entrants increased significantly. A joinpoint regression analysis indicates that the overall increase o...

OBJECTIVE Our aim was to study the trend between 2007 and 2013 in the incidence of larynx cancer in a health district of 300,000 inhabitants. MATERIAL AND METHOD With information from the hospital cancer registry for the reference health area, we calculated the incidence and subsequently performed a joinpoint regression using specific software. RESULTS We found a statistically-significant d...

We analyzed the trends of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo and Osaka from January 25 to May 6, 2020. To analyze identify significant changes them, we performed a joinpoint regression analysis. From last week March, number COVID-19 cases soared (β = 103.51) 28.07). During 2nd 3rd weeks April, both 157.53) 60.96) experienced peak growth cases. Since almost 14 days after state...