This cross-sectional survey aimed to examine the epidemiology of tuberculosis (TB) in European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) cities with populations greater than 500,000. National TB programme managers were asked to provide data on big city population size, total number of notified TB cases in big cities and national notification rate for 2009. A rate ratio was calculated using th...

Notification displays have the potential to make smartphone notifications easier to manage when a user is committed to a primary task. The authors investigate the impact of negotiating notifications with six notification displays on a typing task. The results from their lab experiment with 30 participants show that desktop pop-ups were preferred significantly most, the display choice that requi...

INTRODUCTION In Hong Kong, there are more than 7000 notified cases of tuberculosis (TB) each year. Ambulatory chemotherapy has been the mainstay of anti-TB treatment. The majority of notified TB cases are managed in the chest clinics of the Tuberculosis & Chest Service (TB&CS) under the administration of the Department of Health (DH). Others are treated at various medical units of the Hospital ...

Since the inception of the National Mycobacterial Surveillance System (NMSS) in 1991, annual crude notification rates for tuberculosis have remained stable at between 5 and 6 per 100,000 population. In 1998, there was a total of 923 TB notifications in Australia of which 884 were new TB cases, and 39 relapsed cases. The corresponding annual crude notification rate for new and relapsed TB was 4....

Sexually transmitted chlamydial infections are the most common preventable cause of pelvic inflammatory disease, and tubal infertility. In Sweden, falling rates of chlamydia, pelvic inflammatory disease, and ectopic pregnancy have been attributed to intensive testing, treatment and partner notification to detect asymptomatic infections, in a variety of healthcare settings since the 1980s. In Br...

BACKGROUND Partner notification services (PNS) are recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a public health intervention for addressing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Barriers and facilitators to the partner notification process from a public health perspective have not been well described. METHODS In 2015, a coalition of New England ...