Background Tobacco use continues to be the leading global cause of preventable death, contributing to the death of nearly 6 million people each year. Medical students, who are future doctors, have an important role to play in smoking cessation and prevention. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of tobacco use among medical students of Democritus University of Thrace Medic...

Predictive Score for 30-Day Readmission or Death in Heart Failure Readmissions shortly after heart failure (HF) are common, expensive, and usually considered preventable.1 However, despite the use of several interventions, rates of readmission after HF remain stable.2 An effective risk score might permit the targeting of resource-intensive interventions (such as disease-management programs) spe...

Background: Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) remains a major public health problem associated with death and severe consequences, especially in children. However, IMD is preventable through vaccination, vaccines available to cover five of the six most common disease-causing strains (A, B, C, X, Y, W). Surveillance systems are necessary for monitoring incidence, together severity serogroup p...

Approximately fifty million people living in the U.S. use tobacco products. According to Massachusetts Department of Public Health, leading cause preventable death and disease state is smoking. As 2017, 13.7% adults were current smokers, with 13.5% white adults, 15.7% Black 18.3% Hispanic reporting smoking cigarettes.1 One study found that an average smoker may attempt quit 30 or more times bef...

background: streptococcus pneumoniae and haemophilus influenzae type b (hib) is a leading cause of bacterial pneumonia, meningitis, and sepsis in children under 5-year of age. this study aims to estimate potentially preventable number of cases and deaths caused by hib and pneumococcal in iran.materials and methods:we used the burden of diseases model estimates of the world health organization (...

BACKGROUND Preventable mortality is a good indicator of possible problems to be investigated in the primary prevention chain, making it also a useful tool with which to evaluate health policies particularly public health policies. This study describes inequalities in preventable avoidable mortality in relation to socioeconomic status in small urban areas of thirty three Spanish cities, and anal...