Academic Articles & Research Papers

Quality of Infertility Care Services and Emotional Health of South Asian Women

Sehar-un-Nisa Hassan,1,2 Aqeela Zahra,3 Nuzhat Parveen,4 Naveed Iqbal,4 Sarwat Mumtaz,5 Asma Batool6 1Department of Public Health, College of Public Health and Health Informatics, University of Ha’il, Ha’il, 81451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; ...

Occurrence and Residue Concentration of Coccidiostats in Feed and Food of Animal Origin; Human Exposure Assessment

Occurring central Italy, 262 unmedicated feed samples and 353 samples of animal tissues and eggs are tested for coccidiostats between 2012 and 2017. A validated multi-residue HPLC-MS/MS method is applied for the simultaneous determination o...

The effect of universal health coverage on pollution induced mortality across 91 countries

Abstract This study investigates the mitigating role of universal healthcare coverage (UHC) in reducing mortality from air pollution, focusing on deaths caused by particulate matter pollution (PMP) and ambient ozone pollution (AOP) across 9...

Prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus and Associated Factors in Addis Ababa Public Health Facilities, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2016

Addisu Tadesse Sahile,1 Getabalew Endazenew Bekele2 1Department of Public Health, Unity University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 2Department of Social and Population Health, Yekatit12 Hospital Medical College, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaCorrespondence:...

Integration and collaboration in public health—a conceptual framework

With the increasing differentiation of organisations involved in the pursuit of public health, there is also a growing need for inter-organisational integration. Starting from the concepts of differentiation and integration, this article is...

Lack of Usefulness of Literature-Based Helicobacter pylori Resistance Data for Predicting First-Line Empirical Treatment Effectiveness in the European Registry on H. pylori Management (Hp-EuReg).

Support for mask use as a COVID-19 public health measure among a large sample of Canadian secondary school students

Abstract Background Youth voice has been largely absent from deliberations regarding public health measures intended to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission, despite being one of the populations most impacted by school-based policies. To inform ...

Drinking patterns and alcohol use disorders in São Paulo, Brazil: the role of neighborhood social deprivation and socioeconomic status.

Research conducted in high-income countries has investigated influences of socioeconomic inequalities on drinking outcomes such as alcohol use disorders (AUD), however, associations between area-level neighborhood social deprivation (NSD) a...

Prediction of cardiorrespiratory fitness by screen time in schoolchildrens

The time spent in front of the screens, results in accumulations of sedentary behavior, which is related to health damages to adolescents, such as a low cardiorespiratory fitness. In this sense, this study aimed to predict cardiorespiratory...

Protocol to evaluate sequential electronic health record-based strategies to increase genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer risk across diverse patient populations in gynecology practices

Abstract Background Germline genetic testing is recommended by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) for individuals including, but not limited to, those with a personal history of ovarian cancer, young-onset (...

The Evolution of Phytochemical and Medicinal Plant Research in Chile: Status, Opportunities, and Challenges

Background: The global use of herbal medicines and research on plant bioactive compounds have steadily increased. In Chile, this growth is linked to ethnobotanical knowledge and advances in phytochemistry, although gaps persist in its evolu...

Current Status of Fasciolosis of Goat in Sylhet, Bangladesh: An Integrated Morphomolecular Study

Epidemiological information and proper identification of Fasciola species present in Bangladesh are important for control. This study was aimed at determining the prevalence of liver fluke infection of goats in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and ident...

Underweight, body image, and weight loss measures among adolescents in Saudi Arabia: is it a fad or is there more going on?

Background and Objective: Adolescence is considered to be a pivotal point in which optimum nutrition and eating habits are developed. Although tackling the obesity epidemic has been much discussed, addressing the issue of underweight and bo...

Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cardiovascular Risk: Retrospective Matched-Cohort Analysis Based on the RECORD Study of the Italian Society for Rheumatology

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with an increase in cardiovascular (CV) risk. This issue maybe not only explained by a genetic component, as well as by the traditional CV risk factors, but also by an underestimation and ...

Impact of preoperative insomnia on poor postoperative pain control after elective spine surgery and the modified Calgary postoperative pain after spine surgery (MCAPPS) score

Background: Approximately 30% to 64% of patients experience inadequate pain control following spine surgery. The Calgary postoperative pain after spine surgery (CAPPS) score was developed to identify this subset of patients. The impact of p...

Public Health Communication

Contents: Preface. Introduction. R. Hornik, Public Health Communication: Making Sense of Contradictory Evidence. Part I: Deliberate Trials. J.K. Worden, B.S. Flynn, Using Mass Media to Prevent Cigarette Smoking. P. Palmgreen, L. Donohew, E....

The New Public Health

Health is a crossroad. It is where biological and social factors, the individual and the community, and social and economic policy all converge. addition to its intrinsic value, health is a means for personal and collective advance­ ment. I...

Oxford Textbook of Public Health

SECTION 1: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE DISCIPLINE OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1.1 The scope and concerns of public health 1.2 The history and development of public health in high-income countries 1.3 The history and development of public health in low- and...

PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE CROSSROADS

PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE CROSSROADS C.-E. A. Winslow, Professor of Public HealthDr.P.H.Fellow A.P.H.A. CopyRight*Presidential address delivered before the American Public Health Association at the Fifty-fifth Annual Meeting at Buffalo, N. Y., O...

The upregulated scavenger receptor CD36 is associated with the progression of nontarget lesions after stent implantation in atherosclerotic rabbits

Ruijian Li,1–3,* Sumei Cui,1–3,* Youshun Xu,4 Junhui Xing,5 Li Xue,1–3 Yuguo Chen1–3 1Department of Emergency, Qilu Hospital, Shandong University, Jinan, China; 2Key Laboratory of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine...