Publications by authors named "Viet Anh Tran"
Article Synopsis
- - Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have a disproportionately low surgical workforce, comprising only 19% of the global total while facing 80% of deaths from noncommunicable diseases, prompting an analysis of the link between pediatric surgical workforce density (PSWD) and survival rates for pediatric surgical conditions.
- - The study revealed a significant variation in PSWD, with LICs showing very low densities (some at zero) while HICs had higher densities, correlating higher PSWD of ≥4 pediatric surgeons per million children under 15 years with a much higher survival rate of ≥80%.
- - The findings indicate that increasing PSWD in LICs and MICs to the suggested benchmark would require the
Background: Immigrants originating from intermediate and high HCV prevalence countries may be at increased risk of exposure to hepatitis C infection (HCV) in their countries of origin, however they are not routinely screened after arrival in most low HCV prevalence host countries. We aimed to describe the epidemiology of HCV in immigrants compared to the Canadian born population.
Methods: Using the reportable infectious disease database linked to the landed immigration database and several provincial administrative databases, we assembled a cohort of all reported cases of HCV in Quebec, Canada (1998-2008).