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Pan Afr Med J
November 2022
Department of Basic Sciences, Research Laboratory in Oral Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Mohammed V University in Rabat, Rabat, Morocco.
The current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that emerged in December 2019 in China continues to claim a thousand lives worldwide. This study aimed to report characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of a Moroccan COVID-19 cohort, and identify factors which predispose patients to hospitalization and mortality from COVID-19. We conducted a cross-sectional study of symptomatic COVID-19 patients referred to COVID-19 ward of the Settat Provincial Hospital, during October 2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAdv Gerontol
February 2018
Research and Innovation Centre «Professional longevity», Saint-Petersburg, 199106, Russian Federation.
The basic medico-demographic indices of aging population for Russia were identified in this article. Special attention was given to the examination of the demographic risks of a reduction in the population at the working ages, to an increase in the demographic load on the labor forces. The «Strategy for Action for the elderly persons until 2025», prepared by the Interdepartmental Working Group at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of the Russian Federation, was analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe comparative analysis of the aging process of population in the context of demographic transition was represented in this article. The values of the basic medico-demographic indices of aging population for Russia and developed countries were identified. The results of the United Nations forecasts, probabilistic prognosis of quantity and age-gender structure for the Russian population were analyzed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFProbl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med
July 2002
Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Istor Med
November 1997
Several aspects of the Moscow population health are analyzed: quality of life is compared with that in other world megalopolises, medico-demographic values and causes of death in the city are compared with those in other Russian cities, and morbidity in various population groups (children, adolescents, adults) is compared with that in other regions of the Russian Federation. Basic features of the health status of Muscovites are analyzed, as are some negative regularities in the time course of health characteristics, common for the critical period of development of Russia and leading to decrease of birth rate, increase of mortality of capable population, decrease of the expected life span, and increase in the incidence of contagious and other diseases.
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