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Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, 2181 LeFrak Hall, 7251 Preinkert Dr., College Park, MD 20740, USA.
Despite a remarkable reduction in global poverty and famines, substantial childhood malnutrition continues to persist. In 2017, over 50 million and 150 million young children suffered from acute malnutrition () and chronic malnutrition (), respectively. Yet, the measurable impact of determinants is obscure.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[CONTRIBUTION TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE HEALTH SITUATION WITHIN THE POPULATION IN SLAVONIA AND SRIJEM DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WITH AN EMPHASIS ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES].
Acta Med Hist Adriat
January 2024
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During World War II, the population of agricultural areas of Slavonia and Srijem lived in privation, but there was no famine. A more serious threat was infectious diseases, such as malaria, typhoid fever, and dysentery, which were also present within the population in the post-war period. Major epidemics broke out mostly in areas under partisan control, especially in the areas of western and central Slavonia, where major epidemic typhus contagious broke out.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[Progress in research of epidemiology of relapsing fever and prevention and control measures].
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December 2023
National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, Division of Spirochetosis Control, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 102206, China.
Relapsing fever, caused by of the relapsing fever groups, is an infectious disease, which would cause spirochaetaemia and repeated fever in human. To comprehensively understand the classification and distribution of relapsing fever, as well as correlated factors, this paper summarizes the progress in research of epidemiology of relapsing fever in the world, and suggests prevention and control measures. The disease is heterogenous and can be divided into three groups according to vectors, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMilan's forgotten epidemic of summer 1629, a few months before the last great plague: An investigation into the possible cause.
PLoS One
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Department of History and Historical Documentation Sciences, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.
An epidemic not attributable to plague caused thousands of deaths in Milan in the summer of 1629, a time of war and famine that immediately preceded the even more fatal Great Plague of 1630 that killed an estimated ten of thousands of people. The 5,993 deaths of 1629 recorded in the Liber Mortuorum of Milan (a city with an estimated population of 130,000 inhabitants at the time) were 45.7% more than the average number recorded between 1601 and 1628.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFUse of mobile medical teams to fill critical gaps in health service delivery in complex humanitarian settings, 2017-2020: a case study of South Sudan.
Pan Afr Med J
September 2022
The World Health Organization (WHO), Juba, South Sudan.
The vulnerable populations in the protracted humanitarian crisis in South Sudan are faced with constrained access to health services and frequent disease outbreaks. Here, we describe the experiences of emergency mobile medical teams (eMMT) assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) South Sudan to respond to public health emergencies. Interventions: the eMMTs, multidisciplinary teams based at national, state and county levels, are rapidly deployed to conduct rapid assessments, outbreak investigations, and initiate public health response during acute emergencies.
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