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Introduction: Those with established symptomatic cardiopulmonary disease should attend secondary prevention programs. Attendance at these programs is known to differ by sex and by smoking status, with females and those who smoke being less likely to attend. However, little is known about whether the risk factors of being female and smoking are cumulative, and how outcomes from secondary prevention differ by these subgroups.
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December 2024
Department of Surgery, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.
Objectives: This study accessed the challenges with financing cardiothoracic surgical care in Africa, highlighting the present state of funding, and proffering probable solutions to adequate and effective funding in the region.
Methods: Through a literature review, the authors elaborate on key points such as; areas of financial funding in cardiothoracic surgery, barriers to appropriate allocation of financial resources for cardiothoracic surgery in Africa, and the needs and available resources for cardiothoracic surgery in Africa. Multiple search engines and databases were used, like: PubMed, Medline, Cochrane, Scopus, and Google Scholar.
Background: There is growing interest in the role of environmental factors (i.e., exposome) in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's diseases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Socioeconomic deprivation has been associated with shorter survival and an earlier loss of functional independence in patients with Alzheimer's disease and dementia. However, the effect of deprivation on outcomes in Parkinson's disease (PD) and syndromes associated with frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) are largely unknown. Prognosis in these neurodegenerative diseases is variable and difficult to predict despite multiple known sociodemographic, clinical and genetic predictors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExpert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res
January 2025
Evaluation and Implementation Science Unit, Centre for Health Policy, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Introduction: Cervical cancer is almost entirely preventable by vaccination and screening. Population based vaccination and screening programs are effective and cost effective, but millions of people do not have access to these programs, causing immense suffering. The WHO Global Strategy for the elimination of cervical cancer as a public health problem calls for countries to meet ambitious vaccination, screening and treatment targets.
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