Sentences with phrase «disease burden»

Handbook of disease burdens and quality of life measures.

«I'm a personal believer that the opioid epidemic and the chronic disease burden we see in the country are symptoms of the problem, not the real problem,» he said.

By doing so, «humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change,» they insist.

When the researchers analyzed each factor independently, they found that infectious disease burden was more closely correlated to average IQ than the other variables.

More severe signs are usually associated with a larger disease burden (e.g. internal spread).

Only 10 % of global health research focuses on the illnesses that constitute 90 % of the global disease burden.

And next month officials are expected to release an agency - wide strategic plan that they say will address how disease burden should influence the allocation of research dollars.

This technical document showcases standardized comparative risk assessment methods for estimating aggregate disease burdens attributable to different risk factors.

This «observational intensity» suggested diagnosis is not solely an attribute of underlying disease burden, but could also reflect how often patients encounter the health care system.

Despite the enormous disease burden of mosquito - borne viral infections — they are responsible for hundreds of millions of cases across the world — there are few specific therapies or vaccines.

These groups also have less access overall to healthcare services which can further increase their chronic disease burden.

This suggests that protective factors, such as high HRV [79] or increased interpersonal regulation [80], could reduce disease burden in these mothers.

T gondii is an important zoonosis with a high disease burden in humans.

Global health and science policy learning initiative: epidemiological analysis of disease burden on the Korean peninsula Sharon Kim University of Pennsylvania

This suggests that people were dying younger before the Black Death arrived — probably because of famine and an increase in disease burden from other pathogens.

«It correlates also with diseases burden associated with bipolar disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and epilepsy.

Jeremy Hess, an Emory University physician and epidemiologist who has studied the relationship between climate change and health conditions, said in an email that the WHO findings are «a significant step forward in the global estimation of projected disease burden associated with climate change.»

Researchers used the data to calculate the number of years lost due to ill health, disability, or early death — a proxy for estimating total disease burden — and found that 320,000 disability - adjusted life years are lost annually in West Africa as a result of snake bites.

«This improves overall detection compared to standard biopsy and, more importantly, has the potential to give clinicians and patients a more accurate picture of their true disease burden by allowing improvements in staging.»

«Where disease burden is greatest, our capacity to measure trends doesn't exist,» said Margaret Chan, director - general of WHO, at the start of the meeting yesterday.

Infectious diseases account for a significant component of disease burden worldwide, and are responsible for a large proportion of morbidity and mortality across all areas of society [3].

Estimated global, regional, and national disease burdens related to sugar - sweetened beverage consumption in 2010

The researchers note that the association found in this study has potentially important implications for future RA disease burden, saying: «Women who took part in this study were born in the 1940s and 1950s, before China's one - child policy was introduced in the late 1970s, and at a time when breastfeeding was more prevalent.

Studies based on reviews of medical records of animals may under - estimate the true disease burden by predominantly including those more severely affected animals that warrant veterinary management and there may be reduced reporting of less severely affected animals that may be less likely to be clinically presented [47].

«We've moved beyond just measuring disease burden based on the amount of tumor DNA in the blood.»

By moving rapidly to a zero - carbon energy system — replacing coal, oil and gas with wind, solar, geothermal and other zero - carbon energy sources, drastically reducing emissions of all other climate altering pollutants and by adopting sustainable land use practices, humanity can prevent catastrophic climate change, while cutting the huge disease burden caused by air pollution and climate change.

Summary: Maternal and child undernutrition is highly prevalent in low - income and middle - income countries, resulting in substantial increases in mortality and overall disease burden.

These have been applied to existing and new models for a range of climate - sensitive diseases in order to estimate the effect of global climate change on current disease burdens and likely proportional changes in the future.

«While it is reasonable to assume that, if existing smokers switched completely from conventional cigarettes (with no other changes in use patterns) to e-cigarettes, there would be a lower disease burden caused by nicotine addiction, the evidence available at this time, although limited, points to high levels of dual use of e-cigarettes with conventional cigarettes, no proven cessation benefits, and rapidly increasing youth initiation with e-cigarettes,» the authors wrote.

The authors note that, although their model is based on the best available data, the data for Russia and India was scaled up from regional data and may not represent the true national disease burden.

«New effort uses implementation science to reduce mother - to - child HIV transmission: Studies investigate best practices to ease HIV disease burden in Sub-Saharan Africa.»

Major problems in high TB disease burden countries are human and environmental factors that contribute to a weakened immune system and can increase susceptibility to Mtb infection, recurrence of latent infection and high morbidity and mortality.

Can the impact of racism at even the cellular level explain the greater chronic disease burden among groups like Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and actually hasten their ageing process?

Heart disease, diabetes, and depression represent three of the leading disease burdens in Australia with all three conditions being identified as National Health Priority Areas.

In the biggest effort ever undertaken, a group of scientists in December published the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study, which estimated disease burdens — death as well as years of life affected by disability — for 291 diseases and injuries in 20 age groups in 21 global regions.

So, Buechley argues, «the better solution is to invest in vulture conservation here and now, in order to stem incalculable damage from trophic cascades and increased human disease burden in the developing world.»

«The rapid shifts in disease burden place poor people in low - and middle - income countries at high risk of not having access to appropriate services and incurring payments for health care that push them deeper into poverty,» said Timothy Evans, Director of Health, Nutrition and Population at the World Bank Group.

«Our results indicate that mind body interventions can reduce individual disease burden as well as the utilization of healthcare resources and are well suited to the changing healthcare environment... Mind body interventions are inexpensive relative to the cost of an emergency room visit, a hospitalization, or even other complementary and alternative medicine therapies.»

The high mortality and disease burden resulting from these nutrition - related factors make a compelling case for the urgent implementation of interventions to reduce their occurrence or ameliorate their consequences.

WHO estimates of the global burden of foodborne diseases, Foodborne disease burden epidemiology reference group 2007 — 2015, Switzerland.

Strange as it may appear, though, our Christian clerics, principally the apocalyptic or doomsday prophesiers, it also turns out, do not receive divinely inspired visions that attempt to provide practical answers to drug discoveries in fighting our progressively escalating disease burden, and for better or for worse pragmatic solutions that should otherwise help us reverse our mournful state of relative technological, scientific and industrial backwardness.

Actively monitoring disease burden and mortality attributable to substance use in order to identify and respond when rapid changes in life expectancy occur.

The Goldilocks alcohol figure is not likely to be the same in all parts of the world, since disease burdens differ from place to place.

The study published in Arthritis Care & Research, a journal of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), suggests that screening and treatment of psychosocial symptoms may curb the cardiovascular disease burden in RA patients.

A move to end NIH's AIDS earmark fuels debate over whether funding should reflect disease burden.

Investigating that increase, Thakar says the team found that as anti-rejection medicines and the ability to deliver complex care has improved, they saw a trend of older transplant recipients with an increased comorbid disease burden.

Infectious disease burden again came out on top, although temperature and distance from sub-Saharan Africa explained some of the variation as well.

To further assess the relationship, the researchers built a statistical model that allowed them to test the predictive power of infectious disease burden against other variables previously associated with IQ, such as education, temperature, distance from sub-Saharan Africa, and wealth.