Sentences with phrase «on epidemiology»

Focuses on the epidemiology, etiology, assessment, treatment, prognosis, and developmental course of psychopathology from infancy through adolescence.

She holds a Master's degree in Public Health from Saint Louis University, School of Public Health with a focus on Epidemiology and Behavioral Science.

Reviews the current literature on the epidemiology of fatal child abuse, the role of child death investigations in ascertaining the causes of death, the causes of child abuse fatalities, and current prevention efforts.

Our report presents data on the epidemiology of adolescent nonlethal suicidal behaviors from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS - A), the first national survey of US adolescents to assess a wide range of DSM - IV mental disorders and suicidal behaviors using fully - structured diagnostic interviews.

It presents a worldwide analysis of extreme weather, climate and water events, drawing on the Emergency Events Database (EM - DAT), compiled by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED).

CRED (the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters), 2012.

The UN's Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, based at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, puts the tally at US$ 1.891 trillion over the last 20 years.

Jeff Masters, «Colin Takes Aim at Bermuda; the Great Russian Heat Wave of 2010: 102 °F in Moscow,» Dr. Jeff Masters» WunderBlog, Weather Underground, at www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters, 6 August 2010; Anna Smolchenko, «Fires Cost Russia» 300 Billion Dollars» in Deforestation,» Agence France - Presse, 26 August 2010; Debby Guha - Saspir et al., Annual Disaster Statistical Review 2010: The Numbers and Trends (Louvain - la - Neuve, Belgium: Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2011), p. 12; USDA, op.

Of these, 4,615 were due to flash floods and floods, according to the International Disaster Database Centre for research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which have cost the country an estimated USD 396 million in economic losses.

More than 370,000 people died during the decade as a result of extreme weather and climate conditions — heat, cold, drought, storms and floods, according to data from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters.

It was John Brignell's work on epidemiology that helped me to understand the misuse of statistics and peer review.

Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, Brussels.

Brussels: Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, 2012.

The data came from the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (also called CRED) at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.

Mr. Pielke noted that the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters stressed in reports that a host of factors unrelated to climate caused the enormous rise in reported disasters (details below).

(«Spanish dangerous animals act: Effect on the epidemiology of dog bites», 2007, Beln Rosado DVM, MSc,, Sylvia Garca - Belenguer DVM, PhD, Marta Len DVM, PhD and Jorge Palacio DVM, PhD, Animal Pathology Department, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain; Merial Laboratorios, S.A., Tarragona, Barcelona, Spain)

Because of the focus on epidemiology and emerging infectious diseases, our graduates are in demand in public health roles throughout the country.

Programs with research emphasis on epidemiology and public health, microbiology and immunology, clinical and anatomic pathology and laboratory animal medicine.

Description EAG VI includes academic experts on the epidemiology, ecology and economy of zoonotic pathogens and companion animals.

al. «Spanish dangerous animals act: Effect on the epidemiology of dog bites.»

CALLISTO engages the outside world in developing the expert opinions and recommendations, having direct links with a wider audience of stakeholders: organisations of pet owners, pet traders and transporters, farmers, animal welfare organisations, national and international public health authorities, experts on epidemiology, sociology and welfare of companion animals.

VALENCIA, Spain, Aug. 5, 2015 — Dr. Robin Ganzert, president and CEO of American Humane Association, which for 138 years has led the way in developing protections for children, pets, and farm animals, is the keynote speaker and session chair at the Third International Conference on Epidemiology and Public Health in Valencia, Spain today.

The book also includes a short discussion on the epidemiology of narcissistic personality disorder.Know about the different treatment options that are available for people who are suffering from narcissistic personality disorder.

As they progress through the game, students gather information on epidemiology, biology, ecology, history, social studies, and statistical reasoning, which they evaluate to come up with their theory.

At the suggestion of a friend who knew she missed working with data, she took an elective methods course at the university's vet school on epidemiology, the study of health and illness patterns.

A new national competition to judge high school students» research projects on epidemiology — the branch of medical science that investigates the spread and control of diseases — took place in Washington last week.

You may have heard scare stories about red meat and how we should restrict it, but this is based on epidemiology with so many possible confounders.

I therefore suggest that you update your information on the epidemiology of animal protein and cancer risk.

He conducts research on the epidemiology and health economics of the blood supply and transfusion medicine policy throughout the world, primarily focused on infectious diseases, donor health, and recipient outcomes.

She chaired a variety of research peer review committees and sat on Canada's National Advisory Committee on AIDS for eight years, chairing sub-committees on epidemiology, injection drug use, and women and HIV.

Short course on Epidemiology and Control of Infectious Diseases: www.infectiousdiseasemodels.org

In a Policy View published in The Lancet Neurology journal, a group of leading experts on the epidemiology of dementia state that the number of people with dementia — both new cases and total numbers with the disease — in some Western European countries is stabilising despite population aging, in direct contrast to the «dementia epidemic» reported in some recent studies.

She said the study also suggests that co-infection with chikungunya inhibits infection of Zika virus in the Aedes aegypti mosquito, meaning that one virus may outcompete another in mosquitoes, which could have an impact on the epidemiology of two mosquito - borne viruses circulating at the same time.

«Poverty and the many stresses that come with social disadvantage have long been linked to cardiovascular disease, but how we live, work, and play has a great impact on heart health for people from a broad range of economic and cultural backgrounds,» explains David Siscovick, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President for Research at The New York Academy of Medicine and Chair of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Council on Epidemiology and Prevention.

An internist and researcher with more than 650 peer - reviewed publications to his credit, Siscovick focuses broadly on the epidemiology and prevention of cardiovascular disease across the lifespan and multi-sectorial social determinants of health.

If you look at the original work on the epidemiology of thalidomide [a morning - sickness drug that turned out to cause birth defects], there were specific time points where, if the woman was exposed, the baby had a high probability of having bona fide autism.

Some focus is on epidemiology but much of it is animal experimentation.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

Not exact matches

The CDC, says Wintemute, has incorrectly «interpreted that as a mandate not to do research» on the public health dangers of guns and the epidemiology of gun violence.

Medical fields like neurology, bio-chemistry, pharmacology, virology, epidemiology, genomics, oncology, etc. are all dependent on the application of evolutionary principles.

Pharmaceutical bio-chemistry is absolutely predicated on a solid understand of evolutionary principles (as is epidemiology and various other branches of medicine).

Breeding rice resistant to insects and diseases requires knowledge on resistance mechanisms, genetics, and epidemiology, to deploy efficient resistances that reduce crop losses.

Professor Bruce Neal is Senior Director of the Food Policy Division at the George Institute for Global Health, Chair of the Australian Division of World Action on Salt and Health, and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Imperial College London.

SB Nation's Department of Epidemiology has some advice for preventing disaster on a larger scale.

Scores on the cognitive, receptive and expressive communication and fine motor sections were highest among children who were breastfed for more than six months, the researchers reported in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Earlier this year, a Columbia University epidemiology professor released a study about the impact of business travel on health, and the results were not encouraging: As business travel increases, so do obesity and body - mass index.

In 2008 she completed an NIH / NHLBI funded course on cardiovascular genetic epidemiology and bioinformatics at Washington University in St. Louis, MO..

Michelle Silver (Camp Name «Silver») graduated with a bachelor's degree in Human Biology from Stanford University in 2007 and then received an ScM in Epidemiology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2009, and is currently a PhD candidate there as well, where her dissertation focuses on cervical cancer screening.

Nicholas Stettler, assistant professor of pediatrics and epidemiology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia told ABC News that it's already known that flavor is passed on to breast milk, but no one's quite sure if it can help your child's health by eating certain things to give them a taste for it, or if it's simply a plus to being breastfed.