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This role of faith-inspired health care providers in sub-saharan Africa and public-private partnerships is comprised of a three volume series on strengthening the evidence for faith inspired engagement in health in sub-Saharan Africa. An increasing level of interest in the role of faith in...
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Medical ethics did not become a recognized subject in the syllabus of Britain's medical schools until 1993. This Witness Seminar transcript records the development of international ethical codes, the response to them over the period 1963-93 by students and doctors and the extent of resistance...
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tuberculosis. By using decision tree induction, the enhanced Bio-PEPA model shows considerable improvement over the initial model …
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Over the last decade, there was a significant drop in mortality and morbidity cases attributed to tuberculosis (TB …
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the leading killers among bacterial diseases worldwide. In the Philippines, the … program managers and technical advisors of the National Tuberculosis Program, and costing exercise on bidirectional screening …
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The U.S. tuberculosis movement pioneered many of the strategies of modern public health campaigns. Dedicated to …. Although remarkable in its scope and intensity, the effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) movement has not been studied in a …
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context. In an experiment with 3,182 patients at 128 tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in India, we find peers are indeed …
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This paper examines the economic impact of a tuberculosis control program launched in Norway in 1948. In the 1940s …, Norway had one of the highest tuberculosis infection rates in Europe, affecting about 85 percent of the inhabitants. To lower … the disease burden, the Norwegian government launched a large-scale tuberculosis testing and vaccination campaign that …
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specific populations. Using tuberculosis (TB) in India as an example, we examined the population impact of two interventions …
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SETTING: In the Cape Town suburbs of Ravensmead and Uitsig, tuberculosis has reached epidemic levels, with … traditionally believed that tuberculosis transmission takes place mainly in households after close contact with an infectious person …. Studies have recently linked tuberculosis transmission to locations outside the household, and have associated these places …
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