scholarly journals The Public Health Perspective Of An Investigational Herpes Zoster Vaccine In The United Kingdom (Uk)

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. A400 ◽  
Author(s):  
DA van Oorschot ◽  
M Hunjan ◽  
L Varghese ◽  
C Canavan ◽  
D Curran
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Herpes Zoster ◽  
Zoster Vaccine ◽  
Public Health Perspective ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom

scholarly journals The Public Health Impact Of A New Herpes Zoster Vaccine To The German Population

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (7) ◽  
pp. A400-A401
Author(s):  
DA van Oorschot ◽  
A Anastassopoulou ◽  
K Schlegel ◽  
L Varghese ◽  
A von Krempelhuber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Herpes Zoster ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Public Health Impact ◽  
German Population ◽  
Zoster Vaccine ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals The Economic Impact of Herpes Zoster Vaccine Disparities in Elderly United States Blacks

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (10) ◽  
pp. 2128
Author(s):  
La’Marcus Wingate ◽  
Keisha Stubbs ◽  
Iman Ahmed ◽  
Rachel Mayaka ◽  
Mary Maneno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Herpes Zoster ◽  
Decision Tree ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Zoster Vaccine ◽  
The Public ◽  
Lost Productivity

There are persistent disparities with regard to receipt of herpes zoster vaccine among elderly blacks, but no data is available regarding the public health or economic impact of these disparities. A decision tree was constructed with multiple Markov nodes in order to estimate the preventable cases of herpes zoster occurring among elderly blacks due to disparities in receipt of herpes zoster vaccine and to quantify the economic costs associated with these disparities. The model was constructed to examine the number of herpes zoster cases occurring among elderly blacks from the age of 60 to 84 over a 20 year period and also calculated costs due to herpes zoster complications and lost productivity. Achievement of health equity would prevent over 34,500 cases of herpes zoster from occurring in the future and avert over $180 million in lost productivity and treatment costs as a result of these cases of herpes zoster. These results help to show that thousands of cases of herpes zoster could be prevented if blacks were vaccinated at the same frequency as whites and help to show the benefit of implementing viable strategies to achieving this goal.

scholarly journals Excess Mortality in England during the 2019 Summer Heatwaves

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Natasha Rustemeyer ◽  
Mark Howells
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Summer Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Statistics ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Excess Deaths ◽  
Related Mortality

There is increasing evidence that rising temperatures and heatwaves in the United Kingdom are associated with an increase in heat-related mortality. However, the Public Health England (PHE) Heatwave mortality monitoring reports, which use provisional death registrations to estimate heat-related mortality in England during heatwaves, have not yet been evaluated. This study aims to retrospectively quantify the impact of heatwaves on mortality during the 2019 summer period using daily death occurrences. Second, using the same method, it quantifies the heat-related mortality for the 2018 and 2017 heatwave periods. Last, it compares the results to the estimated excess deaths for the same period in the PHE Heatwave mortality monitoring reports. The number of cumulative excess deaths during the summer 2019 heatwaves were minimal (161) and were substantially lower than during the summer 2018 heatwaves (1700 deaths) and summer 2017 heatwaves (1489 deaths). All findings were at variance with the PHE Heatwave mortality monitoring reports which estimated cumulative excess deaths to be 892, 863 and 778 during the heatwave periods of 2019, 2018 and 2017, respectively. Issues are identified in the use of provisional death registrations for mortality monitoring and the reduced reliability of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) daily death occurrences database before 2019. These findings may identify more reliable ways to monitor heat mortality during heatwaves in the future.

Baseline Rates of Campylobacter and Salmonella in Raw Chicken in Wales, United Kingdom, in 2002

2004 ◽  
Vol 67 (6) ◽  
pp. 1226-1228 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. MELDRUM ◽  
D. TUCKER ◽  
C. EDWARDS
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Seasonal Variation ◽  
Public Health Laboratory ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Food Standards ◽  
Similar Peak

The Public Health Laboratory Service in Wales, in cooperation with local authorities and the Food Standards Agency Wales, carried out a survey to establish baseline figures for the contamination of raw retail chicken with Salmonella and Campylobacter available within Wales, a devolved part of the United Kingdom with a population of ~3 million. Seven hundred thirty-nine samples were obtained between November 2001 and December 2002. Overall, 71% of samples were contaminated with Campylobacter, and 8% were contaminated with Salmonella. There were no significant differences between fresh and frozen carcasses and between samples taken from retailers or butchers. There was seasonal variation in the level of Campylobacter contamination of fresh chicken, with a peak in June and the lowest positive rates in January, March, and December. There was no similar peak observed in frozen samples or for Salmonella.

scholarly journals Excess Mortality in England During the 2019 Summer Heatwaves.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Rustemeyer ◽  
Mark Howells
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Cumulative Number ◽  
Summer Period ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Excess Deaths ◽  
Related Mortality

There is increasing evidence that rising temperatures and heatwaves in the United Kingdom are associated with an increase in heat-related mortality. This study aims to retrospectively quantify the impact of heatwaves on mortality during the 2019 summer period using daily death occurrences. Second, it compares excess mortality during the 2019 heatwaves to excess mortality during the 2018 and 2017 heatwave periods. Lastly, it compares the excess mortality in the 2017-2019 heatwaves to the estimated excess deaths for the same period in the Public Health England (PHE) Heatwave mortality monitoring Reports. The cumulative number of excess deaths during the summer 2019 heatwaves were minimal and were substantially lower than during the summer 2018 heatwaves (1,700 deaths) and summer 2017 heatwaves (1,489 deaths). All findings were at variance with the PHE Heatwave mortality monitoring reports which estimated cumulative excess deaths to be 892, 863 and 778 during the summer period of 2019, 2018 and 2017 respectively using provisional death registrations. Issues have been identified in the use of provisional death registrations for mortality monitoring and the reduced reliability of the ONS daily death occurrence database before 2019. These findings may identify more reliable ways to monitor heat mortality during heatwaves in the future.

scholarly journals Temporal cluster of wound botulism in the United Kingdom

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
S O’Brien ◽  
Alasdair Reid ◽  
A C de Benoist
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Environmental Health ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Laboratory Service ◽  
Wound Botulism ◽  
The Public ◽  
Temporal Cluster ◽  
The United Kingdom

Five clinical cases of wound botulism have been reported to the Public Health Laboratory Service (PHLS) Communicable Disease Surveillance Centre and the Scottish Centre for Infection and Environmental Health since the beginning of February 2002 (1,2).

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