83 10-YEAR CHANGES IN DIETARY HABITS AND MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER IN A HIGH-INCIDENCE AREA: A POPULATION-BASED STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (Supplement_1) ◽  
Author(s):  
D Tian ◽  
H Huang ◽  
K Jiang ◽  
H Wen ◽  
M Fu
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Food Groups ◽  
Rural Residents ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
And Control ◽  
High Incidence Area

Abstract   Yanting was reported as a high-incidence area of EC with an unclear etiology. Many preventative measures and control policies have been performed during recent years in Yanting County, but no study has examined the changes in dietary habits and medical knowledge of EC during this decade. This study aimed to compare the differences in dietary habits, food group intake and medical knowledge of EC among residents of Yanting between 2007 and 2017. Methods Using a self-designed questionnaire, we investigated rural residents from Yanting county in the year 2007 and 2017. The 10-year changes of demographic features, personal dietary habits, food groups and medical knowledge of EC were compared. The results were then statistically analyzed. This study is based on a household survey of 570 and 898 rural residents aged 18+ years from Yanting County conducted in 2007 and 2017, respectively. Results Participants in the year 2007 were more likely to consume foods of lower toughness, have a slower speed of eating, have hotter temperature food, and have rice as a staple food less often (P < 0.05). Residents in the year 2007 ate more preserved foods but fewer fresh foods than those in the year 2017 (P < 0.05). Participants in the year 2017 improved their medical knowledge compared to those in the year 2007, which was conceptualized as a clear understanding of medical insurance for EC, common causes of EC, therapeutic measures for EC, preventive measures for EC, and government interventions (P < 0.05). Conclusion Although the medical knowledge of participants in year 2017 have changed a lot, most of them also never head of detail knowledge on EC. Residents in the year 2017 had healthier dietary habits and better medical knowledge of EC than those in the year 2007, while prevention and control measures in Yanting should be strengthened persistently.

scholarly journals Epidemiological Analysis of COVID-19 Cases in Native Amazonian Communities from Peru

Epidemiologia ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-501
Author(s):  
Cecilia Pajuelo-Reyes ◽  
Hugo J. Valencia ◽  
Carla C. Montenegro ◽  
Eduardo Quezada ◽  
Lizandro Gonzales ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protective Factor ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Peruvian Amazon ◽  
Epidemiological Analysis ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Confirmatory Tests ◽  
Lower Death Rate ◽  
High Incidence Area ◽  
Significant Factors

Despite early control measures, SARS-CoV-2 reached all regions of Peru during the first wave of the pandemic, including native communities of the Peruvian Amazon. Here, we aimed to describe the epidemiological situation of COVID-19 in the Amazonas region of Peru using an open database of 11,124 COVID-19 cases reported from 19 March to 29 July 2020, including 3278 cases from native communities. A high-incidence area in northern Amazonas (Condorcanqui) reported a cumulative incidence of 63.84/1000 inhabitants with a much lower death rate (0.95%) than the national average. Our results showed at least eight significant factors for mortality, and the Native Amazonian ethnicity as a protective factor. Molecular confirmatory tests are necessary to better explain the high incidence of antibody response reported in these communities.

Should We Vigorously Try to Contain and Control Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus?

1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (01) ◽  
pp. 46-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Boyce
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care Unit ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Controlled Trials ◽  
Survey Questionnaire ◽  
Hospital Epidemiology ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
And Control

AbstractObjective:To review practices currently used to control transmission of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcusaureus (MRSA) in hospitals, determine the frequency of their use, and discuss the indications for implementing such measures.Design:A questionnaire survey to determine how commonly selected control practices are used, and a literature review of the efficacy of control practices.Participants:Two hundred fifty-six of 360 hospital-based members fo the Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America, Inc. (SHEA) completed the survey questionnaire.Result:Many different combinations of surveillance and control measures are used by hospitals with MRSA. Nine percent of hospitals stated that no special measures were used to control MRSA. The efficacy of commonly used control measures has not been established by controlled trials.Conclusions:Implementing control measures is warranted when MRSA causes a high incidence of serious nosocomial infections, and is desirable when MRSA has been newly introduced into a hospital or into an intensive care unit, or when MRSA accounts for more than 10% of nosocomial staphylococcal isolates. While the value of some practices is well established, measures such as routinely attempting to eradicate carriage of MRSA by colonized patients and personnel require further evaluation.

scholarly journals Sonne dysentery in day schools and nurseries: an eighteen-year study in Edmonton

1973 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mair E. M. Thomas ◽  
Hilary E. Tillett
Keyword(s):  
Primary Schools ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Day Schools ◽  
Head Teachers ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Precautionary Measures ◽  
And Control ◽  
Temporary Closure

SUMMARYA study of Sonne dysentery infections in 19 primary and 11 secondary day-schools and 4 day-nurseries has been made over a period of 18 years in an urban area. Measures were taken throughout to try to prevent and control outbreaks. Sonne dysentery was not endemic in the school population and, even at times of high incidence, epidemics were localized within a few of the primary schools, usually in the spring or autumn terms. Incidence rates of Sonne dysentery were highest in primary schools with large infant departments and in nurseries. Secondary schools entirely escaped outbreaks.The co-operation of head teachers was engaged for all precautionary measures in schools. A policy of immediate exclusion of suspected and infected children was useful in preventing and controlling school epidemics of dysentery. Toilet hygiene was often poor in schools with outbreaks, and this was found to be a profitable field for applying control measures. Infected kitchen workers were only occasionally involved.Recommendations are given in the light of this study, and some reference is made to the more difficult problem posed by dysentery outbreaks in day-nurseries, where temporary closure may be the best policy. It is important that responsibility for infectious disease control in schools be clearly delineated in the reorganized health services of 1974. Teachers can play an important part in limiting infection.

Knowledge and Awareness of Dengue Fever

2018 ◽  
pp. 219-222
Author(s):  
Y. Arockia Suganthi ◽  
Chitra K. ◽  
J. Magelin Mary
Keyword(s):  
Dengue Fever ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Infection Transmission ◽  
Standard Guideline ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Prevention And Control Measures ◽  
Dengue Prevention ◽  
And Control

Dengue fever is a painful mosquito-borne infection caused by different types of virus in various localities of the world. There is no particular medicine or vaccine to treat person suffering from dengue fever. Dengue viruses are transmitted by the bite of female Aedes (Ae) mosquitoes. Dengue fever viruses are mainly transmitted by Aedes which can be active in tropical or subtropical climates. Aedes Aegypti is the key step to avoid infection transmission to save millions of people in all over the world. This paper provides a standard guideline in the planning of dengue prevention and control measures. At the same time gives the priorities including clinical management and hospitalized dengue patients have to address essentially.

RISK FACTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF INITIAL MANIFESTATIONS OF ATHEROGENIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES IN PERSONNEL OF CHEMICALLY HAZARDOUS FACILITIES

2017 ◽  
pp. 2-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. Gorichny ◽  
D. Yu. Serdukov ◽  
A. V. Yazenok ◽  
A. V. Nosov ◽  
G. G. Zagorodnikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Organophosphorus Compounds ◽  
Atherogenic Dyslipidemia ◽  
Chemical Weapons ◽  
Analysis Methods ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
And Control ◽  
Statistical Analysis Methods

An outpatient examination of 530 employees engaged in work with chemical weapons related to organophosphorus compounds at chemically hazardous facilities was carried out. Risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases of atherogenic etiology among personnel of the facilities were studied in relation to the type of work performed using statistical analysis methods. When assessing the lipidogram, a high incidence of atherogenic dyslipidemia in a group of personnel involved in the storage of chemical weapons was found out in comparison with a group of people engaged in the destruction and control of chemical weapons (73.1 vs 61.2 vs 59.6%, p

The Mediterranean Action Plan: A Regional Approach to Pollution Control

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 197-205
Author(s):  
Lj Jeftié ◽  
L. J. Saliba
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Industrial Wastes ◽  
Pollution Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Agricultural Pesticides ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
And Control

Increasing concern over the deterioration of the Mediterranean sea as a result of increasing pollution by untreated sewage and industrial wastes, agricultural pesticides and fertilizers and oil discharges, led to a series of meetings between 1970 and 1974, and finally to the UNEP-sponsored Mediterranean Action Plan, adopted by governments of the region in 1975 and ongoing since that time. The legal component of the Plan includes a framework Convention and four protocols; the environmental assessment component (the MED POL programme) consists of national pollution monitoring programmes, and research projects conducted by Mediterranean institutions; the environmental management component consists of the Blue Plan (a prospective study combining socio-economic development with environmental preservation) and the Priority Actions Programme (a series of sub-region sectoral projects in defined areas). The Plan has been financed by Mediterranean States since 1979, and is managed by UNEP with the cooperation of other competent UN Agencies. During the last ten years, activities undertaken have improved knowledge of the state of pollution of the Mediterranean sea, and facilitated joint regional action in the form of preventive and control measures.

An evaluation model of 2019-nCoV prevention effectiveness based on immigration data in China (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangsheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Related Data ◽  
The Face ◽  
Prevention And Control Measures ◽  
And Control ◽  
Best Fit

BACKGROUND As of the end of February 2020, 2019-nCoV is currently well controlled in China. However, the virus is now spreading globally. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of outbreak prevention and control measures in a region. METHODS A model is built for find the best fit for two sets of data (the number of daily new diagnosed, and the risk value of incoming immigration population). The parameters (offset and time window) in the model can be used as the evaluation of effectiveness of outbreak prevention and control. RESULTS Through study, it is found that the parameter offset and time window in the model can accurately reflect the prevention effectiveness. Some related data and public news confirm this result. And this method has advantages over the method using R0 in two aspects. CONCLUSIONS If the epidemic situation is well controlled, the virus is not terrible. Now the daily new diagnosed patients in most regions of China is quickly reduced to zero or close to zero. Chinese can do a good job in the face of huge epidemic pressure. Therefore, if other countries can do well in prevention and control, the epidemic in those places can also pass quickly.

Investigation on emotion and behavior of children aged 1-11 during the pandemic of COVID-19: A Cross-sectional study in Guizhou, China (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yushi Mo ◽  
Yan Luo ◽  
Hong Li ◽  
Dewei Xiao ◽  
Shuqing Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Problems ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Emotional And Behavioral Problems ◽  
Guizhou Province ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
And Control

BACKGROUND In face of the sudden epidemic of COVID-19, strict prevention and control measures had been urgently carried out all over China. Because of the long-term home quarantine, all kinds of people were affected by it. OBJECTIVE In order to understand the mental health of children during the pandemic of COVID-19, this study investigated the prevalence and characteristics of emotional and behavioral problems of children aged 1-11 in Guizhou. METHODS Based on the online survey platform, the survey link was pushed through Wechat in April 2020. Electronic questionnaires were used to investigate children's demographic characteristics, emotional or behavioral problems. RESULTS A total of 3505 valid questionnaires were received from 9 prefectures and cities in Guizhou Province. 39.67% of the children in the 1-2-year-old group had emotional problems. 17.63% of the children agd 3-5 years had behavioral or emotional problems. And 23.57% of the children agd 6-11 years havd behavioral problems. CONCLUSIONS During the home quarantine period of prevention and control of COVID-19, even young children were adversely affected. The prevalence of emotional and behavioral problems in children was high, which was mainly manifested as anxiety, difficulty in concentration and sleep problems.

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