A Comparison of Travel Related Id Admissions in Glasgow: (1985; 1998/99)

2003 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
J H Cossar ◽  
E Wilson ◽  
D H Kennedy ◽  
E Walker
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Diagnostic Category ◽  
Malaria Prophylaxis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Travel Health

A comparative study was made of patients admitted over 12 months to the principal infectious diseases unit for Glasgow in 1985 and in 1998/99. During this interval UK travel statistics show a 135% growth in visits abroad and a 5% rise to 17% in destinations with a risk of malaria. Travel associated admissions rose by 96% to a total of 108. Patients of Asian/Oriental ethnicity declined from 55% to 18%, whilst Caucasians increased from 38% to 81%. Travellers aged 20–39 years formed the modal age groups (51% and 50%). Gastro-intestinal problems accounted for the largest single diagnostic category in both study periods, 38% and 40% respectively. In-patients diagnosed with malaria fell by 20%; these figures are cause for encouragement to those involved in the teaching and dissemination of advice on malaria prophylaxis. The findings re-enforce the need for the continuation and expansion of travel health education for both healthcare professionals and the public.

Education and the childbearing woman and her family

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 266-272
Author(s):  
Pat Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Her Family ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pregnancy And Childbirth ◽  
Public Health Messages ◽  
First Time

The antenatal period is an ideal time to provide pregnant women and their families with focused health education. For many parents, this will be the first time they have had close and continuing contact with healthcare professionals. They are also embarking on a journey about which they may know little. As a result, most parents are receptive to information about pregnancy and childbirth, and the public health messages that help improve their health and safety. Maternity support workers are an important part of this service, as they are frequently responsible for delivering some of this education and may be tasked with organising and delivering some classes where these are offered.

Usage of unpublished paediatric data

2015 ◽  
Vol 101 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnès Saint-Raymond ◽  
Benjamin Pelle ◽  
Cosimo Zaccaria ◽  
Matthias Sennwitz ◽  
Sarah Branch
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Product Information ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
European Medicines Agency ◽  
Pharmaceutical Companies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Research With Children ◽  
Younger Age ◽  
Medicines For Children ◽  
Active Substances

The European Paediatric Regulation (EC No 1901/2006) has three main objectives: increasing the number of appropriate medicines for children, increasing information on these medicines and stimulating high-quality ethical research with children. To contribute to the information, pharmaceutical companies were required under article 45 of the Regulation to submit existing paediatric studies to regulatory authorities for review and update of the product information. Nearly, 19 000 study reports have been identified for a thousand active substances. The data are being assessed by member states' competent authorities in collaboration with European Medicines Agency (EMA). After 7 years, 262 active substances have been assessed, all of the 62 centrally approved and nearly 200 nationally approved medicines. The review so far has led to 16 new paediatric indications, of importance in addressing previously unmet needs, in particular, in younger age groups. The information is being made publicly available in an EMA database accessible directly or through the public face of the European Clinical Trials Register. This will increase awareness of existing data that are useful to researchers and other healthcare professionals, and contribute to avoiding unnecessary duplication of paediatric trials.

scholarly journals Vaccine Rejection and Hesitancy: A Review and Call to Action

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara C Smith
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Vaccine Refusal ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Media

Abstract Vaccine refusal has been a recurring story in the media for well over a decade. Although there is scant evidence that refusal is genuinely increasing in the population, multiple studies have demonstrated concerning patterns of decline of confidence in vaccines, the medical professionals who administer vaccines, and the scientists who study and develop vaccines. As specialists in microbiology, immunology, and infectious diseases, scientists are content experts but often lack the direct contact with individuals considering vaccination for themselves or their children that healthcare professionals have daily. This review examines the arguments and players in the US antivaccination scene, and it discusses ways that experts in infectious diseases can become more active in promoting vaccination to friends, family, and the public at large.

scholarly journals Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices towards Infectious Diseases Related to Travel of Community Pharmacists in Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 2147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Della Polla ◽  
Concetta Paola Pelullo ◽  
Francesco Napolitano ◽  
Chiara Lambiase ◽  
Caterina De Simone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Travel Medicine ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
The Public ◽  
Attitudes And Practices ◽  
Telephone Interviews ◽  
Travel Health ◽  
Knowledge Attitudes And Practices

Pharmacists should be educated about travel medicine, since they could influence their own choices and those of the individuals they encounter. This study aims to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors towards infectious diseases related to travel among community pharmacists in Italy. The data was collected from September 2018 to September 2019 using semi-structured telephone interviews. Only 1.8% answered correctly to all seven questions regarding the infectious diseases related to travel. Community pharmacists who had heard about travel medicine and those who had received information were more likely to have good knowledge. More than two-thirds of the respondents believed that it is important to provide information to the public about travel medicine. Pharmacists who worked a higher number of hours per week, were more knowledgeable about the more frequent infectious diseases related to travel, believed that travel medicine was a pharmacist competency, believed that they could give advice to the public, and had received information from scientific journals and educational activities were more likely to have this positive attitude. More than two-thirds often/always informed the public about the importance of having travel health center counseling. Pharmacists who had heard about travel medicine and those who believed that they could give advice to the public were more likely to inform. Interventions are needed to improve knowledge in order that community pharmacists can play an active role in counseling the public.

Haemophilia Registry of the Medical Committee of the Swiss Haemophilia Society

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (S 01) ◽  
pp. S16-S18 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Brand ◽  
N. von der Weid
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Mutation Analysis ◽  
Clinical Data ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Global Survey ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Severity Of The Disease

SummaryThe Swiss Haemophilia Registry of the Medical Committee of the Swiss Haemophilia Society was established in 2000. Primarily it bears epidemiological and basic clinical data (incidence, type and severity of the disease, age groups, centres, mortality). Two thirds of the questions of the WFH Global Survey can be answered, especially those concerning use of concentrates (global, per capita) and treatment modalities (on-demand versus prophylactic regimens). Moreover, the registry is an important tool for quality control of the haemophilia treatment centres.There are no informations about infectious diseases like hepatitis or HIV, due to non-anonymisation of the data. We plan to incorporate the results of the mutation analysis in the future.

Building Capacity of the Public Health Education Workforce Through Partnerships

2003 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59
Author(s):  
Mark Tomita
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Public Health Education ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
State University ◽  
Cd Rom ◽  
The Public ◽  
Prevention Services ◽  
The Usa

The Global Health Disparities CD-ROM Project reaffirmed the value of professional associations partnering with academic institutions to build capacity of the USA public health education workforce to meet the challenges of primary prevention services. The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) partnered with the California State University, Chico to produce a CD-ROM that would advocate for global populations that are affected by health disparities while providing primary resources for public health educators to use in programming and professional development. The CD-ROM development process is discussed

Results of Surveillance Studies of Infectious Fish Diseases in Freshwater Aquaculture of Ukraine

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Matvienko ◽  
A. Vashchenko ◽  
I. Tsiganok ◽  
L. Buchatsky
Keyword(s):  
Rainbow Trout ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Cell Cultures ◽  
Standardized Test ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis Virus ◽  
Test System ◽  
Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss ◽  
Freshwater Aquaculture ◽  
Pancreatic Necrosis Virus

Aim. To investigate the epizootic state of fi sheries in Ukraine; to study the biological specifi cities of viral and bacterial isolates of fi sh in freshwater aquaculture. Methods. The epizootic state of fi sheries was defi ned ac- cording to the surveillance plan for fi sheries, virological (biosampling of sensitive fi sh species, virus isolation on sensitive passaged cell cultures), serological (enzyme immunoassay, virus neutralization test using sensitive passaged cell cultures) and molecular-biological (reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction − RTPCR) methods of investigation were used. The pathogenicity of the isolated bacteria was studied in the biosample. The identifi cation was performed using Bergey’s Manual. The express-identifi cation of bacteria was performed using the standardized test-system API 20E Bio Merieux (France). Results. The IPNV isolates of rainbow trout were fi rst isolated in the fi sheries of different forms of ownership in the western regions of Ukraine (Volyn, L’viv, Transcarpathian, Chernivtsi regions). It was demonstrated that different age groups of carp are infested with the virus in the fi sheries of L’viv, Donetsk, Chernihiv, Kyiv, and Odesa regions which testifi es to a wide spread of the virus in Ukraine. Out of fi sh infectious diseases the red spot-like disease and the swim bladder infl ammation of carp, the diseases of young trout and sturgeon were detected in the investigated fi sheries of Ukraine. Conclusions. The epizootic data were used to estimate the condition of the fi sheries in Ukraine in terms of fi sh infectious diseases. An infectious pancreatic necrosis virus, new for Ukraine, was revealed. It was found to affect rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss , Walbaum, 1792) and the spread of SVCV in carp fi sheries was demonstrated. As for bacterial fi sh diseases, the decrease in the epizootic situation was described along with considerable extension of the range of species of bacterial pathogens of fi sh. Annual systematic monitoring and measures of preventing the introduction of the agents of infectious diseases are the guarantee of protection of the specialized fi sheries of Ukraine.

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