Chronic coughers were identified through the survey, which inquired about the presence of chronic cough (defined as cough lasting two weeks or more) within households and noted Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates of applicable households.
Anaerobic co-digestion can be applicable in households but is easier at the village level due to the benefits of lower labor requirements for its operation and availability of different bio-wastes for sharing.
These were selected so as to be applicable to households with or without children, and to distinguish between food security, food insecurity without hunger and food insecurity with hunger only.
In the case of Portugal, there has been budget and personnel reduction of public hospitals [ 35], doubling of user fees (applicable to households above a certain level), cuts in reimbursement of medicines, and exclusion of services from insurance coverage [ 36].
Nationally representative data are needed to provide a broadly applicable characterization of household cockroach allergen levels and their determinants.
Most evidence was based on measurements of pesticides in residential dust, which are applicable to any household member and are not specific to women.
Such a follow-up examination is needed to validate the accuracy of the Illness Mapping as a generally applicable alternative to household surveys for the data in question.
For studies with environmental measures, we focused on pesticide levels in residential dust (including bulk dust and surface wipe samples) and assumed they would be representative of women's exposures, although they would be applicable to all household members.
Shigella infections for 13 (42%) of 31 Shigella-infected patient contacts (asymptomatic and symptomatic) were first detected on day 1 of clinical surveillance; 6 (19%) were detected on day 3, 5 (16%) on day 5, and 7 (23%) on day 7. *–, not applicable because control households had no index patient.
However, the data obtained under batch conditions are generally not applicable in industrial and household treatment systems (such as column operations) where contact time is not sufficiently long for the attainment of equilibrium.
