Characterizing burden of infectious disease syndromes in Africa is important for targeting and prioritizing use of limited resources for optimal curative and preventive services and for research and development of novel strategies and interventions.
Spatial methods, including mean and median distance analysis, buffer analysis, and spatial approximation were employed to characterize burden disparities.
For example, studies from New York City surveillance initiatives have helped to characterize burden of diabetes among Asian residents in the urban Northeast region (16– 16).
The primary objective of this study was to characterize the burden of prematurity in Canada over the first ten years of life as characterized by healthcare resource utilization, direct medical costs, indirect costs associated with lost productivity, and mortality to describe trends in utilization patterns from infancy and into childhood, and across gestational-age categories.
When he was revising "Gatsby," he characterized the burden of the novel as "the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world so that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory".
However, these intermittent ECG monitoring techniques have been shown to underdiagnose AF events while having limited ability to characterize AF burden and density.
To inform the design of vaccines and other interventions, we reviewed published data and new results from GEMS characterizing the burden of Shigella and ST-ETEC infections.
Despite the emerging evidence, there is lack of empirical data to actually characterize the burden and risk factors associated with road traffic fatalities, especially in low- and middle-income countries (Ameratunga et al. 2006; Peden and Toroyan 2005).
These data indicate that the elderly contribute approximately one-third of the cases of incident MI, underscoring the importance of including all ages to fully characterize the burden of CHD.
These findings support the inclusion of DTI in the portfolio of imaging tools used to characterize the burden of insult following TBI.
