The change towards a more structured and controlled sickness absence legislation has also been seen over the past decades in Denmark.
In addition to her and her team's efforts to investigate ways to control sleeping sickness, Aksoy has been a strong advocate for building research capacity in Africa to combat the disease.
Efforts to prevent and control sleeping sickness must identify and integrate knowledge of the processes by which conflict affects disease risk.
To the Editor: The past 2 decades have heralded notable success in efforts to control sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis [HAT]) in Africa.
In all analyses, we systematically controlled for sickness absence, with nonpsychiatric and missing diagnoses as dichotomous variables to ensure that the associations observed were net of the effect of sickness absence due to other reasons.
Second, the long history of disease control in this part of Uganda, notably the mass treatment programmes that were instigated to contain and control sleeping sickness, dating back to the Protectorate period.
Briefly, we looked at partial correlations between each of 695 different phenotypes and motion sickness, controlling for age, sex (where applicable) and five principal components.
He honed in on the portion of the book in which Carson wrote: "I had what I only can label a pathological temper – a disease – and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational".
"He defined it as disease," Trump said, and, indeed, in "Gifted Hands," Carson writes, "I had what I can only label a pathological temper a disease and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational.... Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone".
"He defined it as disease," Trump said, and, indeed, in "Gifted Hands," Carson writes, "I had what I can only label a pathological temper — a disease — and this sickness controlled me, making me totally irrational.... Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone".
