The comparison aims to emphasize the relevance of epidemiological projections, and the importance of taking them into account while designing and implementing preventive healthcare programs.
Political sensitivity and openness to epidemiological projections can translate research to practice as demonstrated by success stories of countries like Thailand, Uganda, Kenya and Zimbabwe [19] [25].
New approaches, like the use of national health management information systems (HMIS) for HIV surveillance and management, are being proposed, which could potentially improve the linkages between surveillance data, epidemiological projections, and public health programs [26] [29].
In this shift in policy empirical information derived from programme reviews, epidemiological projections and cost-effectiveness analyses [ 20, 25] had a crucial role in the reallocation of HIV budget.
In circumstances where domestic or foreign resources of support for locally relevant tobacco control research are limited, tobacco control advocates may be able to use research from other countries (e.g., epidemiological projections, economic projections about the impact of tobacco tax policy) to the degree that the foreign research can be adapted to the local circumstances to inform policymaking.
Given the nature of this disease, this led to a sample with certain characteristics (elderly patients, relatively old carers, deterioration of patients' health, etc).. Given demographic and epidemiological projections, as well as the demand for the formal and informal care of people with dementia, knowledge regarding the carers for this patient group is extremely relevant.
Nowadays, there is a continuous increase in the prevalence of this common disease, which affects more than 200 million patients mainly including elder people, and current epidemiological projections foresee that by 2020 COPD will become the third leading cause of death worldwide [ 1].
Although it is a potentially avoidable disease, the rise in the prevalence of COPD is slow and unyielding, with epidemiological projections foreseeing a growing trend in the next decades and a two-fold increase in death by this disease in the next 20 years [ 1].
This is shown clearly in the results of an analysis of variance, which decomposes the total variability in estimated mortality into the variability due to the chosen climate change air quality modeling system, population projection, epidemiological study (C R function) used, and interactions between these modeling choices, respectively (see Table 4).
