"The old system, acute care focused in the hospital.
World attention has focused in recent months on an acute refugee crisis occasioned by the mass migration to Europe of hundreds of thousands now fleeing the Syrian civil war.
Studies have demonstrated that low socioeconomic status is associated with fewer diagnostic tests in other illnesses [ 24- 26], but these studies have only focused on acute illnesses in secondary care.
The imaging strategy usually has a symptomatic focus, as in acute osteomyelitis, but multiple lesions will be shown.
Most research on EDCs to date has focused on acute exposures in the lab.
Early studies on health effects focused on acute exposures in Minimata, Japan, and later extensive studies investigated chronic low-level exposures in Seychelles and Faroe Islands (NAS 2000); these exposures resulted from consumption of marine organisms (the Seychelles population consumed marine fish, and the Faroe Islands population consumed pilot whale).
In early studies before the 1980s, the majority of research in this area focused on acute stressful life events – for example, natural disasters, combat, and physical assaults [ 8– 11].
Until the 1970s, concerns about lead poisoning primarily focused on acute exposures resulting in convulsions, paralysis, anemia, and gastrointestinal problems (International Program on Chemical Safety 1995).
Our tier-1 quantitative assessment of human-health risks associated with insecticides used in mosquito control focused on acute and subchronic residential exposures after truck-mounted ultra-low-volume (ULV) spraying of mosquito adulticides.
One of the main reasons is that the psychological approaches to investigate hormonal and metabolic dynamics associated with stress exposure have focused on acute stress tests in otherwise healthy subjects.
