Previous studies indicate that the bioaccumulation of Hg is harmful to human being, with increments of risk in vulnerable groups such as that, for example, children can receive burden of Hg from mothers infected during pregnancy [ 11].
While most of solid fuel use related exposures occur in the rural indoors, the use and accompanying high exposures is not uncommon among the urban poor who may be receiving double burdens from polluted outdoor and indoor air.
Our van took us out of town, where 14 little mules were looking damp and dismal as they received the burdens of our packs.
Or vulnerable populations that unnecessarily receive the burdens of research [without] the benefits.
From AMMP we received updated burden of disease estimates for Dar es Salaam region and Hai district, the closest approximation of disease burden in the nearby Moshi district [see Additional file 1] [ 30, 31].
This caregiver receives the Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC) to assess the psychological weight of the palliative situation on primary caregivers.
As can be seen, 3 items exhibited ceiling effects with over 50% of responses at the highest score (difficulty receiving injection, financial burden, and likelihood of recommendation).
The strong correlation between burden and investment is encouraging with, broadly, the high-burden diseases receiving greater funding (pneumonia being the key exception), and lower-burden infections less funding.
Although issues of caregiver burden are receiving increased attention, there is still a strong need of studies of the burden of mental disorders, particularly anxiety and depression.
Greece, Italy, and Malta face a disproportionate burden in receiving migrants from north Africa because of their geographical position.
