It proposes a structured approach to consensual decision making in the context of the clinical trial of vaccines against such public health challenges as HIV and newly emerging or threatening epidemics.
Reports from primary healthcare providers are essential for the early recognition and control of reportable infectious diseases that may place populations at high risk of life threatening epidemics [ 37].
Apparently healthy people could face restrictions on work and travel if a government review decides existing legislation is not adequate to fight threatened epidemics.
In the ways the term diabesity is used in Australia, the independent identities of obesity and diabetes are merged even further and become the looming and threatening 'diabesity epidemic'.
It was almost certainly not the life-threatening epidemic disease that emerged from India in 1817 and which then began its spread around the world, travelling, as Snow said, "along the great tracks of human intercourse" — colonialism and global trade.
Re "Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis" ("Bad Blood" series, front page, Jan . 9: Finally, recognition for a disease that Americans seem to believe is just a hassle as opposed to the life-threatening epidemic it has become.
Yet, there is exceptional need to understand how people change their behavior when exposed to rapidly changing or unfamiliar conditions [1], such as life-threatening epidemic outbreaks [4], [12], emergencies and traffic anomalies, as models based on stationary events are expected to break down under these circumstances.
Dengue's progression from tropical nuisance to life-threatening epidemic reached a tipping point in the 1950s, when DHF was first reported in the Philippines and Thailand.
The promotion of healthy lifestyles and diets to prevent weight gain and related diseases has taken the top position in the priority list of the public health experts all over the world since obesity has become a life-threatening epidemic.
Guidelines for considering the use of cholera vaccines in complex humanitarian emergencies (14 ) and for their preemptive use to protect populations threatened by epidemic cholera have been proposed (13 ).
