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An assessment of implementation gaps and priority recommendations on food environment policies: the Healthy Food Environment Policy Index (Food-EPI) in Japan
future actions in both components. Conclusions: The current study found that Japan has a robust system for long-term monitoring of population health but lacks regulations on unhealthy foods and ...
Measuring mental health burden in humanitarian settings: a critical review of assessment tools
discussed is that self-report tools inaccurately estimate the prevalence of mental health problems. This inaccuracy is further exacerbated by a lack of cultural appropriateness of the tools, as many are ...
Population Analysis of O26 Shiga Toxin-Producing Causing Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in Italy, 1989-2020, Through Whole Genome Sequencing.
positive for and lacking plasmid-borne virulence genes was recently described as emerging in France. In Italy, O26 has been the most frequently detected STEC serogroup from HUS cases since the late 1990s. In ...
A scoping review of burden of disease studies estimating disability-adjusted life years due to Taenia solium.
discussed that a lack of data was a key limitation and their results likely underestimate the true burden of T. solium. Methods to calculate disability-adjusted life years varied across studies with ...
Resilient health systems: harnessing health information to improve population health
policy decisions. Ad-hoc surveillance and monitoring systems were set up (under emergency legislation) and clear governance of health information was lacking. In addition, sharing data and information ...
Healthy Data, an online citizen consultation about health data reuse – intermediate report
for health data reuse could be an overarching safeguard against reuse-associated risks, yet only if citizens trusted the authorities behind it. In case of a lack of trust, however, citizens usually did ...
A scoping review of burden of disease studies estimating disability-adjusted life years due to Taenia solium
of observational studies across populations and time periods; however, it is currently required due to the difficulties in diagnosing neurocysticercosis. Studies discussed that a lack of data was a key ...
The healthiness of New Zealand school food environments: a national survey.
a nutrition policy, and those analysed (n=145) lacked comprehensiveness and contained weak statements. Seventy-one per cent sold food and beverages during the school day. The school food service offered mainly ...
Development of a data-intensive centralized system for surveillance and outbreak investigation of bacterial pathogens using whole-genome sequencing
behind, partially due to a lack of bioinformatics expertise and suitable bioinformatics workflows. This thesis aims to address the bottlenecks in the WGS data analysis and demonstrate its added value for ...
Prevalence and incidence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 among primary healthcare providers in Belgium during 1 year of the COVID-19 epidemic: prospective cohort study protocol.
organisation of healthcare. Currently, evidence is lacking on (1) how many PHCP s get infected with SARS-CoV-2 in Belgium, (2) the rate at which this happens, (3) their clinical spectrum, (4) their risk factors, ...