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- 1From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Adults of South Asian origin living in the United Kingdom have high risks of type 2 diabetes and central obesity; raised circulating insulin, triglyceride, and C-reactive protein concentrations; and low...
- 2From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground As the novel pandemic influenza A (H1N1) (pH1N1) virus spread around the world in late spring 2009 with a well-matched pandemic vaccine not immediately available, the question of partial protection...
- 3From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe accurate measurement and estimation of mortality levels, trends, causes, and differentials are a cornerstone of public health. Child and adult mortality rates, often summarized in a life expectancy measure, are key...
- 4From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: One of the fundamental building blocks for determining the burden of disease in populations is to reliably measure the level and pattern of mortality by age and sex. Where well-functioning registration...
- 5From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: There has been increasing interest in measuring under-five mortality as a health indicator and as a critical measure of human development. In countries with complete vital registration systems that capture...
- 6From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article is part of the PLoS Medicine Global Health Diplomacy series. Introduction One of the key developments in international relations during the early twenty-first century is the ascendance of the BRIC...
- 7From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Migration from rural areas of India contributes to urbanisation and may increase the risk of obesity and diabetes. We tested the hypotheses that rural-to-urban migrants have a higher prevalence of obesity...
- 8From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article is part of the PLoS Medicine Global Health Diplomacy series. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was the first global epidemic of the 21st century. It not only caused mass panic but also generated a...
- 9From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article is part of the PLoS Medicine Global Health Diplomacy series. Introduction The rise of global health issues within the world of foreign policy is precipitating great interest in the concept and...
- 10From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Approximately one-quarter of all pregnancy- and delivery-related maternal deaths worldwide occur in India. Taking into account the costs, feasibility, and operational complexity of alternative interventions,...
- 11From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In late spring 2009, concern was raised in Canada that prior vaccination with the 2008-09 trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (TIV) was associated with increased risk of pandemic influenza A (H1N1)...
- 12From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: Pancreatic cancer has an extremely poor prognosis and prolonged survival is achieved only by resection with macroscopic tumor clearance. There is a strong rationale for a neoadjuvant approach, since a...
- 13From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction The South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (SEAICRN) is a collaborative partnership of hospitals and institutions in Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Singapore. The network strives...
- 14From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedIn order to optimize health outcomes within the constraints of inevitably limited resources, low- and high-income countries alike require unbiased means of assessing health care interventions for their relative...
- 15From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Scale of the Problem Until about twenty years ago, child survival meant the survival of children rather than newborn infants. With a steady worldwide decline in under-5 deaths--most of the lives saved being those...
- 16From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: In July 2000, the province of Ontario, Canada, initiated a universal influenza immunization program (UIIP) to provide free seasonal influenza vaccines for the entire population. This is the first large-scale...
- 17From: PLoS Medicine. (Vol. 7, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedBackground: For several decades, global public health efforts have focused on the development and application of disease control programs to improve child survival in developing populations. The need to reliably monitor...