Search Results - Disability studies

Poverty-environment dividends of rural community enterprises: insights from a cross-sectoral study in Latin America and the Caribbean by Stoian, D., Donovan, J.

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Artros - en sjukdom som drabbar både djur och människa, en komparativ studie med kaninen som modelldjur. by Hägglund, Maria

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När gräset blir tillgängligt : en studie av den fysiska miljöns roll vid särskilda boenden och daglig verksamhet by Moberg, Emma

Combining the effects of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide on protein, iron, and zinc availability and projected climate change on global diets: a modelling study by Beach, Robert H., Sulser, Timothy B., Crimmins, Allison, Cenacchi, Nicola, Cole, Jefferson, Fukagawa, Naomi K, Mason-D'Croz, Daniel, Myers, Samuel, Sarofim, Marcus C, Smith, Matthew R., Ziska, Lewis H.

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Effects of a large-scale alcohol ban on population-level alcohol intake, weight, blood pressure, blood glucose, and domestic violence in India: A quasi-experimental population-base... by Chakrabarti, Suman, Christopher, Anita, Scott, Samuel P., Kishore, Avinash, Nguyen, Phuong Hong

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The men who feed the world? Putting masculinities on the agenda for crop breeding research for development by Arff Tarjem, Ida, Tufan, Hale Ann

“…In this Perspective piece, we present a theoretically informed hypothesis of crop breeding organizations as representing spaces where masculinities associated with rurality, management, and science and technology come together in ways that may marginalize women and gender diverse individuals, including in intersection with sexuality, race, ethnicity, and disability. In developing this hypothesis, we draw upon theoretical and empirical insights from masculinity studies in rural sociology, management and organization studies, and feminist technoscience studies. …”
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Health and economic burden of rabies in northwest Ethiopia by Azalu, W.W., Jemberu, Wudu T., Taye, B.W., Abebe, W.M., Mekonnen, S.A.

“…The annual years of life lost due to premature death was estimated to be 90.69 per 100,000 population. Years lived with disability due to rabies illness, disability due to post-exposure vaccine, and traditional treatment were estimated to be 0.68 per 100,000 population. …”
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The global burden of neglected zoonotic diseases: Current state of evidence by Bari, C. di, Venkateswaran, N., Fastl, C., Gabriël, S., Grace, Delia, Havelaar, A.H., Huntington, B., Patterson, G.T., Rushton, J., Speybroeck, N., Torgerson, Paul R., Pigott, D.M., Devleesschauwer, Brecht

“…Data on diseases, location and DALYs were extracted for each eligible study. A total of 1887 records were screened, resulting in 74 eligible studies. …”
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Addressing prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema in children requires an improved evidence base on resource use and cost-effectiveness of interventions by Huybregts, Lieven, Berkley, James A., Castro, Mary Christine, Dewey, Kathryn G., Golden, Kate, Jemutai, Julie, Naude, Celeste E., McCaul, Michael, Daniel, Allison I.

“…Effectiveness studies on the prevention and management of wasting and nutritional oedema should ideally include the evaluation of resource use and cost-effectiveness (CE) to allow future guideline development to appreciate this dimension. …”
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Behavior change interventions to address unhealthy food consumption: A scoping review by Kachwaha, Shivani, Kim, Sunny S., Das, Jai K., Rasheed, Sabrina, Gavaravarapu, SubbaRao M., Rana, Pooja Pandey, Menon, Purnima

“…High intakes of sodium, sugar, saturated fats, and trans fats contributed to 187.7 million disability adjusted life years (DALYs) from non-communicable diseases globally. …”
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Tillgängligt landskap by Sukell, Gabriella

“…The platform for the thesis is a study of litterature on boardwalks, accessibility and disabilities. …”
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Exposure and disease burden of fumonisins and aflatoxins from sorghum consumption in Ethiopia by Sadik, J.A., Fentahun, N., Brouwer, Inge D., Tessema, M., Fels-Klerx, H.J.van der

“…Studies on mycotoxin exposure from sorghum consumption and related public health risk estimation are rarely available in Ethiopia. …”
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Tillgänglighetslösningar i utemiljö : en fallstudie på Uppsala Resecentrum by Arvidson, Sofia

“…The area is newly built and should thereby represent modern solutions that enable access for disabled people. The purpose of this study has been to describe which solutions that has been used and discuss whether they meet the functional and aesthetic requirements from a landscape architect point of view. …”

Veterinary epidemiology at ILRAD and ILRI, 1987–2018 by Perry, Brian D., Bett, Bernard K., Fèvre, Eric M., Grace, Delia, Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Topics include scientific impacts; economic impact assessment; developmental impacts; capacity development; partnerships; impacts on human resources capacity in veterinary epidemiology; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries; impacts on ILRI's research and strategy; the introduction of veterinary epidemiology and economics at ILRAD; field studies in Kenya; tick-borne disease dynamics in eastern and southern Africa; heartwater studies in Zimbabwe; economic impact assessments of tick-borne diseases; tick and tick-borne disease distribution modelling; modelling the infection dynamics of vector-borne diseases; economic impact of trypanosomiasis; the epidemiology of resistance to trypanocides; the development of a modelling technique for evaluating control options; sustainable trypanosomiasis control in Uganda and in the Ghibe Valley of Ethiopia; spatial modelling of tsetse distributions; preventing and containing trypanocide resistance in the cotton zone of West Africa; rabies research; the economic impacts of rinderpest control; applying economic impact assessment tools to foot and mouth disease (FMD) control, the southern Africa FMD economic impact study; economic impacts of FMD in Peru, Colombia and India; economic impacts of FMD control in endemic settings in low- and middle-income countries; the global FMD research alliance (GFRA); Rift Valley fever; economic impact assessment of control options and calculation of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs); RVF risk maps for eastern Africa; land-use change and RVF infection and disease dynamics; epidemiology of gastrointestinal parasites; priorities in animal health research for poverty reduction; the Wellcome Trust Epidemiology Initiatives; the broader economic impact contributions; the responses to highly pathogenic avian influenza; the International Symposium on Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE) experience, the role of epidemiology in ILRAD and ILRI and the impacts of ILRAD and ILRI's epidemiology; capacity development in veterinary epidemiology and impact assessment; impacts on national animal health departments and services; impacts on animal health constraints in developing countries and impacts on ILRI's research and strategy.…”
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How trade policies starve healthy diets by Roy, Devesh, Sharma, Manika

“…A recent Lancet study regards dietary factors to be amongst the biggest risk factors for death and disability in India. …”
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Estimating the burden of rhodesiense sleeping sickness during an outbreak in Serere, eastern Uganda by Fèvre, Eric M., Odiit, M., Coleman, P.G., Woolhouse, Mark E.J., Welburn, S.C.

“…We distinguish between early and late stage HAT morbidity, and used disability weightings appropriate for the T.b. rhodesiense form of HAT. …”
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World Health Organization estimates of the global and regional disease burden of 11 foodborne parasitic diseases, 2010: A data synthesis by Torgerson, Paul R., Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Praet, N., Speybroeck, N., Willingham, Arve Lee, Kasuga, F., Rokni, M.B., Zhou, X.N., Fèvre, Eric M., Sripa, B., Gargouri, N., Fürst, T., Budke, C.M., Carabin, H., Kirk, M.D., Angulo, F.J., Havelaar, A., Silva, N. de

“…These data were used to estimate the number of infections, sequelae, deaths, and Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs), by age and region for 2010. …”
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Methodological framework for World Health Organization estimates of the global burden of foodborne disease by Devleesschauwer, Brecht, Haagsma, J.A., Angulo, F.J., Bellinger, D.C., Cole, D., Döpfer, D., Fazil, A., Fèvre, Eric M., Gibb, H.J., Hald, T., Kirk, M.D., Lake, R.J., Noordhout, C.M. de, Mathers, C.D., McDonald, S.A., Pires, S.M., Speybroeck, N., Thomas, M.K., Torgerson, Paul R., Wu, F., Havelaar, A.H., Praet, N.

“…Methods and Findings The global and regional burden of 31 FBDs was quantified, along with limited estimates for 5 other FBDs, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years in a hazard- and incidence-based approach. …”
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Differences in primary sites of infection between zoonotic and human tuberculosis: Results from a worldwide systematic review by Durr, S., Muller, B., Alonso, Silvia, Hattendorf, J., Laisse, C.J.M., Helden, P.D. van, Zinsstag, Jakob

“…These findings were confirmed by analyses of eight studies reporting on the proportions of extrapulmonary TB in comparable populations of zTB and MtTB cases (median 63% versus 22%). …”
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Rullstolsburen - inte rullstolsbunden by Wångmar, Sara