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Objective. To identify individual risk factors for malariainfection of inhabitants in the residual transmission focus onthe Pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico. Materials and Methods.A population-based, matched case-control ...

BACKGROUND: Rigorous analysis of levels and trends in exposure to leading risk factors and quantification of their effect on human health are important to identify where public health is making progress and in which case...

Materias / palabras clave: Medicine; Environmental health; Burden of disease; Attributable risk; Disease burden; Disability-adjusted life year; Years of potential life lost; Risk assessment; Relative risk; Risk factor; Disease; Demography

Studies of risk perception examine the judgements people make when they are asked to characterize and evaluate hazardous activities and technologies. This research aims to aid risk analysis and policy-making by providing...

In this paper we study both market risks and nonmarket risks, without complete markets assumption, and discuss methods of measurement of these risks. We present and justify a set of four desirable properties for measures...

The aim of the present research was to build a tool to classify patients according to drug theraphy risk so as to rationalize the use of clinical pharmaceutical resources in hospital settings. Risk factors selected in th...

BACKGROUND: Antiplatelet agents are the mainstay for secondary prevention of non-cardioembolic stroke. This systematic review examined the safety and efficacy of short-, middle-, and long-term aspirin in combination with...

One of the problems which has plagued those attempting to predict the behavior of capital markets is the absence of a body of positive microeconomic theory dealing with conditions of risk. Although many useful insights c...

The role and limitations of retrospective investigations of factors possibly associated with the occurrence of a disease are discussed and their relationship to forward-type studies emphasized. Examples of situations in ...

BACKGROUND: Somatoform disorders are characterised by chronic, medically unexplained physical symptoms (MUPS). Although different medications are part of treatment routines for people with somatoform disorders in clinics...