Nutrition and health in human evolution–past to present

KW Alt, A Al-Ahmad, JP Woelber - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Anyone who wants to understand the biological nature of humans and their special
characteristics must look far back into evolutionary history. Today's way of life is drastically …

Cardiovascular disease among persons living with HIV: new insights into pathogenesis and clinical manifestations in a global context

M Ntsekhe, JV Baker - Circulation, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Widespread use of contemporary antiretroviral therapy globally has transformed HIV
disease into a chronic illness associated with excess risk for disorders of the heart and …

A glucose meter interface for point-of-care gene circuit-based diagnostics

E Amalfitano, M Karlikow, M Norouzi, K Jaenes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent advances in cell-free synthetic biology have given rise to gene circuit-based sensors
with the potential to provide decentralized and low-cost molecular diagnostics. However, it …

Age distribution, trends, and forecasts of under-5 mortality in 31 sub-Saharan African countries: A modeling study

I Mejía-Guevara, W Zuo, E Bendavid, N Li… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite the sharp decline in global under-5 deaths since 1990, uneven
progress has been achieved across and within countries. In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), the …

Prioritizing non-communicable diseases in the post-pandemic era based on a comprehensive analysis of the GBD 2019 from 1990 to 2019

J Shu, W Jin - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
This study aimed to assess the burden of communicable diseases (CDs) and non-
communicable diseases (NCDs) globally, regionally, and nationally from 1990 to 2019, and …

Protection against severe infectious disease in the past

A Mercer - Pathogens and global health, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Before the 20th century many deaths in England, and most likely a majority, were caused by
infectious diseases. The focus here is on the biggest killers, plague, typhus, smallpox …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding Structure and Agency as Commercial Determinants of Health: Comment on" How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy …

K Lee, E Crosbie - International Journal of Health Policy and …, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The limited success to date, by the public health community, to address the dramatic rise in
non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has prompted growing attention to the commercial …

The economics of aging with infectious and chronic diseases

H Strulik, V Grossmann - Economics & Human Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
We develop an economic model of aging in which the susceptibility and severity of infectious
diseases depend on the accumulated health deficits (immunosenescence) and the life …

Biocultural perspectives of infectious diseases and demographic evolution: Tuberculosis and its comorbidities through history

TP van Doren - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropologists recognize the importance of conceptualizing health in the context of the
mutually evolving nature of biology and culture through the biocultural approach, but …

Zarządzanie kryzysem zdrowotnym w pierwszym półroczu pandemii COVID-19: analiza porównawcza na podstawie opinii ekspertów z wybranych krajów

S Golinowska, M Zabdyr-Jamroz - Zeszyty Naukowe Ochrony Zdrowia …, 2020 - ceeol.com
Wśród licznych analiz dotyczących kryzysu zdrowotnego wywołanego pandemią COVID-19
autorzy poszukiwali takich, które pozwolą na ocenę rozwiązań instytucjonalnych. Postawili …