Priorities to reduce the burden of stroke in Latin American countries

SCO Martins, C Sacks, W Hacke, M Brainin… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
The large and increasing burden of stroke in Latin American countries, and the need to meet
the UN and WHO requirements for reducing the burden from non-communicable disorders …

[HTML][HTML] National General Health Screening Program in Korea: history, current status, and future direction

DW Shin, J Cho, JH Park, BL Cho - Precision and Future Medicine, 2022 - pfmjournal.org
Health screening is an important component of health promotion programs, and countries
have promoted general health screening targeting the prevention and early management of …

[HTML][HTML] Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

GBD 2016 Stroke Collaborators - The Lancet. Neurology, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the
economic costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of …

Global, regional, and national burden of stroke, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016

CO Johnson, M Nguyen, GA Roth, E Nichols… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Stroke is a leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide and the
economic costs of treatment and post-stroke care are substantial. The Global Burden of …

A community-based comprehensive intervention to reduce cardiovascular risk in hypertension (HOPE 4): a cluster-randomised controlled trial

JD Schwalm, T McCready, P Lopez-Jaramillo, K Yusoff… - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Hypertension is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease globally. Despite
proven benefits, hypertension control is poor. We hypothesised that a comprehensive …

[图书][B] Deadly medicines and organised crime: how big pharma has corrupted healthcare

P Gotzsche - 2019 - taylorfrancis.com
PRESCRIPTION DRUGS ARE THE THIRD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AFTER HEART
DISEASE AND CANCER. In his latest ground-breaking book, Peter C Gotzsche exposes the …

Prevention of stroke: a strategic global imperative

VL Feigin, B Norrving, MG George, JL Foltz… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
The increasing global stroke burden strongly suggests that currently implemented primary
stroke prevention strategies are not sufficiently effective, and new primary prevention …

Quaternary prevention: reviewing the concept: Quaternary prevention aims to protect patients from medical harm

C Martins, M Godycki-Cwirko, B Heleno… - European Journal of …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract Background: According to the Wonca International Dictionary for General/Family
Practice Quaternary Prevention is defined as:'Action taken to identify patient at risk of …

Why screening tests to predict injury do not work—and probably never will…: a critical review

R Bahr - British journal of sports medicine, 2016 - bjsm.bmj.com
This paper addresses if and how a periodic health examination to screen for risk factors for
injury can be used to mitigate injury risk. The key question asked is whether it is possible to …

[图书][B] Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population

D Oliver, C Foot, R Humphries - 2014 - Citeseer
Health and care services have failed to keep up with this dramatic demographic shift. The
NHS has designed hospital medical specialties around single organ diseases. Primary care …