... considered in terms of overall health spending, these costs constitute only a tiny portion
of total health spending – 4% in low-income countries, 2% in lower middle-income countries and less than 1% in ... average of US$ 11.4 billion per year (Figure 4). This amounts to an annual per capita
investment of under US$ 1 in low-income countries, US$ 1.50 in lower middle-income and US$ 3 in upper middle-
income ... country income category). The total burden is lowest in the low-income
countries, in part because the value of lost earnings in this group is low and in part because the total population
of this...
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Institute of International Social Development (2000)
Institute of International Sociology of Gorizia (2006)
Institute ... Organizations in the Amazon Basin (2003)
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Coordination des associations et ONG féminines du Mali (2007)
Coordination des ONG fộminines ... (2006)
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International Federation of Inspection Agencies (2002)
International...
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3102 individuals born in alternating seasons of relative
food availability and low infectiousdiseases burden (har-
vest/low infection; January to June) and deprivation and
high infectiousdiseases ... excess ininfectious disease
associated mortality in young adults born in the hungry/high infection versus harvest/low infection season, and
reduced thymic output and T cell counts in infancy. ... the
year in half, seasonal fluctuations are taken into account,
ensuring that periods of typical hungry/high infection
and harvest/low inf ection, were clearly included in the
right category. In the...
... spikes are never infectious in
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infectious. Clinicians should try to determine what noninfectious disorder is causing the fever
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... translate into substantial labour supply gains in all countries. This in turn will
translate to an accumulated gain in income of over 36 billion dollars in China, 15 billion
dollars in India and ...
diseases, in that it mainly explored the impact of disease on the economy through change in
labour supply, or the opportunity cost of one unit of labour, and through the impact of the
cost of treating ... to
exploring the economic impact of chronic disease using the full income model is reported in
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Good Natured : the origins of right ... usual during fissioning, the
dividing line followed the backbone of macaque society, the matrilin-
eal hierarchy (female kin are closely bonded and united in their battles
with nonkin, the result ... Whereas female macaques
normally maintain lifelong bonds of kinship, Mozu ignored the ties
with her offspring and began making overtures to individuals in the
dominant division. Despite occasional...
... several
coupled nonlinear dynamics equations. In this model,
self-generated current oscillations can be described in
the following way. Real-space transfer (RST) of holes
out of the GaInNAs well layer ... for a
variety of optoelectronic devices. The addition of a small
amount of nitrogen induces a strong pe rturbation in the
conduction band of matrix semicond uctors, while hav-
ing a negligible ... = 13 K, the
presence of an applied electric field of about 6 kV/cm leads to the heating of the high mobility holes in the
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too often sacrifice—their lives in an attempt to lessen the toll ofinfectious diseases.
xviii INFECTIOUS DISEASES: IN CONTEXT
Introduction
COHORTING: Cohorting is the practice of grouping
persons ... (Varicella)
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Contents
HEMAGGLUTININ: Often abbreviated as HA, hemag-
glutinin is a glycoprotein, a protein that contains a
short chain of sugar as part of its structure.
HEMOLYSIS: ... is often used when sleeping to allow
air to flow through its mesh structure while prevent-
ing insects from biting.
xxxii INFECTIOUS DISEASES: IN CONTEXT
Glossary
The goal ofInfectious Diseases: ...
... Emerging Infectious Diseases
Perhaps most relevant to emerging infectious diseases,
DNA vaccines have the distinct advantage of a rapid devel-
opment time, are non- infectious, and have a well-defined
manufacturing ... compared with
conventional vaccine approaches (Appendix 1) particu-
larly in the setting of protecting against potentially lethal
emerging infectious diseases. Protecting against a particu-
lar pathogen ... Griffin DE: Use of Vaxfectin Adjuvant with DNA Vac-
cine Encoding the Measles Virus Hemagglutinin and Fusion
Proteins Protects Juvenile and Infant Rhesus Macaques
against Measles Virus. Clin Vaccine...