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 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510078

Ferritin: Could be a Health Indicator

Loio M Noemia and Valls L Carmen

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: June 30, 2018

Health indicators show a health-related characteristic that allows the study, evaluation and conclusion of a health process. Therefore, it allows us to influence public health policies to obtain an improvement in the health status of the population....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510077

Evolution of the World Bank Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks:From a Reactive to a Proactive Approach

Willy De Geyndt

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: June 13, 2018

Six major infectious disease outbreaks have occurred in rapid succession in the twenty first century causing an estimated $80 billion in economic losses and many lives lost. The World Bank Group (WBG) was not prepared to respond quickly and effectively to contain the spread of these outbreaks. It reacted too late to the earlier outbreaks but slowly improved its response time and its coordination with major stakeholders. The response time of its financing contribution decreased across the six inf...

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510076

Association between Health Self Efficacy and African American Male Inmates Prior Substance Use Treatment History: Implications for STI Risk Reduction

Torrance Stephens, Ta-Kenda Holmes and Aniya Allen

Article Type: Research Article | First Published: June 07, 2018

African American men are disproportionately represented in the U.S. correctional system; evince exceptionally high rates of infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and like many inmate populations, problem behaviors associated with drug and alcohol use. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in in 2013 there were 2,220,300 adults incarcerated in US federal and state prisons, and county jails with 4,751,400 adults in 2013 being on probation or on parole....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510075

Rediscover the Joy of Primary Care Practice

Basem Abbas Al Ubaidi

Article Type: Review Article | First Published: May 14, 2018

In this day and age, primary care worker burnout has been high, moral is low and work enjoyment is depleting consistently. It is important for healthcare leaders to understand these factors, nurture their team and spread joy at work....

 Open Access DOI:10.23937/2469-5793/1510074

Peripheral Angioedema and Upper Airway Edema in Young Woman

Gargantilla Madera P, Garcia Tobaruela A and Belda Bilbao L

Article Type: Short Communication | First Published: April 25, 2018

A 38-year-old woman, without family history of angioedema, suffered several self-limiting acute edema episodes (localized in upper/lower limbs). One month after, she presented an upper airway edema associated with glottis edema, which was treated in emergency department with corticosteroids, without improvement. ...

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