Epidemiology

Women and Diabetes in the EU

European Institute of Women’s Health. January 2013.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Policy
Tags: 
gender, diabetes, cardivascular diseases, Pregnancy, policy

Women and Cardiovascular Disease in the EU

European Institute of Women’s Health. February 2013.

Traditionally regarded as a male disease, cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one killer of women worldwide. It also is a major cause of serious illness and disability, costly to healthcare systems and destroying women’s quality of life. In the EU, CVD remains the top cause of death for women in each of the twenty-seven EU countries. Only during the last decades has awareness been rising how CVD affects women differently from men, alerting women to their risk. 

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Policy
Tags: 
gender, cardivascular diseases, Pregnancy, policy

Why we still need to talk about AIDS

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 15:49

In 1347, Siena, a flourishing, beautiful city-state on Tuscany hills, was a leading world power for its age. Just one year later, plague had already killed almost half of its inhabitants, changing its history forever. That did not happen only there: the impact of the Black Death – as the Middle Age epidemic was named – involved all Europe, with huge human, economic, political and cultural consequences. A typical, extreme, example of how infectious diseases can influence the course of history.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Human Rights, Microbiology, Prevention
Tags: 
AIDS, hiv, participation, Stigmatization, science-in-society

Third ASSET Summer School: a fact, lots of news

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 - 12:08

As reported in the ASSET Strategic plan, the three Summer Schools on Science in Society related issues in Pandemics (2015, 2016, 2017) pose the main challenge of the collaborative project overall that is dealing with the intersectoral approach required by the management of Public Health Emergencies of International Concern (PHEIC), like epidemics and pandemics.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Gender, Human Rights, Local Activities, Media, Microbiology, Mutual Learning, Policy, Prevention, Social Media, Stakeholders, Treatment, Vaccination
Tags: 
Summer School, Vaccine, science-in-society, science and society, Social media, Vaccine hesitancy, risk communication

Intensive care unit surveillance of influenza infection in France: the 2009/10 pandemic and the three subsequent seasons.

Bonmarin I, Belchior E, Bergounioux J, Brun-Buisson C, Mégarbane B, Chappert JL, et al. Euro Surveill. 2015.

Target: 
Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
influenza, pandemic, ICU, Surveillance, Vaccination

A short, animated history of humans, germs and pandemics

Monday, March 27, 2017 - 08:55

How many ways are there to communicate science in society today? New and promising communication opportunities are rising fast, thanks to different media: web, social networks, graphic journalism like the webcomic strip dedicated to the potential public health issue represented by Zika during the Olympic Games in Brazil 2016 and even a board game like Pandemic Legacy.

Target: 
Citizens, Healthcare Professionals, School and Education
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Media
Tags: 
communication

Science, ethics and politics. The third issue of the ASSET Paper Series

Monday, February 20, 2017 - 10:40

The third issue of the ASSET Paper Series focuses on some highly delicate topics that lie at the intersection of science, ethics, politics, and economics. In the first article of the collection, Donato Greco, epidemiologist and public health expert, discusses about the role and the management of national borders when dealing with both the spread of an infectious disease and the flow of migrants or refugees, citing the recent EU decision on such a matter.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals, Industry & Commerce
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Human Rights, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
transparency, public health, epidemiology

Paper series 3 - National borders and the spreading of diseases

Tuesday, February 14, 2017 - 12:40

Donato Greco, Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Manfred S. Green, Kjersti Brattekås, Rebecca K. Davidson.

Topic: 
Epidemiology, Human Rights
Tags: 
transparency, public health, epidemiology
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One Health: the relevance of human-animal interface

February 1, 2017

Most emerging diseases come from animals (zoonosis). Therefore, surveillance needs to keep an eye on viruses and other microorganisms that could be transmitted to humans, acquiring the capability to spread among people. Ilaria Capua, director of the One Health Excellence Centre at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, USA, recommends not letting our guard down.

Target: 
Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology
Tags: 
Video, Surveillance

Zika: an emerging disease to be tackled both in laboratories and in society

January 24, 2017

Ilaria Capua, as director of the One Health Excellence Centre at the Emerging Pathogens Institute of the University of Florida, USA, is very busy in coordinating interdisciplinary research, facing the epidemic of zika virus disease spreading in South America and the Caribbean and reaching Florida. Scientists are testing new diagnostic tests and working on vaccines, but the risk of serious birth defects in the offspring of infected pregnant women calls also for responsible procreative choices, involving lawmakers, governments and religious leaders as well.

Target: 
Decision Makers, Government and Public Health, Healthcare Professionals
Topic: 
Epidemiology, Stakeholders, Vaccination
Tags: 
Video, zika, Vaccine, science-in-society

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