The authors examined the contrasting factors behind the distinct increases in hot days (HDs, daytime hot extremes) and warm nights (WNs, nighttime hot extremes) over land in the Northern Hemisphere during the boreal summers (June to August) of 1980?2018. While the occurrence of HDs has increased gradually since 1980, that of WNs increased abruptly ...
Every year more than 1.35 million people lose their lives on the road and tens of millions more are injured, some permanently. Since the early 2000s there has been renewed focus on the issue, with the United Nations, World Health Organization and the World Bank placing the issue higher on their agendas. Guided by the United Nations General Assembly...
Published in Health affairs (Project Hope)
With social policies increasingly directed toward enhancing equity through health programs, it is important that methods for estimating the health and economic benefits of these programs by subpopulation be developed, to assess both equity concerns and the programs' total impact. We estimated the differential health impact (measured as the number o...
Euthanasia is a controversial and complex issue, especially when involving incompetent patients. On December 10, 2015, Quebec became the first Canadian province to give access to medical aid in dying (MAiD) (ie, euthanasia performed by a physician) to competent patients who satisfy strictly defined criteria. Less than 2 years later, Quebec is consi...
Published in Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Предотвращая значительные издержки и потенциально увеличивая экономическую производительность среди некоторых беднейших стран мира, влияние иммунизации выходит далеко за пределы здоровья.
Published in Arthritis care & research
Patients sustaining an ACL injury require better education from health professionals about OA as a disease entity and their elevated risk of OA, irrespective of whether or not they undergo surgical reconstruction.
Numerous manufacturing companies have "servitized" their value propositions to address product commoditization and sustainability issues. Service-essentially different from a product-contributes to the fulfillment of customers' unmet needs and increases the freedom of finding an environmentally more benign offering beyond simply offering the produc...
Published in Alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Studying end of life in dementia patients is challenging because of ill-defined prognoses and frequent inability to self-report. We aim to quantify and compare (1) feasibility and (2) sampling issues between prospective and retrospective data collection specific to end-of-life research in long-term care settings. The observational Dutch End of Life...
