One of the least expected aspects of 2020 has been the fact that epidemiological models have become both front-page news and a political football. Public health officials have consulted with ...

The burden of heat-related mortality during the summer of 2022 in Europe may have exceeded 70,000 deaths according to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal).

Background: The propagation of communicable diseases through a population is an inherent spatial and temporal process of great importance for modern society. For this reason a spatially explicit ...

Assure the scientific basis for hazard controls (validity). Evaluate the capacity of the management system to control hazards. Before performing an effective verification of a HACCP management system ...

Harnessing a predictive algorithm, Sang Woo Park and colleagues have mapped out new trends in the incidence of the respiratory virus enterovirus D68 in the U.S. since 2014. Their epidemiological study ...

Researchers trained a model to identify women at risk of endometrial cancer from the general population using the largest, most heterogeneous international study population to date; findings suggest ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Latin American and Caribbean countries implemented stringent public health and social measures that disrupted economic and social activities. This study used an ...

NEW YORK — COVID-19 could claim the lives of approximately 100,000 more people than current projections stipulate if jail populations are not dramatically and immediately reduced, according to a new ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest and most serious issues of our times, requiring several approaches to deal with it successfully and effectively. Consequently, it is very important to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The concept of model validation is evolving in the scientific community. This paper addresses the comparison of observed and predicted ...