Epidemiology - Serbian Journal of the Medical Chamber
INTRODUCTION
Antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) in surgery is an efficient method for preventing and reducing the risk of surgical site infection. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), surgical site infections are considered an important global problem [1]. They are...
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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of morbidity and mortality, both in developed and developing countries of the world. Globally, every year, 17.9 million people die due to this type of pathology [1]. The main cause of life years lost, both globally and in every...
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The cardiovascular system consists of a group of tissues and organs whose function is to distribute the liquid medium - blood to peripheral tissues and organs, so as to carry out the exchange of substances and gases and enable metabolism. One of the most important cardiovascular...
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Bacterial infections (BI) in immunosuppressed patients, which includes patients in the allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation program (allo-HSCT), represent frequent and potentially life-threatening treatment complications. Infections are generally the most common cause...
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The upper extremities, especially hands, are body parts most commonly affected by injury [1]. It is estimated that a quarter of all injuries treated in the emergency department are related to the hand [2]. These injuries are usually seen in the young working age population employed...
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Communicable diseases, caused by a specific causative agent, occur as the result of the transmission of the agent or its toxic products from an infected person or other reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly or indirectly, through contaminated food, water, objects in...
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At the press briefing held on March 11, 2020, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) pointed out that the number of COVID-19 cases outside China had rapidly increased thirteen-fold, and that, due to the tripled number of affected...
INTRODUCTION
It is fairly easy to answer the question as to what has been the main, and often only topic of discussion, in all the languages of the world, in the past year, with only one word - COVID-19. The pandemic caused by the new corona virus SARS-CoV-2 has changed people’s lives as well as...
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A large number of different epidemics and pandemics in the world have thus far been the cause of the loss of many thousands, even millions of lives. Despite everyday advances in medicine, we are still faced with new pathogens threatening human lives, the global economy and the...
INTRODUCTION
In December 2019, in the city of Wuhan, in China, a new coronavirus strain emerged. It was named SARSCoV-2, and it spread very quickly to almost all parts of the globe [1]. The emergence of this virus brought the world into the state of a new pandemic, caused by a virus of which...
INTRODUCTION
Reduced productivity at work and sickness absence are considerable threats to sustainable employability. They are associated with substantial costs for employers and society, mainly due to social benefits [1,2,3]. It is widely recognized that both the prevalence and duration of...
A RAPIDLY CHANGING CONTEXT
Healthcare systems worldwide face increasing challenges. Climate changes, reflected in the rising frequency and severity of heatwaves [1], is further compounded by the resurgence of epidemics [2], population ageing [3], and structural economic pressures [4]....
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The vaccine is one of the oldest discoveries in medicine, and the vaccination process itself is one of the most useful inventions that medicine has given to mankind. Since its introduction, in the 18th century, until today, numerous benefits of vaccination have been documented and...
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According to the fetal origins hypothesis, changes in fetal growth result in adaptations that determine vulnerability to cardiovascular, metabolic, and endocrine diseases during one’s lifetime. “Programming” is a phenomenon which implies long-term and irreversible alterations in...
BACKGROUND
As the available knowledge grew on the novel coronavirus being the cause of mild, but also severe infections with the possible presence of asymptomatic carriers in the general population, so did the necessity for urgent action in order to prevent suffering, disabilities and economic...
MORTALITY OF HEALTH WORKERS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Today, there is enough evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic most severely affects countries with socially specific contexts [1,2], and in them, marginalized citizens, population groups with the least economic resources available, as well as...
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Infectious diseases have spread primarily in the form of epidemics throughout the history of mankind and pathogenic microorganisms have long been held responsible for their occurrence. However, pathogenic microorganisms make up only a small portion of the microbiome of humans,...
INTRODUCTION
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogenous clonal malignant disease of the hematopoietic tissue wherein immature hematopoietic cells proliferate and accumulate in the bone marrow, peripheral blood, and other tissues [1].
AML is a rare malignant disease of hematopoietic...
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By decreasing morbidity and mortality from different pathogens, vaccines have a great influence on public health. Regular and comprehensive immunization programs have had great significance in the eradication of smallpox and the elimination of diphtheria in most countries of the...
INTRODUCTION
The SARS-Cov-2 disease appeared towards the end of December 2019, in Wuhan, China, when a series of pneumonia cases of unknown cause was registered. Several weeks later it was confirmed that a new coronavirus was the cause of the disease. In mid-March 2020, after the first cases had...
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Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains one of the leading public health challenges in all of the countries in the world. Also, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) constitutes a great problem as the last and most severe stage of HIV infection, which...
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Policies and programs for fighting diseases and injuries are based on timely information on the nature and scope of health problems. The most commonly used data for the purpose of health policies are statistical data on the number of deceased people, given by age and sex, as well as...
