Background The WHO estimates that a considerable number of people in Sub-Saharan
Africa (SSA) rely on traditional, complementary and alternative medicine (TCAM) to meet …

Background Trachoma is the world's leading cause of infectious blindness. The World
Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed the SAFE strategy in order to eliminate blindness …

This study provides an approximate estimate of how much disease can be prevented by
reducing the environmental risks to health. It includes a meta-synthesis of key evidence …

In the last decade, a number of quantitative epidemiological studies of specific diseases
have been done in developing countries that for the first time allow estimation of the total …

This chapter summarizes the methodology used to assess the burden of disease caused by
indoor air pollution from household use of solid fuels. Most research into and control of …

The feeding and reproductive habits of non-biting synanthropic flies make them important
mechanical vectors of human pathogens. Synanthropic flies are major epidemiologic factors …

Four different methods have been applied to estimate the burden of disease due to indoor
air pollution from household solid fuel use in developing countries (LDCs). The largest …

Even in an era in which access to personal" cleanliness" and a public health infrastructure
are readily available in developed countries, illnesses associated with day care centres and …

The disease burden of a population, and how that burden is distributed across different
subpopulations (eg infants, women), are important pieces of information for defining …

Background Eye-seeking flies have received much attention as possible trachoma vectors,
but this remains unproved. We aimed to assess the role of eye-seeking flies as vectors of …