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Department of Health Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science , Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE , UK The relationship between economic recessions and cardiovascular mortality has been ... 2008, rising political polarisation, geopolitical tensions and the COVID-19 pandemic, there are salient concerns about escalating levels of economic uncertainty globally [ 1, 2 ]. In this context, the
investigated if the geographical differences in vaccination uptake can be explained by a range of community-level characteristics covering socio-demographics, political view, COVID-19 health risk awareness and ... individual level demographics and health conditions [ 15–17 ]. Some studies assessed a link between political beliefs and COVID-19 vaccine uptake. For example in the USA, people who identified themselves as
successful and that political experience is a key factor in predicting how even sound, evidence-based policies may fail or cause unintended consequences, something I had to find out the hard way. I also ... , it became a political issue. So, if I were to need to address this issue in office, I would already know how best to lobby for an extensive solution. One health In summary, we have to look at what we
institutions working in an evidence-based framework, not exposed to political influences [ 4 ]. They are characterized by their variety, volume, and velocity—the 3 Vs—but also often by their poor (or ... the failure of the CDC on COVID-19, in part due to political interferences [ 24 ]. Highly credible scientific institutions are also necessary for experts from different domains to work together
gold standard, with priority being given, either to evidence from RCTs or to observational studies which closely mimic RCTs. The political challenge has come from various interests calling for the ... observational studies [ 6 ]. The political challenge has come from various interests, skilfully employing calls for ‘greater accountability in science’ [ 7 ]. This has been particularly motivated by anti
. The BTH region is one of the world-class urban agglomerations in China. As the political center and third largest economy in China, the BTH region accounts for 8.1% of China’s population. This area is ... -up; (4) led by the same faculty under consistent quality control measurements and shared common philosophy and values (for promotion of wellbeing of the whole society, but not only scientific research
with Covariates: Two Improved Three-Step Approaches . Polit Anal [Internet] . Cambridge University Press; 2010 [cited 2022 Apr 13 ]; 18 : 450 - 69 . https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/political
aiming at advising public health and political decision-making. The actual absolute hospitalizations of children during the Omicron as well as the relative share of all hospitalizations followed the trends ... et al. [ 27 ] have used county-level data to provide predictions for future spread. Doblhammer et al. [ 12 ] showed that during the second wave, political affiliations and socioeconomic indicators
]. Nevertheless, there are major national differences in Europe, where significant shifts in liver mortality have occurred since the 1970s, which could be attributed to several behavioral, cultural and political
causation. Social action is by its nature political. It is, though, a vital function to provide the evidence that underpins action. ... . Too vague and ill-defined, too freighted with political baggage, not an area for scientific enquiry. In this view, epidemiology, in investigating causation, should be about establishing exposure-disease
Hg in 1949) [ 40 ]. Both of these political leaders died of stroke. At that time, there were debates about whether hypertension was harmful [ 41 ]. Long-term epidemiological studies after the ... dollars when he contracted COVID-19 [ 47 ]. Does holding political office directly impact mortality? The findings are mixed. A recent analysis of close elections in the US indicates that winners live
Department of Philosophy and Department of Clinical Medicine, Macquarie University , Sydney, NSW , Australia 4 Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University , Halifax , Canada 5 Lynette
fatherland (to what extent did political tensions in post-World War II Northern Europe play a role?) after first studying physics and then medicine (BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine 2022;27:A18–A19). Hence, he had
Political Intervention, Division of Epidemiology and Health Services Research, Epidemiology and Informatics (IMBEI), Institute of Medical Biostatistics, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg
( 7473 ): 1039 - 42 . 13. Dupré J . It is not possible to reduce biological explanations to explanations in chemistry and/or physics . In: Contemporary debates in philosophy of biology; 2009 . p. 32 - 47
‘Bayesian’ frameworks is overly simplistic. He writes: ‘There is far more in our toolkit than the extremes of frequentist and Bayesian’, and ‘There is no singular frequentist or Bayesian philosophy or ... depend on what potential (e.g. political, medical etc) consequences it may have to ‘formally declare’ (e.g. in the title of a scientific paper, as in Bygren et al. [3]) that we do or do not believe in
spread for a prior distribution [20]. The need for these inputs has nothing to do with frequentist versus Bayes methods or philosophy, and everything to do with the question being addressed by the analysis ... address a given statistical problem from different perspectives, and address different aspects of proposed solutions. Second, there is no singular frequentist or Bayesian philosophy or methodology any more
outright may be attenuated by various social, economic, cultural, and political factors. The availability of a single vaccine type in Israel, developed in Germany and the United States and utilizing mRNA
, Vassilopoulou L , Kovatsi L , Tsitsimpikou C , Karamanou M , Leon G , et al. The dose response principle from philosophy to modern toxicology: The impact of ancient philosophy and medicine in modern toxicology
meaning of vaccine safety regulations. Public confidence in vaccination programs depends on the work they do for the community-social, political, and moral as well as biological. The concept of public ... reflect on four interrelated points that shape our perspective. The first point is that vaccinations are the remains of a much broader vision of public health that has eroded in the presence of political
