Browsing Centre for Global Public Health by Subject "United Kingdom"
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Experiences of Diagnosis, Symptoms, and Use of Reliever Inhalers in Patients With Asthma and Concurrent Inducible Laryngeal Obstruction or Breathing Pattern Disorder: Qualitative Analysis of a UK Asthma Online Community.
(2023-08-14)BACKGROUND: Breathing pattern disorders (BPDs) and inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) cause similar symptoms to asthma, including dyspnea and chest tightness, with an estimated prevalence of up to one-fifth of patients ... -
Investigating a tuberculosis cluster among Filipino health care workers in a low-incidence country.
(2018-03-01)SETTING: Nearly 8% of adult tuberculosis (TB) cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (EW&NI) occur among health care workers (HCWs), the majority of whom are from high TB incidence countries. OBJECTIVES: To determine ... -
Reply: Tuberculosis screening in migrants to the EU/EEA and UK.
(2023-11)Tuberculosis incidence estimates from countries of origin alone are often insufficient to predict TB prevalence among migrants https://bit.ly/3PDc35g -
Transmission of toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae by a fully immunised resident returning from a visit to West Africa, United Kingdom, 2017.
(2018-09)In early 2017, a United Kingdom (UK)-born person in their 20s presented with a skin ulcer on the foot 3 weeks after returning from Ghana. The patient had last received a diphtheria-containing vaccine in 2013, completing ... -
Treating latent TB in primary care: a survey of enablers and barriers among UK General Practitioners.
(2015-08-13)BACKGROUND: Treating latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is an important public health intervention. In the UK, LTBI treatment is delivered in secondary care. Treating LTBI in the community would move care closer to home ... -
Universal weekly testing as the UK COVID-19 lockdown exit strategy.
(Elsevier, 2020-04-20)