Relation Between Rates of Geriatric Suicide and Consumption of Alcohol Beverages in European Countries by Leo Sher

“…Data on suicide rates in 65- to 74-year-olds and per capita consumption of alcoholic beverages were obtained from the World Health Organization databases. Correlations were computed to examine relationships between suicide rates in 65- to 74-year-old males and females and per capita consumption of beer, wine, and spirits in the general population in 34 European countries. …”
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Exploring Future Pandemic Preparedness Through the Development of Preventive Vaccine Platforms and the Key Roles of International Organizations in a Global Health Crisis by Jihee Jeon, Eunyoung Kim

“…In response, many international organizations, including the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), have developed strategies to combat these health threats. …”
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Identifying falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vaccine vial label and excipient profiles using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry by Benediktus Yohan Arman, Rebecca Clarke, Tehmina Bharucha, Laura Gomez Fernandez, John Walsby-Tickle, Michael Deats, Sara Mosca, Qianqi Lin, Sneha Banerjee, Shrikrishna R. Chunekar, Kundan D. Patil, Sunil Gairola, Susanna Dunachie, Hamid A. Merchant, Robert Stokes, Rutendo Kuwana, Alexandrine Maes, Jean-Philippe Charrier, Fay Probert, Céline Caillet, Pavel Matousek, James McCullagh, Paul N. Newton, Nicole Zitzmann, Bevin Gangadharan

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Investigation of the Suitability of Karadere River (Araklı-Trabzon) for Drinking and Irrigation Purposes by Arzu Fırat Ersoy, Esra Hatipoğlu Temizel

“…The physical properties, major anion and cation analysis results of the water samples were evaluated according to the World Health Organization WHO, TS266 (Regulation on Water Intended for Human Consumption) and Water Pollution Control Regulation. …”
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Aktivitas Anticandida Herba Krokot (Portulaca grandiflora) by Agus Purwanto, Ch. Endang Purwaningsih, Christiana Indriasari

“…The purslane plant has been designated by the World Health Organization as one of the most widely used medicinal plants in the world and is known as "Global Panacea". …”
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Groundwater quality evaluation and its suitability for domestic and irrigation use in the hard rock terrain of Olakkur block, Tamilnadu, India by D. Vinodh., S. Senthilkumar, B. Gowtham, Talelign Wegene, M. Jeevanandam

“…To assess the domestic suitability of groundwater, all these parameters were compared with the standards of World Health Organization and Indian standards. Sodium Adsorption Ratio (SAR) and US salinity diagram were used to evaluate the groundwater for irrigation suitability. …”
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Comprehensive assessment of water and sediment quality in Lake Nasser, Egypt, using various potential risk indices by Abdel-Satar Amaal M., Salem Salem G., El-Sayed Seliem M., Goher Mohamed E., Abdelaziz Ghada S., Al-Afify Afify D.G.

“…Although 50% of the lake’s water samples contained Pb concentrations slightly above the World Health Organization’s (WHO) limit for drinking water, the metal pollution index did not exceed the critical level and was classified as low metal water pollution. …”
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Chaotic and Quasi-periodic Regimes in the Covid-19 Mortality Data by Ekrem Aydıner, Erkan Yılmaz

“…It has been reported by World Health Organization (WHO) that the Covid-19 epidemic due to the Sar Cov-2 virus, which started in China and affected the whole world, caused the death of approximately six million people over three years. …”
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Seasonal variations of ground water quality and its agglomerates by water quality index by S. Sharma, R.C. Chhipa

“…Total eleven physico–chemical characteristics; total dissolved solids, total hardness,chloride, nitrate, electrical conductance, sodium, fluorideand potassium, pH, turbidity, temperature) were analyzed and observed values were compared with standard values recommended by Indian standard and World Health Organization. Most of parameter show higher value than permissible limit in pre and post monsoon. …”
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Mindfulness influences the psycho-social dimension of chronic pain: A randomized controlled clinical trial in Indian context by Anirban Pal, Purnava Mukhopadhyay, Rajasree Biswas, Dipasri Bhattacharya

“…The changes in pain catastrophizing, World Health Organization well-being and Freiburg mindfulness inventory scores were non-specific. …”
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease and Infection Control by Lynn Johnston, John Conly

“…Australia, the United Kingdom and the World Health Organization have developed guidelines for the infection control management of patients with CJD, as well as instruments and devices that come into contact with them and their tissues (1-3). …”
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The Challenge of Implementing Smoking Prevention Measures in Malaysia: An Analysis from a Hadith Perspective by Rahim Kamarul Zaman, Ahmad Sanusi Azmi, Razin Mohamed Rosli, Alia Abdul Rashid

“…In 1987, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared May 31st as World No Tobacco Day to address the tobacco epidemic and deaths due to smoking. …”
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Poor quality of life in indian ankylosing spondylitis patients by Latika Gupta, Sakir Ahmed, Gautam Dhar Choudhury, Durga Prasanna Misra, Vikas Agarwal

“…We sought to study the impact of the disease activity and functional impairment on QoL in Indian patients with AS. Methods: World Health Organization- Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQoL-BREF) questionnaire was used to measure quality of life (QoL) in 99 adults with AS (modified Rome criteria), 72 healthy individuals, and 20 rheumatoid arthritis patients. …”
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Selective and Sensitive Detection of Cyanide Based on the Displacement Strategy Using a Water-Soluble Fluorescent Probe by Ming La, Yuanqiang Hao, Zhaoyang Wang, Guo-Cheng Han, Lingbo Qu

“…The probe C-GGH-Cu2+ allowed detection of CN− in aqueous solution with a LOD (limit of detection) of 0.017 μmol/L which is much lower than the maximum contaminant level (1.9 μmol/L) for CN− in drinking water set by the WHO (World Health Organization). The probe also displayed excellent specificity for CN− towards other anions, including F−, Cl−, Br−, I−, SCN−, PO43-, N3-, NO3-, AcO−, SO42-, and CO32-.…”
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A review of research progress on disease burden of foodborne aflatoxins by Mei QIN, Jinyao CHEN, Lishi ZHANG, Jiao HUO, Yang SONG, Li CHENG

“…The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified AFB1, AFB2, AFG1 and AFG2 as Group 1 carcinogens, primarily causing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in humans, but also affecting growth and development in children and damaging the human immune system, resulting in varying degrees of health burden to populations. The World Health Organization published the global burden of foodborne AF in 2015, and several countries and regions have conducted population-based studies on the burden of foodborne AF. …”
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Evaluating Malaria Prevalence Using Clinical Diagnosis Compared with Microscopy and Rapid Diagnostic Tests in a Tertiary Healthcare Facility in Rivers State, Nigeria by M. N. Wogu, F. O. Nduka

“…The World Health Organization’s policy on laboratory test of all suspected malaria cases before treatment has not yielded significant effects in several rural areas of Sub-Saharan Africa due to inadequate diagnostic infrastructure, leading to high morbidity and mortality rates. …”
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Quality of Life and Metabolic Indicators of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study in Iran by Mohammad Hossein Kaveh, Keramat Noori, Mahin Nazari, Khadijeh Khademi

“…Background. The World Health Organization (WHO) has considered type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) a major global health challenge because of its high prevalence worldwide. …”
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Viral hepatitis: a review of global prevalence and research progress toward elimination by Wenqi HUANG, Huiyan WEN, Jiaxin LI, Miao XU, Congling QIU, Fangfang ZENG, Dan LIU, Xujing LIANG, Xiaofeng LIANG

“…In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) proposed the goal of eliminating the significant public health threat of viral hepatitis by 2030. …”
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Euthanasia as a professional dilemma in nursing students by María Verónica Aveiga Hidalgo, Clara Eliza Pozo Hernández, Olga Mireya Alonso Pico, Erika Marcela León Ravelo

“…<p><strong>Foundation:</strong> the World Health Organization defines euthanasia as the deliberate action carried out by a person with the intention of causing the painless death of another subject, or not preventing death from natural causes, in case of terminal illness or irreversible coma.…”
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Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Tuberculosis in the State of Mexico, Mexico by Adrian Zaragoza Bastida, Marivel Hernández Tellez, Lilia P. Bustamante Montes, Imelda Medina Torres, Jaime Nicolás Jaramillo Paniagua, Germán David Mendoza Martínez, Ninfa Ramírez Durán

“…According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were approximately 9.4 million new cases worldwide in the year 2010. …”
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