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IPH marks 25 years of shaping public health policy

Institute of Public Health

In Northern Ireland, around 114,000 homes moved from permitting smoking to being smoke-free between 2012 and 2019, with 6 out of every 7 homes considered smoke-free by 2019. A ban on smoking in cars with children was subsequently introduced in Ireland in 2014 and in NI in 2022.

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21st Century Infectious Disease Outbreaks

Gideon

An “outbreak” is often defined as an increase in case numbers for a particular disease in a defined place and time. Outbreaks can evolve into pandemics (such as with COVID-19) or consist of isolated clusters, especially for rare and less-communicable diseases, and can persist for years and even decades.

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How Your Microbiome Influences Your Immune System

Mercola

Since 2012, when he had that dream, he's been able to map out more specifics, but there's no single ideal microbiome per se. We're now realizing that the boundary between infectious or communicable diseases and noncommunicable diseases may not be as rigid as we used to think," Dietert says.

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Looking at Leprosy

Gideon

181089, 2012. Available: 10.1155/2012/181089 [3] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology DHCPP, “ Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy): Transmission ”. Lepr , vol. 608-40, 1992. [2]