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Anna Kramvis – A big job in a small world

Frontiers

In line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good health and well-being , we discuss the progress of hepatitis B research and the challenges faced, including the COVID-19 pandemic, lack of funding, and low vaccination rates. As a result of lockdown-imposed home births, critical birth-dose vaccinations have reduced.

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Epidemiology Terms: A Glossary of Epidemiological Words

Gideon

Whether you are a student of nursing, health sciences, public health, or another specialty, you may be interested in expanding your knowledge of epidemiology. In our ever-shrinking world, an emerging disease can turn from a small outbreak in one country to a global pandemic in a few weeks.