Rare Disease Day is the globally-coordinated movement working towards equity in social opportunity, healthcare and access to diagnosis and therapies for those living with a rare disease.
On Rare Disease day, Elsevier has launched a new scientific journal called Rare. Open research in rare diseases. Elsevier dedicates a peer-reviewed publication specifically to these lesser known or unknown disorders, with the aim of having a clinical impact on the lives of patients and their families.
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The Thinking Healthcare System: Artificial Intelligence and Human Equity, 2023, Pages 99-129
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by introducing the AI transformation of public health (PubHealth) uniting healthcare systems with the central terms, concepts, and history of PubHealth from ancient quarantines to modern vaccines including milestone developments as successful responses to chronic and infectious diseases, sanitation, workplace safety, poverty, and wars.
For Rare Disease Day 2023, RELX's Global Head of Corporate Responsibility, Márcia Balisciano, speaks to Shiv Gaglani, CEO & Co-Founder of Osmosis.
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Clinical Decision Support and Beyond (Third Edition): Progress and Opportunities in Knowledge-Enhanced Health and Healthcare, 2023, Pages 715-725
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities by discussing the components of a technical infrastructure to support PHM, including data sources (registries, electronic health records), data analytics tools, patient outreach and engagement tools, and patient tracking dashboards along with real-world examples of PHM programs focused on chronic disease management, genetic testing for hereditary cancers, colorectal cancer screening, COVID-19 testing and vaccination, and tobacco cessation.
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Computational Modeling of Infectious Disease: With Applications in Python, 2023, Pages 93-119
This chapter advances the UN SDG Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being by exploring the mathematical modeling and host factor models that seek to explain the pathogenic dynamics, where there are meaningful differences in the way different populations transmit disease (β differences), recover from disease (γ differences), or in some other clinically meaningful factor.
This article ties to SDG 3. This study assesses the new Prolonged Grief Disorder International Classification of Diseases criteria in a large international sample of bereaved adults to test global applicability.
This article ties to SDG 3. This paper explores the perspectives and experiences of 404 Frontline Support Workers providing services to children with Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse(CSEA) experiences in seven countries, considering trends and implications for boys.
This article related to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about precocious puberty, a condition that causes children to start puberty early, affecting one in five thousand children.
This article relates to SDG 3. This resource, created together by Osmosis and the National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD), aims to increase the knowledge and awareness about precocious anemia, a disease in which the body produces auto-antibodies against a stomach protein called Intrinsic Factor, causing B12 deficiency that cannot be resolved efficiently through oral intake.
