Neil Pearce

TL;DR: This work characterizing the workplace environment and special applications of occupational epidemiology and its applications are illustrated.

TL;DR: The Global Burden of Disease 2013 study provides a consistent and comprehensive approach to disease estimation for between 1990 and 2013, and an opportunity to assess whether accelerated progress has occured since the Millennium Declaration.

TL;DR: The concern is that the proportion of asthma cases attributable to atopy may have been overestimated, and that other possible aetiological mechanisms and risk factors for asthma may therefore have been neglected.

TL;DR: If there are indeed two (or more) subtypes of asthma, and if non-eosinophilic (neutrophil mediated) asthma is relatively common, this would have major consequences for the treatment and Prevention of asthma since most treatment and prevention strategies are now almost entirely focused on allergic/eos inophilic asthma and allergen avoidance measures, respectively.

TL;DR: Prevalence surveys were conducted among representative samples of school children from locations in Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia, North and South America to study the prevalence of asthma and allergies in Childhood.