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Osman Mansoor

Bio: Osman Mansoor is an academic researcher from Wellington Management Company. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Pandemic. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 42 publications receiving 573 citations.

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TL;DR: The nutritional quality of food in television food advertisements that are targeted at children and aimed at children is examined to examine the nutritional quality in these advertisements.

81 citations

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15 Sep 2014-Vaccine
TL;DR: Examination of factors underlying reported parental and healthcare provider concerns and practices related to administration of multiple injections during childhood vaccination visits found that providers often significantly overestimated parental concerns about multiple injections.

70 citations

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15 Mar 2006-Vaccine
TL;DR: A number of national programmes still lack the ability to reach all children with immunization services, and major issues that need to be addressed are the challenges of delivering a timely birth dose, and for certain countries, the affordability of the vaccine over the short- and long-term.

64 citations

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TL;DR: Preparedness planning for future influenza pandemics must consider the impact on this medical workforce and incorporate strategies to minimise this impact, including infection control measures, well-designed protocols, and improved health sector surge capacity.
Abstract: Another influenza pandemic is all but inevitable. We estimated its potential impact on the primary care medical workforce in New Zealand, so that planning could mitigate the disruption from the pandemic and similar challenges. The model in the "FluAid" software (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, Atlanta) was applied to the New Zealand primary care medical workforce (i.e., general practitioners). At its peak (week 4) the pandemic would lead to 1.2% to 2.7% loss of medical work time, using conservative baseline assumptions. Most workdays (88%) would be lost due to illness, followed by hospitalisation (8%), and then premature death (4%). Inputs for a "more severe" scenario included greater health effects and time spent caring for sick relatives. For this scenario, 9% of medical workdays would be lost in the peak week, and 3% over a more compressed six-week period of the first pandemic wave. As with the base case, most (64%) of lost workdays would be due to illness, followed by caring for others (31%), hospitalisation (4%), and then premature death (1%). Preparedness planning for future influenza pandemics must consider the impact on this medical workforce and incorporate strategies to minimise this impact, including infection control measures, well-designed protocols, and improved health sector surge capacity.

35 citations

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TL;DR: The picture presented here confirms the overall safety of vaccines and the value of the adverse event monitoring system.
Abstract: Aim. New Zealand monitors vaccine safety through vaccinator reports of adverse events following immunisation. The rate of reporting for the commonly used vaccines during 1990-5 are presented. During this time new vaccines were added to the immunisation schedule, enabling comparison of reporting rates.

33 citations


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TL;DR: This economic framework provides an explanation for the observed links between socioeconomic variables and obesity when taste, dietary energy density, and diet costs are used as intervening variables.

2,692 citations

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TL;DR: The final clinical practice guidelines and recommendations for the optimal management of chronic HBV infection are presented here, along with the relevant background information.
Abstract: Worldwide, some 240 million people have chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV), with the highest rates of infection in Africa and Asia. Our understanding of the natural history of HBV infection and the potential for therapy of the resultant disease is continuously improving. New data have become available since the previous APASL guidelines for management of HBV infection were published in 2012. The objective of this manuscript is to update the recommendations for the optimal management of chronic HBV infection. The 2015 guidelines were developed by a panel of Asian experts chosen by the APASL. The clinical practice guidelines are based on evidence from existing publications or, if evidence was unavailable, on the experts' personal experience and opinion after deliberations. Manuscripts and abstracts of important meetings published through January 2015 have been evaluated. This guideline covers the full spectrum of care of patients infected with hepatitis B, including new terminology, natural history, screening, vaccination, counseling, diagnosis, assessment of the stage of liver disease, the indications, timing, choice and duration of single or combination of antiviral drugs, screening for HCC, management in special situations like childhood, pregnancy, coinfections, renal impairment and pre- and post-liver transplant, and policy guidelines. However, areas of uncertainty still exist, and clinicians, patients, and public health authorities must therefore continue to make choices on the basis of the evolving evidence. The final clinical practice guidelines and recommendations are presented here, along with the relevant background information.

1,787 citations

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TL;DR: Television viewing in childhood and adolescence is associated with overweight, poor fitness, smoking, and raised cholesterol in adulthood, and excessive viewing might have long-lasting adverse effects on health.

846 citations

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TL;DR: The role that risk, and especially the perception of risk, its communication and management, played in driving the economic impact of SARS is examined and the potential for the rapid spread of infectious disease is not necessarily a greater threat than it has always been, but the effect that an outbreak can have on the economy is, which requires further research and policy development.

676 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of systematic reviews of the effectiveness, applicability, other effects, economic impact, and barriers to use of selected population-based interventions intended to improve vaccination coverage.

624 citations