Description
The article presents global public health news briefs on topics including the importance of obtaining accurate mortality statistics in the wake of a disaster such as Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The predictors of women's breast self-examination (BSE) are examined, along with breast cancer mortality prevention, various causes of death in a homeless population in the Netherlands, and the sociodemographic determinants of body mass index in Nigerian children.
Subject
Body Mass Index; Death; World Health; Statistics; BODY mass index; BREAST self-examination; CAUSES of death; DEATH; DEATH rate; HEALTH & social status; HOMELESS persons; HOMELESSNESS; PUBLIC health; STATISTICS; WORLD health; Cause of Death; Homelessness; Social Determinants of Health; 2017; HURRICANE Maria; Breast Neoplasms – Diagnosis; BREAST tumors – Diagnosis; CHILDREN – Nigeria