COMBINING PUBLIC HEALTH EVIDENCE, POLICY EXPERIENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS EXPERTISE TO INFORM PREVENTIVE HEALTH: REFLECTIONS ON A NOVEL METHOD OF KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS

Combining public health evidence, policy experience and communications expertise to inform preventive health: reflections on a novel method of knowledge synthesis

Abstract Knowledge synthesis methods help summarize Bokcase evidence and utilize content expertise to draw out key messages to aid knowledge mobilization and translation.Systems thinking and coproduction can support this by facilitating a multiperspective view and ensuring that knowledge is mobilized and translated in a useful and meaningful way fo

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The GeoTox Package: open-source software for connecting spatiotemporal exposure to individual and population-level risk

Abstract Background Comprehensive environmental risk characterization, encompassing physical, chemical, social, ecological, and lifestyle stressors, necessitates innovative approaches to handle the escalating complexity.This is especially true when considering individual and population-level diversity, where the myriad combinations of real-world ex

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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of symptomatic hereditary transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy: a global case series

Abstract We describe 542 cases of symptomatic hereditary transthyretin amyloid polyneuropathy (ATTR-PN) identified through a review of the literature published between 2005 and 2016.Approximately 18% of the cases were from countries where ATTR-PN is traditionally considered to be endemic (i.e., Portugal, Japan, and Sweden).East Asia (Japan, China,

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