NTDs, poverty, and ecosystem destruction. Predicting disease risk and breaking the poverty trap
Researchers use socioeconomic and ecosystem degradation variables to improve the predictive accuracy of disease risk models for NTDs in Brazil.
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Meet the Winner of the Odile Bain Memorial Prize 2022
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