Theses - Public Health and Primary Care
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Inference frameworks in computational biology: from protein-protein interaction networks using machine learning to carbon footprint estimation.
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essential to understanding biological pathways and their roles in development and disease. Computational tools have been successful at predicting PPIs in silico, but the lack of ... -
Towards an Understanding of Sedentary Time and Physical Activity in Older Adults: Informing the Development of Future Behavioural Interventions
The World Health Organization reports that up to five million deaths a year could be averted if the global population was more active and less sedentary, and describes these two behaviours as key to healthy ageing. Increases ... -
Care Needs, Social Wellbeing, and Health and Social Services Use in Older Age
Background. Over the last hundred years, the increase in longevity, first regarded as one of the greatest successes of humankind, became perceived as a global challenge with substantial and changing implications for ... -
The global cardiovascular burden of excess salt intake
Despite adverse impact of excess salt intake on population health, reliable global salt intake data were not available, with limitations of coverage, time era, representativeness, comparability and potential heterogeneity ...
