Background Most cardiovascular disease risk prediction equations in use today were
derived from cohorts established last century and with participants at higher risk but less …

The Tanga Coastal Zone Conservation and Development Programme, initiated in 1994, was
among the first such projects to make livelihoods improvement a key objective, and to use a …

Background A decade of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk-based guidelines, education
programmes and widespread availability of paper-based risk prediction charts have not …

Dynamite fishing, although illegal, has resurfaced in recent years as a major threat to the
reefs of northern Tanzania. This is despite the fact that institutional arrangements for co-…

The tragic and devastating consequences of the Asian tsunami, December 2004, and the
hurricanes and cyclones of 2005 were a wake up call for the global community, dramatically …

The GATE frame incorporates a triangle, circle, square, and arrow (figure 1), labelled with
the acronym PECOT (or PICOT).

This global synthesis report serves as a call to action to decision makers. It provides a
science-based synthesis of the different types of goods and services provided by mangroves and …

This document is the work of a team assembled by the International Coral Reef Society (ICRS),
whose mission is to promote the acquisition and dissemination of scientific knowledge to …

The PREDICT-CVD cohort was set up to facilitate research into aspects of cardiovascular
disease (CVD) and to assist CVD risk assessment and management in routine general practice…

PURPOSE This study aimed to determine which methods of expressing a preventive
medication’s benefit encourage patients with known cardiovascular disease to decide to take the …