Verica Jovanović

Dados Biográficos

ID7187870
NOMEVerica Jovanović
PRENOMESVerica
SOBRENOMEJovanović
ASSINATURAJOVANOVIĆ V
AFILIAÇÕESInstitute of Public Health of Serbia
ORCID0000-0002-9650-0709
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1989
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H0

  • Demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with cervical cancer screening among women in Serbia

    Open AccessSlavica Djordjevic, Katarina Boričić et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Objectives: Effective reduction of cervical cancer incidence and mortality requires strategic measures encompassing the implementation of a cost-effective screening technology. Serbia has made significant strides, introducing organized cervical cancer screening in 2012. However, various impediments to screening implementation persist. The aim of the study was to estimate the socioeconomic factors associated with cervical cancer screening among wo…

  • Relationship between socio-descriptive characteristics, burnout syndrome, and quality of life of employees

    Open AccessNatasa K Rancic, Nataša Rančić et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Introduction Burnout syndrome develops as a consequence of chronic stress among employees. The study objective was to examine what socio-descriptive characteristics of employees might be associated with the appearance of the occupational burnout and to evaluate the relationship between job burnout and the quality of life among security employees of the professional private security sector in Central Serbia. Methods A multicenter cross-sectional q…

  • Drivers and epidemiological patterns of West Nile virus in Serbia

    Open AccessGiovanni Marini, Mitra B Drakulovic et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Background: West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging mosquito-borne pathogen in Serbia, where it has been detected as a cause of infection in humans since 2012. We analyzed and modelled WNV transmission patterns in the country between 2012 and 2023. Methods: We applied a previously developed modelling approach to quantify epidemiological parameters of interest and to identify the most important environmental drivers of the force of infection (FOI) by…

  • Socioeconomic inequality as a predictor of unmet health needs in the older adult population of Serbia

    Open AccessNikola Savić, Svetlana Radevic et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2024

    Objectives: The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between demographic and socioeconomic predictors and the unmet health needs of the older adult population in Serbia. Materials and methods: The study is part of the Population Health Survey of Serbia, which was conducted in the period from October to December 2019 by the Institute for Public Health of Serbia "Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut" and the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Se…

  • Developing Covid-19 vaccine recommendations during the pandemic

    Open AccessLjiljana Markovic‐Denic, Ljiljana Markovic-Denic et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    A National Immunization Technical Advisory Group (NITAG) is a multi-disciplinary body of national experts that provide evidence-based recommendations to policy-makers to assist them in making informed immunization policy and programme decisions. During the COVID-19 pandemic, NITAGs faced many challenges in making evidence-based recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines due to the rapidly evolving situation with new vaccine products available in a sho…

  • Preferences of Covid-19 Vaccines in the General Population in Belgrade, Serbia

    Tatjana Gazibara, Smiljana Cvjetković et al.ARTICLEBehavioral Medicine2022

    Few countries provided multiple COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens right from the start of mass immunization. In Serbia, four vaccines were available. Circumstances in which people had several options to choose from are unique. The purpose of this study was to identify motivators behind COVID-19 vaccination and the choice of COVID-19 vaccine among people who were immunized against COVID-19. Qualitative interviews with 35 vaccinated people aged …

  • Dietary Habits of Older Adults in Serbia

    Open AccessDragana Stosovic, Nadja Vasiljević et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    Objectives: Adults aged 65 years and older comprise one fifth of the Serbian population. Many of them have multiple, often diet-related comorbidities. We aimed to investigate their dietary habits by comparing them with younger adults' and to determine the relation of the differing ones to demographic, socioeconomic and health factors. Methods: We performed a secondary analysis of 2013 Serbian National Health Survey data on 14,082 adults. Binary l…

  • West Nile virus in Europe

    Open AccessFlavia Riccardo, Francesco Bolici et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2020

    BACKGROUND: After Action Reviews (AAR) with a One Health perspective were performed in Slovenia, Italy, Serbia and Greece following a severe West Nile virus (WNV) transmission season in 2018. A protocol combining traditional techniques and organizational process analysis was developed and then implemented in each country. RESULTS: In 2018, response to the unusually intense transmission season of WNV in Slovenia, Italy, Serbia and Greece took plac…

  • Migration within the island of Korčula, Yugoslavia

    Open AccessAnita Sujoldžić, Verica Jovanović et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Human Biology1989

    For several centuries the village populations on the Yugoslav island of Korcula have remained essentially isolated from each other and from the mainland. Historical, linguistic and biological data indicate that systematic population pressure predominantly came from the coastal area of the Balkan peninsula westward onto the island. To examine short and long range migration on the island, data on the place of birth of parents of adult inhabitants (…