... education and health. This may be addressed by increasing competition between suppliers of goods and services to education andhealth institutions and tackling overspending on specific spending items ... ranking for education spending. 3/ Based on average rankings of spending efficiency (see previous footnote) based on public health spending and associated outcome indicators, including infant, ... bias in estimating efficiency score levels. 31 Table 5. Links Between Economic Growth and Spending and Outcomes in Education andHealth (continued) IV. The Relationship Between Health...
... cartoon by George du Maurier appeared in Punch in 1880 depicting a group of admiring women listening to the dandified art critic Prigsby comparing a head in a painting to Greek sculpture. The satire ... change in mainstream fashion. Practical changes were made due to an increased number of women working and playing various sports, such as lawn tennis and cycling, and such change rapidly increased ... Great Britain and Ireland on 74 Gower St WC in 1896 and includes one hand written book and A Catalogue of the Historical Section. It sold at 11s and gave examples of the dresses and directions...
... Gender training of emergency managers andhealth service providers should become an integral part of staff training in all organizations and agencies involved in disaster-relief. " The initiative ... training and education programmes should include women and men, and address their respective needs and concerns." Information collected through rapid assessments of health status andhealth ... expanded caregiving roles follow-ing a disaster, and putting family needs before their own, may explain overall declines in emotional well being.Issues in planning and delivery of relief services...
... airborne particulates and other pollutants emitted by industry and vehicles.50 There is increasing interest in the problem in India, China, and other rapidly developing countries of Asia, ... obtained from several randomized control trials involving individual or group counseling sessions led by community health workers or nurses, either as the principal intervention or in combination ... range of factors involved—spanning engineering concerns, urban planning, land-use policies, and individual behavior—has generally inhibited the public health sector from taking decisive action....
... in- come mentioned having more difficul-ties in paying for a medical visit, in making a medical appointment be-cause of existing lines, andin obtainingmedicines because of financial prob-lems ... was assessed in termsof two characteristics, insomnia and psychiatric symptoms. Insomnia wasdefined as a complaint, for the preced-ing 30 days, concerning difficulty in initiating sleep, frequency ... elderly: (1) disparities in income di-minish after retirement, thus reducingexisting differences in social and health indicators; (2) social policy aimed at re-ducing inequality among the elderly(such...
... 139INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER 2FAMILY AND POWERrawlins-book-01.indb 32 12/4/2005 6:12:27 PM Midlife and Older WomenFamily Life, Work andHealthin JamaicaJoan Rawlinsrawlins-book-front-01.indb 2 12/4/2005 6:11:18 ... 3 2 1CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATARawlins, Joan M. Midlife and older women: family life work andhealthin Jamaica / Joan Rawlins.p. cm.Based on the author’s PhD thesis — Institute of Social ... Pittin, Professor Geertje Lycklama and Dr Ines Smyth, which continued to be especially valuable to me as I worked on this book. I am also in -debted to others, including Professor Maureen Cain,...
... oversufficiency is the main dietaryproblem, and it organises a symbolic, annual work-out on thePadang (the sports field) in front of the Supreme Court. Also in Singapore, the Ministry of Healthin 1997 embarked ... Limdescribed it as tasteless. One Singaporean eats them for aches and pains in his legs. In a bizarre incident the buyer of a flat found itinfested with mealworms, and there having been some disputeover ... available only in early winter.9 Marvin Harris statesthat the insects habitually eaten in China include silkworm pupae,cicadas, crickets, giant water beetles (Lethocerus indicus), stinkbugs,cockroaches...
... lacking general information on hygiene and food handling may inadvertently take risks, increasing their exposure toinfection and increasing the opportunity for infection to spread to othermembers ... use in settingstandards. All countries in the European Region should take part in developingCodex standards. To do so, they must develop and/ or improve their methodsfor surveying and monitoring ... both long- and short-termexposures.WHO’s commitmentWHO understands the need to identify and address health- related issues in international trade and development, including advertising and masscommunication,...
... IDENTIFYING IMPACTS ON EDUCATION AND HEALTH IN THE PRESENCE OF TREATMENT EXTERNALITIESBY EDWARD MIGUEL AND MICHAEL KREMER1Intestinal helminths—including hookworm, roundworm, whipworm, and schistoso-miasis—infect ... estimate peer effects include Duflo and Saez (2002) and Miguel and Kremer (2002). Katz, Kling, and Liebman (2001), Kremer and Levy (2001), and Sacerdote (2001) use random variation in peer group composition ... administrative and financial constraints, the health intervention was phased in over severalyears. Group 1 schools received free deworming treatment in both 1998 and 1999, Group 2 schools in...
... securing information on them” (Miettinen and Cook,1981).Confounding bias is handled either by preventing it, through randomization in studydesign,orbyremoving it, through regression models in ... anticonvulsant, in acute bipolar depression (Ghaemi et al., 2007). The clinicallore is that this drug is ineffective in this setting. Nineteen patients were used in total (halfdrug and half placebo) in a ... impact30 A Clinician’s Guide toStatistics and Epidemiology in Mental Health Measuring Truth and UncertaintyS. Nassir Ghaemi MD MPHProfessor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of MedicineDirector,...
... treatmentcycle and during pregnancy, remaining remarkably stable.The pregnancy was complicated at 20 weeks’ gestation by a right deep veinthrombosis, affecting the femoral and external iliac veins, and ... and pregnancy. In Advances in Nephrology Year Book, ed. J. Grunfeld, M. Maxwell, J.Bach et al., vol. 14, pp. 103–41. Linn, MO: Mosby, Inc.Lindheimer, M.D. and Katz, A.I. (1992). Pregnancyin ... showed a viable twin pregnancy. Throughout the treatment cycle and during pregnancy, the patient’s anti-rejection drugs (azathioprine and prednisolone) were continued at mainte-nance doses....