... national initiatives have aimed to increase the stock of doctors and nurses in developing countries through increasing training, retention incentives and reducing opportunities for emigration [14,21,24,25] ... contributions of different categories of health workers and the role of health workers relative to other health system inputs in increasing utilization of essential services, particularly in developing ... nurses, in large part because of data availability [17,18] The causes of health worker shortages in developing countries are multifactorial and include insufficient medical and nursing training,...
... Committee of the West China University Medical School Page of Exposure Assessment The factory was established in 1950 Since the 1970s some engineering control measures were in place, but in most ... studies, finding excess obstruction among asbestos exposed workers, but remaining inconclusive as to how much of the effect is independent from smoking Kilburn reported significant differences in FEV1/FVC ... long period of time Therefore, the individual cumulative duration of work in exposed areas was used as surrogate measure of total asbestos exposure Clinical Evaluation Using a Chinese standardized...
... getting infected with HIV highly the routine HIV testing services offered as part of standard antenatal care (Table 2) Participants’ opinions and experiences of routine HIV counselling and testing ... the Uganda Ministry of Health issued new guidelines for HIV counselling and testing of pregnant women in September 2005 [23] and a revised edition of Policy Guidelines for Prevention of Mother ... [12] Similar findings were reported from studies in rural areas of Zimbabwe [30,31] and Lilongwe, Malawi [32] The availability of rapid HIV testing in the clinic and the giving of same-day HIV...
... level of at least 95% [17] Readiness Patients’ readiness to HAART was determined based on the five indicators of readiness [19]: These indicators are: Changing attitudes towards HIV medication, finding ... Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany 6Institute of Medical Microbiology and Epidemiology of Infectious diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, ... HAART like skin rash, itching, nausea, and/or vomiting since starting HAART More than half, 255 (50.6%) participants had discomfort when taking their drugs in front of others, and most of the respondents,...
... deduplicated resulting in a total survey sample of 536 potential participants Page of Table Reasons for disseminating the findings of research Reason Raise awareness of findings N (%) 216 (93) Influence ... anticipated Discussion Principal findings This survey presents an overview of the ways by which health services researchers working across the UK are disseminating the findings of their research Although ... intervention(s) or on the organisation and delivery of health services Around one-third (n = 44) of these pointed to their work being incorporated into clinical guidelines as proxy evidence of...
... paths maintained during wintertime? Has a general speed limit of 30 km/h been implemented in housing areas? Part of total bike paths separated from road traffic Kilometers of biking paths in relation ... to 91,000 inhabitants) in Stockholm County In addition, the town districts of the municipality of Stockholm, the largest municipality in Sweden (794,500 inhabitants), were included Indicators ... adjustments of infrastructure such as traffic-calming measures aiming to increase pedestrian and bicycle safety [14,15] In a systematic review, van Sluijs, McMinn, and Griffin stated that interventions,...
... behaviors of interest included sharing needles/syringes ever and in the last three months, sharing injecting “works” (e.g cookers, cotton) ever and in the last three months, duration of injecting, injecting ... injecting while incarcerated, aspirating and re-injecting blood (khoon bozee), and receiving assistance with injecting Assistance with injecting was assessed with the question of whether anyone, including ... with initiating injecting outside Afghanistan (Table 2) HCV Ab was independently associated with initiating injecting outside Afghanistan, ever having an abscess, ever sharing needles and syringes,...
... condom use during last sex, levels of HIV/AIDS knowledge, and a history of previous HIV testing (Table) Effectiveness of needle/syringe programs in reducing needle and syringe sharing among IDUs ... association between having While 18.9% (7/37) of those who received few needles/ syringes from the program reported having injected using a shared needle or syringe at last injection, none of the 68 IDUs ... more syringes from the program In either situation, the needle and syringe program in Tehran can be considered beneficial in that it either resulted in less sharing of needles and syringes, or...
... validation among combinations of minority groups, such as older adults of ethnic minority backgrounds, is lacking Findings: We pooled data from two surveys of older adults in Great Britain: one conducted ... quality of life (QOL) [1-3] A great deal of the well-being of any nation will be determined by physical and mental health and existing QOL scales are being examined as potential well-being indicators ... to increase inequity or assign resources inefficiently because of over-simplification As we have seen problems in comparing ethnic minorities' wellbeing, we can also expect problems in other minority...
... allowed None of the subjects had clinical signs or symptoms of infectious disease Use of tobacco (oral tobacco and smoking of cigarettes) or intake of tea, coffee, caffeinated soft drinks or beta ... end of the continuum A limitation of this investigation was the lack of repeated measures of the clinical sample, which would have given information of temporal stability in the very low end of ... for inclusion in the study Two of the authors independently rated the computer-generated DAWBA information of all patients In four cases the raters reported different diagnoses and in all of these...
... allows us to extend the findings of other investigators who suggested greater impairment in physical functioning and quality of life with increasing levels of anxiety in COPD patients [7,40-42] ... exacerbated in the presence of COPD symptoms Deciphering the relative contributions of these two pathways to anxiety will require longitudinal studies beginning in more mild stages of COPD Our findings ... that a 10-point increase in anxiety score is associated with a mean decrease in MWD of meters, a decrease in maximum exercise workload of almost Watt, and an increase of approximately points on the...
... stimulating factor; HGF, hepatocyte growth factor; IFN-γ, interferon-γ; IL-1β, interleukin-1β; IL-2, interleukin-2; IL-2R, interleukin-2 receptor; IL-4, interleukin-4, IL-6, interleukin-6; IL-10, interleukin-10; ... examining a narrower profile of cytokines on a longitudinal basis Conclusion Systemic inflammation has been increasingly recognized in patients with COPD CRP has been shown to be increased in ... related cytokines interferon-γ (IFN-γ), interleukin-2 (IL-2), interleukin-4 (IL-4) and IL-13 were associated with increasing severity of airflow obstruction, as characterized by decreasing % predicted...
... walking up 10 steps without resting, stooping, crouching, or kneeling; cleaning chores around the house like folding quilts, sweeping, dusting, or straightening up; or preparing meals Ling et ... pain: herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage, other traditional Chinese medicine, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (including diclofenac (voltaren), fenbid, ibuprofen, sulindac (clinoril), naproxen ... conservative, as the patellofemoral joint was not included The absence of information on the patellofemoral joint may also help explain the low percentage of those with knee pain who have radiographic...
... knowledge of this risk may prevent IDUs from purchasing syringes but instead promote sharing by obtaining syringes from within their social network [23] Alternatively, harm reduction programming within ... = injecting drug user NSP = needle and syringe program VCT = voluntary counseling and testing Conflict of Interests All authors declare that they have no financial or nonfinancial competing interests ... Pakistan, during the last three decades of conflict [13] The number of IDUs in Afghanistan is believed to be increasing, possibly due to learned injecting behaviors from countries of refuge [14] In Pakistan,...
... pregnant women in Kinshasa [7], and similar to victims of sexual violence in nearby SouthKivu province [8] Reproductive health assessments of internally displaced women residing in camps, and ... interpreted in light of several limitations Our investigations examined one STI, while groups in conflict settings are prone to a range of STIs The role of ulcerative STIs in transmission of HIV could ... Nonetheless, the association of rapid plasma reaginTreponema pallidum hemagglutination assay remains appropriate in the diagnosis of syphilis in our challenging work conditions in the Congo [10] The...
... If the domains included in the SBT are modifiable, as they instinctively would be, this is a promising tool to guide the intervention offered to patients The potential gain from offering targeted ... obviously include a much higher number of patients Page of Author details Nordic Institute of Chiropractic and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense Part of Clinical Locomotion ... being in the low risk group increased the likelihood of psychological risk factors to some extent and being in the high risk group was related to a marked increased likelihood of a risk profile...
... the moderating effect of SES on FV intake was found (Table 4) This indicates that the increasing SES disparity in changes in FV intake over time could partly be explained by an increasing SES disparity ... shows an increase in SES disparity in FV intake among 10-12 year olds from 2001 to 2008, wherein low SES children had a steeper decline in FV intake than high SES children This increase in SES ... free fruit scheme was effective in increasing fruit intake in all groups at these schools (including boys and pupils of lower SES) as the interactions between intervention effect and gender and...
... channel section; shear centre 10.7 259 Shearing stressesin a channel section; shear centre We have discussed the general case of shearing stressesin the bending of a beam having an axis of symmetry ... since there can be no longitudinal shearing stress on a free edge of the cross- section The shearing stress T increases linearly in intensity as s, increases from zero to %b; at the junction of ... analysis gives then the variation of shearing stress over the depth of the cross- section For this simple type of cross- section I, and so = 12 -h3t Shearing stressesinbeams 248 t = -6F - h ) (Q y;...
... present in rural than in urban settings, influences T cell activation and maturation in healthy and in HIV-1-infected individuals in Burkina Faso in west Africa Methods The proportion of circulating ... and 5) In our study, the observed increase in CD95+ T cells in healthy adults living in Nouna compared with individuals living in Ouagadougou was not caused by a reduction in the proportion of CD95dim ... presence of naïve T cells and the activation level of T cells by expression of both CD95 and CD38 in HIV-1-infected adults, as well as in healthy controls, living in a rural or an urban setting in...