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... distribution of physicians, hence, the shortage of physicians in rural areas is a serious problem The power of communities to attract physicians consists of two elements: the amount of medical ... types of data can clarify our understanding of the equal distribution of physicians In this study, we examine the strength of associations between demographic, economic or life-related variables of ... parameters of the community attractiveness We also calculate the equity of physician distribution against each of the possible parameters of attractiveness in order to re-evaluate the maldistribution of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... after the deployment of the first graduates, MOH received anecdotal reports of deficiencies in quality of care, and decided to conduct a nationwide evaluation of quality of HIV/AIDS-related care ... HIV/AIDS-related care as provided by TMs Page of description of the selection and training of the COs) For each TM, we attempted to observe patient encounters: first visit of a newly diagnosed patient, scheduled ... descriptions of the TMs’ clinical environment (e.g human and material resource availability), and of health workers’ attitudes toward HIV/AIDS training Methods Study design This cross- sectional...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... al.: Barriers to initiation of antiretroviral treatment in rural and urban areas of Zambia: a cross- sectional study of cost, stigma, and perceptions about ART Journal of the International AIDS ... http://www.jiasociety.org/content/13/1/8 Page of 11 Table Demographic characteristics of subjects in a cross- sectional survey in rural and urban areas of Zambia* Demographic characteristics Urban: ... years of age, similar to the distribution of all patients on ART in Zambia Page of 11 Those interviewed were generally of low socio-economic status Access to flush toilets was reported by

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 08:20

... Firstly, the cross- sectional study design of the CCHS is not ideal Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006, 4:17 for the purpose of answering ... that is considered to be representative of 98% of the Canadian population Also, we used the HUI3 as our measure of HRQL There is evidence of the validity of this measure in people who have type ... well-documented evidence of an increased risk of various types of cancer in patients with type diabetes [10-12,17] However, there is no literature to support the evidence of a link between type...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... define a cutoff on the YIAS-VG to identify "excessive" video game use but the scores in our cohort were not high Several limitations of the study exist This cross- sectional comparison of video games ... games? How often your grades or schoolwork suffer because of the amount of time you spend playing video games? How often you play video games before something else that you need to do? How often does ... was also not representative of all groups The large majority of students who responded to the survey were Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Page of 10 Age: Height: Weight: Sex:...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... There was, however, no strong evidence of an effect of SLE on risk of early miscarriage (OR, 1.4; 95% CI, 0.6–3.1, regardless of time of diagnosis) Odds of late miscarriage were almost doubled ... association of district with risk of SLE Woman-based analyses Table presents data for the characteristics of the 122 female participants with SLE and of the 203 women in the Page of 11 (page ... was granted by the Ethics Committee of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Trinidad & Tobago All participants provided informed consent...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:22

... of which insert into the lateral four toes on the plantar surface of the intermediate phalanx [10] Because of the site of the tendonous insertions, any implication of FDB in the development of ... mean cross sectional area (342 μ2 and 493 μ2) of the two feet with claw toes (p < 0.01) with a difference of the means 151 μ2 The two rectus feet displayed a similar pattern of muscle fibre cross ... person and anatomical site revealed that the cross sectional area of the claw foot was significantly greater (p = < 0.01), than the cross sectional area of the rectus foot at all corresponding anatomical...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:24

... foundations of KT They describe the theory, concepts, tools, or models of KT and delineate some of the issues and challenges of working in the area The following topics are examples of the sort of paper ... compilation of the list of terms and collected definitions were done iteratively over six months with most of the collection done before development of the database of articles Collection of terms ... we tagged as KT theory: theories of KT; models or frameworks of KT or KT interventions; processes of KT; KT across disciplines (e.g., definitions); vocabulary of KT and scope; other theories that...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 05:21

... the cushion of out -of- pocket costs In a study of 15 African countries investigating household coping behaviours in the face of health expenditures, it was found that between 23–68% of households ... elevated rates of maternal mortality Mothers who are unable to breast-feed are at risk of using unsafe water for formulafeeding especially in low income countries as a mode of prevention of mother-to-child ... mother-to-child transmission of HIV [25] 11 Health financing was a central finding across all three models Each financial variable with the exception of private share of total health expenditure...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... to the understanding of the type of professional burnout present in employees of a university organisation in Spain and support the idea of a differential characterisation of burnout syndrome ... profile is related with the type of occupation and that the “worn-out” profile is associated with the cumulative effect over time of the characteristics of an organisation The recognition of ... “wornout” profile, characterised by sluggish behaviour, is strongly associated with all of the dimensions of the definition by Maslach, Schaufeli and Leiter [2] It is, therefore, the profile of exhausted,...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/93 the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo TR is a psychiatrist, professor at the Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, and Head of the Department of Research and ... scale is based on the clinicians’ subjective evaluation of the patients’ improvement on the day of the survey, regardless of their length of treatment Statistics When comparing two groups the Student’s ... activities of daily living” and “problems with occupation and activities” Wüsthoff et al BMC Psychiatry 2011, 11:93 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-244X/11/93 Page of Table Background variables of...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... version of the IPDS showed an area under the curve of 0.86 for the IPDS in relation to PDs present or absent, and the optimal cut-off value of ≥4, showed a sensitivity of 0.77 and specificity of 0.71 ... an optimal sensitivity of 69% and a specificity of 91% for the IPDS in a non-clinical sample with a PDs base rate of 35% The screening properties of a self-report version of the IPDS were evaluated ... sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 55% in their sub-sample of psychiatric patients with a base rate of 84% PDs, and somewhat poorer values in their nonpsychiatric subsample with a base rate of 44%...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 15:22

... according to the evaluated intention of self-poisoning patients; and 4) the plans for follow-up of these patients at discharge Methods Design of the study This cross- sectional multicenter study was ... Institute of Forensic Medicine This was done to obtain a complete one-year picture of all patients contacting health care services because of selfpoisoning in the capital of Norway Page of 11 This ... wellknown risk of increased mortality and their substantial number of risk factors for suicidal behavior Page 10 of 11 Acknowledgements Thanks to Professor Torbjorn Moum, Department of Behavioral...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:22

... 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 stimulant asthma medication ... 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 ... distribution of ''sense of coherence'' among Swedish adults: a quantitative crosssectional population study Scand J Public Health 2009, 38(1):1-8 Hendrikx T, Nilsson M, Westman G: Sense of coherence...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 01:21

... reaction mixture consisted of μl aliquots of genomic DNA (first reaction) or PCR-product (second reaction), 12.5 μl of HotStarTaq Master Mix (Qiagen GmbH, Germany), 10 pmol of each primer, μg bovine ... second round of amplification were purified and sent to Eurofins MWG Operon in Germany for sequencing in both directions in order to verify the presence of T foetus DNA The identity of these sequences ... Cryptosporidium 0.10, 0.34 No observations Giardia History of diarrhoea (n = 51) Diarrhoea in household (n = 48) Results based on a cross- sectional study of 52 clinically healthy cats attending cat shows...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:22

... Reed Army Institute of Research The opinions and assertions made by the authors not reflect the official position or opinion of the U.S Department of the Navy or Army, or of the respective in-country ... little scrutiny of whether exposure to a setting of greater knowledge of HIV and other blood-borne infections results in transferred knowledge among those who repatriate to their country of origin ... review boards of the Afghan Ministry of Public Health; the University of California, San Diego; the United States Naval Medical Research Unit No 3; and the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:21

... 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 Network, ... Centre of Southern Denmark, Hospital Lillebaelt Middelfart, Institute of Regional Health Research, University of Southern Denmark Part of Clinical Locomotion Network, Denmark 3Master of Science ... total of 607 questionnaires were distributed to the chiropractic clinics, and 543 questionnaires were completed between the 23rd of November and the 15 th of December 2009 Twenty-four of these...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... more often The score distribution for the independent variables was similar to the distribution of the outcomes, with the majority of children reporting the two best scores Table Distribution of ... higher degree of stomach ache (left part of Table 4), whereas receiving necessary academic help was associated with a low degree of stomach ache After multivariable adjustment (right part of Table ... cross- sectional study of self-reported internalizing and somatic symptoms among more than 400 school children, we found that perceived loneliness was strongly associated with the prevalence of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 18:21

... Right IJV cross- sectional area was greater than left IJV area in 71% of patients and was 1.5- and 2.0-times in 54% and 34% of cases, respectively Diameter and cross- sectional area of the right ... goal of this study was to validate the hypothesis that the diameter of the right IJV is greater than the left one, and secondary to determine the cross- sectional area of both IJVs The CT scan examination ... study shows that in a general population of adult patients the diameter and cross- sectional area of the right IJV were significantly greater than those of the left IJV This is an argument for...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21