Admission or Observation? Population Health Is Here

Pnm-18: Is There Relation between Newborns'Sex and NICU Admission or Mode of Delivery?

Background: Newborns’ health is one of the important indexes in health services. The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between newborns' sex and rate of admission at NICU and mode of delivery. Materials and Methods: This descriptive and analytic study was confirmed on 492 newborn that was admitted to NICU of Rouhani Hospital of Babol University from March 2012 to 2013. Data ...

Electronic Music Is Here to Stay – or Is It ?

Musical composers frequently make use of new technologies in instrumentation. Whilst orchestral traditions remain strong and the instruments viable, what of the works of composers of electronic music where the sound sources have fallen into disrepair, obsolescence, or modern technology has changed the sound so that it bears no relation to the original? Beyond collections of manuscripts and reco...

What is population health?

Population health is a relatively new term that has not yet been precisely defined. Is it a concept of health or a field of study of health determinants? We propose that the definition be "the health outcomes of a group of individuals, including the distribution of such outcomes within the group," and we argue that the field of population health includes health outcomes, patterns of health dete...

Emergency department visits for heart failure and subsequent hospitalization or observation unit admission.

BACKGROUND Treatment of acute heart failure in the emergency department (ED) or observation unit is an alternative to hospitalization. Both ED management and observation unit management have been associated with reduced costs and may be used to avoid penalties related to rehospitalizations. The purpose of this study was to examine trends in ED visits for heart failure and disposition following ...

Seafarer medicals: population health or private gain?