Alberta to seek recovery of health costs associated with criminal activity

Alberta to seek recovery of health costs associated with criminal activity.

Factors Associated with Postmenopausal Women’s Decisions to Seek Treatment for Urinary Incontinence

Urinary incontinence (UI) is highly prevalent crossculturally and also a costly chronic condition (1), with high prevalence among postmenopausal women (2). International Continence Society defined UI as any complaint about involuntary urine leakage (3). UI significantly affects patients (4); avoiding its treatment might have physical, psychosocial, and economic consequences (5), and finally dec...

BRICS seek value for money as health-care costs rise.

South Africa has set itself the goal of providing universal coverage of health-care services by 2025, with its National Health Insurance system that is being rolled out over 14 years. The challenges are familiar in other low and middle-income countries that have set themselves similar ambitious goals. For Malebona Precious Matsoso, the director-general of the South African National Department o...

Latent Classes of Criminal Intent Associated with Criminal Behaviour

Background: This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal intent that exist among prisoners and to look at the associations with recidivism, number of police arrests, type of offending (robbery, violent offences, murder, and multiple offences), and age. Participants and Procedure: Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous subgroups of prisoners based on their...

Health officials seek ways to halt AIDS.

On 4 January the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) convened a workshop a t its Atlanta headquarters to assess the options for halting the spread of the new disease called acquired immunodeficien­ cy syndrome o r , more commonly, AIDS. The main topic of discussion was the possibility that the disease, which may kill u p to 70 percent of the patients within 2 years of diagnosis, might b e spread ...