Can We Expect to Recruit Future Engineers among Students who have Never Repaired a Toy?

Identifying belief targets to increase bone marrow registry participation among students who have never donated blood.

New members on bone marrow registries worldwide are needed to allow sufficient diversity in the donor pool to meet patient needs. We used the theory of planned behaviour belief-basis and surveyed students who had not donated blood previously (i.e. non-donors) (N = 150) about the behavioural, normative, and control beliefs informing their intentions to join the Australian Bone Marrow Donor Regis...

Population of Russia: What Can We Expect in the Future?

The paper presents the first ever demographic scenarios for the regions of Russia. Scenarios are developed for 49 ohlusts (regions), six kruys (territories), 21 republics, one autonomous oblast and two national cities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Five scenarios are considered: two optimistic scenarios, two medium scenarios and one pessimistic scenario. The scenarios are combinations of three mor...

How long can we expect to live?

Female Most developed world regions. Both sexes Least developed countries. Both sexes 1950 50.7 53.4 66.5 35.5 1955 53.9 56.8 68.5 37.7 1960 56.9 60.0 69.8 39.6 1965 59.5 62.7 70.5 41.8 1970 61.4 65.0 71.2 43.6 1975 62.9 66.8 72.2 45.2 1980 64.4 68.5 73.0 47.1 1985 65.7 70.1 74.0 49.3 1990 66.4 70.8 74.2 49.7 1995 67.0 71.4 74.9 52.6 Source: World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision. United...

Perception of cervical cancer screening among Japanese university students who have never had a pap smear: a qualitative study.

This study aimed to explore attitudes towards cervical cancer screening among Japanese university students who had never had a Pap smear. Four focus-group discussions, each with 15 female university students, took place in November and December 2009. Discussions were recorded and transcripts were analyzed to extract attitudes of young women towards cervical cancer screening. The four themes tha...

Coronary angioplasty--what can we reasonably expect?