Health Surveillance: Changing Needs, Constant Function

Changing Technologies with a Constant Goal:Finding Out How Plants Function.

long-distance transport, root-shoot relationships, plant-water relations, and carbon partitioning now use more sophisticated methodologies (fluorescent dye movement, pressure probes, and transgenic plants) than were used in the past. The field of stress physiology overlaps with a11 other fields, including biochemistry, cell biology, signal transduction, and developmental biology. 4. Cell biolog...

Transforming medical professionalism to fit changing health needs

BACKGROUND The professional organization of medical work no longer reflects the changing health needs caused by the growing number of complex and chronically ill patients. Key stakeholders enforce coordination and remove power from the medical professions in order allow for these changes. However, it may also be necessary to initiate basic changes to way in which the medical professionals work ...

Occupational therapy: cost-effective solutions for changing health system needs.

Evidence shows occupational therapy interventions are cost-effective in treating or preventing injury and improving health outcomes in areas such as falls prevention, musculoskeletal injury, stroke rehabilitation, early intervention in developmental disabilities, respiratory rehabilitation and home care. Additional research indicates opportunities for occupational therapy to play an increased r...

Refugees in Australia: Changing faces, changing needs.

he profile of refugees being resettled in Australia depends on global geopolitical conflicts, representations from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to the Australian Government, and Australia' s response. Recent years have seen an enormous shift within Australia's annual refugee intake, with 70% originating from countries in sub-Saharan Africa. 1 The Australian Government requi...

Gynecologic Oncology : Changing Scenario , Changing Needs