One alternative health device! A methodological proposal to analyze research projects’ orientation towards national health problems

"Medicover": a proposal for national health insurance.

Health research: need for a methodological revolution?

The polarization of research ideologies into two camps, qualitative versus quantitative, has been commented on by a number of authors. One of the more recent contributions to this debate comes from the journal Addiction in which McKeganey (1995) discusses the divide between the two underlying philosophies and concludes that this divide no longer serves a useful function. He then discusses a num...

International Health Problems Related to Alcohol Abuse

The harmful use of alcohol inflicts great deal of social and economic losses on individuals and societies. Given the increase in world population and the predicted increase in alcohol consumption, the alcohol related burden of disease progressively catches higher ranks in the list of factors threatening humans' life. It has been considered that the social and economic burden related to alcohol ...

A Survey of Barriers to Health Research Promotion

Background and Objectives: High performance research activity in the health domain is crucial to overcoming ever-growing health-related problems. Despite availability of data sources, only a limited number of researchers use these data to derive health-related information. Thus, the present study aimed at exploring the barriers to research promotion as perceived by the university health researc...

Methodological proposal for occupational health and safety actions in research laboratories with nanotechnologies activities.

Nanotechnologies is a multidisciplinary set of techniques to manipulate matter on nanoscale level, more precisely particles below 100 nm whose characteristic due to small size is essentially different from those found in macro form materials. Regarding to these new properties of the materials there are knowledge gaps about the effects of these particles on human organism and the environment. Al...