SHARI’A CONTESTED : Public Opinions in Kompas and Republika 2000-2004

Trends in Internet information behavior, 2000-2004

By 2000, the Internet became an information and communication medium that was integrated in our everyday lives. Following an interdisciplinary approach, the research reported in this article analyzes the wide variety of information that people seek on the Internet and investigates trends in Internet information activities between 2000 and 2004, using repeated cross-sectional data from the Pew I...

Public opinions about participating in health research.

OBJECTIVES Privacy legislation has limited options for recruiting subjects to health studies. Policy changes are motivated by assumptions about public attitudes towards participation, yet surveys of attitudes have rarely been done. We investigated public willingness to participate in health research and how willingness was affected by various factors. METHODS A survey of adults randomly selec...

Alcohol attributable hospitalisations and costs in Ireland, 2000-2004.

The aim of this study was to calculate the number and costs of hospital bed-days due to alcohol use in Ireland over the five year period 2000 to 2004. Age and sex specific Irish alcohol-attributable-fractions (AAFs) were developed by combining international risk estimates with Irish consumption data where available; where not available international AAFs were used. These were applied to nationa...

Changes in economic conditions and health insurance coverage, 2000-2004.

Between 2000 and 2004, the number of uninsured Americans increased by six million, primarily because of a decline in employer-sponsored insurance. All of the increase occurred among adults, for whom the drop in employer coverage was not offset by an increase in public coverage. The number of uninsured children fell slightly. About two-thirds of the growth in the uninsured was among Americans be...

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