Tackling Addiction with Integrated Care

Tackling diabetes with a trans-disciplinary integrated scientific approach

Tackling Automotive Challenges with an Integrated RE & Design Artifact Model

The automotive industry faces the need for large and complex embedded systems. The original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) assign the development of subsystems to suppliers. Therefore they are confronted with many challenges concerning specification, documentation, and integration until start of production (SOP). A major part of these challenges can be tackled with continuous and integrated mod...

Primary care and collaboration with addiction counselors.

According to the results of the 2007 National Physician Survey (NPS), 4.8% of FPs in Canada estimate that 10% or more of their practice populations have problems with substance addiction. Substance addiction has a substantial effect on the rates of morbidity, mortality, and health care use in Canada.1 Kahan et al2 recently demonstrated that a shared care model for treating patients with addicti...

Tackling Large-Scale Home Health Care Delivery Problem with Uncertainty

In this work, we investigate a multi-period Home Health Care Scheduling Problem (HHCSP) under stochastic service and travel times. We first model the deterministic problem as an integer linear programming model that incorporates real-world requirements, such as time windows, continuity of care, workload fairness, inter-visit temporal dependencies. We then extend the model to cope with uncertain...

Tackling infectious diseases in primary care.

About MFP The Malaysian Family Physician is the official journal of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia. It is published three times a year. Circulation: The journal is distributed free of charge to all members of the Academy of Family Physicians of Malaysia. Complimentary copies are also sent to other organisations that are members of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA). ...