The IHUs: a stimulating perspective for development in French-speaking countries

Health Priorities in French-Speaking Swiss Cantons

In Switzerland, the federal authorities, the cantons, and the communes share the responsibility of healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion policies. Yet, the cantons are in most health matters independent in their decisions, thus defining as a matter of fact their own health priorities. We examined and analysed the content of the disease prevention and health promotion plans elabora...

Infant Development: Perspectives from German Speaking Countries

Infant Development: Perspectives from German Speaking Countries

Theoretical considerations Empathy from a cognitivistic viewpoint According to current understanding empathy is an experience in which people participate in or share the emotional state of somebody else on the basis of this person's expression and/or their situation. The emphasis on the emotional dimension expressed in this definition is rather new. Under Piagetian influence, empathy was more o...

Decisions concerning potentially life-sustaining treatments in paediatric nephrology: a multicentre study in French-speaking countries.

BACKGROUND Few studies have looked at how decisions are made to withhold or to withdraw potentially life-sustaining treatments (LST) in paediatric nephrology. The aim of this work was to evaluate such practices in all nephrology centres in French-speaking European countries, so that guidelines could be discussed and drawn up by professionals. METHODS We used semi-directed interviews to questi...

a time-series analysis of the demand for life insurance in iran

با توجه به تجزیه و تحلیل داده ها ما دریافتیم که سطح درامد و تعداد نمایندگیها باتقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه مستقیم دارند و نرخ بهره و بار تکفل با تقاضای بیمه عمر رابطه عکس دارند