TOWARDS SAFER ROADS IN PUTRAJAYA THROUGH COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMME

Community-Based disaster risk Management towards Sustainable Development

Background and Purpose:With the rise of natural disasters, different societies have continually sought to discover solutions to control or minimize the damage caused by unexpected events and to actually manage disasters. In the past few decades, the need for social participation to reduce disasters has increased. The community-based disaster  risk management framework is growing. Therefore, thi...

Towards Safer Spreadsheets!

Professional programmers are well aware that debugging, testing, code inspection, etc. are part and parcel of software development. Requiring end users to carry out the same activities to reduce spreadsheet errors might be asking too much. For one thing, they lack the expertise and for another, they might not be willing to invest the time and effort required by these activities. For example, te...

Delivering safer roads – the Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales model

The New South Wales (NSW) Government has identified road safety as one of its key State Plan priorities. The Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales (RTA) has been nominated as the lead agency for this priority. This presented the RTA with an important opportunity to reduce the State’s road toll even further. A new focus was introduced for the RTA to take up the challenges and priorities...

Community Based Skilled Birth Attendants Programme in Bangladesh; Intervention towards Improving Maternal Health

Multimorbidity in patients enrolled in a community-based methadone maintenance treatment programme delivered through primary care

BACKGROUND Multimorbidity, the co-existence of two or more (2+) long-term conditions in an individual, is common among problem drug abusers. OBJECTIVE To delineate the patterns, multimorbidity prevalence, and disease severity in patients enrolled in a community-based primary care methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programme. DESIGN This was a retrospective cohort study (n=274). The compa...