Will the Australian nuclear medicine technologist workforce meet anticipated health care demands?

Epidemiology for the nuclear medicine technologist.

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to introduce the nuclear medicine technologist to the field of epidemiology. There are many applications of epidemiology in nuclear medicine, including research studies that deal with the causes of disease or ways to prevent disease from occurring and investigating the possible effects of ionizing radiation on occupational workers and the general public....

Is Denmark prepared to meet future health care demands?

The predominantly tax-based Danish health care system has traditionally been highly decentralised politically, financially and operationally; public regional and local authorities are responsible for the provision and delivery of health care services. The system has also been characterised by strict expenditure controls and a high level of patient satisfaction.1 One consequence of decentralisat...

Why compensating fibre nonlinearity will never meet capacity demands

Current research efforts are focussed on overcoming the apparent limits of communication in single mode optical fibre resulting from distortion due to fibre nonlinearity. It has been experimentally demonstrated that this Kerr nonlinearity limit is not a fundamental limit; thus it is pertinent to review where the fundamental limits of optical communications lie, and direct future research on thi...

Policy brief: North Dakota Health Care Workforce: planning together to meet future health care needs.

Commentary The Australian preventive health agenda : what will this mean for workforce development ?

The formation of the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission (NHHRC) and the National Preventative Task Force in 2008, demonstrate a renewed Australian Government commitment to health reform. The re-focus on prevention, bringing it to the centre of health care has significant implications for health service delivery in the primary health care setting, supportive organisational structure...