a Immunodeficiency Clinic, Karl Bremer Hospital, Room 12, Outpatient building, Bellville, 7530, South Africa b Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada and Epidemiology for Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium Division of Dermatology, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Hospital, Parow, South Africa Division of Anatomical ...

Canada Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Atmospheric Sciences Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Building 815E,...

1 UKK Institute for Health Promotion Research, 33501 Tampere, Finland 2Department of Children and Families, National Health and Welfare Institute, 00271 Helsinki, Finland 3 R. Samuel McLaughlin Foundation-Exercise and Pregnancy Lab, 3-M Centre, The University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada N6A 3K7 4Georgetown University, Research Building, Room E407, 3970 Reservoir Road, NW, Washington,...

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...

OBJECTIVE To assess cost-effectiveness of conventional cytology and HPV DNA testing for cervical-cancer screening in Colombia. MATERIAL AND METHODS The National Cancer Institute of Colombia (NCIC) in 2007 developed a Markov model on the natural history of cervical cancer; no screening, conventional cytology, and HPV DNA testing were compared. Only direct costs were used. Outcomes comprise cer...

in recent years, seismic evaluation and vulnerability of the existing buildings, that have been designed based on an earlier seismic design code or designed without seismic design criteria, has been very important. in this paper, the seismic evaluation and vulnerability of concrete buildings, using an old 5- story building with shear walls as an example has been discussed. for this building, fi...