To promote use of essential clinical preventive services, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene developed the Public Health Detailing Program, a primary care provider outreach initiative modeled on pharmaceutical detailing. Department representatives conducted topical campaigns, making unscheduled visits to health care practices and meeting with providers and office staff me...

Secret filming reveals conditions inside Harmondsworth immigration detention centre for the first time, where hundreds of people face deportation. The footage was shot by a detainee and obtained by Corporate Watch as part of a five month investigation into Mitie, the outsourcing firm that took over Harmondsworth in September 2014 under a multi-million pound Home Office contract. The videos, som...

Secret filming reveals conditions inside Harmondsworth immigration detention centre for the first time, where hundreds of people face deportation. The footage was shot by a detainee and obtained by Corporate Watch as part of a five month investigation into Mitie, the outsourcing firm that took over Harmondsworth in September 2014 under a multi-million pound Home Office contract. The videos, som...

0020-0255/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Inc doi:10.1016/j.ins.2011.08.026 ⇑ Corresponding authors. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (C. Porcel) decsai.ugr.es (E. Herrera-Viedma). Recommender systems could be used to help users in their access processes to relevant information. Hybrid recommender systems represent a promising solution for multiple applications. In this paper we propose a hy...

» The author's unique practice arrangement allows him to keep his patient panel relatively On Feb. 26, 2001, after nearly a decade of salaried practice within a large organization, I opened a solo office with no support staff and just 150 square feet. I took this radical step because I believe our current health care system is so deeply flawed that incremental improvements to current practice c...

CONTEXT Policy development is recognized as a core function of public health and a core competency in formal public health education. However, relatively little is known nationally about worker perceptions and competencies related to policy development in the governmental public health workforce. OBJECTIVE To characterize perceived importance and presence or absence of competency gaps related...

BACKGROUND In the United States, influenza vaccination is recommended for all children 6 months and older; however, vaccination rates are below target levels. A broad sample of U.S. pediatric offices was assessed to determine factors that influence in-office influenza vaccination rates. METHODS Offices (N = 174) were recruited to participate in an observational study over three influenza seas...