Demographic trends indicate that a growing segment of families is exposed to adversity such as poverty, drug use problems, caregiver transitions, and domestic violence. Although these risk processes and the accompanying poor outcomes for children have been well studied, little is known about why some children develop resilience in the face of such adversity, particularly when it is severe enoug...

BACKGROUND In 2009 the ISPO team conducted an analysis of the student performance at Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Sciences (PIPOS) and concluded the situation 'unsatisfactory'. This study aims to explore the opinions of the current students regarding the nature of the classroom learning climate at PIPOS. METHODS This survey was carried out in 2010 at PIPOS, Peshawar. The data...

taminated water; however, he is quick to point out that experimental subjects have been fed cholera vibrio organisms without developing disease. There are many factors needed, other than the causative organism, to effect an epidemic. Dr. Dubos casts his lot with the forces of Hygeia, preventive medicine, rather than those of Asclepius, curative medicine, as those which have the greater achievem...

This paper elaborates the Ayurvedic perspective on preventive medicine in children, with specific reference to vaccination. It explores alternative approaches to boost immunity in children.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether rewording postal reminder cards according to the "health belief model", a theory about preventive health behaviour, would help to improve measles vaccination rates. DESIGN A randomised controlled trial, with blind assessment of outcome status. Parents of children due for their first measles vaccination were randomised to one of two groups, one receiving the heal...

The Consortium for Educational Access, Transitions and Equity (CREATE) is a Research Programme Consortium supported by the UK Department for International Development (DFID). Its purpose is to undertake research designed to improve access to basic education in developing countries. It seeks to achieve this through generating new knowledge and encouraging its application through effective commun...

We examined the association between meteorological (weather) conditions in a given locale and pedestrian trips frequency and duration, through the use of locative digital data. These associations were determined for seasonality, urban microclimate, and commuting. We analyzed GPS data from a broadly available activity tracking mobile phone application that automatically recorded 247,814 trips fr...

This paper describes a telemonitoring system that allows the examination of preventive-medicine subjects in daily routines. The system combines the acquisition of different physiological data and the subjective workload of the subjects. A mobile handheld/smart phone depicts the data node of the afield system part and organises the data flow of the sensor system and integrated questionnaires. It...

This is a most admirable and important little book, which should be read by every officer in the military medical services in India. It deals with the bad old days, the present, and the future; whilst it will also be of considerable interest to the civilian practitioner. Practically speaking it is an essay on preventive medicine in the Army in India, and its most valuable feature is that the au...