OBJECTIVES To assess the current public participation in-local health policy and its implications through the analysis of policy networks in health center programs. METHODS We examined the decision-making process in sub-health center installations and the implementation process in metabolic syndrome management program cases in two districts ('gu's) of Seoul. Participants of the policy network...

INTRODUCTION Despite increased visibility of clinical trials through international trial registries, patients often remain uninformed of their existence, especially if they do not have access to adequate information about clinical research, including the language of the information. The aim of this study was to describe the context for transparency of clinical trials in Croatia in relation to c...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of the Patient Reporting and Action for a Safe Environment intervention. DESIGN A multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING Clusters were 33 hospital wards within five hospitals in the UK. PARTICIPANTS All patients able to give informed consent were eligible to take part. Wards were allocated to the intervention or control condition. INT...

With the rapid development of the waste incineration industry in China, top priority has been given to the problem of pollution caused by waste incineration. This study is the first attempt to assess all the waste incineration plants in Wuhan, the only national key city in central China, in terms of environmental impact, site selection, public health and public participation. By using a multi-c...

e-governance is related to the use of approprairte technology for increasing public relation that promotes democratic declaration of oponion and human independence, supporting of economical development & delivering services failry & efficiently. in order to achieve the aim in the it age, public institutions constrained to have digital portals. these portals should be privacy respected, devilver...

OBJECTIVE Question Prompt Lists (QPLs) have been used extensively in the oncology setting to improve communication, psychological and/or cognitive outcomes. In this systematic review, the objectives were to (a) examine the methodological quality of QPL interventions, (b) review the effectiveness of QPL interventions on communication, psychological and/or cognitive outcomes of cancer patients, (...

OBJECTIVE To review the literature on the involvement of patients in efforts to promote their own or others' safety while using health care services. METHOD A total of 1933 reports were identified as potentially relevant and 745 of these were included in the review (437 descriptions of interventions, 299 comment or opinion pieces and 42 discussions or studies of patients' willingness and abil...

This exploratory study examines the impact of ending the military draft on U.S. voter turnout from 1960 through 2006. After allowing for a number of variables, including the unemployment rate, unionization, the female labor force participation rate, per capita real GDP, and Presidential approval ratings, compelling evidence is found that ending the military draft in the U.S. may have acted in a...

About at the break of sixties and seventies of this century the first functional and publicly used information system developed from originally experimental and non commercial applications of computer technology in storing and retrieval of document records. At the beginning these were mostly parallel editions of bibliographies in both printed and magnetic format. Thus developed on one hand data...

In the economical caching problem, an online algorithm is given a sequence of prices for a certain commodity. The algorithm has to manage a buffer of fixed capacity over time. We assume that time proceeds in discrete steps. In step i, the commodity is available at price ci ∈ [α, β], where β > α ≥ 0 and ci ∈ N. One unit of the commodity is consumed per step. The algorithm can buy this unit at th...