Background:Inappropriate lifestyle can lead to the development of diseases in elderly. Although education contributes to the improvement of lifestyle, finding a cost-effective education method is important. Aims: The present research was aimed at comparison of the effects of group and family-centered education methods on elderly lifestyle. Settings and design: This research was carried out in...

This article reports the results from a study conducted among medical students at the University of Antioquia. Its aim was to assess the impact of family home visits that favored the processes of comprehensive training through meaningful learning. This was a qualitative-interpretative case study with systematization, using the following instruments: interviews, surveys, focus groups, document a...

Expanding access to office-based medication-assisted treatment with buprenorphine/naloxone for opioid dependence is a key part of the national strategy to address the opioid abuse epidemic (1). However, as buprenorphine/naloxone prescribing increased, emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations for unsupervised ingestions by young children began to increase, with buprenorphine/naloxon...

Zoroastrian Women in Temples: Places of Worship the Perspective Zoroastrians Diaspora USA In this article, I approach issue temple visits by women living USA. analysed field material terms motivations and circumstances these visits. The analysis showed that visit both Zarathushtrian places worship immediate area, as well those located further away, including their old homelands, although they v...

conclusions based on the results of this research, it seems that allocating public resources in the form of providing health insurance or government subsidies can decline financial burden of drugs on patients. results the results showed that the estimated effects of sub-specialist visits tariff and general physician visits tariff on the drug demand were positive but not significant (p > 0.05) a...

Introduction The Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County (FDOHHillsborough) conducts enhanced syndromic surveillance on a daily basis. The Electronic Surveillance System for the Early Notification of Community-based Epidemics in Florida (ESSENCE-FL) is the syndromic surveillance system used by epidemiologists within the Florida Department of Health (FDOH). During the time of this st...

Biweekly field visits starting from January to the end of April 2011 were conducted to tomato fields (open and plastic houses) heavily infested with the tomato borer Tuta absoluta, in order to survey natural enemies associated with this pest. Three hemipterans were found: Orius albidipennis, Orius sp. (Anthocoridae) and Nesidiocoris tenuis (Miridae). In addition, the parasitic wasp Bracon (Habr...

Since the 1970's, a large number of individual field studies of diverse irrigation systems have been completed in Nepal. Some of these studies were undertaken by masters or doctoral students and are based on extensive periods of time in the field. Others were written on the basis of shorter periods in the field: rapid rural appraisals, brief reports, and field-site visits by expatriate advisors...

Longitudinal survey data from a panel of married women in Bangladesh is used to estimate the impact of a social network approach to family planning field worker communication and to test a theoretical model of behavior change that explains why women adopt modern contraceptives. Government field workers were trained to organize group discussions with women in the homes of opinion leaders located...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that reduced antenatal care packages or prenatal care managed by providers other than obstetricians for low risk women can be as effective as standard models of antenatal care. OBJECTIVES The objective of this review was to assess the effects of antenatal care programmes for low-risk women. SEARCH STRATEGY We searched the Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Gr...