profiles that are being published by different organisations (such as “health in transition”). The recent votes in France and the Netherlands against the European Constitution showed that the “democratic deficit” is not just the concern of the new member states. A democratic revolution should become an integral part of the ongoing healthcare reforms. WHO supports this process, since “participat...

Nosocomial infections have been recognized for over a century as a critical problem affecting the quality of health care and a principal source of adverse healthcare outcomes. Today, nosocomial infections affect over 2 million patients annually in the United States, at a cost in excess of $4.5 billion.1 Among all major complications of hospitalization, nosocomial infections account for 50%; the...

An increasing number of healthcare educators are using mobile learning applications, such as educational podcasts, in order to facilitate and enhance students’ learning. Ubiquitous mobile technologies are becoming more important in healthcare training because of the scarcity of educators and the increase in the number of firstand second-degree students enrolling in schools of nursing. Academic ...

With the rapid growth and increased life expectancy of the world’s population, the prevalence of chronic disorders such as Parkinson’s disease (PD) is also increasing. This challenges the current healthcare system in terms of cost and resources reallocation. An emerging approach facilitated by a new technological platform, called the Internet of Things, and the introduction of wearable devices ...

The era of personalized medicine has arrived, and with it a need for leaders in this discipline. This generation of trainees requires a cadre of new skill sets to lead the implementation of personalized medicine into mainstream healthcare. Traditional training programs no longer provide trainees with all the skills they will need to optimize implementation of this revolution now underway in med...

historical role of azerbaijan in developing of intellectual thought and revolutionary ideas before the constitutional revolution of iran (1905-1906) is certain. resistance of the people of tabriz, in the blockade of tabriz accompanied with the concrete of tehran by constitutionalists, which were from turk and shomali ethnics lead by bakhtiari lurs. thinking the constitutional revolution, this q...

Digital convergence promises to redefine the way healthcare sector operates today D igital transformation over the past decade has resulted in a major overhaul in healthcare industry. Care delivery and system performance are the areas that have best reflected transformation aided by innovation and integration. Today, as digital convergence enables the seamless integration of data, audio and vid...