BACKGROUND Smoking is the main preventable lifestyle-related risk factor threatening human health. In this study, time trends in smoking behaviour between 1996 and 2005 among adolescents enrolled in secondary school were assessed. METHODS In 1996, 2001 and 2005, a survey was conducted in the south-eastern region of the Netherlands. All students in second and fourth year of secondary education...

Very little information exist on lake environment in Northern Cameroon. The objective of this study is to determine the colonisation plant Lake Dang using field and remote sensing data from LM, Landsat5, Landsat7 Landsat8 images, over a 45-year period (1975-2020), spaced 15 years apart (1975; 1990; 2005; 2020). method diachronic analysis satellite was used supervised classification approach bas...

This article presents some guidelines for organizing the working process in Primary Health Care (PHC) and Family Health Strategy (FHS) concerning the challenges of providing access and balancing the everyday healthcare services activities which includes health promotion and prevention of diseases, as well as access for those suffering ill-health. Firstly, it addresses some specific ideas about ...

Urbanization has contributed significantly to global warming. Kuching city grown rapidly in recent years as a result of favourable socioeconomic, political, and physical factors that will undoubtedly affect the urban climate environment. Landsat Thematic Mapper (ETM+) imagery from 2005, 2010, 2016, 2017 was used determine heat island effect by examining relationship between land-use changes lan...

BACKGROUND Dialysis-requiring acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with substantial mortality and risk of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). Despite considerable growth in incidence of severe AKI, information pertaining to trends in outcomes remains limited. We evaluated time trends in one year risks of ESRD and death in patients with dialysis-requiring AKI over an eight year period in Denmark....