INTRODUCTION In 2009, China officially launched the New Health Care Reform (NHCR). One important purpose of the reform was to reduce financial burden of health care through health insurance expansion and health care provider regulations. This study aimed to provide evidence on the effect of the NHCR reform on catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) by comparing the occurrence and inequality of CH...

the aim of this trial was to determine the toxic effect of oms-43 on spraymen and inhabitants. the spraying operation lasted for 30 successive days, and two teams consisting of 20 spraymen, 2 mixers, 4 foremen and team leaders were engaged in this operation. the operators were under systematic and closed clinical observation and cholinesterase determination (tintometric method) during the opera...

OBJECTIVES To investigate cooperation between occupational physicians (OPs) and general practitioners (GPs). METHODS Literature review; structured interviews; questionnaires sent to randomised samples of OPs (n = 232) and GPs (n = 243). RESULTS Actual cooperation is poor. However, more than 80% of both groups responded that they want to improve their cooperation, aiming at better quality of...

BACKGROUND The provision of occupational health (OH) services to the UK population is limited and concentrated in certain industries. Occupational physicians (OPs) therefore see a different subset of the population than general practitioners (GPs) and their recognition of work-related ill health may differ. AIMS To examine how reports submitted by OPs and GPs compare and to discuss how biases...

BACKGROUND For the detection of respiratory pathogens, the sampling strategy may influence the diagnostic yield. Ideally, samples from the lower respiratory tract are collected, but they are difficult to obtain. OBJECTIVES In this study, we compared the diagnostic yield in sputum and oropharyngeal samples (OPS) for the detection of respiratory pathogens in patients with community-acquired pne...

A ncw approach to on-orbit satellite sensor calibration has becJl developed using the flight of a high altitude calibrated airborne imaging spectrometer below a multi-spectral satellite sensor. This strategy was in~plcrncnted on the 27th of August 1992 for the Optical Sensor (OPS) on board the Japanese Earth Rcsourccs Satellite-1 (JERS1 ) using NASA’s Airborne Visible-Infrared lmag,ing Spectrom...

BACKGROUND Within a clinical context e-learning is comparable to traditional approaches of continuing medical education (CME). However, the occupational health context differs and until now the effect of postgraduate e-learning among occupational physicians (OPs) has not been evaluated. AIM To evaluate the effect of e-learning on knowledge on mental health issues as compared to lecture-based ...

The transcriptional regulatory protein RfaH controls expression of several operons that encode extracytoplasmic components in bacteria. Regulation by RfaH occurs during transcript elongation and depends on a 5'-proximal, transcribed nucleic acid sequence called ops that induces transcriptional pausing in vitro and in vivo. We report that RfaH recognizes RNA polymerase transcribing RfaH-regulate...

Non-specific cholinesterase (ChE) activity was demonstrated in lamellated sensory corpuscles of the rat lip by light and electron microscopy using Karnovsky and Root's method. ChE activity was present in the interlamellar spaces between neighbouring lamellae as well as in the periaxonal space between axon terminals and their adjacent lamellae. Reaction products of ChE activity were also deposit...

The transfer (accretion) of materials from a subducting oceanic plate to a subduction-accretionary complex has produced rock assemblages recording the history of the subducted oceanic plate from formation to arrival at the trench. These rock assemblages, comprising oceanic igneous rocks progressively overlain by pelagic sedimentary rocks (chert and/or limestone) and trench-fill clastic sediment...