Maki Nabatame1*, Katsuaki Tanaka2 , Yuichi Nishi3, Kazutake Ikenaga2, Tadashi Matsuura2, Takashi Mori2 and Kiyonobu Nishikawa2 1Department of Anesthesiology, Japan Community Health Care Organization, Hoshigaoka Medical Center, Hirakata City, Osaka, Japan 2Department of Anesthesiology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine ,Osaka City, Japan 3Department of Anesthesiology, Japan Commu...

Wireless cellular network planning benefits from accurate and realistic, yet relatively simple and manageable, spatial traffic models. User locations in cellular networks are often modeled as homogeneous (uniform) Poisson point processes (PPPs). However, the real user distributions are seldom purely homogeneous. Network users are usually concentrated at social attractors such as residential and...

BACKGROUND American Heart Association (AHA) defined 7 cardiovascular health metrics for the general population to improve cardiovascular health in 2010: not smoking; having normal blood pressure; being physically active; normal body mass index, blood glucose, and total cholesterol levels; and eating a healthy diet. To investigate trends in cardiovascular health metrics in Korea, we used data fr...

Toshio Obata1, Michiko Nakashima2 1Faculty of Health Sciences, Osaka Aoyama University, School of Nursing Niina, Mino City, Japan. 2Department of Nursing, School of Health Siences, Asahi University, 1851 Hozumi Mizuho City Gifu, Japan. Corresponding Author: Toshio Obata, Osaka Aoyama University, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Nursing Niina, Mino City, Japan.Ankara, Turkey. Tel: +81-72-73...

a Surgeon specialising in Epidemiology and Professor of Hospital Administration and Public Health, Epidemiological Surveillance Management, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, Mexico b Surgeon specialising in Epidemiology, Epidemiological Surveillance Management, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, Mexico c Surgeon specialising in Epidemiology and Professor of Public Hea...

In wireless mesh networks, the routing of packets from source to destination is crucial and challenging task. The wireless mesh networks find applications in disaster management, video on demand, intelligent, health care systems, etc. Various routing protocols exist in literature to improve the efficiency of the wireless mesh networks calculated in terms of reliability, cost, throughput, error ...

OBJECTIVES To explore whether hospitalisations for ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) are associated with low access to primary care. DESIGN Observational cohort study over 2008 to 2012 using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) databases. SETTING English primary and secondary care. PARTICIPANTS A random sample of 300 000 patients....

We assess the potential for medical liability forces to deter medical errors and improve health care treatment quality, identifying liability's influence by drawing on variations in the manner by which states formulate the negligence standard facing physicians. Using hospital discharge records from the National Hospital Discharge Survey and clinically-validated quality metrics inspired by the A...

a Surgeon specialising in Epidemiology and Professor of Hospital Administration and Public Health, Epidemiological Surveillance Management, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, Mexico b Surgeon specialising in Epidemiology, Epidemiological Surveillance Management, Mexican Social Security Institute, Mexico City, Mexico c Surgeon specialising in Epidemiology and Professor of Public Hea...