In 2003, the NSW Department of Health, in conjunction with the 17 area health services, completed the second year of the NSW Continuous Health Survey, an ongoing survey of the health of people in NSW using computerassisted telephone interviewing (CATI). The main aims of the NSW Continuous Health Survey are to provide detailed information on the health of the people of NSW, and to support the pl...

in this study 495 smallholder dairy farms in 52 villages of different township in southwestern province of iran (chaharmohal and bakhtiari province) included 1321 lactating cows and 2811 total mature cows (lactating and dry) during winter 2009 to summer 2010 were used to estimate economic opportunities insmallholder dairy farms. questionnaire survey was used to collect data from last year infor...

OBJECTIVES To estimate the social costs of occupational asthma in the UK. METHODS A desk-top approach using cost-of-illness methodology was employed, defining direct and indirect lifetime costs for six scenarios: a male and a female worker each exposed to isocyanates, latex and biocides (eg, glutaraldehyde) or flour. The numbers of new cases annually in each industry were estimated from Surve...

During the last decade, the explosive growth of information technologies led to a shift in the market and economic view of the society: communication and knowledge sharing became the new economic stakes. But everyone speaks his own language, with his own terms and meanings. Ontologies seem to be one of the most suitable solutions faced with this problem and have become a very popular research t...

Pacific Economic Bulletin Volume 20 Number 3 2005 © Asia Pacific Press This article seeks to determine the short to mediumterm impact of EU Sugar Protocol reforms on Fiji’s sugar industry. The expected impact on the livelihoods of sugarcane producers, the area remaining under cane, sugar cane output and sugar production are derived under various price scenarios using industry census production ...

BACKGROUND We evaluated historical trends in the Staphylococcus aureus infection rate, economic burden, and mortality in US hospitals from 1998 through 2003. METHODS The Nationwide Inpatient Sample was used to assess trends over time of S. aureus infection during 1998-2003. Historical trends were determined for 5 strata of hospital stays, including all inpatient stays, surgical procedure stay...