CME (continuing medical education) is a key concept of national strategies in health. A study was undertaken of the current knowledge and continuing future training requirements of nurses, Inspectors CME to inform policy to meet national goals of healthcare. Questionnaire distributed to nurses, pharmacist, doctors and health inspectors in rural hospital who practice Traditional Indian Medicine ...

were passing meat inspection. Meat inspectors were requested to submit lymph nodes that appeared abnormal as to size, color, or consistency. A total of 2843 dairy animals3 and 6791 beef animals was inspected on collection days. Lymph nodes were submitted from 736 cattle. Four dairy cattle were found to have malignant lymphoma following the histopathologic study. Two of these cows with extensive...

Although there exists a multitude of diierent inspection processes, the basic process has remained unchanged since it was rst deened by Fagan in 1976. This process has as its central component an inspection meeting which all participants attend. But is this meeting cost eeective? Recent empirical work has indicated this is not the case. An inspection model and prototype tool that dispense total...

We propose a game theoretic model for the spatial distribution of inspectors on a transportation network. The problem is to spread out the controls so as to enforce the payment of a transit toll. We formulate a linear program to find the control distribution which maximizes the expected toll revenue, and a mixed integer program for the problem of minimizing the number of evaders. Furthermore, w...

BACKGROUND In a low-income country like Bangladesh, where the poverty rate is higher in rural compared to urban areas, the consistent use of sanitary latrines over time is a challenge. To address this issue, the Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) program of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC) was devised to improve health of the rural poor through enhanced sanitation services, ...

Until recently, few water utilities or researchers were aware of possible virus presence in deep aquifers and wells. During 2008 and 2009 we collected a time series of virus samples from six deep municipal water-supply wells. The wells range in depth from approximately 220 to 300 m and draw water from a sandstone aquifer. Three of these wells draw water from beneath a regional aquitard, and thr...