Digital Image Data Management / 23 G eeral D iagostic R adlogy The American College of Radiology, with more than 30,000 members, is the principal organization of radiologists, radiation oncologists, and clinical medical physicists in the United States. The College is a nonprofit professional society whose primary purposes are to advance the science of radiology, improve radiologic services to t...

Intimate partner violence (IPV) can be defined in many ways and encompasses many different types of physical and emotional abuse. IPV affects the health, safety, and quality of life for women, men, and children worldwide, regardless of race, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status. The health effects include acute trauma; a wide range of physical and mental sequelae; and, for some, death. B...

Dento-alveolar trauma and congenital absences are the most important causes of edentulism that are not associated with bacteria. However, the World Health Organization reports show that dental caries and periodontitis, two conditions of bacterial origin, are the most frequent oral diseases in humans [1]. These conditions might be avoided if an adequate oral preventive health policy is implement...

Dominance hierarchies occur in numerous social species, and rank within them can greatly influence the quality of life of an animal. In this review, I consider how rank can also influence physiology and health. I first consider whether it is high- or low-ranking animals that are most stressed in a dominance hierarchy; this turns out to vary as a function of the social organization in different ...

Childhood obesity is a rapidly growing public health problem in developing countries. World Health Organization estimated that in 2010, of 43 million overweight/obese children worldwide, about 35 million of them were living in developing countries. In this chapter we will present case studies on what is happening in Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and China, the developing countries in the Southea...

The study was conducted to identify the environmental component in development of agrotourism and its impact on psychological state society COVID-19 pandemic. experience European countries shows environmental, economic, social benefits agrotourism. methodological basis is general scientific methods cognition processes (analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification) together with sociologi...

this study attempts to compare and highlight the major differences between international accounting standards (ias) and international financial reporting standards (ifrs) with national accounting standards (nas) in one of the developing nations, iran. over the past two decades, the iranian accounting standards setter, audit organization, has decided to eliminate the differences between ifrs and...

Community-based initiatives (CBI) are based on integrated multisectoral socioeconomic development with community participation and intersectoral support to improve the health and quality of life of the people. During 2005-06 the World Health Organization supported an evaluation of CBI in the Islamic Republic of Iran by collecting information from intervention villages on social capital and othe...

Researchers have identified at least 80 different autoimmune diseases that affect at least 23.5 million Americans. The American Autoimmune Related Diseases Association, a nonprofit health agency whose mission is to eradicate autoimmune diseases and alleviate the suffering and the socioeconomic impact, believes both of these numbers may be too low and estimates there may be as many as 140 differ...

Young people currently comprise a larger proportion of the world’s population than ever before, including in lowand middle-income countries (LMICs). The World Health Organization defines young people as those between ages 10 and 24, and includes in its definition the sub-groups, adolescents (ages 10 to 19) and youth (ages 15 to 24). While the definitions sometimes vary between organizations and...