Pierre-Gerlier Forest has put forward the case that we are on the brink of a revolution in health policy that will be the result of the interplay of five factors. I would not challenge any of them but would emphasize the need to address socio-economic health inequalities, which have the potential to become a major cost driver in a time of growing economic inequality. To Dr. Forest’s list, I wou...

today, unemployment has become a major problem in national level as well as in yazd province. the presence of high unemployment has caused considerable amount of wastage of active human resources of the society which otherwise could have been used in various prosperous activities. as a result this situation may lead to poverty, corruption, unequal income distribution and other negative conseque...

AIM To describe dietary habits and potential nutritional deficiencies in black African patients diagnosed with heart failure (HF). METHODS AND RESULTS Dietary intake in 50 consecutively consenting HF patients (mean age: 47 ± 18 years, 54% female) attending a major hospital in Soweto, South Africa were surveyed using validated quantitative food frequency questionnaires. Food intakes, translate...

Institute for Research on Cancer and Aging, Nice (IRCAN), CNRS UMR 7284, INSERM U1081, University of 7 Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France. 8 Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, United Kingdom. 9 Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg 40530, Sweden 10 Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, Institut de Biologie Paris-S...

Cancer of the uterine cervix is a worldwide menace taking innumerable womens' lives. The literature is vast and a large number of studies have been conducted in this field. Analyses have shown significant differences exist in terms of screening and HPV testing facilities among high income and low to middle income countries. In addition, acute lack of awareness and knowledge among the concerned ...

Ephigraphs of Kongu Nadu has the Evidence Women’s Contribution both from Royal Family and poverty-stricken family. Though disparate regions was ruled by various kings, evidence women’s contribution is found only in Pandyas, Cheras, Cholas. However, women at peak during Chozha Period. Women Clan provisioned with ability rights to maintain rejuvenate Temples. Devaradiyarkal contributed Gold coins...

While the CPI may have overstated inflation in the mid-1990s by about one percent per year, as concluded by the Boskin Commission, it does not make sense to extrapolate that rate of bias backwards over long periods of time. The "Hulten-Bruegel paradox" shows that any such exercise in backward extrapolation yields levels of real consumption two or four centuries ago that are implausibly low, bar...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: health care organizations have begun applying six sigma methods into their operations. on the other hand, the difficulty of using indicators to compare health care providers in a meaningful way has led to an increased focus on using information about “adverse events”- that is , events that should not happen i...