1412. Predictors of First-Year Medication Adherence in a National Cohort of Veterans Initiating Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) to Prevent HIV Infection Michael Ohl, MD, MSPH; Kelly Richardson, PhD; Brice Beck, MA; Bruce Alexander, PharmD; Puja Van Epps, MD; Marissa Maier, MD; Brian Lund, PharmD and Mary Vaughan-Sarrazin, PhD; Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Un...

The Healthy Cities Project (HCP) builds on the WHO definition of health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well being and has become an important WHO vehicle for promoting Health For All strategy at a local level. One of the requirements to be designated a “Healthy City” is to produce a City Health Profile (CHP), bringing together key information on health and its determinants....

This report considers the technical features of smart cards and how they affect the way in which smart cards might be used in the health sector. This is an important issue since the government has highlighted smart cards as a likely means of improving patients' access to the NHS. We seek to contribute to the debate by undertaking a review of the technology and predicting technical development o...

For E-HEALTH initiatives in Uttarakhand the proposed EHEALTH service model may allow better sharing of health information among multiple government departments, locally as well as at a distant location. But without coordination of different departments in Uttarakhand we cannot setup good ehealth solutions. Priorities of Uttarakhand government for providing E-HEALTH facilities to rural areas are...

The subject of church health and its deteriorating condition has taken center-stage in leadership discourse across the world. A decline a negative implications not only on sustainability but also wider society owing to role as moral custodian society. An argument been advanced extant scholarship that transformational is suitable for guiding religious organizations. However, most studies this fr...

Standard interpretations of the history of public health in New York City in the twentieth century describe either the decline or the growth of the importance accorded to public health activities. To the contrary, public health has, paradoxically, both declined in salience and attracted increasing resources. This article describes the politics of public health in New York City since the 1920s. ...

Performance metrics for public transport systems can be calculated from automatic vehicle location (AVL) data but data collection subsystems can introduce errors into the data which would invalidate these calculations, giving rise to misleading conclusions. In this paper we present a range of methods for visualising and validating AVL data before performance metrics are computed. We illustrate ...

The rapid urbanization of African cities is one amongst other composite challenges hindering Africa’s objective to provide stable socio-economic development and delivery of quality livelihood for its citizens and visitors at large. The establishment of Smart City initiatives in African cities is meant to improve the quality of lives of the residents of those cities. Information and communicatio...

The built environment (BE) has emerged as one of the 'first causes' of chronic disease, capable of explaining its socio-spatial variation. There is an increasing need spatial modelling for objective, detailed and precise measurements of attributes of BE that may influence our lifestyle, behaviour and hence physical and mental health. The talk will report the UK Biobank Urban Morphometric Platfo...

this paper surveys parallel scheduling problems and metrics correlated to and then applys metrics to make decision in comparison to other policy schedulers. parallel processing is new trend in computer science especially in embedded and multicore systems whereas needs more power consumption to reach speed up. the qos requirement for users is to have good responsiveness and for service providers...