In 2010 in the US, there were 4.7 million childbearing age (15-44 years) women with disabilities (WWD) defined as, being limited in any way in any activities because of physical, mental, or emotional problems. Although their proportion and pregnancy rates are growing, there is little empirical evidence about their health, healthcare needs, pregnancy experiences and outcomes. We examined differe...

Disease in Rio Grande do Sul-Brazil: A Comparative Analysis between 2002 and 2014 Iseu Gus1, Rodrigo Antonini Ribeiro2, Sérgio Kato1,4,5, Juliano Bastos2 ̧ Claudio Medina3, Claudio Zazlavsky1, Vera Lucia Portal1, Rita Timmers1, Melissa Medeiros Markoski1, Carlos Antônio Mascia Gottschall1 Instituto de Cardiologia do Rio Grande do Sul Fundação Universitária de Cardiologia1; Universidade Federal d...

A modeling effort has been conducted in order to determine which vital rates are most important in determining the growth and sustainability of cetacean populations. An analysis of the elasticity and sensitivity of cetacean matrix population models suggests that: 1) Most whale populations appear to be most sensitive to changes in adult female survival and least sensitive to calf survival; 2) Mo...

The importance of submerged aquatlc macrophytes to coastal ecosystems has generated a need for knowledge of minlmum l ~ g h t levels that wlll support the ma~n tenance and restoration of healthy populations Our goals were (1) to evaluate the s e n s ~ t ~ v ~ t y to natural, non-sinusoidal fluctuatlons in irradiance I of analytical integration techniques for calculating daily carbon gain (2) to...

BACKGROUND Living with patients of chronic diseases such as heart failure (HF) is a difficult situation for the caregivers. This study explored the Iranian family caregivers' burden of caregiving for patients with HF. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eighteen family caregivers of the HF patients from two governmental medical training centers in Isfahan, Iran were recruited using purposive sampling. Data...

This study performs a comparative analysis of the 21 Greek Universities in terms of their public funding, awarded for covering their operating expenditure. First it introduces a DEA/MCDM model that allocates the fund into four expenditure factors in the most favorable way for each university. Then, it presents a common, consensual assessment model to reallocate the amounts, remaining in the sam...

OBJECTIVE Health impact assessment (HIA) has been proposed as one mechanism that can inform decision-making by public policy-makers. However, HIA methodology has been criticized for a lack of rigour in its use of evidence. The aim of this work was to formulate, develop and test a practical guide to reviewing publicly available evidence for use in HIA. The term evidence includes all scientific a...

BACKGROUND In 2007, the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) provided a comprehensive set of recommendations and standards for the provision of adequate pediatric palliative care. A number of studies have shown deficits in pediatric palliative care compared to EAPC standards. In Germany, pediatric palliative care patients can be referred to specialized outpatient palliative care (SOPC...

BACKGROUND Symptoms of depression are often reported among patients with a cancer diagnosis. Strong sense of coherence (SOC) is shown to be associated with less depression in the general older population and among nursing homes (NH) residents in particular. Knowledge about mixed-methods perspectives that examine symptoms of depression and SOC among cognitively intact NH residents with cancer is...

Risk management is the process that has to be applied to all areas of business. The paper sets out to discuss risk management primarily in the field of information systems. Numerous national and international standards have dealt with this field of work. American National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed standards, instructions and guidelines for particular issues rela...