Healthcare is the largest industry in the country, but its infrastructure is undergoing a radical transition. This transition is being caused by the shift in demographics to an aging population, in turn causing a shift in character from acute illness in hospitals to chronic illness in homes. This shift in character is typical of providing service in an infrastructure, as the transition from sta...

BACKGROUND To operate effectively the public health system requires infrastructure and the capacity to act. Public health's ability to attract funding for infrastructure and capacity development would be enhanced if it was able to demonstrate what level of capacity was required to ensure a high performing system. Australia's public health activities are undertaken within a complex organizationa...

infrastructure plays an important role in the process of economic development. access to such infrastructures as safe piped drinking water, educational and health services, electrification and efficient transport system enhance human welfare. the main objective of this study is to determine the contribution of the main types of infrastructure investments to reduction of poverty and more balance...

virtual technology can be a useful tool for designing models of healthy urban environments. the resilience and sustainability in any urban environment involves the establishment and maintenance of the health of its citizens. the well-being of youth, the future workforce of every society, is a highly important consideration in the design of cities. cities are only truly sustainable when the work...

OBJECTIVE Local environmental public health (EPH) is the foundation of a nation's environmental protection infrastructure. With increasing pressure to demonstrate the ability of EPH activities to effectively protect health, the Johns Hopkins Center for Excellence in EPH Practice, as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) EPH capacity-building effort, developed the Prof...

The monitoring of transportation infrastructure health is currently reliant on transportation maintenance teams. Scheduled and periodic inspections of most infrastructures are performed by manual and visual operations, which are generally time consuming and costly procedures. The use of fiber-optic sensor technology makes it possible to realize continuous, real-time and automatic health monitor...

introduction: women are facing inequalities including health, thus their health deserves attention. investigating people’s health status from their viewpoints is an important measure in terms of public health of society and an indicator to determine the efficiency of health system.  this study aimed at evaluating the self-assessed health of older women living in shiraz and yasuj. methods: this ...

This article presents the design of the network infrastructure of a Data Center that meets the requirements arising from Cloud Computing, for use in the Health Sector of Arequipa city, focusing on network layer 2 and its dimensionality to meet the requirements of several health service applications. The network infrastructure dimensionality calculation is a complex challenge for an of the groun...