BACKGROUND Low and inconsistent use of contraceptives by young people contributes to unintended pregnancies. This study assessed quality of contraceptive services for young people aged 15-24 in two rural districts in Uganda. METHODS Five female and two male simulated clients (SCs) interacted with 128 providers at public, private not-for-profit (PNFP), and private for profit (PFP) health facil...

BACKGROUND Fitness facilities provide an avenue to engage in physical activity, which is widely encouraged to improve health. However, there is risk of injury. This study aimed to identify the specific causes of injuries sustained at fitness facilities and the activity being participated in, to aid in the development of injury prevention strategies. METHODS Analysis of routinely collected eme...

Purpose: The number of residents in assisted living has rapidly increased, although these facilities still primarily serve people who can pay out of pocket. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was authorized to provide this level of care for the first time in the Assisted Living Pilot Program (ALPP). We describe the residents and providers, comparing them across three facility types and oth...

Through their choice of for example education citizens are in a position to influence the production of public services, thus exercising ‘consumer democracy’ as outlined by Bellamy & Taylor. This article focuses on the framing of citizens as consumers in quasi-markets and the role of cybermediaries in this process, with special reference to the market for publicly financed education in Sweden. ...

In this paper, The purpose and the goal of the paper are to introduce a framework based on onto Geographical information systems (GIS) to integrate geographic information of Urban areas taking Khartoum State as an example. One of the main characteristics of such a framework is to support the information integration and data exchange between facilities using the base maps to solve the problem of...

In August 2002, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed national regulations to control pollutant discharges from the wastewaters of the aquatic animal production (AAP) industry. In developing this proposed rule, EPA collected information from the AAP industry by using a two-phase sample design. In the first phase, EPA conducted a census of the industry using a screener question...

We develop a discrete or finite household model with congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined in a purely normative context. We prove the existence of an equal-treatment identical-provision second best optimum, where all households are required to reach the same utility level, the provision of local...

BACKGROUND Specialist physicians require clinical information for patient visits in ambulatory encounters, some of which they may access via digital health solutions. OBJECTIVE This study explored the completeness of information for patient care and the consequences of gaps for ambulatory specialist services provided in ambulatory settings in Canada. METHODS A sample of specialist physician...

In this report we give an overview of high-performance computers which are currently available or will become available within a short time frame from vendors; no attempt is made to list all machines that are still in the research phase. The machines are described according to their architectural class. Shared and distributed-memory SIMD an MIMD machines are discerned. The information about eac...

This chapter will address the development of Web-based multimedia learning applications using computerized tools and systematic techniques. They include software development, knowledge modeling, and information management methods and tools. In addition, navigation, interaction, adaptation, communication, and collaboration facilities are of concern. Software development and knowledge modeling to...