Introduction iabetes is a noncommunicable disease with worldwide distribution. It meets all the three criteria for a public health disorder: • A high disease burden; • Changing burden suggesting preventability; and • Fear that things are unknown and out of control. On the other hand, it is one of the major causes of death and disability, so it leads to the important area of research on preventi...

BACKGROUND Congenital hypothyroidism and phenylketonuria (PKU) are the most common cause for preventable mental retardation in infants worldwide. Timely diagnosis and treatment of these disorders can have lasting effects on the mental development of newborns. However, there are several problems at different stages of screening programs that along with imposing heavy costs can reduce the precisi...

BACKGROUND Evaluating the features and performance of health information systems can serve to strengthen the systems themselves as well as to guide other organizations in the process of designing and implementing surveillance tools. We adapted an evaluation framework in order to assess electronic immunization data collection systems, and applied it in two Ontario public health units. METHODS ...

Un compilador es un programa desarrollado en un lenguaje de programación que lee un archivo llamado programa fuente. Luego lo traduce y lo convierte en otro programa llamado objeto, o bien en su defecto genera una salida. Por tal motivo, una manera correcta de entender cualquier lenguaje de programación es analizando su proceso de compilación, el cual es muy similar entre todos los paradigmás o...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM The first step towards appropriately planning orthodontic treatment and prevention services is to understand the needs and demands of the target population. However, this is ignored in most developing countries. PURPOSE This study aims to evaluate the attitudes of patients in Fars province towards travelling to the provincial capital (Shiraz) to receive orthodontic tr...

Recent economic improvements in China have allowed the development of perinatal-neonatal care in sub-provincial regions. However, variations in neonatal respiratory and intensive care exist, especially in regions with limited resources. We conducted a series of collaborative clinical investigations into neonatal hypoxemic respiratory failure (NRF). In the study period from 2004 to 2005, this na...