Catchment and riparian degradation has resulted in declining ecosystem health of streams worldwide. With restoration a priority in many regions, there is an increasing interest in the scale at which land use influences stream ecosystem health. Our goal was to use a substantial data set collected as part of a monitoring program (the Southeast Queensland, Australia, Ecological Health Monitoring P...

Comprehensive geriatric assessment has become synonymous with geriatric practice. This includes evaluation of the older person's physical and mental health, and the functional and social status. We propose a new way of representing a person's condition, called the "polar diagram". This shows the subject's scores on the evaluation scales that are arranged in radial positions inside a circle. The...

1 Engineering Technology Department, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA 98225-9086 Abstract: This paper describes the initiation of an outcomesbased assessment process in the Engineering Technology Department at Western Washington University. It describes some of the standard difficulties of instituting outcomesbased assessment and how we have addressed them. In addition, it describe...

Health monitoring and e-Inclusion significantly increase the quality of healthcare since they allow patients to live at home while nevertheless receiving treatment and care immediately, when needed. However, health monitoring and e-Inclusion also impose several challenges to the underlying information infrastructure. These challenges are stemming from data streams that are generated by smart se...

The Lower Hunter Regional Strategy prepared by the Hunter Department of Planning identifies how development in the region will be managed on a sustainable basis over the next 25 years. In order to inform decision-makers about the potential social and health impacts arising from the proposed population increase, the Hunter Regional Coordination Management Group, in collaboration with the NSW Pre...

The most widely accepted definition of health impact assessment (HIA), from a consensus conference in Gothenburg organised by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) European Centre for Health Policy, defines HIA as ‘a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, programme or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution o...

The Healthcare Commission, the national regulator for health care in England, uses an innovative risk detection system to target its inspections of National Health Service organisations. At the core of the system is a tool that enables: gathering of information from a huge variety of sources, and of varying types; mapping this information to the regulatory framework; and analysing this informat...