BACKGROUND The objective of the EUROCHIP project in Estonia was to describe the organized cervical cancer screening program started in 2006 (after pilot studies in 2003-2005), to compare its performance with opportunistic screening, and to define priorities for improvement of the program. METHODS Population data was retrieved from Statistics Estonia, data about performed Pap-smear tests withi...

AIMS As part of the diagnosis related groups in Europe (EuroDRG) project, researchers from 11 countries (i.e. Austria, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden) compared how their DRG systems deal with patients admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The study aims to assist cardiologists and national authorities to optimize...

Human activities have begun to transform northern peatlands into global sources of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). In Estonia, there are 10,091 km of peatlands, constituting 22.3% of the country’s total area. The increasing number of drought days during the last 50 years, which constitutes a threat of an increased flux of dissolved carbon, has also been observed in Estonia. The aim of the curre...

Fluoride is a naturally occurring contaminant in groundwater in Estonia. There are several regions in Estonia with fluoride contents in public water supplies as high as 7 mg/L. Long-term exposure to high-fluoride drinking water may have several adverse health effects, primarily dental fluorosis. The opportunities for exposure reduction rely highly on water treatment technologies. Since 2004 pub...

The purpose of this study was to assess exposure to drinking water fluoride and evaluate the risk of dental fluorosis among the Estonian population. The study covered all 15 counties in Estonia and 93.7% of population that has access to public water supplies. In Estonia groundwater is the main source for public water supply systems in most towns and rural settlements. The content of natural flu...

s of MMA2013 & AMOE2013, May 27–30, 2013, Tartu, Estonia c ⃝ 2013 University of Tartu THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF A SINC-NYSTRÖM METHOD FOR VOLTERRA INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS AND ITS IMPROVEMENT

A. Arneth, Ü. Niinemets, S. Pressley, J. Bäck, P. Hari, T. Karl, S. Noe, I. C. Prentice, D. Serça, T. Hickler, A. Wolf, and B. Smith Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystems Analysis, Centre for GeoBiosphere Science, Lund University Sölvegatan 12, 223 62, Lund, Sweden Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Riia 23, Tartu Estonia Inst...

Cloud Computing and e-Government are increasingly important topics in state ICT development plans, including that of Estonia. In the course of developing the Estonian Government Cloud concept, it became clear that Estonia’s requirements for Cloud Computing are not identical to those of other European states, and that due to its highly developed information society, Estonia needs to expand the p...

Asbestos has been declared a proven human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and by the International Agency for Research on Cancer of the World Health Organization. Since 1983, the European Union has enforced health protection directions in this field, which have been the basis for legal acts of Member States. The Estonian Republic is a country where asbestos and asbestos-c...