today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation i...

BACKGROUND Shortened treatment regimens for tuberculosis are under development to improve treatment outcomes and reduce costs. We estimated potential savings from a societal perspective in Brazil following the introduction of a hypothetical four-month regimen for tuberculosis treatment. METHODS Data were gathered in ten randomly selected health facilities in Rio de Janeiro. Health service cos...

Zwar liegen mit Referenzmodellen und Standards Hilfestellungen für die Umsetzung einer IT-Governance in Unternehmen vor. Allerdings bleibt vielfach unklar, wie diese herangezogen werden und als Vorlage dienen können, um bspw. ein unternehmensspezifisches ITGovernancemodell zu entwickeln. In zwei Forschungsprojekten wurde untersucht, wie die Anwendung von Referenzmodellen der IT-Governance mitte...

BACKGROUND The Internet hospital, an innovative approach to providing health care, is rapidly developing in China because it has the potential to provide widely accessible outpatient service delivery via Internet technologies. To date, China's Internet hospitals have not been systematically investigated. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the characteristics of China's Internet h...

Zusammenfassung. Die Computerassistierte Diagnose (CAD) in der Mammographie hat durch den europaweiten Aufbau von nationalen Screeningprogrammen in den letzten Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen. Für die Evaluierung und vor allem für den Vergleich von CAD Algorithmen sind öffentlich zugängliche Referenzdaten nötig. Am Fraunhofer IIS wird derzeit eine Referenzdatenbank für die Mammographie aufge...

BACKGROUND The combined tuberculosis (TB) and HIV epidemics in South Africa (SA) have created enormous operational challenges for a health service that has traditionally run vertical programmes for TB treatment and antiretroviral therapy (ART) in separate facilities. This is particularly problematic for TB/HIV co-infected patients who need to access both services. OBJECTIVE To determine wheth...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES Economic theory classifies an intervention as socially beneficial if the total Willingness to Pay (WTP) of those who gain exceeds the total Willingness to accept (WTA) of those who are harmed. This paper examines the differences in health system users' valuation of a health care service in primary care setting based on the WTP and WTA perspectives, discussing the impact...

Reconstruction Textured Urban 3D Model by Fusing Ground-Based Laser Range Image and CCD Image Huijing Zhao and Ryosuke Shibasaki In this paper, a method of fusing ground-based laser range image and CCD image for the reconstruction of textured 3D urban object is proposed. An acquisition system was developed to capture laser range image and CCD image simultaneously from the same platform. The reg...

BACKGROUND Although it is well-known that early detection of colorectal cancer (CRC) is important for optimal patient survival, the relationship of patient and health system factors with delayed diagnosis are unclear. The purpose of this study was to identify the demographic, clinical and healthcare factors related to mode of CRC detection and length of the diagnostic interval. METHODS All re...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of Baby Check, an illness scoring system for babies of 6 months or less, on parents' use of health services for their baby. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING 13 general practices in Glasgow. SUBJECTS 997 newly delivered mothers, randomised to receive either Baby Check and Play It Safe, an accident prevention leaflet (n=497), or Play It Safe alone...