OBJECTIVES To estimate the degree to which individual and household variables jointly predict utilization of curative ambulatory services in Mexico for four types of health providers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Patient choice of provider (self-care, Ministry of Health, social security, or private provider) when they become ill is modeled using a nested multinomial logit model that uses household an...

BACKGROUND Monitoring treatment patterns is crucial to improving cancer patient care. Our aim was to determine the accuracy of linked routinely collected administrative health data for monitoring colorectal and lung cancer care in New South Wales (NSW), Australia. METHODS Colorectal and lung cancer cases diagnosed in NSW between 2000 and 2002 were identified from the NSW Central Cancer Regist...

Sri Lanka's Veddas/Vanniya-laeto, are a small Indigenous group today with little information on their oral health status. This report is to provide an overview on oral health status of Veddas. Oral health status was recorded by the principal investigator after obtaining consent, using World Health Organization criteria, at an initial screening point before sending the person for any necessary t...

In this essay we discuss the need to reestablish the balance between health enhancing activities and care for the sick in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century. We first briefly review the historical evolution of personal and public hygiene. We then discuss the increasing emphasis on curative care that has characterized the modern world. We conclude that, in order to meet the emergin...

In 2986 the authors conducted a survey examining the performance of health promoters in Pucallpa, Peru, three years after an initial Danish project for training and supervising those promoters ended. The survey found that some two-fifths of the promoters were still active, that increased stress had been placed on curative tasks, and that the promoters appeared to have had their greatest impact ...

o d i a t ryNow Supplement S1 T inea pedis is one of the most commonly encountered foot infections. The fact that in most cases it is easily treatable yet still prevalent in the general population suggests that it is often undiagnosed or remains untreated by health care p rofessionals and patients. The most common agent is Trichophyton rubrum, which is often mistaken for dry skin in its present...

SRIRAM POTHAPREGADA Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry 605 009, [email protected] REFERENCES 1. Mothers feed newborn babies donkey milk. Times of India 2008 May 6; Chennai: Page 6(Col-1) 2. Curative donkey milk in high demand in Chennai. Times of India 2011 Jan 25; Chennai: Page 4(Col2). 3. Haroon S, Das JK, Salam RA, Imdad A, Bhutt...

According to the Constitution of South Africa (SA), citizens living in remote areas are entitled to the same level of healthcare as those with access to tertiary hospitals. Specialist outreach has been shown to achieve this. When SA's National Health Services Commission convened (1942 - 1944), Gluckman summarised: 'Where the need is greatest the supply of hospitals is least.' Primary healthcare...

This is a consensus-based position paper of a Task Force, comprising representatives of nongovernmental and governmental organizations in the European Region of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease and the World Health Organization, on tuberculosis control in the countries of Europe and international migration. Tuberculosis among the foreign population entering European...

Many preclinical reports and retrospective population studies have shown an anticancer effect of metformin in patients with several types of cancer and comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). In this work, the anticancer effect of metformin was assessed in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients with T2DM who underwent curative resection.A population-based retrospective cohort design was used...