Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services is a voluntary organisation which foriflel undertook rehabilitation for the physically disabled in New York. Now they are provi^ similar services for mentally ill patients in Rockland State Hospital. Only a small tean1 workers was available for this 6,000 bed mental hospital, which had recently begu1^ modify its custodial practices and was short of medic...

We found the commentary on vouchers by Menotti and Farrell, published in the September issue of GHSP, thought-provoking and comprehensive. At Marie Stopes International (MSI), every year we deliver half a million voluntary contraception and maternal health services via voucher programs in 8 countries.Wehave directly experienced that “vouchers can be a highly effective tool to increase access to...

Many other voluntary organizations work with women of childbearing age and can incorporate a significant health dimension-given the necessary encouragement and help, not least from their local primary health care teams. Voluntary organizations provide much specialized advice on subjects like breastfeeding and maternity rights. Equally significant is their support to 'special needs' groups such ...

background: the implementation of patient education within a hospital is a difficult task that plays a key role in improving and controlling diseases and providing quality healthcare services. objective: the current study evaluated the effect of patient education on the quality of nursing care and inpatient satisfaction in surgical wards of selected hospitals in isfahan, iran. methods: this qua...

The fingerprint liveness detection refers to the inspection of the finger characteristics to ensure whether the input finger is live or artificial. A number of fingerprint identification systems are used widely and implemented at various important places such as border and immigration services. However, it is not declared by the manufacturers of these systems whether liveness detection is actua...

PURPOSE Voluntary medical male circumcision decreases the risk in males of HIV infection through heterosexual intercourse by about 60% in clinical trials and 73% at post-trial followup. In 2007 WHO and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) recommended that countries with a low circumcision rate and high HIV prevalence expand voluntary medical male circumcision programs as part...

Excitability changes in the primary motor cortex just prior to voluntary muscle relaxation 1 2 Tomotaka Suzuki , Kenichi Sugawara*, Mineko Takagi, Toshio Higashi 3 4 Physical Therapy Major, School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health and Social Services, Kanagawa 5 University of Human Services, Kanagawa, Japan 6 Department of Community-based Rehabilitation Sciences, Unit of Rehabilitation Scien...

All blood bank services, especially those of developing countries, face a major shortfall of blood donations due to lack of voluntary blood donors. Our study aims to evaluate the acceptability of Short Message Service based interventions towards becoming voluntary blood donors among medical university students of Karachi, Pakistan. Methods. A total of 350 medical students were approached in med...

The fingerprint liveness detection refers to the inspection of the finger characteristics to ensure whether the input finger is live or artificial. A number of fingerprint identification systems are used widely and implemented at various important places such as border and immigration services. However, it is not declared by the manufacturers of these systems whether liveness detection is actua...