The avoidability of binary patterns by binary cube-free words is investigated and the exact bound between unavoidable and avoidable patterns is found. All avoidable patterns are shown to be D0L-avoidable. For avoidable patterns, the growth rates of the avoiding languages are studied. All such languages, except for the overlap-free language, are proved to have exponential growth. The exact growt...

To date, due to climate change, heatwaves are more frequent, with greater intensity and duration resulting in deleterious impacts on human health. be able manage quantify the health, it is crucial define them implement policy preventive measures. However, relative of a location: The same meteorological conditions can constitute heatwave one place but not another. Due different climatic conditio...

PURPOSE To describe the prevalence of maternal mortality at a tertiary care hospital and to assess its preventability. METHODS This study, through the analysis of maternal deaths that occurred during the period from 1999 to 2010 at a reference in Campinas--Brazil, CAISM/ UNICAMP, discusses some of the factors associated with the main causes of death and some structural problems of structure o...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To assess avoidable hospitalisation as an indicator of quality of primary care by examining trends and gender and ethnic variations. DESIGN AND SETTING Aggregated nationwide data in Singapore from 1991 to1998 were analysed for hospitalisations for chronic diseases that are avoidable by timely, appropriate, and effective primary care: asthma, congestive heart failure, chronic ...

Despite the fact that fluid and electrolyte preparations are most commonly prescribed medications in hospitals, a number of studies have shown knowledge practice electrolytebalance among young doctors is suboptimal, possibly due to inadequate attention this common but less taught chapter. This responsible for errors management, which continue cause avoidable morbidity even mortality. presentati...

To identify the most significant determinants of maternal mortality in Kenya, a prospective study involving 49,335 deliveries occurring at Kenyatta National Hospital from January 1978-87 was conducted. There were 156 maternal deaths in this series, for a maternal mortality rate of 3.2/1000 deliveries. The 5 most frequent causes of death were abortion (24%), hypertensive disease of pregnancy (...