As a country in the process of stabilisation and accession to the European Union, Croatia is under strong pressure to bring itself into line with EU policies. One policy concept, which is rapidly growing in importance in European markets, is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). At the same time, Croatian enterprises, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are under pressure t...

Ivana Sutic, Aleksandar Bulog, Ingrid Sutic, Valentino Pavisic, Ines Mrakovcic-Sutic Department of Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Croatia Department of Public Health, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Croatia Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Croatia Department of Physiology and Immunology, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, Croatia e-mail: ines.mrakovcic....

In 2001, there were 2,719 patients with chronic renal failure dialyzed in Croatia. Death rate in this patient group was 10.3%, similar to that in other countries. On October 12, 2001, the Croatian Institute of Public Health received information that four patients unexpectedly died in the dialysis center in Pozega General Hospital in a single day. Within a week, a total of 23 dialysis patients d...

The objective of this study was to investigate regional gradient of a synthetic cardiovascular burden (CVRB) in Croatia. Analysis was based on a multistage stratified sample representative of general adult population in six regions of Croatia (Croatian Adult Health Survey). Synthetic CVRB was defined by incidents (heart attack, stroke), blood pressure, overweight/obesity (BMI, waist circumferen...

AIM To describe and interpret prostate cancer incidence and mortality trends in Croatia between 1988 and 2008. METHODS Incidence data for the period 1988-2008 were obtained from the Croatian National Cancer Registry. The number of prostate cancer deaths was obtained from the World Health Organization mortality database. We also used population estimates for Croatia from the Population Divisio...

X chromosome STR typing has emerged recently as a powerful tool, complementary to autosomal STR typing, in solving complex forensic and missing person cases. Investigator® Argus X-12 is a commercial product that allows co-amplification of 12 X chromosomal markers belonging to four linkage groups (LGs). In this study, we analyzed by capillary electrophoresis blood samples from 100 females and 10...

BACKGROUND Neonatal hyperbilirubinemia is a common clinical manifestation of the inherited glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of the inherited G6PD deficiency on the appearance of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia in southern Croatia. METHODS The fluorescent spot test (FST) was used in a retrospective study ...

BACKGROUND In many European countries, maturity onset diabetes mellitus (DM) is to a large extent managed in general practice. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to compare management of DM in general practice in five European countries in order to contribute to international guidelines on the management of DM by GPs. METHODS Routine monitoring of patients presenting with DM was performed during a 12 mo...

The results of forest cover reduction were obtained using raster data and administrative borders for the Republic Croatia. Examples are taken from other countries to compare show cover, both agricultural. first part this paper describes situation in Croatia, where Ministry Environmental Protection provided analysis. condition land Croatia is presented. second a description task development proc...

This paper describes energy efficiency indicators and indices of improvements according to type use. The purpose is the monitoring comparing trends in EU-27 countries, Norway Republic Croatia, therefore Croatia have been specially presented for each consumption sectors.