Laboratories are integral to the delivery of quality health care and for public health functions; however laboratory systems and services are often neglected in resource-poor settings such as the East African region. In order to sustainably strengthen national laboratory systems in resource-poor countries, there is a need to train laboratory personnel to work in clinical as well as public healt...

BACKGROUND In line with the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005), the Morocco health surveillance system has been reinforced via infrastructure strengthening and decentralization in its regions. To plan for personnel capacity reinforcement actions, a national workforce needs assessment was conducted by the National Epidemiological Surveillance Service and the World Health Organization. ...

India is home to the world's second largest population. Rheumatology is an emerging specialty in India. We reviewed organization, epidemiology and training facilities for Rheumatology in India. Also, we also looked at publications in the field of rheumatology from India from over the past six years using Scopus and Medline databases. Despite rheumatologic disorders affecting 6%-24% of the popul...

THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC CATCHMENT AREA (ECA) Program is a developmental series of epidemiologic research studies performed by independent research teams in collaboration with the Center for Epidemiologic Studies (CES) of the Division of Biometry and Epidemiology, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). The broad aims of the Program are the historical goals of psychiatric epidemiology, to estimate...

Research careers in cardiovascular epidemiology, including cardiac and vascular diseases and stroke, continue to grow and provide opportunities for contributions to our understanding of the extent, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases. The pursuit of cardiovascular epidemiology research is compatible with academic, clinical, laboratory, industry, government, and other scientific pos...

PURPOSE This study was performed to assess opinions of program directors and practitioners about the importance and necessary numbers of experiences required by current accreditation standards for training of pediatric dentists. METHODS A 32-item questionnaire was sent to all program directors of ADA-accredited postdoctoral pediatric dentistry training programs and to a random sample of 10% o...

7 Abbreviations 8 Original papers 9 Introduction/Background 10 The normal tendon 11 Anatomy 11 Collagen fibre orientation 12 Internal architecture 12 General innervation 13 General biomechanical forces in tendons 14 Metabolism 15 Disuse/immobilisation 15 Exercise/remobilisation 15 The Achilles tendon 17 Anatomy 17 The myotendinous junction (MTJ) 18 The osteotendinous junction (OTJ) 18 Tendon st...

Public health is a broad field that touches several different medical disciplines such as epidemiology, public health informatics, health statistics, environmental protection (ecology), sociology, health promotion, disease prevention and organization of health care for nosological groups of the population. In Europe and the world today is developed a fairly extensive network of scientific and p...

Background: Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease endemic in some areas of Gilan province. Objective: To evaluate the knowledge of the personnel employed in Health System Network (Including Behvarzes, Kardans and physicians) on leprosy. Materials and Methods: Questionnaires consisting of 14 multiple choice questions for Behvarzes and 20 multiple choice questions for Kardans and physicians wee...

INTRODUCTION Many studies have focused on the need of health systems to educated physicians in the clinical prevention, research methodology, epidemiology and health care management and emphasize the important role of this training in the public health promotion. On this basis, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) has established MD/MPH dual degree program since the year 2012. METHODS...