We have come a long way from the day when Dr. Janeway advised Dr. Trudeau to “stay out in the open and ride horseback.” Our therapeutic armamentarium has gone beyond the days of the patient freezing in his bed or chair on an open porch. Our attack on tuberculosis has become multiple and versatile with more Intensive propaganda and education, case finding and mass x-ray surveys and we have added...

A total of 69 soil samples from 20 community gardens in New York City (New York, USA) were collected and analyzed for 23 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and black carbon. For each garden, samples were collected from nongrowing areas (non-bed) and from vegetable-growing beds, including beds with and without visible sources of PAHs. The sum of the US Environmental Protection Agency's 16 p...

Problem definition: The shortage of inpatient beds is a major cause delays and cancellations in many hospitals. It may also lead to patients being admitted inappropriate wards, resulting lower quality care longer length stay. Academic/practical relevance: Investment additional not always feasible. Instead, new creative solutions for more efficient use existing resources must be sought. Methodol...

beds. From the Council, Mr. Wake went on, a handsome sum was already received, and now that the 60 beds had been added, a grant towards the cost of their maintenance would be applied for. The Sheffield scheme continues to grow, and there seems little doubt that eventually its adoption may become universal in the city. In this event sufficient money should be available, not merely to support the...

OBJECTIVES Studies on the dynamics between service organization and acute admissions to psychiatric specialized care have given ambiguous results. We studied the effect of several variables, including service organization, coercion, and patient characteristics on the rate of acute admissions to psychiatric specialist services. In a natural experiment-like study in Norway, we compared a "deinsti...

Background: This study assessed the removal of organic material and nutrients from full-scale subsurface flow (SSF) constructed wetlands (CWs) followed by anaerobic stabilization ponds under environmental conditions. Methods: The effluents were distributed evenly in 12 reed beds. Samples were taken twice monthly for a total of 6 months from several points in the wetland. Biochemical oxygen dema...

doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1002-0829.2012.01.005 Shanghai Mental Health Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. Correspondence: [email protected] The modern history of mental health services in China dates back to the founding of the first psychiatric hospital in Guangzhou by the missionary physician John Kerr in 1898. By the time of liberation in 1949 China’s popul...

BACKGROUND Hospitals play a crucial role in providing communities with essential medical care during times of disasters. The emergency department is the most vital component of hospitals' inpatient business. In Iraq, at present, there are many casualties that cause a burden of work and the need for structural assessment, equipment updating and evaluation of process. OBJECTIVE To examine the c...

The Hospital Plan makes it clear that "very different considerations" from those obtaining in planning mental illness services "govern the provision required for the subnormal and severely subnormal" (p. 5). These considerations, however, have not led the planners to firm conclusions. All the factors mentioned as relevant in the Plan are assumed to "more or less offset one another" (p. 5). In 1...