The new Occupational Health Strategy for Great Britain will have national aspirational targets. These will be common goals that all partners can work to, and should help to inspire local and specific targets for action. More attention needs to be paid to looking at outcomes, so that we can reduce the number of people suffering from work-related ill-health, as well as improving the health of the...

June 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e171 Two leaders in the global fi ght against HIV/AIDS—Richard Feachem, Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, and Peter Piot, Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)—have recently argued that HIV represents an extraordinary national security threat [1,2]. Their intent has been to app...

The proportion of older people continues to grow worldwide, especially in developing countries. Non-communicable diseases are fast becoming the leading causes of disability and mortality, and in coming decades health and social policy-makers will face tremendous challenges posed by the rapidly changing burden of chronic diseases in old age. Chronic disease and most oral diseases share common ri...

The proportion of older people continues to grow worldwide, especially in developing countries. Non-communicable diseases are fast becoming the leading causes of disability and mortality, and in coming decades health and social policy-makers will face tremendous challenges posed by the rapidly changing burden of chronic diseases in old age. Chronic disease and most oral diseases share common ri...

background: statistics of alcohol use iran was investigated in the beginning of 2010 in mental, social health and addiction department of ministry of health. the findings showed that the alcohol use, especially in young people, is notable. hence a strategic plan or a policy document in alcohol use was needed to explain the main vision also provide countrywide strategies for all related domains ...

User-based Collaborative Filtering (CF) systems generate recommendations for a specific user by combining feedback (i.e. information about what is relevant for a user) provided by a set of people similar to that user. In these system the similarity among people is computed by taking into account the set of shared resources. However, there are several application domains, such as social tagging ...