BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death worldwide, making their prevention a major health care challenge. In 2006, a German statutory health insurance company presented a novel individualised prevention programme (KardioPro), which focused on coronary heart disease (CHD) screening, risk factor assessment, early detection and secondary prevention. This study evaluates Kard...

Statutory analysis is a significant component of research on almost any legal issue and determining if a statutory provision applies is an integral part of the analysis. In this paper we present the initial results from an attempt to support the applicability assessment in situations where the number of statutory provisions to be considered is large. We propose the use of a framework in which a...

once again that ways and means have got to be found to produce a real economy in public current expenditure. Enormous programmes of building have been sapping our national finances. Th^ serious and backward structural conditions of very many of the hospitals taken over under the National Health Act in 1948, and especially the hospitals for the mentally ill, will and mus* continue to absorb a la...