INTRODUCTION There is a need to develop composite indicators to monitor mental health care in countries such as Spain, where there is wide variability of care systems in 17 different regions. The aim of this study is to generate and to test the usability of synthetic indexes in Andalusia (Southern Spain). METHOD Seven mental health indicators were selected by expert opinion from a previous li...

background : one of the major health policy issues, in the both developed and developing countries, is the equality in the distribution of health resources. the aim of this study was to investigate the disparity in the distribution of health physical resources across the provinces of iran in 2001 and 2011. methods : this was a cross-sectional retrospective study which investigated inequality in...

background: one of the main indexes of development is health index or the degree to which a society enjoys health and therapeutic services. the present study was done with the aim to analyze development levels in cities in tehran regarding health infrastructural index using the standardized score and morris’ model. methods: this is a descriptive and pragmatic study which ranks 14 cities in tehr...

background: discharging from hospital is one of the most complicated issues in health system. this process should follow standard clinical criteria and needs mutual cooperation of the hospital and society. psychiatric patients, nowadays, are hospitalized only for the severe period of their sickness and after that they are returned to the society. this study compares the current discharge proces...

A new indexing method is presented which is capable of indexing multiple crystal lattices from narrow wedges of diffraction data. The method takes advantage of a simplification of Fourier transform-based methods that is applicable when the unit-cell dimensions are known a priori. The efficacy of this method is demonstrated with both semi-synthetic multi-lattice data and real multi-lattice data ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of head growth and the early postnatal nutritional status of microcephalic infants in a low-income country. MATERIALS AND METHODS A cohort study in Lagos, Nigeria in which the head growth of full-term singletons within the first postnatal check-up at 6-8 weeks was evaluated using the latest World Health Organization (WHO)'s Child Growth Standards (WHO-CGS) f...

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered, thepoint is to discover them. " Will there be a need to expand the reference system in published scientific papers to encompass the wealth of information available on the World Wide Web (WWW)? Some examples in environmental research can be used to examine this concept and compare it with conventional citation policies. Consider an obs...

We study the self-duality operator on conic 4-manifolds. The self-duality operator can be identified as a regular singular operator in the sense of Brüning and Seeley, based on which we construct its parametrizations and closed extensions. We also compute the indexes.