Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine; Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Surgery, and Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Rockville, Maryland, USA U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disease ...

Yun-Jeong Seok, Jae-Young Her, Yong-Gun Kim, Min Yeop Kim, Soo Young Jeong, Mina K. Kim, Jee-yeon Lee, Cho-il Kim, Hae-Jung Yoon and Kwang-Geun Lee Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, Dongguk University, Goyang-si, Korea Nutrition Policy & Promotion Team, Korea Health Industry Development Institute, Chungcheongbuk-do, Korea Bureau of Health Industry Promotion, Korea Health Industry De...

Safety is a critical issue for the construction industry. Literature argues that human error contributes to more than half of occupational incidents and could be directly impacted by effective training programs. This paper reviews the current safety training status in the US construction industry. Results from the review evidence the gap between the status and industry expectation on safety. To...

Composition is a core concept of component and service-based models. In hierarchical component composition, promotion is used to make services available at a higher level of the hierarchy without breaking encapsulation. In this article we will study different kinds of promotion of services equipped with contracts, their usefulness, as well as their safety by considering appropriate proof obliga...

Objectives: To explore the need for information system support in health promotion programs. Methods: The international Safe Community program was used as the setting for a case study. The 14 Safe Communities active in Sweden during 2002 were invited to participate. 13 of them accepted. A questionnaire containing questions about computer usage and a critical incident technique instrument was di...

BACKGROUND Child safety restraints are effective measures in protecting children from an injury while traveling in a car. However, the rate of child restraint use is extremely low in Chinese cities. Parent drivers could play an important role in promoting child safety restraint use, but not all of them take active responsibility. METHODS This study used a qualitative approach and included 14 ...