With the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) the World Health Organization (WHO) has prepared the ground for a comprehensive understanding of Human Functioning and Rehabilitation Research, integrating the biomedical perspective on impairment with the social model of disability. This poses a number of old and new challenges regarding the enhancement of adequa...

In collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) international collaborating laboratories, provincial laboratories, and other Canadian hospital and university-based virus laboratories, the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) conducts national surveillance on human influenza viruses. This surveillance monitors influenza activity, detects and describes antigenic changes in the c...

Primary Immunodeficiencies (PID) are defects of the immune system that cause increased susceptibility to infections that are chronic, persistent, recurring, debilitating, and often fatal. There are more than 150 PID diseases, which affect more than 10 million people worldwide. PID are often manageable, if properly evaluated and treated. However, awareness of these diseases is low amongst both p...

Effective improvement and research rely on sustained multidisciplinary collaboration, but few examples are available of centres with the broad range of disciplines and practical experience that are needed to sustain long-term improvement in healthcare quality and safety. In a number of respects, the parlous state of the quality and safety of medical care resembles the problem of climate change....

OBJECTIVE In recent years, in order to provide patients with seamless and integrated healthcare services, some models of collaboration between public hospitals and community health centres have been piloted in some cities in China. The main goals of this study were to assess the nature and characteristics of these collaboration models. METHODS Three cases of three different collaboration mode...

While tourism presents considerable potential for the use of new mobile technologies, we currently have little understanding of how tourists organise their activities or of the problems they face. This paper discusses an ethnographic study of tourism focusing on its collaborative nature, and how this could be better supported with new technologies. Three types of collaboration are outlined: col...

background: carbon dioxide (co 2 ) is one of the most commonly used indicators of indoor air quality (iaq) in industrial area. the higher concentration level of co 2 and particulate matter (pm 10 ) in day care centre could affect children’s health. the objective of this study was to assess children’s health symptom, and measure the co 2 and pm 10 concentration level as iaq parameters in differe...

OBJECTIVE To help family physicians who care for patients with acute stroke or who are involved in planning service delivery or resource allocation to understand recent developments in acute stroke care. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE A MEDLINE search indicated that most data were derived from well designed, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trials, including all the largest international stu...