1. The project completion report (PCR) of Urban Primary Health Care Project (UPHCP) was completed in March 2007. The overall assessment was rated as successful. The Project design was (i) highly relevant, effective and efficacious in achieving the outcomes; (ii) efficient in achieving outcome and outputs; and (iii) likely sustainable. It significantly impacted on poverty through improvement of ...

AIMS To evaluate the impact of the 2011 Scottish ban on multi-buy promotions of alcohol in retail stores. DESIGN AND SETTING Difference-in-differences analysis was used to estimate the impact of the ban on the volume of alcohol purchased by Scottish households, compared with those in England and Wales, between January 2010 and June 2012. PARTICIPANTS A total of 22 356 households in Scotland...

The past four years have seen a steady increase in the number of companies that offer direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing services and in the number of such tests for genetic risk factors, including a wide range of diseases and other non-disease-related traits. These companies sell their tests outside the traditional healthcare setting and often do not involve healthcare professionals for ...

OBJECTIVE To analyse national data on asbestos use and related diseases in the European Region of the World Health Organization (WHO). METHODS For each of the 53 countries, per capita asbestos use (kg/capita/year) and age-adjusted mortality rates (deaths/million persons/year) due to mesothelioma and asbestosis were calculated using the databases of the United States Geological Survey and WHO,...

This paper investigates the syntax of Japanese restructuring verbs and makes two major claims: (i) there are (at least) three types of restructuring infinitives in Japanese, which is consistent with Wurmbrand's (2001) approach to restructuring infinitives and (ii) there is a general ban on adjunction to complements of lexical restructuring verbs, which is best explained by an interaction of spe...

Hetvenkét évvel Amade László halála után, 1836-ban, unokaöccsének fia, Thadé adta ki a költő verseinek első gyűjteményét. A magyar líra megújításában fontos szerepet játszó bárónak ennél korábban önálló nyomtatványként – eddigi tudomásunk szerint csak Buzgó szívnek énekes fohászkodásicímű, vallásos énekeket tartalmazó füzetkéje, valamint még egy istenes verse jelent meg, az utóbbimagyar és lati...

One hears very different views within the development community on the question as to whether the world’s poorest are participating in the benefits of economic growth.1 One view is reflected in John F Kennedy’s famous aphorisms that ‘a rising tide lifts all boats,’ or claims that ‘growth is good for the poor’ (Dollar and Kraay 2002) and that the poor are ‘breaking through from the bottom’ (Rade...

According to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon (2014), Displacement remains arguably the most significant humanitarian challenge facing the world. Of the 33.3 million IDPs in the world, Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 15 million, with an increase of 7.5% between 2013 and 2014. As the number of IDPs continues to AFRREV, 10 (1), S/NO 40, JANUARY, 2016 194 Copyright © IAARR, 2007-2...

A jelen tanulmány a szerző 2013-ban megjelent, kirgiz parlamentáris kísérlet perspektíváiról szóló elemzésének (Gyene, 2013) folytatása. Ahogyan akkor, most is az összehasonlító politikatudomány (mindenekelőtt kilencvenes években lezajlott „neoinstitucionalista vita”) fogalmi keretrendszerére támaszkodva igyekszem felvázolni 2010-ben megindult, parlamentarizmust célzó reformok kilátásait és ere...

Courts (Maryland and Hawai'i) temporarily prevent the Government from enforcing the “travel ban” imposed by Executive Order 13780 [11]. The Government appealed both the Maryland and Hawai'i orders. On May 25, 2017, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld [12] the Maryland District Court's preliminary injunction, meaning that the Executive Order travel ban will continue to be blocked for now....