The objectives of this study were to investigate the awareness, motivation, and readiness of medical staff to take part in a cervical cancer screening program (CSP), with the ultimate aim of increasing the response rate to invitation letters and improving CSP effectiveness and coverage. Certified gynecologists (GYNs) and general practitioners (GPs) practicing in the national and private healthc...

First we should mention legislation related to the higher education (HE) in the Republic of Latvia. The key laws regulating HE are as follows: ‘Law on higher education establishments’ passed in 1995 (revised in 2000), and ‘Frame Law on Education’ passed in 1998. Regulation of HE is referred to also in the ‘Law on Professional Education’ passed in 1999 and other laws, for instance, the law ‘On S...

BACKGROUND Despite the relatively low recorded alcohol consumption level, the Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) and neighbouring Finland suffer from similar harmful consequences related to the use of alcoholic beverages, including socio-economic inequalities in alcohol related mortality. Comparative evidence is needed to understand harmful drinking patterns and to implement preve...

Tim Berners-Lee and co-authors in their seminal paper “The Semantic Web”, published in 2001, outlined their vision about the future Semantic Web. But today we are still far from the implementation of this vision. Despite fundamental achievements, like definition of OWL (Web Ontology Language) and rapid progress of RDF/OWL content creation, storage and processing tools, there are still very few ...

0380 With a forceful gesture, the delicate blond unlocks the heavy door of a cell in Riga’s Central Prison clinic (Figure 1). Her name is Dr. Inga Nagele. She is the head of the clinic’s tuberculosis (TB) unit. She opens the door to check on three female prisoners who have just been admitted. The conditions in the cell are bleak. Washing hangs on a line that stretches from one wall to the other...

This article discusses the impact of social representations of ageing, such as breakdown, inevitability of illnesses and unfitness, on chronic illness experience of elderly people in Latvia. The qualitative study is based on theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism and uses grounded theory methodology. The results of the study lead to the conclusion that in Latvia certain social represe...

This article investigates the development of the share of women CEOs and chairpersons in knowledge intensive industries in Sweden from 2000 to 2010. The Swedish national development, covering all limited companies with a CEO, is compared to case studies of the biotech and the ICT industries, with differences in female participation in the highly educated key workforce. The results indicate an i...

V. Pankratov,1,4,* V. Osinniy,2 A. Kotlov,3 A. Nylandsted Larsen,1,2 and B. Bech Nielsen1,2 1Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade, Bld. 1521, DK-8000 C Aarhus, Denmark 2Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade, Bld. 1520, DK-8000 C Aarhus, Denmark 3HASYLAB at DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany 4Institute of Solid ...

The purpose of the present article is to determine changes in book publication and reading habits in Latvia from the end of the 1980s onwards – a period characterized by the gradual shrinkage of the dictate of state authorities and political censorship, Latvia regaining independence in 1990 and the first years of the independent republic (up to 1995) involving the transition from the centrally ...