OBJECTIVES To examine the association between socioeconomic position and insulin resistance in children from three countries in northern Europe (Denmark), eastern Europe (Estonia), and southern Europe (Portugal) that have different physical, economic, and cultural environments. DESIGN Cross sectional study. PARTICIPANTS 3189 randomly selected schoolchildren aged 9 and 15 years from Denmark ...

OBJECTIVES Food insecurity has become an important issue in many countries of the former Soviet Union following the transition to a market economy. This study examined three aspects of food security in the Baltic Republics: reasons for choosing foods; level of dependence on home-grown or raised foods; and use of home-grown vegetables. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys. SETTING Data from survey...

BACKGROUND Even though respiratory symptoms are common in the adult population, there is limited research describing their impact on everyday life and association with health care consumption. AIM The main objective of this population-based study was to estimate and compare the prevalence of respiratory symptoms among adults in Finland, Estonia, and Sweden in relation to health care consumpti...

After a long and deliberate persecution, the grey wolf (Canis lupus) is slowly recolonizing its former areas in Europe, and the genetic consequences of this process are of particular interest. Wolves, though present in mainland Estonia for a long time, have only recently started to recolonize the country's two largest islands, Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. The main objective of this study was to analys...

Tallinn University of Technology, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, North Estonia Medical Centre, Tallinn, Estonia, 2nd Propedeutic Department of Internal Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1st Department of Cardiology, Athens Medical School, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece, Department of Hypertension and Diabetology, Medical University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Resistance in the sexually transmitted bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium to all recommended therapeutic antimicrobials have rapidly emerged. However, to date, internationally reported resistance surveillance data for M. genitalium strains circulating in Eastern Europe are entirely lacking. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of macrolide and fluoroquinolo...

ISSN: 2159-9165 (Print) 2159-9173 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/fjcs21 Who stands in the way of women? Open vs. closed lists and candidate gender in Estonia Mirjam Allik To cite this article: Mirjam Allik (2015) Who stands in the way of women? Open vs. closed lists and candidate gender in Estonia, East European Politics, 31:4, 429-451, DOI: 10.1080/21599165.2015.1084...

1) Institute of Systematic Biology, University of Daugavpils, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia (*corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected]) 2) Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, EE-51014 Tartu, Estonia 3) Department of Biology, FI-90014 University of Oulu, Finland 4) Institute of Ecology, University of Vilnius, LT-08412 Vilnius, Lithuania 5) Department of Bio...

This paper investigates the sorts of risks and uncertainties inherent in implementing an e-learning information systems project in Estonia. The study uses a variation of the Delphi study in eliciting the risk factors or items from experienced top management professionals within the organisation. The main objective of the study is to identify the uncertainties or risks in the implementation of t...