Received 8/8/2012 Accepted 7/3/2013 (005796) 1 Departamento de Nutrição Básica e Experimental, Centro de Ciências da Saúde, Instituto de Nutrição Josué de Castro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro – UFRJ, Av. Brigadeiro Trompowisky, s/n, bloco J, 2o andar, sala 16, CEP 21941-902, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Centro de Química de Alimentos e Nutrição Ap...

that repeatedly have proven this assumption to be false and a world literature replete with reports of the success of directly observed therapy, these centers contend that there is no firm evidence demonstrating that directly observed therapy is both effective and essential in the treatment of tuberculosis. It is time for physician organizations from all parts of the international community to ...

To determine the prevalence of Hepatitis E virus (HEV) in industrialized nations, we analyzed the excretion of HEV strains by the populations of Spain, France, Greece, Sweden, and the United States. Twenty of 46 (43.5%) urban sewage samples collected in Barcelona from 1994 to 2002 tested positive for HEV. We identified 15 HEV strains, which were similar to two HEV isolates previously described ...

This paper is about recent developments in the distribution of income in industrialized, and particularly, the G-7 countries. Limiting the geographical focus in this way ignores the important changes taking place in transition economies and in the developing world, but I have chosen to focus on the countries I know best, which is why a small, offshore European island receives disproportionate a...

The costs of health administration are compared across several countries, accompanied by discussion of some of the variations in the definition of health administration. The influence of American health accounting on other countries is examined, and findings are presented regarding the relative costs of insurance-based and direct-delivery systems. Data are presented on health administrative spe...

Increasing longevity and declining fertility rates are shifting the age distribution of populations in industrialized countries toward older age groups. Some countries will experience this demographic shift before others will. In this DataWatch we compare the effects of population aging on health spending, retirement policies, use of long-term care services, workforce composition, and income ac...