Background: Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. Estimates show that every day many patients are harmed while receiving hospital care. Health care staff plays a key role in providing quality and safe patient care, especially physicians who are main members of the medical team and a critical element in patient safety efforts. Objective: ...

This paper explores a strategy for determining public space safety. Due to varied purposes and locations, each public space has architecture as well as facilities. A generalized analysis of capacities for public spaces is essential. The method we propose is to examine a public space with a given architecture. We used Bayesian Belief Network to determine the level of safety and identify points o...

BACKGROUND In Ontario, local public health inspectors play an important frontline role in protecting the public from foodborne illness. This study was an in-depth exploration of public health inspectors' perceptions of the key food safety issues in public health, and their opinions and needs with regards to food safety information resources. METHODS Four focus group discussions were conducted...

The frequency of incidents negatively changes public perception with regard to the public safety in transit systems. The level of safety expressed as performance measures, ensures contractors and users that a quality safety level is maintained. Both the private and public sectors in the U.S. annually report accurate data to the National Transit Database (NTD) to be used in assessing the progres...

Reconfigurable Radio Systems (RRS) is a subject which is becoming more and more interesting in that represents an affordable and effective solution for the integration of applications for first responders involved in Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR). These End Users are more and more involved in operations of protection to people environment and properties, addressing a large number...

Allan Cohen: The author makes a compelling argument for the integrated approach. But while he points out that highly structured cognitive-behavioral therapy [CBT] works very well for the high-risk group, these are very expensive programs to run. I don’t know whether or how widely that could be adopted in community treatment programs. I don’t know if there is enough money for training and paying...

After the tragic bombing at the Boston marathon, Boston’s cellular networks instantly filled with calls. One company spokeswoman had to publicly plead with its customers “to use text or email to free up voice capacity for public safety officials at the scene." In other words, this nation allocates resources that are critical for emergency response through use of plaintive press releases. U.S. p...