Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound (GHC) is a not-for-profit, group model, consumer governed health maintenance organisation (HMO). GHC serves over 450 000 enrollees at 29 medical centres, two hospitals, and three specialty centres in the state of Washington, primarily in the Puget Sound area. The cooperative employs 900 physicians, more than 40% of whom are primary care providers. GHC reo...

We analyzed data from the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) from 21 countries to categorize smokers by stages of cessation and highlight interventions that could be tailored to each stage. GATS is a nationally representative household survey that measures tobacco use and other key indicators by using a standardized protocol. The distribution of smokers into precontemplation, contemplation, and...

Article history: Received 1 June 2014 Received in revised form 1 February 2015 Accepted 1 August 2015 Available online xxxx

between such functions as u and ü (the representative function agreeing with m on p¡ and approaching u in the norm) the proof runs as follows: From (23), there is, for any e>0, a 50 such that, for §<S0, \\w— 5ä_1M|| <£ where we write Au = w, Sw = u. On multiplying w' = (w — SPu) by Ss one has, from (24) ||Säw —m|| =||Sjh/|| 5SM'||w'|| < M'e which gives (25) and the scheme is convergent. As in P...

planners have regarded understanding urban use per capita since the beginning of new thinking of urban development. this was stared with its pragmatics toward primary comprehensive urban plans and became a source for urban development plans that have tried to adapt per capita and standards with country’s conditions. iran&apos;s supreme council for planning and architecture, determined standards...