Liverpool City Council and Health Authorities recently launched their City Health Plan, a five-year strategy to improve health and well-being in Liverpool, building on the foundations of the WHO Healthy Cities initiative. This strategy addresses the following key areas: housing for health, poverty and unemployment and health, health and the environment, health action for children and young peop...

abstract urban management forms (model) are a key and important factor on characteristics of urban governance. study of literature and other country’s experience suggest application of various form of urban management and government that each have own specification, legal and administrative characteristics. in iran, in spite of 100 years record in establishing municipalities, there is not any l...

1340. Mumps Outbreak among a Highly Vaccinated University Community-New York City, NY, January-April 2014 Leena N. Patel, MD; Robert Arciuolo, MPH, CPH; Tamara Brantley, MPH, CPH; Francesca R. Giancotti, PhD; Jie Fu, PhD; Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc; Anthony Muyombwe, PhD; Jennifer B. Rosen, MD; Public Health/Preventive Medicine Residency Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygie...

1University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA 2Radiopharmaceuticals Production and Marketing Center, Institute of Nuclear Energy Research, Atomic Energy Council, Taoyuan 32546, Taiwan 3Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Yokohama 236-0004, Japan 4Small Animal MRI, Biomedical Research Imaging Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel H...

Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Canada The City of London Migraine Clinic and Research Centre for Neuroscience, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London, UK King’s Headache Service, King’s College Hospital, London, UK Medical Research Council Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Ki...

X. Liu, C. Figueira de Morisson Faria, W. Becker, and P. B. Corkum Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4242, USA Centre for Mathematical Science, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, UK Max-Born-Institut, Max-Born-Str. 2A, 12489 Berlin, Germany National Research Council of Canada, 100 Sussex Drive,Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1AOR6 (Dated: June 27...

In the wake of controversy over allegations of espionage by Wen Ho Lee, a nuclear scientist at the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, the department ordered that polygraph tests be given to scientists working in similar positions. Soon thereafter, at the request of Congress, the department asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a thorough study of polygraph tes...

While poverty and violence are not limited to one geographic region of the United States, unique demographic and geographic factors pose distinct problems in specific areas. In Escondido, CA, the city council linked poverty and crime to illegal immigration and proposed an ordinance forbidding landlords to rent to illegal immigrants. This article explores that case and examines implications for ...

Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute, Psykoterapienheten City, Karlavägen 53, 11449 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Transcultural Centre, Stockholm County Council, S:t Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karolinska Institute, S:t Göran’s Hospital, Stockholm Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Psychiatry Section, Karo...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: In 2006, about 50% of the children whose parents brought them to the Francistown City Council clinics in Botswana for consultation had fungal skin infections. Most of these parents did not include the fungal skin conditions in the list of presenting com...