in the past, health planning in iran has been carried out in the context of short-range economic plans. although this mechanism has helped a great deal in the achievement of certain health plans however, the said scheme has been short in meeting the health objectives on a comprehensive basis. most often, the heath programs have lost their values to the priority and cost effectiveness of economi...

background : malnutrition represents an important issue in older adults; unfortunately, there is lack of data concerning this topic in lebanon. this paper aims to provide a description of nutritional status and its correlates in older adults living in long stay institutions situated in beirut. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in three long stay institutions in beirut in 2012. ...

The previous chapter (Chapter 11) explained how user requirements directed our development of meeting support technology, more specifically meeting browsers and assistants. Chapters 3 to 9 discussed the enabling components, i.e. the multimodal signal processing necessary to build meeting support technology. In the following, we will present an overview of the meeting browsers and assistants dev...

It takes a certain type of scientist to have the forethought and motivation to initiate a series of repeat measurements that may not show significant change throughout their lifetime. However, it is such records that we must turn to if we are to make informed decisions regarding long-acting issues such as the impact of climate change on human habitation, food supplies and ecosystem health. The ...

The National Center for Health Statistics reports that 16.5% of long-term care residents are younger than 65 (Vital Stat 3 2016;38:x-xii,1–105). However, we know some LTC facilities tend to have higher concentrations adults, and it is not uncommon encounter individuals in their 20s. Younger adults who reside settings often fall into one the following groups:•Individuals with developmental disab...

Long-term care (LTC) must be carefully delineated when expenditures are compared across countries because how LTC services are defined and delivered differ in each country. LTC’s objectives are to compensate for functional decline and mitigate the care burden of the family. Governments have tended to focus on the poor but Germany opted to make LTC universally available ...

THE third meeting of the association was held in Charleston, S. C. in 1850. At that time there were^ 622 members. The number at the meeting is not given. It was probably a negligible quantity, for until 1905 the experiment of a meeting in the south was not again tried; though, of course, the failure to meet again in that section was largely due to the fact that until recently the only time avai...

The 6th International Scientific Meeting of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) took place in September 2005 in Cairo, Egypt. During the meeting, a sponsored symposium entitled ‘The changing face of female sterilisation: meeting the needs of the 21st century woman’ (sponsored by Femcare-Nikomed Ltd, manufacturer of the Filshie clip) provided an overview of the different...

Aims: cancer patients have to face with the disease, invasive treatments and adverse effects of the disease and treatments in a long term period. These people have various needs in long term process of diagnosis, treatments and recovery that often remain unknown and unmet. The present research aimed at evaluating the care needs of cancer patients in various aspects of life. Materials and Metho...

This paper explores the “digitalization” of a particular genre of written documents, the ones produced by meeting processes, especially supported by Electronic Meeting Systems. Although it is now common to find meeting reports in a digital format, it was found that they are simply replicas of the paper versions. As long as a purpose of a meeting report is to disseminate meeting outcomes it is i...