Everyone needs to kick back and relax now and then, but too much bonding time with the couch and TV remote control can lead to serious health problems. This is of concern, because according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [2], less than 50 percent of adults in the United States don't meet the recommended physical activity guidelines [3]. And, even though busting a move o...

Using a representative cross-section of health care providers in Indonesia, we describe variations in prenatal, child, and adult care quality. Quality is measured as knowledge about clinical guidelines. Public health centers offer above-average-quality prenatal care, and private physicians provide high-quality curative care. Private nurses offer below-average care, as do most providers in the m...

As we have discussed in this report, the existing literature and common sense suggested some initial hypotheses that relate the cost of CDC care to certain aspects of the setting in which that care is provided. Specifically, we hypothesized that larger centers might have a lower cost per child due to their economies of scale, centers located in areas with a high cost of living would have greate...

Now-a-days, in Pakistan especially in strategic, military and private sector hospitals, there is an increasing use of hospital information systems. It has been seemed that a localize approach for developing HMIS is prevailing i.e. conventional use of relational database system, which are isolated from others hospitals or remote data collection centers. In this, paper a framework is proposed for...

OBJECTIVE The TER system is a robot-based tele-echography system allowing remote ultrasound examination. The specialist moves a mock-up of the ultrasound probe at the master site, and the robot reproduces the movements of the real probe, which sends back ultrasound images and force feedback. This tool could be used to perform ultrasound examinations in small health care centers or from isolated...

Purpose: This paper aims to propose the delimitation of historic center Feira de Santana from identification initial urban fabric, since some old hovels were demolished and others had their facades altered.
 
 Theoretical framework: with a theoretical framework I tried approximate geoprocessing practices studies centers. Since no work was found that studied centers these remote sensin...

background & aim: fear of death can cause death anxiety for everyone. in health care professions, death anxiety becomes a routine source of stress and may lead to unwanted consequences. coping strategies of nurses and different approaches to death can affect the quality of health care services. the aim of this study was to determine attitudes toward death in nursing staff in hospitals of rafsan...