A fall in the active registered case prevalence rate together with a fall in the active caseload per worker after the introduction of multidrug therapy (MDT) is becoming a managerial issue in leprosy control. A retrospective analysis was undertaken to assess the caseload per paramedical worker with reference to active cases for treatment (3341), cases for surveillance (2227) and cases for care ...

A randomised controlled trial was undertaken to determine whether a respiratory health worker was effective in reducing the respiratory impairment, disability, and handicap experienced by patients with chronic airflow limitation attending a respiratory outpatient department. The 152 adults (aged 30-75 years) who participated had a prebronchodilator forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) ...

DNA information of organisms makes well-made biomachines such as animal body, bee society (= bee super-organism), and intracellular genetic apparatus, which seem to have most plausibly emerged by hierarchical kin sociogenesis of lower-level individuals (which are unicell animals, bee individuals, and tRNA ribo-organisms, respectively) [1]. Both bee super-organism and animal body are considered ...

INTRODUCTION Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people experience higher levels of psychological distress and mental ill health than their non-Indigenous counterparts, but underuse mental health services. Interventions are required to address the structural and functional access barriers that cause this underuse. In 2012, the Southern Queensland Centre of Excellence in Aboriginal and Torres ...

The aim of this secondary data analysis of the cross-sectional Swiss Nursing Homes Human Resources Project (SHURP) study was to describe the prevalence of residents' verbal, physical and sexual aggression toward care workers in Swiss nursing homes and to explore their association with context and care worker factors. The study's sample incorporated data from 155 randomly selected nursing homes,...