Evaluation of injury prevention programs is critical for measuring program effects on reducing injury-related morbidity and mortality or on increasing the adoption of safety practices. During the planning and implementation of injury prevention programs, evaluation data also can be used to test program strategies and to measure the program's penetration among the target population. The availabi...

HYPOTHESIS Surgical undergraduate education in a rural setting is feasible and sound in terms of educational outcomes. DESIGN The final-year surgical curriculum at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, was restructured to include the option of a rural surgical term. SETTING Five provincial center hospitals in rural South Australia. INTERVENTIONS Forty-three final-year med...

Abstract: During World War II, more than half a million tons of bombs were dropped in aerial raids on German cities, destroying about one-third of the total housing stock. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term consequences of large-scale physical destruction on the educational attainment, health status and labor market outcomes of German children. I combine a unique dataset on city-l...

Background: Invasive fungal infections acquired in the hospital have progressively emerged as an important cause of lifethreatening infection. In particular, airborne fungi in hospitals are considered critical pathogens of hospital-associated infections. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the airborne fungi of indoor environments of educational hospitals in the city of Ahvaz,

An Experts Meeting on Lung Cancer and the Use of Erlotinib was held on 10th November 2007, in New York City, USA. The meeting was organized by ACINDES (Asociación Civil de Investigación y Desarrollo en Salud [Civil Association for Health Research and Development]), a private international academic institution actively involved in medical research and the development of educational programs sinc...

Purpose-French universities can play a key role in generating Smart City approach through an innovative Public-Private Partnership dedicated to urban transformation. Methodology-We led an action-research study for five years with several research and pedagogic projects including users or citizens. Findings-The paper points out main factors of Smart City development. It also presents shared demo...

Many Rust-Belt cities have seen almost half their populations move from inside the city borders to the surrounding suburbs and elsewhere since the 1970s. As populations shifted, neighborhoods changed—in their average income, educational profi le, and housing prices. But the shift did not happen in every neighborhood at the same rate. Recent research has uncovered some of the patterns characteri...

Department for Health, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath BA2 7AY, UK Department of Health and Human Physiology, Obesity Research and Educational Initiative, Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA School of Physical Education and Sport, University of São Paulo, Av. Prof. Mello de Morais, 65 Cidade Universitária, 05508-030 São Paulo...

Dental caries is an infectious yet preventable disease that is rampant in some subpopulations in the United States, in particular among individuals with neurodevelopmental/intellectual disabilities (ND/ID). This article reports on the implementation and evaluation of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Dentistry interprofessional school health educational mo...