there is an increasing policy emphasis on the integration of care, both within the healthcare sector and also between the health and social care sectors, with the simple aim of ensuring that individuals get the right care, in the right place, at the right time. however, implementing this simple aim is rather more complex. in this editorial, we seek to make sense of this complexity and ask: what...

Objectives and methods: This was an intervention field trial to determine the effects of a nutrition education program (a modudle prepared specifically for the porpose) on the nutritional knowledge and attitude of volunteer Health care workers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in city of Tehran in 1999. The study population consisted of 121 female health care workers from four ran...

Recent work on learning apprentice systems suggests new approaches for using interactive programming environments to promote software reuse. Methodologies for software specification and validation yield natural domains of application for explanation-based learning techniques. This paper develops a relation between data abstractions in software and explanationbased generalization problems and sh...

In natural language interactions listener a speaker and cannot be assured to have beliefs, the same contexts, back rounds or goals. ' leads to difficulties an Lf mistakes when a list%: tries to interpret a speaker's utterance. One principal source of trouble is the description constructed by the speaker to refer to an actual object in the world. imprecise, confused, The description can be ambig...

This paper is a proof of the Spectral Theorem; a theorem that was proven in the apprentice class but not in this manner. Because the Spectral Theorem is such a fundamental theorem in linear algebra, it is important to explore it further through an alternate proof.

UNLABELLED Over the last decade, there has been a great improvement in the oral health of Brazilians. However, such a trend was not observed among five-year-old children. Dental caries are determined by the interplay between biological and behavioral factors that are shaped by broader socioeconomic determinants. It is well established that dental disease is concentrated in socially disadvantage...

background & aim: women experience various changes in their transition into motherhood and feel stressed while facing new challenges in this period. high levels of stress may prevent mothers from realizing their maternal role. in this study, we aimed to explore the effects of training on the stress of primiparous mothers. methods:in this quasi-experimental intervention, 100 pregnant women were ...

The aim of the study was to promote reflection on the need to create a national incident notification system based on a brazilian patient safety program. Incidents in health care harm patients and encumber the health care system. Although a quality assessment program has been recently launched in health care institutions, the Brazilian Ministry of Health does not yet have a program which system...