BACKGROUND Afghanistan lacks suitable specialized mental healthcare services despite high prevalence of severe mental health disorders which are aggravated by the conflict and numerous daily stressors. Recent studies have shown that Afghans with mental illness are not only deprived of care but are vulnerable in many other ways. Innovative participatory approaches to the design of mental healthc...

BACKGROUND/AIMS With an increasing life expectancy, the number of people suffering from dementia globally will rise to about 115.4 million by 2050. It is projected that in the 21st century, the majority of the world's older people will be living in Asia. This paper examines the global issues of family caregiving for older persons with dementia from an Asian perspective. METHODS Literature rev...

BACKGROUND Recent increases in life expectancy may greatly expand future Alzheimer's Disease (AD) burdens. China's demographic profile, aging workforce and predicted increasing burden of AD-related care make its economy vulnerable to AD impacts. Previous economic estimates of AD predominantly focus on health system burdens and omit wider whole-economy effects, potentially underestimating the fu...

Nasoalveolar molding (NAM) has been glorified and maligned. Supporters argue that NAM improves cleft outcomes reduces secondary procedures. Critics highlight the expense, labor intensity, inconsistent or transient results. We offer to our patients have doing so for over a decade; nevertheless, benefits assessments are nuanced. In following paper, we present rationale, evolution, technique, of N...

Abstract Expert signs and expert evidence generate a justification problem in legal factfinding: factfinders cannot form justified belief about the relevant matter, nor justify acceptance of an testimony, insofar as they do not understand it. The different profiles systems (with jury trial or not) make substantial difference for point addressed, namely epistemic doxastic impasse generated by in...

efficiency chiefly to manual labour-were transplanted from the shop floor to the clinic. Instead of offering representative articles, as Howell has done, Morman includes in his 24 selections the milestones in the campaign for efficiency in hospital organization and practice, and the articles by Ernest Amory Codman, Michael Davis, Jr., and Richard Cabot (among others) presented here offer a soli...

This paper studies the logical modelling of presumptions and their effects on the burden of proof. Presumptions are modelled as default rules and their effect on the burden of proof is defined in terms of a distinction between the burden of production, the burden of persuasion and the tactical burden of proof. These notions are logically characterised in such a way that presumptions enable a pa...