Abstract Children represent a specific group of road traffic accident (RTA) victims. Performing personal injury assessment (PIA) for child presents significant challenge, especially when assessing permanent disabilities and needs. However, medico-legal recommendations PIA in such cases are lacking. The main objective this study was to analyse the differences between children young- middle-aged ...

Direct payments – cash for people eligible for adult social care and spent by them on care and support – are claimed to enable care to better reflect user preferences and goals which improve outcomes. This paper compares outcomes of older direct payment users and those receiving care via a managed personal budget (where the budget is spent on the recipients behalf by a third party). The study a...

In the scientific literature, the Personal Environment has been described as a “new” resource to the learning process and named Personal Learning Environment. However, it has not yet been demonstrated in what way and to what extent Personal Environments contribute significantly and efficiently to the learning processes and outcomes framed by Higher Education programs. Our position paper aims fi...

In this article, the author synthesizes 25 years of his research on the personal therapy of mental health professionals. The author summarizes the high prevalence of personal treatment, its use by seasoned practitioners, its personal and professional goals, its typically positive outcomes, and its lasting lessons concerning the practice of psychotherapy. Particular attention is devoted to the t...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between the level of social deprivation in electoral wards and various life events. Life events include mortality, self reported long term illness, and for women: still-birth, underweight birth, birth while a teenager, and sole registered birth. Associations with area deprivation are tested before and after allowing for levels of personal deprivati...

objective: to compare the effect of the physiologic and facilitated labor on the mother and neonate outcomes in the prim gravid women referring to arash hospital. materials and methods: this clinical trial study was performed on 200 low risk pregnant women referring to arash women's hospital in 2012-2013. mothers were divided into two groups of 100 patients using a simple random sampling method...