1Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Federal State Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education, Moscow 2Research Financial Institution of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Federal State Budget Institution, Moscow 3First Moscow State Medical Sechenov University of the Ministry of Health Russian Federation 4Volgograd State Medi...

“The authors thank the help from the Statistical Analysis Laboratory, Department of Internal Medicine and the Statistical Analysis Laboratory, Department of Medical Research, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital. This study is based in part on data from the National Health Insurance Research Database provided by the National Health Insurance Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare and m...

background: exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle-stick and sharp injuries continues to pose a significant risk to health care workers. these events are of concern because of the risk to transmit blood-borne diseases such as hepatitis b virus, hepatitis c virus, and the human immunodeficiency virus. objective: to benchmark different risk factors associated with needle-stick incidents am...

1 National Vector Borne Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands 2 Queensland Institute of Medical Research, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Reproductive and Child Health Division, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands 4 Division of Health Promotion, Ministry of Health and Medical Services, Solomon Islands 5 Department...

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1. cancer research center, shahid beheshti university of medical sciences, tehran, iran 2. health sector policy coordination group, in charge of minister for policy making affairs bureau, ministry of health and medical education, tehran, iran 3. ncd research center, endocrine and metabolism research institute, tehran university of medical sciences and health services, tehran, iran 4. health ser...

which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The Korean Medical Association (KMA) vowed on January 12, 2014 to go on an all-out strike on March 3 to protest the govern-ment's proposals to allow telemedicine and for-profit medical subsidiaries. Although the realization of the strike depends on the resul...

The early efforts for promotion of public health measures and prevention of fatal epidemic diseases in Iran date back to the second half of the 19th century. Based on historical records, the informal protosanitary councils had existed since the early 1850s, but a new formal health institution called "Sanitary Council", or "Majles-e Hefz al-Sehheh" was founded in 1881. Then, it was reestablished...

“This work was supported by a National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) grant funded by the Korean government (MEST, 2009-0078234); the National Nuclear R&D Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (No. 2012M2A2A7014020); a grant from the Korea Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republ...