INTRODUCTION The Community Health Status Indicators Project was undertaken to produce county-specific reports assessing the status of community health for local jurisdictions throughout the United States. To accomplish this assessment, the Community Health Status Indicators Project team selected peer groupings of counties to monitor and analyze the health of local communities relative to peer c...

Introduction. Operational methods to monitor the power indicators of engines for continuous diagnosis their technical condition are particular interest creating optimal operating conditions motor and tractor machinery. The characterized by mechanical efficiency, determined in repair shops with use complex braking devices. Aim Article. To present results research on development an operational me...

Knowledge about the age dynamics of physical development indicators operational level officers has significant importance in context scientific research and practical activities military personnel. The aim is to determine among first second periods mature age. Material methods. We used anthropometric methods, including measuring body length, weight, girth sizes different parts. Also, we bioelec...

Composite indicators are very common in economic and business statistics for benchmarking the mutual and relative progress of countries in a variety of policy domains such as industrial competitiveness, sustainable development, globalisation and innovation. As a consequence, improvements in the way these indicators are constructed and used seem to be a very important research issue from both th...

OBJECTIVES to evaluate the Nosocomial Infection Control Programs in hospital institutions regarding structure and process indicators. METHOD this is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study conducted in 2013. The study population comprised 13 Nosocomial Infection Control Programs of health services in a Brazilian city of the state of São Paulo. Public domain instruments available in ...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest for quality measurement in health care services; pre-hospital emergency medical services (EMS) included. However, attempts of measuring the quality of physician-staffed EMS (P-EMS) are scarce. The aim of this study was to develop a set of quality indicators for international P-EMS to allow quality improvement initiatives. METHODS A four-step modified no...

The Health Status Indicators (HSIs) were developed as part of the Healthy People 2000 process to facilitate the comparison of health status measures at national, State and local levels. In this report, the number of HSIs where the national target has been attained and the number of HSIs that have improved significantly are enumerated for the United States, the District of Columbia, and each Sta...

The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) requires EU Member States (MS) to achieve Good Environmental Status (GEnS) of their seas by 2020. We address the question of what GEnS entails especially with regard to the level at which targets are set (descriptors, criteria, indicators), to scales for assessments (regional, sub-divisions, site-specific), and to difficulties in putting i...