44 Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management 2015; 10: 2 health volunteers was mainly to deliver home-based personal care for people with disabilities, while health professionals focused mainly on controlling the quality of care, managing the knowledge and skills of volunteers, and co-ordinating the network. The difference between ADL scores before and after the implementation of the model (n=2...

Assistive technology was once a specialised field of practice, involving products designed for populations with specific impairments or functional goals. In Australia, occupational therapists have, at times, functioned as gatekeepers to public funding, prescribing products from a predefined list. An expanding range of accessible mainstream products available via international and online markets...

BACKGROUND The problem of people presenting to hospitals with self-harm is important because such presentations are common, there is a clear link to suicide and a high premature mortality. However, the best treatment for this population is unclear. AIMS To see whether a package of measures, that included regular postcards and problem-solving therapy, improved outcomes at 1 year compared with ...

background rheumatic diseases are chronic diseases, which may be associated with severe and debilitating pain. objectives the purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of tobacco and opioid use among rheumatic patients. patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, 1042 patients referred to a major rheumatology clinic of kerman city, in south east of iran, were interviewed. pati...

The general status of clinical approach regarding the applications of clinical methodology has been reviewed under the spectacles of author's points. Also the subject of MANAHPARIKSANA has been critically analysed through the lenses of CARAKA and CAKRAPANIDATTA and its utility in present day clinical practices has been underlined. An appeal has been projected to the fellow Ayur-dists to shed of...

Sstarting from a set of strands (or other types of building blocks) a variant of forbidding-enforcing systems for graphs is proposed which models the DNA self-assembly process. The possible outcomes of the self-assembly process comply with necessary constraints arising from the physical and chemical properties of DNA. A set of forbidding and enforcing rules that describe these constraints are p...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the dietary behaviour of persons engaging in different levels of sport activity. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey analysis. SETTING A population-based sample of German adults. SUBJECTS A total of 1756 men and 2254 women participating in the German National Health Interview and Examination Survey and the integrated German Nutrition Survey 1998. RESULTS Among both gend...