In the beginning Originally from Country Victoria, I was very pleased to secure a position in my home town as Deputy Health Information Manager (HIM) six months prior to graduating, with the proviso that I passed my final exams! I started in the position only a few days after my final exam and was ready to join the ‘real world’ of fulltime employment. In this position, I was responsible for ass...

Chocolate is ubiquitous in American culture and is associated with major commercial holidays such as Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Christmas. People in the United States enjoy a significant amount of chocolate and each year Americans consume on average 9.5 pounds of chocolate per person (Confectionery News 2014). Yet, Americans are not alone in their love for chocolate and it is consumed in even...

Tourism is not only a concept of enjoyment or travelling or passing the holidays, but also a development concept and it has now been placed a wider significance among the mass people, government and development planner in Bangladesh. Sylhet has a bright prospect to develop its tourism sectors as its treasures weather it is going to miserable situation in the absence of proper plan and realistic...

Abstract Background Although it is known that winter inclusive of the Christmas holiday period associated with an increased risk dying compared to other times year, very few studies have specifically examined this phenomenon within a population cohort subject baseline profiling and prospective follow-up. In such cohort, we sought determine specific characteristics mortality occuring during holi...

Abstract Objective We evaluated the phrase “Thank God it’s Friday” (TGIF) from a forensic pathologist’s view, i.e. correlation between beginning and end of week in general Christmas Holidays particular manner death. Material methods retrospectively analyzed 758 consecutive autopsy cases January 2017 to June 2019. Results There was no natural deaths or week. One our main findings terms weekday e...

BACKGROUND Underage heavy episodic drinking is a major contributor to alcohol-related morbidity/mortality. Reports indicate underage binge drinking among college students is widespread and has remained stable over the past decade. This study describes individual characteristics and calendar-specific events associated with binge drinking episodes over the course of freshman college academic year...

The Day of Epiphany is one of the seven principal celebrations of the church year, right up there with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saints’ Day, but because it rarely falls on a Sunday, it doesn’t get the same attention as those other holidays. The word “epiphany” means “to manifest” or "make known," and during this Epiphany season, all of our readings will, in some way, reveal the true...

This article aims to test a proposition widely spread among scholars and journalists according to which holidays would have an impact on electoral turnout. To our knowledge, this possibility has not been investigated in the French case yet. Our data, gathered for the last three presidential elections, strongly support a negative effect of holidays on turnout. Since turnout and left vote are lin...

Background The seasonality of influenza is thought to vary according to environmental factors and human behavior. During winter holidays, potential disease-causing contact and travel deviate from typical patterns. We aim to understand these changes on age-specific and spatial influenza transmission. Methods We characterized the changes to transmission and epidemic trajectories among children ...