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... National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Evaluation of PEPFAR Contents PREFACE xxv ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS SUMMARY Evaluation Approach, Evaluation Conclusions and Recommendations, Conclusion, ... in prevention has come in the area of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, in Copyright © National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Evaluation of PEPFAR EVALUATION OF PEPFAR ... Suggested citation: IOM (Institute of Medicine) 2013 Evaluation of PEPFAR Washington, DC: The National Academies Press Copyright © National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Evaluation of PEPFAR...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2015, 12:01

... even worse during the decade-long conflict Devkota and van Teijlingen Conflict and Health 2010, 4:20 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/4/1/20 Health outcomes demonstrating improvement The ... Nepal [38-40] of a negative impact of conflict on the health of populations, we found that in Nepal progress has been made in most health indicators There does not appear much literature on what made ... somehow seems to contradict the economic explanation on the causation of conflict that underdevelopment and poverty fuels conflict [48-50] However, a 2005 regional poverty profile shows that Nepal...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... EVALUATION OF THE IMPACT OF POLYMORPHISMS ON CANDIDATE GENES OF ALLERGIC RHINITIS AND ASTHMA ON DISEASE OUTCOMES IN THE SINGAPORE POPULATION LIANG XIAOHUI (BACHELOR OF MEDICINE) ... Determination of genetic contribution to atopic diseases Familial studies and twin studies can dissect genetic and environmental contribution to atopic diseases 3) Identification of chromosomal regions ... transcription, RNA process, RNA transport, mRNA degradation, translation and posttranslation by protein phosphorylation The most common and important gene regulation is at the level of transcription...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 10:58

... additional bird raised The Poisson regression model is the development of the Poisson distribution presented in Equation to a nonlinear regression model of the effect of independent variables x i on ... M Barron, and D Roy 2008 Animal source foods and nutrition of young children: An ex ante analysis of impact of HPAI on nutrition in Indonesia HPAI Research Brief Washington, DC: International ... (in terms of health, nutrition, and education) In addition, the elimination of poultry from children’s diets as a result of HPAI outbreaks or scares could have nutritional repercussions that ultimately...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 01:20

... Interpenetration of Economic and Non-Economic Action Much social life revolves around a non-economic focus Therefore, when economic and noneconomic activity are intermixed, non-economic activity ... politics and religion.3 One common example is that a culture of corruption may impose high economic costs and require many off-the-books transactions to carry on normal production of goods and services ... resources held by individuals’ networks, the intentions of employers and macroeconomic conditions are only three of the important sources of variation in outcomes when networks route people to jobs (Granovetter,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 07:20

... variations in local rainfall are related to individual indicators of health conditions to estimate the direct impact of drought on health outcomes The analysis also assesses the relation of drought ... variation to health conditions in the household The role of drought for health outcomes is analyzed in a reduced-form regression that relates a measure of health conditions on drought incidence ... member are analyzed in conjunction with household-level information on annual health expenditures The main measure of health conditions is constructed from the survey’s health module documenting...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 08:19

... paid consultants to Pfizer in connection with the development of this manuscript Authors' contributions SM contributed to the study design, data collection, interpretation, and analysis of results ... upon awakening Participants' responses to general, open-ended questions regarding the impact of FM on their sleep, as well as their feedback upon item review, provide strong evidence for the content ... the pain of FM Participants also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on their...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... paid consultants to Pfizer in connection with the development of this manuscript Authors' contributions SM contributed to the study design, data collection, interpretation, and analysis of results ... upon awakening Participants' responses to general, open-ended questions regarding the impact of FM on their sleep, as well as their feedback upon item review, provide strong evidence for the content ... the pain of FM Participants also spoke of no longer feeling refreshed upon awakening since having FM, regardless of the amount of sleep that they received When discussing the impact of FM on their...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... facilitation of meeting its principle objectives would be the responsibility of all involved Dispatch It is in the analysis of the findings concerning the dispatch that the greatest impact of the ... Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University, South Africa Prof Lee Wallis, MD FRCS FCEM: Head of the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Cape ... al.: A retrospective evaluation of the impact of a dedicated obstetric and neonatal transport service on transport times within an urban setting International Journal of Emergency Medicine 2011...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 03:20

... secretion of parathyroid hormone, and subsequent increase of CYP27B1 expression and conversion of 25(OH)D3 to an active 1,25(OH)2D3, Impact of Air Pollution on Vitamin D Status and Related Health Consequences ... online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Part Effect of Air Pollution on Health and Human Body Organs Chapter Impact of Air Pollution ... public health impacts may be considerable Air pollution is associated with a broad spectrum of acute and chronic health effects, the nature of which may vary depending on constituent of the pollutants...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 09:20

... general health [12] Operative treatment of hallux valgus produces beneficial effects on general health- related quality of life [2,13-16] Although some evaluation of the effects of hallux valgus on health ... comparison of the impact of the two conditions (hallux valgus versus hallux rigidus) on foot health status The aim of this study was, therefore, to describe and compare the foot health status of patients ... would be of use to explore both the apparent similarities in impact on foot health of these conditions and the sensitivity of the footwear and general foot health domains of the Foot Health Status...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 21:23

... corticosteroid (ICS) and a long-acting β2-agonist (LABA) is recommended for the treatment of patients not controlled on low or moderate doses of ICS alone [1] There are two combinations of LABA/ICS currently ... Quality of Life Questionnaire; FOR/BUD = formoterol/budesonide combination; ITT = intent to treat; SAL/FP = salmeterol/fluticasone propionate combination † Percentage of Week 5–52 population proportions ... = Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire; FOR/BUD = formoterol/budesonide combination; SAL/FP = salmeterol/fluticasone propionate combination Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Respiratory...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:20

... Medical Trauma Surgical APACHE II On admission On diagnosis of NP SAPS On admission On diagnosis of NP PO2/FiO2 On admission On diagnosis of NP McCabe score (%) Non-fatal Ultimately fatal Fatal ... in early-onset pneumonia was 41% Gramnegative bacilli were shown in 34 of 54 (66.9 %) episodes of late-onset pneumonia (≥ days after hospitalization) The mortality of late-onset pneumonia was ... (0/1) At the time of suspicion of pneumonia 33 of the 82 patients (40%) were on antibiotics The duration of prior antibiotic therapy (within 10 days before the diagnosis of pneumonia) was 12.1 ±...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... compare outcomes of untreated MDR and non-MDR infection, studies that attempt to isolate the specific impact of resistance on outcome of infection cannot so divorced from consideration of the ... potentially confounded Until such analyses are performed, we should consider the question of the impact of resistance on Page of (page number not for citation purposes) outcomes of bacterial infection ... it, addresses the question of the impact of resistance without dissecting fully the issue of appropriateness of therapy received Future outcomes studies relating to infections with MDR pathogens...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:23

... real outcome difference between the groups may have been Table Comparison of outcomes in the intervention group and the control group and 12 months after mild head injury in 50 patients months Outcome ... U, Karlsson K, Sojka P: One-year follow up of mild traumatic brain injury: post concussion symptoms, disabilities and life satisfaction in relation to serum levels of S-100B and neurone-specific ... control group The intervention group received a comprehensive follow up consisting of information and advice on coping strategies, and repeated consultations including continuing advice, cognitive...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 23:21

... focused on the evaluation of the impact of the furniture on the signal propagation Since the overall environment includes objects and materials, their distribution will certainly impact the signal ... computing concept based on the sensing/actuation of common objects like furniture and software capable of reasoning and inferring information extracted from sensors, allowing the system to alert of possible ... such as healthcare and Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) [4] These new advanced applications based on a new generation of sensing and communication capabilities are a consequence of the continuous...

Ngày tải lên: 05/12/2015, 22:57

... The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan is a publication of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers ... longer, and were conducted by professionals (as opposed to trained paraprofessionals).23 The Effects of Childhood Stress on Health Across the Lifespan Community, Organizational, and Social Level ... dramatic rise in hormone levels Types of Stress Following are descriptions of the three types of stress that The National Scientific Council on the Developing Child has identified based on available...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... pollution and other toxic substances The use of green building techniques in the construction of new homes and the renovation of existing units leads to lower levels of energy consumption, which ... without considering the impact of personal vehicles on the environment, the residential sector generated 18 percent of United States greenhouse gas emissions, primarily as a result of energy consumption ... strength of the research base in each area Center for Housing Policy July 2007 PROMISING HYPOTHESES ON THE IMPACT OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON HEALTH OUTCOMES Affordable housing may improve health outcomes...

Ngày tải lên: 14/02/2014, 09:20

... air pollution and health studies fix the effects of air pollution to be constant over time, and model long-term trends and temporal correlation in the health data using a smooth function of calendar ... conditional of α is non-standard because it is the product of a Gaussian prior and n Poisson observations As a result, simulation is carried out using a Metropolis-Hastings step, and two common ... long-term trends and temporal correlation are removed by the smooth function of calendar time The air pollution component typically has the form wt γ, which forces its effect on health to be constant...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... Hispanic 2% Of the participants responding to specific questions, 99% of 129 respondents reported that the technology was useful, and 94% of 116 respondents responded affirmatively to the question regarding ... communities connected was limited However, late in the second year of funding, all sites connected at least once At least 12 of the sites have continued their connectivity after the end of grant ... group receiving standard nutrition counseling and only two sites completed the evaluations In addition, responses were open ended, so the opinions of more responsive participants are likely to...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 22:21