... less : save money on chronic medicalconditionsand prescription drugs / David Nganele p cm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-471-21849-9 (paper) Medical care, Cost of—United ... 840 900 Source: Charles B Inlander and the Staff of the People’s Medical Society Men’s Health and Wellness Encyclopedia: Everything a Man Needs to Know for Health and Well-Being (New York: MacMillan, ... but equally effective brand name drug If so, ask for that substitute What if there are no generics and no other brand is as effective, and you have to buy that particular brand? You still have the...
... of these factors This study set out to explore the perceptions of mid-level providers regarding the factorsaffecting their performance and retention within the Malawian health system and addressed ... commonality of experience and to reduce problems of organizational hierarchy or status factors inhibiting discussions Medical grade groups included clinical officers (CO) andmedical assistants (MA) ... management and supervision; training and career progression; incentives http://www.human-resources-health.com/content/7/1/14 and retention factors; resource constraints; motivation; and status...
... and using drugsparticularly injecting heroin 1.5 Factorsaffecting the risk of HIV infection and STIs Those factors can be classified into categories: individual factor, socio-environmental factors ... have not understood correctly and sufficiently about ways of tranmission and risk -factors of HIV and STIs 4.2.3 Sexual behavior and drug use Having sex with both male and female partners Male homosexual ... at three body parts throat, anal and penis 4.4 Some risk factors of HIV infection and STIs 4.4.1 Factors related to anal sex without condom for the last time Factors such as living in neighboring...
... characteristics and milk production, and parameters for adaptability to machine milking be investigated The purposes of this investigation were to examine environmental and genetic factorsaffecting ... (soft, meaty and mediocre) and milking ease (easy, mediocre and hard to milk) Quantitative traits were udder circumference (recorded before and after milking), udder depth, teat length and teat diameter ... floor and udder quality, and a quadratic effect on udder circumference before milking, udder depth, udder floor and milk production (tables and 2) Large differences in udder circumference and udder...
... capacity for carbon monoxide (DLco) and arterial blood gases), and six-minute walk test Detailed information about the methods and sources of the questionnaires and the standardisation of the tests used ... Questionnaire; SD: Standard deviation; PAC-COPD: Phenotype and Course of COPD; HADS: Hospital Anxiety and Page of Depression Scale; MMRC: Modified Medical Research Council; ISCO: International Standard Classification ... importance of psychologicalfactors Eur Respir J 2002, 19:47-53 Cleland JA, Lee AJ, Hall S: Associations of depression and anxiety with gender, age, health-related quality of life and symptoms...
... 125- and 20- bp bands (lanes 1, 2, 3, 6, and 9) and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp (lanes 4, 5, and 10) CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype is not seen in this picture The 20- bp band ... and fixed effects exist, the effects of between- and within-subjects factors as well as the interaction between factorsand covariates and its effects are analyzed The difference between LR and ... CYP3A5*1/*1 genotype gives 148-, 125- and 20- bp bands, CYP3A5*3/*3 genotype gives 168- and 125-bp bands and CYP3A5*1/*3 genotype gives 168-, 148-, 125- and 20- bp [19] Statistical analysis Tacrolimus...
... conceptualised as a function of loading conditionsand the ability of the human spine to withstand the load Bone strength depends on its microarchitectural and macro-architectural features [80] ... pathophysiology of osteoporosis and the local and global environment in which the bone operates The local environment includes muscle and connective tissue attachments and the adjacent intervertebral ... lowest BMD, lowest trabecular number and greatest trabecular separation Generally vertebrae are less dense anteriorly and superiorly and more dense posteriorly and inferiorly with heterogeneity...
... Chapter 4: Findings and Discussion This chapter is entitled “Findings and discussions” which analyzes the results of the questionnaires and gives the assessment on the factorsaffecting students’ ... should use stress and rhythmic patterns, and intonation patterns of the language clearly enough so that people can understand what is said Rhythm, stress and intonation are important factors to express ... spelling, semantics and sentence formation It focuses on the knowledge and skill needed to understand and express the utterances’ meaning Grammatical competence is the ability to recognize and produce...
... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factorsaffecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factorsaffecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factorsaffecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...
... addition to demographic factors like age and gender the demand for health and elderly care is affected by dependency, social and housing conditions of the elderly Fiscal and resource constraints ... labelled as MADL1, MADL2 and FADL1AGE, FADL2AGE and MADL1AGE, MADL2AGE, where F and M are shortcuts for female and male respectively, ADL1 and ADL2 shortcuts for instrumental and personal disabilities ... ordered logit models the impacts of age, dependency and other factors on probabilities to use home and community care for the elderly With these models and the age profile of the institutional care,...
... skills and personal qualities of audit partners and staff; the effectiveness of the audit process; the reliability and usefulness of audit reporting; andfactors outside the control of auditors affecting ... Ethical Standards 1-5 London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004b) International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) London: Auditing Practices Board APB (2004c) ISA (UK and Ireland) 260 Communication ... rules (standards and guidelines) and the groups subject to the rules (e.g share dealers, accountants and auditors) Hirschleifer (2008), a behavioural financial economist, proposes a psychological, ...
... three factors namely, the vocal tract response, pitch period contour, and g l o t t a l pulse shape contributed s i g n i f i c a n t l y to the unnatural q u a l i t y Each of these factors ... B.S Atal and S.L Hanauer, J Acoust Soc Amer., vol 50, pp 637-655, 1971 J.D Markel and A.H Gray, Linear Prediction of Speech, Sprtnger-Verlag, 19/6 J.L Flanagan, Speech Analysts, Synthesis and Perception, ... Seneff, IEEE Trans Acoust., Speech and Signal Processing, vol ASSP-30, no 4, pp 566-577, August 1982 R.H Cotton and J.A Estrie, Elements of Voice Quality in Speech and Language, N.J Lass (Ed.), Academic...
... investigate delays in the diagnosis and treatment of hospitalized patients with smearpositive pulmonary tuberculosis and to identify the factorsaffecting these delays MATERIAL AND METHODS Güneylioglu D ... total delay DISCUSSION We analyzed delays in the diagnosis and treatment of inpatients with smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis andfactorsaffecting these delays The present study indicated that ... Süreyyapal Center for Chest Disease and Thoracic Surgery, ba consisting of 1600 beds We reviewed the clinic records of all patients hospitalized between June and August 2001 and identified 204 newly diagnosed...
... followed by Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal The Free State and North West have fewer learners per school compared with Gauteng, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal Factorsaffecting teaching and learning Figure ... Limpopo the figure stands at 27 per cent The richer provinces, such as the Western Cape and Gauteng, have low 13 Factorsaffecting teaching and learning percentages – per cent and per cent respectively ... Cape Factorsaffecting teaching and learning than per cent In 2001 the City of Cape Town had 31.3, whereas Boland had 29.1 Similarly, in 2002 the City of Cape Town had 42.9 compared with Boland...
... Talay F et al Risk FactorsAffecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis (such as uncle, grandfather, cousin) The ... VOLUME • ISSUE 35 Risk FactorsAffecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household Contacts of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Talay F et al Table Factors associated ... contacts to be infected and become ill APRIL 2008 • VOLUME • ISSUE TURKISH RESPIRATORY JOURNAL Talay F et al Risk FactorsAffecting the Development of Tuberculosis Infection and Disease in Household...
... emergency will be well-handled and have a good outcome There have been several studies over the years that have examined the prevalence and nature of passenger medicalconditionsand injuries sustained ... sustained, type of medical condition, cause of incapacitation, and outcome of medical condition or incapacitation In accordance with ICAO Annex 13, International Standards and Recommended Practices, ... passengers, and what proportion of these events result in an aircraft diversion A search of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s accident and incident database was conducted for medicalconditions and...
... socioeconomic and political factors, including corruption and political will; 2) community factors such as location and infrastructure and health beliefs; 3) health system factors such as remuneration and ... at the time of the survey incentives, and training supervisory personnel on how to identify and address causes of attrition Factorsaffecting retention and attrition overlap, but are not necessarily ... a complex set of trade-offs between different factorsaffecting different individuals differently We need to understand how these factors interact and how the process is triggered In this paper,...
... examines Page of 14 factors that influence recruitment and retention, including income, working conditions, management and supervision, career development andfactors linked to living conditions The ... problem of recruiting and retaining doctors in remote areas, followed by working conditions (poor equipment and so on) and opportunities to learn (the limited range of work and development opportunities ... infrastructure, resource availability, management factorsand personal appreciation) [3], although, in addition, living conditionsand social status emerge as important (and, to a lesser degree, workload) The...
... Orthopaedics and Wright Medical Technologies, and receives royalties from Stryker Orthopaedics PMB is a consultant for Stryker Orthopaedics, and receives royalties from Stryker, Arthrocare, Biomet, and ... patellofemoral joint and the lateral compartment, to evaluate the patella for the presence of osteophytes, and to confirm that the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments (ACL and PCL) were intact ... matched-pair signed-rank tests and chi-squared tests were used to compare continuous and categorical variables, respectively, before and after the operations Seven factors were evaluated for association...