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... quality of prosthetic rehabilitation and its effect on oral health of the elderly Only few studies have been performed on prosthetic rehabilitation of the elderly in Finland The Mini-Finland study ... extraction of teeth and progresses at varying speed for the rest of the life (Tallgren, 1972) Both local and systemic factors may affect the rate of RRR The role of local prosthetic factors in the RRR ... 1967) The aim of this doctoral thesis was to describe the present prosthetic rehabilitation, the adequacy of received prosthetic treatment and subjective and objective needs for the prosthetic...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... that the happy soul of Daybreak, the poet of Zarathustra who on the heights of Sils Maria dreamt himself ‘6,000 feet above man and time’, the melancholic of The Wanderer and His Shadow’ and the ... piety and the good should prove tinder for the incandescent spirits of the great warmongers, the zealots of a new order There is enough of blood, of domination, of mastery, will and cruelty, of ... redescribe their predecessors and place themselves at the culmination of the past and the promise of the future, even to the extreme of turning the fragile pax Europa into a scene of voicing...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

... knowledge of men on maternal and child health issues, their awareness of their wives’ practices and the preferred means of decision-making The objective of the study is to compare men’s knowledge and ... in the planning and conception of the research questions and the study design HEN and PN were responsible for analyzing the data HEN and ML drafted the article and Page of critically revising the ... money and arrange transport for emergency referral) for the pregnant woman is done by IMNCS programme organizers in the presence of her husband and other members of the family to motivate them...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 19:20

... Florida  The Department of Children and Families is the lead agency for reported cases of abuse and neglect  The Department of Health does prevention and intervention in conjunction with the Department ... causes the release of chemicals that  Impair cell growth and the formation of healthy neural circuits  Damage the brain’s stress response system  Contribute to premature aging of the body Healthy ... interventions  Strengthening and mobilizing the public health system 19 The Importance of Viewing Child Maltreatment in a Broad Societal Context The healthy development of all children benefits...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 09:20

... contributes to the regulation of the production of CRP and SAA [51] By inhibiting the activity of IL-1b and its generation from pro-IL-1b, canakinumab decreases the production of CRP and SAA This ... small as the majority of patients (81%) entered the study within three days of onset of flare Furthermore, the proportion of patients entering the study within four or five days of onset of flare ... contribution to the interpretation of the data, critical review of the paper and for coordinating author discussions and writing of the manuscript They also thank Rowena Hughes and Gemma Carter...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 15:22

... [16] and will be reflected on any severity of illness score such as APACHE II These changes start to normalize rapidly as the graft starts to function The multitude of the abnormalities and the ... first ICU day The only exception was Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) Most of these patients were still under the influence of postoperative sedation during the first 24 hours in ICU, and the worst GCS ... mortality) and discrimination (the ability of the predictive system to differentiate survivors from non-survivors) The calibration of both systems was evaluated with the Hosmer–Lemeshow goodness -of- fit...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... than necessary) on the owner and users of the UV system There are several ways to conduct a validation of reactor performance depending on whether the challenge organism has the same or different ... been recognized and addressed in the USEPA draft UVDGM, and quantified by a safety factor termed the RED Bias Although the principle is sound, the actual USEPA calculation of the RED Bias is ... UV as the target pathogen When challenge microbes have the same UV-sensitivity as the target (regulated) microbes, the effect of the dose distribution would be the same on both microbes, and measured...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:08

... responsible for the focus on the health of children under five years of age, and he was the leader in the definition of the health status and determinants indicators that framed the literature ... evidence of health status and main determinants of urban child health and a description of key characteristics of the health and family situations of small children living in slums in the ANE ... services, and infrastructure and thus has a higher standard of health and welfare The data would seem to bear out these assumptions For understanding the health status of urban slum children, the data...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 12:20

... Reproductive Health + The CDC’s Office of Women’s Health + + The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) + The Children’s Bureau of the ACF + The ... funded by the following programs and agencies of the U.S Departments of Health and Human Services: + The National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) + The Office of Population ... reproductive health of men and women (11–13) Strengths and Limitations of the Data The data in this report come primarily from the most recent cycle of the NSFG conducted in 2002, and, as a result, they...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... care to the mother and reduce the likelihood of MTCT of HIV ‘ The core goal of all medical therapy is to bring the patient’s viral load to an undetectable level When that goal is reached, the chance ... agreement of the Department Ian Askew’s participation in the review was supported through the ‘Memorandum of Under- standing’ between the WHO Department of Reproductive Health and Research, the Population ... providers use their time, rather than the amount of time they have available, is what matters The contribution of MCH and delivery services In most developing countries, the great majority of pregnant...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 15:20

... the problem of sewer overflows Rather, what is needed is political will, enforcement of existing laws, adequate information, and billions of dollars to improve the integrity and capacity of the ... be increasing, and there is evidence that the rate of infection is proportional to both the amount of time swimmers are exposed and the levels of pollution in the waters where they swim.60 According ... percent over land areas of the Northern Hemisphere during the 20th century,155 and global warming is predicted to further increase the intensity of rainfall events for parts of the United States.156...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 10:20

... degradation of exergy is a consequence of the development of ecosystems from the early to the mature state, but APPLICATION OF INDICATORS FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF ECOSYSTEM HEALTH as ecosystems cannot ... abundance vs the logarithm of the sequence of species ordered in a decreasing order The slope of the straight line obtained allows the valuation of the pollution grade The higher the slope is, the higher ... is the coefficient of pollution, S0 is the sand equivalent, s is the percent sand, t is the percent silt, i0 is the theoretical number of individuals, i is the number of individuals, h is the...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 20:20

... independent of their husbands – though the sense of solidarity and the problems shared in such groups can add to the sense of empowerment and to the demand for better maternal, neonatal and child health ... some of the critical issues in maternal and newborn health and nutrition today The current situation of maternal and neonatal health Since 1990, the estimate of the global annual number of maternal ... safeguards and promotes their rights The second chapter of The State of the World’s Children 2009 explores the fundamentals of the supportive environment and the ways in which it strengthens efforts...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 15:20

... the development of the meaning of “land”, the history of the land concessions, from the first beginnings to the present, rights and powers in the management and use of land, and the process of ... context of the management and use of forest and land resources in the midst of the transition process of economic development of the country Changes in the meaning of “land” in Laos “Land of the ... crops and it is one of the ten top export commodities of Thailand The area of rubber production has expanded from the South to the Eastern region, the Northeast and the North In the Northeast,...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 04:20

... just yet As statistical indicators they measure the health of a nation and the level of its development But behind those statistics are the shadows of many other urgent development issues - gender ... stages of their growth, but also for mothers Over 30% of women are malnourished in this region, harming expectant mothers and reducing the chances of survival for their children before they are ... national level to: • Improve standards and increase action around maternal and child health • Empower girls and women with the knowledge to take good care of themselves and their children, including...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 10:20

... the Central, Southern and Northern Regions Slightly less than half of the Malawi population (47%) lives in the Southern region, while 41% and 12% live in the Central and Northern Regions of the ... (33% of females and 27% of males) and being afraid (32% of females and 16% of males) Approximately 70% of the respondents had heard about voluntary counseling and testing and while the majority of ... lost their father (14%) than had lost their mother (8% of the females and 7% of the males) Approximately 6% of the respondents reported that they had lost both biological parents Charts 3.1 and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... reproductive health needs of key groups; – To stress the gender dimensions of the sexual and reproductive health of people living with HIV, and the The sexual and reproductive health of people living ... traditional providers of health services; and the research and monitoring of health outcomes Within the broad framework of health systems, support for the sexual and reproductive health of people living ... health and rights The Guidance Package promote their sexual and reproductive health and rights is casts a wide net, examining the sexual and reproductive focused largely on reform of health and...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 16:20

... or other identification of the individual who accessed the record, the name or other identification of the record that was accessed, the date, the time, and the area, module, or screen of the ... compromise the privacy or security of the information), then the accounting may indicate that the disclosure was to ‘‘another patient.’’ We believe that the alternative of providing the name of the ... of a change to their notices of privacy practices within 60 days of the effective date of the change In the Department’s notice of proposed rulemaking to implement the privacy provisions of the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:20

... emissions of other harmful pollutants Studies on concentrations of individual 35 I Air Pollution and the Health of New Yorkers: The Impact of Fine Particles and Ozone air pollutants and the risk of health ... quantify the relationship between the concentrations of pollutants measured in the air and the risk of adverse health effects in the population The report uses the results from both types of studies ... control for other factors that vary with time and can influence health events, such as the season, weather and day of the week The daily risk of a particular health event is related to the daily...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20