... werereported, also in different groups of age, either in Lon-don [50] or innorthern Alberta (Canada) [14]. In our setting, NO2correla ted with increasing respira-tory symptoms mostly in summer but ... torespiratory infections [47].Positive associations were observed both in France[48] and in Rome [39] particularly during the summer,as well as in England although at lag2 and in infants[49]. ... toquantify the increase i n risk according to an increase of10 μg/m3 in PM10,NO2,SO2,and1mg/m3 in COexposure; 95% confidence intervals (CI) were calculated.To examine the hazard period...
... example in arranging appointments, in explaining how to use the service and giving timely information. This leads at times to disorganisation in our response to the individual and inefficiency. ... Prosperity”. 12. Incentivising Innovation at a Local Level Making changes on the scale indicated in the following model will require devolved decision making and an incentive culture within health ... have a role in determining the needs of local population and planning and delivering integrated services. Seventeen Integrated Care Partnerships will cover Northern Ireland. For the individual,...
... and drainage. Soils forming in the same parent material but influenced by different drainage patterns form different soil series. These series form a drainage catena (Table 3). Nine drainage ... photocopying these maps for digitizing. The original drafting may also be flawed (Maling, 1989). Aerial photographs taken in 1942, 1947, and 1960 and used in the construction of the soil base maps in ... soil-surficial geology relationships innorthern Maine. The Potential of Soil Survey Data in a Quantitative Evaluation of Surficial Geology Mapping inNorthern Maine by Rosalia Evans...
... 2003• Nutrition including promotion and support for breastfeeding. • Prevention of Sudden Unexpected Death in Infants. • Reducing smoking by parents. • Childhood Injury Prevention. • ... (scope to be extended in the future).• Newborn examination including eyes, heart, hips and testes in boys (EHHT).• Neonatal hearing screening. • Newborn bloodspot screening.• Early identication ... Promotion Programme inNorthern IrelandPage 35 Maintaining infant health: ...
... thatManchester also had a thriving market in art in the form of bothoriginal paintings and prints.⁸⁸ In addition to shopping, the press alsorevealed that the inhabitants of northern towns pursued a ... could be foundoperating freely in the French guild system,²³ trading independently in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Geneva,²⁴ and acting as merchants in north-ern German and Scandinavian towns.²⁵ Across ... were not included in this study.surprisingly little about service, retailing, and small-scale manufactur-ing industries in the industrial towns of the north of England.Moreover, we remain largely...
... al. 1999) The business, industry and economic investment category has the longest tradition in Europe16. Businesses are becoming increasingly professional in their place hunting. However, places ... Supporting local entrepreneurs • Bringing education and business together • Creating community involvement • Building national and international links to develop new markets and to exploit inward ... 33.4 billion. In 1996, the figure rose to USD 43 billion. In 1999, the value was according to Interbrand, London, USD 84 billion. (Source: Helsingin Sanomat 22 June 1999. In 1999 Interbrand ranked...
... feeding[2,22]. In fact, not all pMTCT counsellors are trained in infant feeding counselling [21]. In addition to the docu-mented breach in updated knowledge on HIV and infantfeeding, the counsellors' ... beentrained specifically in HIV and infant feeding counselling,while sixteen had received four weeks of orientation train-ing for general HIV counselling. Eleven had also beentrained in breastfeeding ... the researcher reading and re-readingthe texts, manual coding in the margins, synthesising andgrouping of data in the relatively exhaustive categories.Results In the following results section,...
... medical training strategy, including the build-ing of a medical school innorthern Ontario, has beeninfluenced, at least in part, by research. The last two dec-ades have witnessed a growing body ... Steiner BD, Jones BD, Konrad TR: Preparing andretaining rural physicians through medical education. AcadMed 1999, 74:810-820.13. Stewart MA, Bass JJ: Recruiting and retaining physicians in northern ... shortages in northern Ontario over a 35-year period from 1969 to 2004 andexamines changes in the use of policy instruments. This isdone by charting the introduction of new programmes,including those...
... purposes)living in an area of 5900 km2. The province is a mixture ofurban, rural and mountainous settings. Coal mining is themost important industry, together with a rapidly growingtourism ... clinical improvements in developingsettings. In addition to adequate knowledge and resources, thehealth care staff needs to have a certain level of clinicalactivity to be able to maintain ... Forexample, it is assumed that having too few deliveries in ahealth care institution results in difficulties in maintain-ing high standard delivery care [17]. Yet, in the currentstudy no association...
... ref-ugees living in Mexico 20 years after civil conflict. JAMA 2003,290(5):635-642.33. Vinck P, Pham PN, Stover E, Weinstein HM: Exposure to warcrimes and implications for peace building in northern Uganda. ... contributionsBR, JB involved in the manuscript concept and design. BR,KFO, TO participated in the data collection. BR, JB con-ducted data analysis and review. BR, JB involved in draft-ing and reviewing the ... [073109/Z/03/Z].References1. Boas MHA: Northern Uganda IDP Profiling. Kampala: UNDP/GoU/FAFO; 2005. 2. Internally Displaced Camps in Lira and Pader, Northern Uganda. A Baseline Health Survey. Preliminary Report[http://www.msf.or.jp/news/baseline/Baseline.pdf]3....