Development project touts health victory

Health Impact Assessment of Urban Development Project

BACKGROUND Health impact assessment (HIA) has emerged to identify those activities and policies likely to have major impacts on the health of a population. METHOD In this research, qualitative method was applied to identifying health determinants that urban man made lake affect on them, formatting and weighing the hierarchy of the factors, calculating AHP, and Technique for Order Preference b...

Comeback victory.

Victory over Suffering

Miss Ikin writes from the fulness of her own experience. After years of activity during the War in which she travelled up and down the country lecturing to the Forces on personal problems, both spiritual and domestic, she now finds herself extremely limited in physical ability and unable to walk more than a short distance. Consequently she knows what she is talking about, and she gives many pra...

VICTORY project: a study of counterfeit PDE5 inhibitor (sildenafil) in Indonesia.

AIM to quantify the extent of counterfeit sildenafil in Indonesia. METHODS the study was conducted in 4 big areas: Jakarta, Bandung, East Java (Surabaya and Malang), and Medan. Sildenafil 100 mg tablets were purchased from pharmacies, drugstores, street peddlers, and 3 Indonesian websites. The outlets were chosen by random sampling in each stratum (type of outlet). Sildenafil tablets purchase...

Victory of Community Engagement

Loretta Jones, MA; Kenneth Wells, MD; Keith Norris, MD; Barbara Meade, MA; Paul Koegel, PhD This chapter provides an overview of Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) and introduces the articles in this special issue. CPPR is a model to engage community and academic partners equally in an initiative to benefit the community while contributing to science. This article reviews the his...