Setting up a Height Surveillance Programme: Recommendations Based on the Hackney Growth Initiative

Setting up a structured laboratory mentoring programme

INTRODUCTION Laboratory mentoring programmes can be an important vehicle to establish and solidify quality management systems and help laboratories achieve accreditation goals. Different mentoring approaches have been used with varying levels of success. The authors provide a guide to implementing a structured laboratory mentorship programme based on their practical field experience. METHOD T...

Setting up a pulmonary rehabilitation programme.

Guidelines for setting up a low vision programme for children.

Blindness and low vision are major causes of morbidity and have profound effects on the quality of life for many people. They inhibit mobility and economic well-being of the individuals affected as well as their families. Childhood blindness (CBL) is one of the challenges faced by the world generally and developing countries in particular. In industrialised countries, certain mechanisms for nor...

Surveillance Camera Autocalibration based on Pedestrian Height Distributions

We propose a new framework for automatic surveillance camera calibration by observing videos of pedestrians walking through the scene. Unlike existing methods that require accurate pedestrian detection and tracking, our method takes noisy foreground masks as input and automatically estimates the necessary intrinsic and extrinsic camera parameters using prior knowledge about the distribution of ...

Surveillance for the Expanded Programme on Immunization.

Surveillance is the foundation of public health practice. This review examines the experience of surveillance in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI). Surveillance systems include routine reporting, sentinel surveillance, and community-based reporting. Data from ongoing surveillance should be linked with those from supervision, health facility assessments, population surveys, and outbre...