Balkans briefing 6. Picking up the pieces: reflections on the initial stages of the reconstruction of the health care system in Kosovo, July 1999.

Balkan briefing. Abuses of human rights in the Kosovo region of the Balkans.

Balkans briefing number 7. Pristina Hospital: under new management.

This is the seventh paper in a series on the consequences for public health of the conflict in the Balkans. It describes the state of the hospital sevices in Pristina after the cease fire in June 1999 and the subsequent reconstruction programme.

Informal Patient Payments and Bought and Brought Goods in the Western Balkans – A Scoping Review

Introduction Informal patient payments for healthcare are common in the Western Balkans, negatively affecting public health and healthcare.   Aim To identify literature from the Western Balkans on what is known about informal patient payments and bought and brought goods, to examine their effects on healthcare and to determine what actions can be taken to tackle these payments.   Methods After ...

Balkan briefing. Reflections on the health of a refugee population (Part 1).

During the early spring of 1999 the ethnic cleansing of Albanians from Kosovo saw the mass movement of a population from its country. Hundreds of thousands of people were evicted from their homes, pouring across the borders of neighbouring countries seeking sanctuary in hastily established refugee camps. This article describes the health of this population and some of the immediate problems fac...

A Fuzzy Expert System & Neuro-Fuzzy System Using Soft Computing For Gestational Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis

Gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a kind of diabetes that requires persistent medical care in patient self management education to prevent acute complications. One of the common and main problems in diagnosis of the diabetes is the weakness in its initial stages of the illness. This paper intends to propose an expert system in order to diagnose the risk of GDM by using FIS model. The knowl...