Received February 7, 2003 Abstract The Maternal and Child Health Centres (MCHCs) of the Department of Health have been using the Distraction Test (DT) as the main tool for infant hearing screening. Recognising the limitations of the test, a one-year pilot project was conducted to investigate the feasibility of implementing Automated Otoacoustic Emission (AOAE) screening in MCHCs and to compare ...

Area development projects are multi-million euro construction projects that aim for relatively large areas to be constructed in a concentrated time frame. Finnish municipalities have tended to favor area development projects due to the related normally positive indirect cash flow effects for municipalities, e.g., positive tax income effects, and the fact that they speed-up the municipal develop...

Several developing countries lack a medical insurance system with universal coverage, so access to medical services is not easy, principally for people living in poverty. One of the biggest issues for designing healthcare systems in developing countries is how to include those not formally employed. Therefore, it is important to implement targeted interventions so that the most in need are not ...

During the summer semester 1997 five German universities participated in a telelearning pilot project where a telelecture and -tutorial was held via the internet. Within this pilot project, we evaluated the m-bone based video conferencing tool as well as the applied didactic concept. The video conferencing tool provided insufficient quality of transmission and was deficient regarding its functi...

An increasing number of elections have been performed using Online Voting including Estonia, Canada, Norway and Switzerland. In October 2005, Estonia organized countrywide remote e-voting. Every Estonian citizen got the opportunity to cast their vote via Internet from all over the world. Approximately 2% of actual voters made use of this opportunity. Different countries are also working on to d...

Purpose Patient Navigation (PN) has the potential to increase timely utilization of cancer prevention, early detection and treatment services among underserved populations. Few such navigators exist in community-based settings. Tongans in Southern California experience some of the largest cancer health disparities in the state. In addressing breast and cervical cancer, a pilot project was launc...

BACKGROUND Poor communication between physicians and nursing staff could result in inadequate interprofessional collaboration with negative effects on patient health. In order to ensure optimal health care for patients, it is important to strengthen interprofessional communication and collaboration between physicians and nurses during their education. AIM The aim of this project is to foster ...

the purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in iranian agricultural extension system (iaes). the research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and cranach’s alpha test, respectively. the target population of this research included all extension managers...

It is by now a common experience that Y2K-projects tend to be complex, time-consuming and risky as well as that they can cause considerable costs. Because they belong to the class of corrective maintenance projects, not too many bene ts can be expected from such projects at a rst sight. But if they are managed in a proper way, the foundation for several important future bene ts can be layed. In...