Health impact assessment (HIA) on a strategic level focuses on the broad determinants of health. However, the evidence with regard to the health impacts is often necessarily 'soft'. The example of a health impact review on national housing policy in the Netherlands shows that HIA can be effective even in the absence of hard data. Strategies used to overcome the problem of not having hard data a...

72 1024x768 normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background : by providing a picture from published articles in a field, bibliometric studies can inform policy-makers in their challenging research funding decisions. in this regard, we applied bibliometric analysis to the iranian pediatrics articles published in pubmed indexed journals between 1975 and 2007. methods : we evaluated all p...

data sanitization is a process that is used to promote the sharing of transactional databases among organizations and businesses, it alleviates concerns for individuals and organizations regarding the disclosure of sensitive patterns. it transforms the source database into a released database so that counterparts cannot discover the sensitive patterns and so data confidentiality is preserved ag...