Computer forensics is a relatively young University discipline which has developed strongly in the United States and the United Kingdom but is still in its infancy in continental Europe. The national programmes and courses offered therefore differ in many ways. We report on two recently established degree programmes from two European countries: Great Britain and Germany. We present and compare ...

Seasonal influenza vaccination programmes represent one the largest components of national immunisation programmes in many industrialised countries with a wide range of target groups in the population. These programmes target groups at higher risk of severe disease including the elderly, those with underlying clinical risk factors and pregnant women in many European countries [1]. Additionally ...

This paper deals with some applications of Virtual Instrumentation to electroanalytical measurements. Virtual Instruments (VIs) are software programmes that simulate the external appearance and functions of a real instrument on the screen of a computer. In this work, programmes have been developed to control the potential of a working electrode (through a suitable potentiostat), acquire the cur...

A joint project of WHO, SEARO and National Tuberculosis Institute, Bangalore was undertaken in the year 2003-05 to augment TB-HIV collaborative activities in the district of Mandya. At the outset, the achievements and the components of the tuberculosis and AIDS control programmes were identified during the situational analysis of the control programmes of the two diseases. This was done as a pr...

Since 2007, low and middle-income countries (LMICs) have gained experience delivering HPV vaccines through HPV vaccination pilots, demonstration projects and national programmes. This commentary summarises lessons from HPV vaccination experiences in 45 LMICs and what works for HPV vaccination introduction. Methods included a systematic literature review, unpublished document review, and key inf...

Industrialised countries, faced with increasing demands for quality health care by ageing populations and ever increasing costs of medicines, can learn from low income countries how to respond to pharmaceutical policy issues in a comprehensive way. Since the 1970s many developing countries have started national programmes for essential drugs to promote the availability, accessibility, affordabi...

OBJECTIVE Sustainability of public social welfare programmes has long been of concern in development circles. An important aspect of sustainability is the ability to sustain the recurrent financial costs of programmes. A free maternal care programme (FMCP) was launched under the Ghana National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in 2008 with a start-up grant from the British Government. This article...

OBJECTIVE This study surveyed all UK medical schools regarding their Bachelor of Medicine (MB), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (MB/PhD) training policy in order to map the current training landscape and to provide evidence for further research and policy development. SETTING Deans of all UK medical schools registered with the Medical Schools Council were invited to participate in this survey elec...

BACKGROUND In organized screening programmes for cervical cancer, pre-cancerous lesions are detected by cervical smears. However, during follow-up after a positive smear these pre-cancerous lesions are not always found. The purpose of the study is to analyse positive diagnostic values of smears of at least mild dysplasia, made under the organized screening programmes in the Rotterdam area (1979...

INTRODUCTION Public health research, at population and organizational level, needs to be identified independently within 'health' research from biomedicine and life sciences. In PHIRE (Public Health Innovation and Research in Europe), we investigated the extent and character of public health research calls and programmes in European countries. METHODS Country respondents, identified through n...