This paper considers the scheduling of preventive maintenance for boilers, turbines, and distillers power plants that produce electricity desalinated water. It models problem as a mathematical program (MP) maximizes sum minimal ratios production to demand water during planning time horizon. objective encourages plants’ enhances chances meeting consumers’ needs. reduces chance cuts shortages may...

Bovine respiratory disease complex (BRDC) is the most important health issue in beef feeder calves. Our study was a randomized, blinded field trial to evaluate potential differences in health, production and behavior in feeder calves administered two different preventive health programs. Calves in two replicates (n=308 and n=305) were allocated to pens and then pens were randomly assigned a pre...

background the alarming incidence of self- burning provoked to set up a multidisciplinary preventive program to decrease the incidence and complications of this harmful issue. this study investigated the incidence and the preventive measures in self-burn in fars province, southern iran. methods this study was a longitudinal prospective design on trend of self-inflicted burn injuries in fars pro...

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of a preventive oral hygiene program in a group of 7-11-year-old children living in an orphanage in Brazil. The program was based on professional tooth cleaning, as well as dental health information and oral hygiene instruction during a 6-month period. A total of 80 children were examined and 42 who had all first molars erupted were selecte...

OBJECTIVES Increased utilization of preventive services among the aging has been associated with improved health status and decreased medical costs. We sought to examine the use of the Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) in benchmarking compliance and characterizing those retired employees who met preventive service guidelines. DESIGN A retrospective cohort study of retired employees age 65 and older...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a 9-month preventive occupational therapy (OT) program in the Well-Elderly Study: a randomized trial in independent-living older adults that found significant health, function, and quality of life benefits attributable to preventive OT. DESIGN A randomized trial. SETTING Two government-subsidized apartment complexes. PARTICIPANTS One hundre...

OBJECTIVE To identify the financial resources and investments provided for preventive medicine programs by health insurance companies of all kinds. METHODS Data were collected from 30 large health insurance companies, with over 100 thousand individuals recorded, and registered at the Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementar. RESULTS It was possible to identify the percentage of participants of...

INTRODUCTION In 2012, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced the Quality Bonus Payment Demonstration, a pay-for-performance (P4P) program, into Medicare Advantage plans. Previous studies documented racial/ethnic disparities in receipt of care among participants in these plans. The objective of this study was to determine whether P4P incentives have affected these dispar...

BACKGROUND Out reach facilitation is designed to promote uptake of evidence-based guidelines. There is evidence indicating that outreach facilitation can be effective in improving implementation of preventive care in GPs' offices. In this trial, we test a modified version of an outreach facilitation intervention. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether a comprehensive preventive intervention program us...