BACKGROUND Ethiopia is one of the six countries that contributes' to more than 50 % of worldwide maternal deaths. While it is revealed that delivery attended by skilled provider at health facility reduced maternal deaths, more than half of all births in Ethiopia takes place at home. According to EDHS 2011 report nine women in every ten deliver at home in Ethiopia. The situation is much worse in...

The purpose of community service between PGRI Silampari University, in collaboration with the Lubuklinggau City Manpower Service and Class II.A Narcotics Correctional Institution is to improve apparel garment vocational skills assisted Institution. Methods activities include socialization, discussion, practice evaluation participants' responses activities. Based on results activities, it known:...

This user study reports on an ongoing pilot that aims at using machine translation on a large scale, for the translation of technical documentation for a globally acting automotive supplier. The pilot is conducted by a language service provider and a research institution. First results go beyond expectations.

Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford, CA 94305, USA Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai‘i at Mânoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA Institute of Pacific Islands Forestry, USDA Forest Service, Hilo, HI 96720, USA Department of Biological Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53211, USA Smithsonian Trop...

BACKGROUND Limits on resident work hours are intended to reduce fatigue-related errors, but may raise risk by increasing transfers of responsibility for patients. OBJECTIVE To examine changes in outcomes for internal medicine patients after the implementation of work-hour regulations. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Urban, academic medical center. PATIENTS 14,260 consecutive ...

BACKGROUND Food and nutritional care quality must be assessed and scored, so as to improve health institution efficacy. This study aimed to detect and compare actions related to food and nutritional care quality in public and private hospitals. METHODS Investigation of the Hospital Food and Nutrition Service (HFNS) of 37 hospitals by means of structured interviews assessing two quality contro...

This thesis addresses the problem of supporting independent living of elderly people through IT-based homecare services. Independent living is seen as one way to deal with the consequences of an aging population (especially in industrialized countries), which include rising healthcare expenditures and a required shortage of healthcare professionals. Our main goal is to improve the service creat...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the antihypertensive medication adherence in patients who were newly diagnosed with hypertension in Korea. METHODS Study subjects were diagnosed with hypertension for the first time by the General Health Screening in 2012 and were 65,919. As indices, visiting rate to medical institution, the antihypertensive prescription rate, medication po...