Health impact assessment (HIA) is an approach that has experienced increased activity and wide support within England. This is reflected in the large number of HIAs being undertaken at local and regional levels, by the advocacy of HIA in many national policy documents, and by the setting up of specialized HIA posts and centres. To continue this level of support, and to justify any increase, the...

This study examined a wide range of variables relating to the practice patterns of 692 Ontario chiropractors (approximately 30% of all registrants in the province) who subscribed to the Ontario Chiropractic Association's Patient Management Program. It analyzed the 2000-2001 data of these chiropractors and provided important information on such factors as practitioner and patient demographics, p...

conclusions the c genotype should be considered as the prevalent ev71 circulating genotype in iran, particularly in cases of aseptic meningitis. patients and methods viral rna was extracted from 170 cerebrospinal fluid samples obtained from children aged under 8 years with a primary diagnosis of aseptic meningitis. specific ev71 pcr was conducted to identify the genotype of the detected ev71 vi...

background: total system design (tsd) factors are design factors, which have impact on overall performance of the power plants in context of total human engineering or macroergonomic. the evaluation of the impact of tsd factors was the main goal of this study. the main objective was human factors engineering on human performance in a power plant. methods : the systems being studied are the cont...

HCI research into usability and security over 10 years has repeatedly found that users are unable to cope when faced with unusable password policies. Yet to show the full impact of these policies, it is necessary to consider the context of use within the organisation. Password requirements which users cannot meet have a cost in terms of impact on users’ primary task and, hence, loss of producti...


 Focus:
 To comprehend that plastic pollution is a major problem and having an impact on oceans everywhere. These impacts are seen beaches shorelines all the way to deepest places in ocean.
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 In this activity, pupils will gain appreciation for extent of around oceans. They start understand how can have negative life below surface sea.
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 To understand the meaning of human ecological footprint. Pupils will think about questions like how do our actions (e.g., research) affect environment around us and, what can we to reduce impact on oceans?
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 In this activity, pupils learn develop an understanding their relationship with oceans and marine hopefully be inspired turn knowledge int...

Public policy decisions in both the social and economic spheres have enormous impact on global public health. As a result of this, and of the skewed global distribution of power and resources, health impact assessment (HIA) potentially has a key role to play in foreign policy-making and global public policy-making. Governments, multilateral bodies and transnational corporations need to be held ...