INTRODUCTION There is a compelling need to develop clinical performance indicators for ambulance services in order to move from indicators based primarily on response times and in light of the changing clinical demands on services. We report on progress on the national pilot of clinical performance indicators for English ambulance services. METHOD Clinical performance indicators were develope...

introduction environmental fans believe that sustainable development depends on future needs to balance the objectives of social, economic and environmental development. although these goals are contradictory in the short term, but will strengthen each other in the long term. sustainable economic growth depends on a specific amount of resources, such as pollution absorption and resource regener...

The Healthy Cities and Agenda 21 programs improve living and health conditions and affect social and economic determinants of health. The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) indicators can be used to assess the impact of social agendas. A data search was carried out for the period 1997 to 2006 to obtain 48 indicators proposed by the United Nations and a further 74 proposed by the technical group...

One of the main reasons of unsustainability of city development in Iran is that planners and mayors have not almost been able to create connections between different dimensions of a city. Sustainability indicators are evaluation tools of cities operation applicable in living environmental, economical, and social aspects. The purpose of this paper is to offer a framework including the descriptio...

no. 347. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2004. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347. pdf (8 September 2012, date last accessed). 43 Ogden CL, Carroll MD. Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and extreme obesity among adults: United States, trends 1960–1962 through 2007–2008; NHANES Health E-Stat, 2010. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/obesity_adult_ 07_08/obesity_adult...

Motivational tendencies to happy and angry faces are well-established, e.g., in the form of aggression. Approach-avoidance reactions are not only elicited by emotional expressions, but also linked to the evaluation of stable, social characteristics of faces. Grounded in the two fundamental dimensions of face-based evaluations proposed by Oosterhof and Todorov (2008), the current study tested wh...

The paper extends existing work on inequality and economic development by estimating a cross-country structural model that identifies bi-directional relationships between income inequality and other indicators of social and economic development. Overall, lower inequality is associated with improvements in other development indicators, but this is the result of several complex interactions. The ...