THE STUDY IS BASED PARTLY ON THE DATA GATHERED IN THE municipality of Banaue, Ifugao, Mountain Province in May, June, July and December of 1966 and January of 1967. The field work was undertaken as a preliminary survey of Ifugao art in order to record and appraise the types of arts and crafts that are still being practiced. Prior to the field trip, I had studied earlier accounts of Ifugao cultu...

There is a high incidence of leprosy in the municipality of Mossor6, Rio Grande do Norte state, where the detection coefficient has risen from 2.78/10,000 population in 1998 to 5.14 in 2004. While cases have been registered throughout the urban area, the disease is concentrated in select neighbourhoods. This study was undertaken using Geographical Information System (GIS) with the objective of ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence rates and level of awareness of obesity among people of different age groups in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania. DESIGN A cross-sectional, descriptive study. SUBJECTS One hundred adults aged 19-50 years old and 40 pupils aged 14-18 years old. SETTING Four educational institutions in Morogoro Municipality were included in the study. The four institutio...

BACKGROUND There is a great variety in how emergency medical communication centers (EMCC) are organized in different countries and sometimes, even within countries. Organizational changes in the EMCC have often occurred because of outside world changes, limited resources and the need to control costs, but historically there is often a lack of structured evaluation of these organization changes....

BACKGROUND Universal access is one of the major aims in public health and social care. Services should be provided on the basis of individual needs. However, municipal autonomy and the fragmentation of services may jeopardize universal access and lead to variation between municipalities in the delivery of services. This paper aims to identify patient-level characteristics and municipality-level...

Teknolojin hızla gelişmesi internet alanında da bir takım yenilikleri beraberinde getirmektedir. Her geçen gün inovasyonel değişim yaşayan dünyası, sürekli gelişerek bireylerin olduğu kadar kurum ve kuruluşların önemli iletişim unsuru haline gelmiştir. Faaliyetlerini ortamında hedef kitlelerine ulaştırmak isteyen kuruluşlar, bünyelerinde imaj çalışmalarına önem vererek buna yönelik çabalar içer...

INTRODUCTION Incompleteness of epidemiological databases is a major drawback when it comes to analyzing data. We conceived an epidemiological study to assess the association between newborn thyroid function and the exposure to perchlorates found in the tap water of the mother's home. Only 9% of newborn's exposure to perchlorate was known. The aim of our study was to design, test and evaluate an...

Correctly addressing the questions of worried citizens with respect to possible clusters of cancer occurrence requires a risk communication strategy that is informed by a previously established analytical procedure. The aim of this study was to analyse cancer registration data in order to identify municipalities or clusters of municipalities with an increased incidence of one or more cancer typ...