Endemic nephropathy is a chronic tubulointerstitial disease characterized by early damage to the proximal tubule, with low-molecular weight proteinuria being an important hallmark and possible tool for early diagnosis. The aim of this retrospective cohort study was to assess the risk of developing endemic nephropathy in subjects with proteinuria from the endemic region in Croatia. The cohort st...

We report a patient with severe chronic periodontitis requiring regenerative periodontal surgery and different types of prosthesis in the maxillary and mandibular regions. The patient was a 57-year-old woman who presented with the chief complaint of occlusal pain. An initial clinical examination revealed that 73% of sites had a probing depth of ≥4 mm, and 60% of sites exhibiting bleeding on pro...

Introduction Primary health care approach is aimed at community participation in understanding the health needs of the community. To address the community participation in institutionalized health services in India, Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committees (VHSNC) werer formed at village level under the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM). About 421,892 VHSNCs have been constituted a...

Certain linguistic groups in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea are unique in that there is no cultural role for a traditional birth attendant and, therefore, women deliver alone unattended. A programme to train village women as midwives was begun at Nipa Health Centre im 1981 and later expanded to a province-wide scope in 1986. Thirty-two Angal Heneng village midwives were trained duri...

This article discusses the development of Borderless Village, a multiethnic town in the planned industrial city of Ansan, South Korea. Despite the original vision of Ansan as a clean, self-sufficient model community, its subsequent development resulted in the creation of seemingly dystopic conditions. The perversion of initial planning goals, however, has not been able to prevent the emergence ...

The aim of the natural investigations carried out in two archaeological sites in the SE Poland was to determine their TL age (15 samples) and characterize the vegetation cover with the use of pollen analysis (10 samples) of loess and loess-like deposits sampled in the sites and their close environs. Micromorphological features of loess were examined in one of the sites. The research was carried...

Abstract Flood events are very common in the lowlands as often happens Ujong Krueng Village, Tripa Makmur District. This study aims to determine magnitude of design flood discharge using Nakayasu method and evaluating cross-sectional capacity River Village. The data used both primary secondary. Primary consists measurements river slope, flow velocity, depth width, while secondary rainfall data,...

The period of change from pithouse to pueblo as the prefen-ed dwelling in the American Southwest represents an architectural transition associated with greater complexity of community organization. Excavation of more than 70% of the principal residential area within a small) single component) late Mogollon pithouse village (A.C. 1150-1200) in New Mexico (but located near EI Paso) Texas) helpspr...

Methods A total of 167 health facilities including 2 county hospitals, 15 township hospitals and 150 village health stations were sampled as surveillance sites in 2 counties in Jiangxi province, China. Health facility visits of patients with ten major symptoms including fever, cough, sore throat, diarrhea, and nausea/vomiting, together with their age and gender were reported to a web-based plat...