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background: lack of access to health services has been mentioned as one of the main causes of health inequity in health system. the aim of this study was to measure horizontal inequity in access to outpatient services in shiraz. method: this household survey was conducted among 1608 participants above 18 years in shiraz in 2012. four-stage sampling was used. according to high amount of zero-val...

Interactions with family, friends, caregivers and dependants remind us that we live deeply embedded in networks of complex social interactions, and it seems clear that the quality of our health and the timing of our deaths should be influenced by others. It would also seem obvious as scientists that understanding the mechanisms by which social environments affect us should provide insights into...

A Valdivia ([email protected])1, J López-Alcalde2, M Vicente3, M Pichiule4, M Ruiz5, M Ordobas6 1. Preventive Medicine Unit, Hospital de Dénia (Marina Salud), Dénia, Spain 2. Health Technology Asessment Unit, Agencia Laín Entralgo, Madrid, Spain 3. Primary Health Care, Area 8, Madrid, Spain 4. Preventive Medicine Service, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Madrid, Spain 5. Primary Health...

Ichthyozoonotic Mycobacterium spp. poses health risks both to fish and humans. In this study, the presence of ichthyozoonotic Mycobacterium spp. was investigated in red mullet (Mullus barbatus barbatus) and surmullet (Mullus surmuletus), widely caught species in the Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. A total of 208 fish samples, provided from fishermen of Mersin province (Turkey) were studied. U...

Based on wireless technologies, Africa is undergoing a revolution in ICT. Efforts to employ the mobile phones beyond the conventional communication tool are underway. Mobile technology can be used to detect and respond to disease outbreaks and improve public health and health care provision. Mobile health (m-health) is believed to be appropriate in Sub Saharan Africa. However, m-health applicat...

Waiting in long queue is undesirable due to which in some practical situations customers become impatient and leave the system. In such cases providing additional servers can reduce long queue. This investigation deals with multi-server queueing system with additional servers and discouragement. The customers arrive in poisson fashion and are served exponentially by a pool of permanent and addi...

BACKGROUND The use of e-health and m-health technologies in health promotion and primary prevention among older people is largely unexplored. This study provides a systematic review of the evidence on the scope of the use of e-health and m-health tools in health promotion and primary prevention among older adults (age 50+). METHODS A systematic literature review was conducted in October 2015....