OBJECTIVE To investigate the extent to which GPs in The Netherlands participate in disease management and how personal opinions, impeding and promoting incentives as well as physician characteristics influence their attitude towards disease management. METHODS The attitude-model of Fishbein and Ajzen was used to describe the attitude of GPs towards disease management and main influencing fact...

BACKGROUND During the past three decades, Oman has made significant progress in controlling TB within it's borders. However, the national TB control program elimination target has yet to be reached. This study aims to explore the perceived roles played by the immigrant population and the private health sector in relation to TB control in Oman. METHODS We conducted seventeen interviews with di...

requiring the ratepayers to maintain lunatics of the middle and lower classes." The last of these two propositions is easily dealt with. If the honourable member had only taken the trouble to get up any information at all before he addressed the House on so important a subject, he would have found that at all country and borough asylums there is a system of payment enforced upon the relatives o...

A study of epidemic transmission of Chikungunya virus (CHIK) was initiated in April 1999 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Three hundred seventeen volunteers from three kelurahans (sub-districts) were recruited. Anti-CHIK IgG antibodies were detected in 68% to 74% of cases and 28% to 32% of controls. In the kelurahan with no reported CHIK illness, 29% of cases and 28% of controls had anti-CHIK IgG anti...

Wolfgang Kummer was well known for his passion for axial gauges and for the formulation of gravity in terms of Cartan variables. The combination of the two applied to two-dimensional dilaton gravity is the basis of the “Vienna School”, which provided numerous significant results over the last seventeen years. In this review we trace the history of this success with particular emphasis on dilato...

To analyze anti-poverty policies in tandem with the taxes used to pay for them, comparisons of poverty before and after taxes and transfers are often used. We show that these comparisons, as well as measures of horizontal equity and progressivity, can fail to capture an important aspect: that a substantial proportion of the poor are made poorer (or non-poor made poor) by the tax and transfer sy...

Review on CXCL17, with data on DNA/RNA, on the protein encoded and where the gene is implicated.