Introduction: Socioeconomic status (SES) indicators are among the main social determinants of health and illness. Less, however, is known about the role of SES in the epidemiology of polypharmacy in immigrant Latino Americans living in the United States. This research studied the association between three SES indicators, education, income, and employment, and polypharmacy in ol...

communication. Later on electronic connections have been established to other financial institutions and to major business customers. The SWIFT network managing international payment transactions established in 1973, is an early example of this. A major barrier towards development of a full digital circuit, which includes all steps in production and distribution, has been the lack of an extensi...

The aim of this study was to assess the willingness of farmers to adopt crop insurance and the critical factors that influence the premium they are willing to contribute towards such a scheme. Two out of the eleven (11) agricultural operational areas in the Sunyani Municipality were selected purposively due to their dominance in maize and cassava production. Four (4) communities were randomly s...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Comprehensive Dialysis Study (CDS) aimed to understand factors contributing to physical, functional, and nutritional health status among patients starting dialysis. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS A phone interview survey was conducted with patients from a geographically stratified national random sample of dialysis units, and quarterly serum sample...

companies strive to improve market share, grow corporate profit, and gain strategic advantage. in order to achieve these goals, supply chain competency must be placed at the heart of a company’s business model. using e-commerce and information and communication technologies (ict) in today’s changing demands of business has made organizations more responsive and flexible. e-commerce and internet...

The advent of domestic bioterrorism has emphasized the need for enhanced detection of clusters of acute illness. We describe a monitoring system operational in eastern Massachusetts, based on diagnoses obtained from electronic records of ambulatory-care encounters. Within 24 hours, ambulatory and telephone encounters recording patients with diagnoses of interest are identified and merged into m...