BACKGROUND The Tobacco Products Control Act, No. 83 of 1993 was introduced in South Africa in 1993. Due to the shortfalls of the 1993 Act, the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act, No. 12 of 1999 was passed in 1999. The regulation relating to smoking of tobacco products in public places was gazetted in 2000 and implemented in 2001. SETTING The setting for the study was all selected register...

The French healthcare system is a universal healthcare system with no financial barrier to access to health services and cancer drugs. The objective of the study is to investigate associations between, on the one hand, incidence and survival of patients diagnosed with lung cancer in France and, on the other, the socioeconomic deprivation and population density of their municipality of residence...

INTRODUCTION Chagas disease is a parasitosis considered a serious problem of public health. In the municipality of Barcarena, Pará, from 2007 to 2014, occurred the highest prevalence of this disease in Brazil. OBJECTIVE To analyze the disease distribution related to epidemiological, environmental and demographic variables, in the area and period of the study. METHODS Epidemiological and dem...

The endemicity of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the Cianorte municipality, Paraná State the occurrence of human cases with the probable infection locus in the urban area, the presence of a permanently preserved modified native forest in the urban perimeter, and the lack of knowledge of the fauna of sand flies in the municipality provided the impetus for this study. The objective of ...

AIM To evaluate cancer risk in Brezice municipality in the period 1984-2003 and compare it with the period 1970-1983, before Krsko nuclear power plant started operating in the vicinity. METHODS A descriptive geographical epidemiological study was performed to compare the cancer relative risks (RR) on the national, regional, and local level. We estimated RR for all cancers combined, the five m...

BACKGROUND Instruments have been developed to assess professional views of the quality of care but have rarely been tested for responsiveness to change. The objective of this study was to test the responsiveness of the General Practitioner Experiences Questionnaire (GPEQ) for the measurement of Community Mental Health Centres in Norway. METHODS National surveys were conducted in Norway in 200...

Welfare package has gained popularity in keeping employees’ motivation levels high and accordingly help improve their performance, both at work home. Although it become a concern as motivational tool for enhancing productivity the education sector, extant research considered other forms of packages higher educational system. The study, therefore, used Maslow Hierarchy Theory cross-sectional sur...

The purpose of the research study was set to investigate impact heads secondary schools’ managerial skills on students’ academic performance in Morogoro Municipality Tanzania. specific objectives were determine possessed by schools which influenced municipality, find out how and measures improving management saturated sampling technique used identify respondents for study. Thus, all given oppor...

Although the organizational culture is one of the main issue of organizational studies, very few research has tried to explore the organizational culture change process through a systemic and dynamics perspective. This paper explore the dynamics of the organizational culture in a municipality over time, trying to show that: (1) the dynamics of the four typologies of organizational culture in th...