REPORT VERSION: first REPORT PREPARATION DATE: 2005.02.28 CLASSIFICATION: Public DELIVERABLE NO: D2.1 DUE DATE: Month 40 DELIVERY DATE: Month 40 PROJECT START DATE: 2002.01.01 PROJECT DURATION: 40 months RESPONSIBLE PARTNER: UCL PARTICIPATING PARTNERS: UCL PROJECT COORDINATOR: Swedish Institute of Computer Science AB PROJECT PARTNERS: EPFL Lausanne, INRIA Paris, KTH Stockholm, UCL Louvain, Univ...

Professor Webster received his B.Sc. in Social Sciences in 1974 at the Polytechnic of the South Bank, then earned his Ph.D. in the Sociology of Science at the University of York in 1981. He is currently Professor in the Sociology of Science and Technology, Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), and Academic Coordinator for the Social Sciences at the University of York. Fro...

Combined Huntington’s Disease Clinic, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand, Older Persons Mental Health, Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand, Health Sciences Department, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, Coordinator of Clinical Services for Families Living with HD, Christchurch, New Zealand, New Zealand Brain Research Institute, Christchurch, Ne...

OBJECTIVE Understanding population-level health trends is essential to effectively monitor and improve public health. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Query Health initiative is a collaboration to develop a national architecture for distributed, population-level health queries across diverse clinical systems with disparate data models. Here we revie...

This essay focuses on the pioneer activities of public health dentistry in Brazil and its evolution in the 20th century with emphasis on the emergency of a landmark, the sanitary dentistry. Social and preventive dentistry and market dentistry, with reference to the main theoretical works representative of these trends, are presented. The essential characteristics of collective oral health (Braz...

edi tor ’s note: NEHA strives to provide up-to-date and relevant information on environmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmental Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will high...

Protecting health against the effects of climate change will be next year’s theme for World Health Day (7 April 2008) and WHO’s 60th anniversary celebrations. Carlos Corvalan talks about WHO’s work with countries to help them tackle those effects and how climate change affects people’s health. Carlos Corvalan is an environmental epidemiologist with a Masters in Public Health from Sydney Univers...

Co-ordinator, Mental Health: Evidence and Research Medical Officer, Mental Health: Evidence and Research, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, WHO, Geneva *Correspondence: Shekhar Saxena, Coordinator, Mental Health: Evidence and Research, Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, World Health Organization, Geneva 27, CH 1211, Switzerland Email: [email protected] Tel : +41 22 79...

Introduction: Covid-19 pandemic had a massive impact on the capabilities of healthcare system. The development vaccines and setup vaccination program general population required an important coordination organizational work, from already worn-out implementation mass centers is known as most efficient way vaccinating rapidly efficiently large part population, but requires non-negligible amount r...