With the rapid development of the economy over the past 20 years, the mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) and respiratory diseases (RDs) have changed in China. This study aimed to analyze the trends of mortality rates and years of life lost (YLLs) from CVDs and RDs in the rural and urban population from 1990 to 2015. Using data from Chinese yearbooks, joinpoint regression analys...

Rumah Desa Sehat (RDS) adalah salah satu program Kementerian Desa, Pembangunan Daerah Tertinggal dan Transmigrasi. Direktorat Jenderal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat telah mengeluarkan Pedoman Teknis RDS pada tahun 2018. Kecamatan Gubug mengambil langkah strategis berani, dengan menetapakan kebijakan bagi seluruh desa yang berada di wilayahnya untuk mengalokasikan 10% anggaran Dana menangani permasala...

OBJECTIVE To characterize the current stage of the institutionalization of pharmaceutical services in Brazilian cities. METHODS This study is part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos (PNAUM - National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines), a cross-sectional, exploratory, and evaluative study composed by an in...

BACKGROUND Institutionalization after hip fracture is a socio-economical burden. We examined the predictive value of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) and Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) for institutionalization after hip fracture to identify patients at risk for institutionalization. METHODS Fragility hip fracture patients ≥65 years of age (n = 584) were comprehensively exa...

Background: Respondent-driven sampling(RDS) is an increasingly widely used variant of a link tracing design for recruiting hidden populations. The role of the spatial distribution of the target population has not been robustly examined for RDS. We examine patterns of recruitment by location, and how they may have biased an RDS study findings. Methods: Total-population data were available on a r...

Objective: To determine the outcome of preterm neonates with early introduction bubble continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). Methodology: This observational study was conducted in NICU Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad from March 2017 to August 2017. Ninety infants were enrolled a gestational age 28 37 weeks and clinical features Respiratory Distress Syndrome (RDS). Infant variables...

BACKGROUND Because respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) affects 1% of live births, accurate and rapid assessment of markers of fetal lung maturity is critical to clinicians in deciding whether to deliver a preterm infant. Our objective was to determine the optimal diagnostic cutoff value for the TDx-FLM II assay (Abbott Laboratories) for predicting clinically significant RDS. METHODS Amniotic ...

As well-known regulators of gene expression, microRNAs (miRNAs) are important not only in cell proliferation and differentiation, but also in tumorigenesis and organ development. It has been estimated that miRNAs may be responsible for regulating the expression of almost one third of the human genome. Simultaneously, with advances in neonatal care in the clinic, an increased number of premature...

Among political scientists the debate about the relative virtues/vices of the different regime types has constituted one of the most incandescent fields of inquiry. Yet few studies address the impact of semi-presidentialism on the prospects for party system institutionalization, otherwise a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for the consolidation of democracy (Mainwaring and Scully, 1995;...