UNLABELLED Childhood tuberculosis (TB) is common in high TB burden countries, contributing a substantial proportion to the TB caseload. The HIV epidemic has had a large impact on the incidence, diagnosis and management of childhood TB. AIM To review the contributions from researchers at the University of Cape Town to the field of childhood TB over the past decades. METHODS Review of publish...

the space structure that governs cities has depended on several corresponding relations and various factors which consist of: population, job and activities, transportation patterns, urban sub-structures, various services and etc that always were connected to each other and have formed its space structure. but since these relations are more complicated in big cities, the importance of paying at...

The development of transport infrastructure is associated with risks, expressed in the likelihood harm to road users’ health during accidents and their consequences. risk management process aimed at reducing influence factors that contribute occurrence an accident increase consequences’ severity after it. This article proposes a methodology within five stages: identification, analysis evaluatio...

Creating awareness and recognizing behavioral factors associated with recycling is essential for waste management. To identify factors influencing recycling behavior, a theory of planned behavior (TPB)-based questionnaire was designed. The aim of this study was to assess the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. This psychometric study was conducted through a multistage random sampling...

the purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people’s non-participation of mahabad’s dam catchment in watershed management projects. the research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which its validity confirmed by panel of academic staff and reliability of questionnaire was confirmed. the target population of thi...

A GIS based information management system has been developed to help Urban Malaria Control in India. The basic objective is to develop a model to assist planning and implementation of a suitable control measure. The system can help in: (i) identifying high receptive areas in time and space domain; (ii) identifying risk factors for high receptivity; (iii) monitoring and evaluating control measur...