Traffic accidents represent a significant cause of death in Croatia, therefore being an important social and public-health problem. The aim of our study was to analyze the forensic characteristics of traffic accidents with fatally injured drivers in Southwestern Croatia. Study population included 277 fatally injured drivers, in a 10 year period (between 1994 and 2004). As for the gender, 92% we...

OBJECTIVE The aim of our paper is to show results of population and hospital registry of congenital heart disease in Croatia. METHODS Information on patients born during the five-year study and with diagnosis of congenital heart defects, obtained all across the country, were collected in the population and hospital registry set up according to the EUROCAT and BWIS registries principles. RES...

1 Karmela Aleksic-Maslac, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Unska 3, Zagreb, Croatia, [email protected] 2 Branko Jeren, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia, [email protected] 3 Zvonko Kostanjcar (Student), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia, Zvonko.K...

The article presents the basic principles of health care, health care measures and strategic objectives of these measures in Croatia. The health of the population does not depend solely on the activities of the health care system but also on various demographic indicators. Our success in implementing health care depends largely on the structure of health facilities and health workers. The Croat...

INTRODUCTION With the trend of increasing incidence of autoimmune diseases, laboratories are faced with exponential growth of the requests for tests relating the diagnosis of these diseases. Unfortunately, the lack of laboratory personnel experienced in this specific discipline of laboratory diagnostic, as well as an unawareness of a method limitation often results in confusion for clinicians. ...

Key points: Croatia takes part in the integration process into European system, it has been its cultural part and part of its spiritual value since ever, but at the same time it’s partaking in the whirl of all globalization processes. Croatia belongs to the group of transitional countries too. Transition refers to the change from traditional to “modern” and “postmodern“, from totalitarian into ...

R&D activities are often considered as being a main driver of economic development, innovation and growth. They comprise creative work undertaken systematically with a view to increasing the stock of knowledge, including knowledge of man, culture and society, and the use of this stock of knowledge to devise new applications (Eurostat, 2008: 30). Today innovation performance is a crucial determi...

AIM To analyze epidemiologic characteristics of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Croatia, including military implications of the disease and measures for its prevention. METHOD We analyzed data from obligatory infectious disease reports and notification of deaths due to infectious diseases, data on the hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome epidemics in Croatia, and data collected by s...

In recent years, tobacco use and its control have become increasingly the focus of attention of policy-makers and researchers due to ill health effects of smoking on both smokers and non-smokers. This paper contributes to a neglected research area by focusing on tobacco use and its regulation in Croatia. In particular, this study uses recent survey information to analyze the tobacco use pattern...

The work presents the research about usage of computers in everyday teaching. The work presents the research conducted on teachers in elementary school in the Republic of Croatia. The aim of the research was to conduct opinion that usage of computers is inevitable in everyday teaching as more and more young teachers have sufficient computer knowledge to perform all basic teaching activities, th...