This paper describes how oral health care delivery is organized in the country of Georgia in 2013. It also describes the dental workforce, detailing the number of dentists in dental specialties. A section on dental education both at undergraduate as well as post-graduate levels follows. National statistics and governmental reports were used as data sources for this paper. They were provided by ...

Industrial Health (NIIH) and the National Institute of Industrial Safety (NIIS) were amalgamated into a single, comprehensive research facility legislated as the Japan National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (JNIOSH), a new independent administrative government institution. From its inception as the Silicosis Laboratory, an attached office of the Industrial Health Division, Japan M...

Uprating of existing Overhead Lines is one approach to increase their capacity. APG is considering uprating certain 220 kV-lines to 380 kV in the near future. To this end new technical components have been developed. However requirements for an uprating are not exclusively technical, standards and legal aspects, environmental impacts as well as economical considerations have to be investigated ...

This article describes an approach to assessing infant and young child feeding (IYCF) practices using small-sample surveys which was developed jointly by VALID International; CONCERN Worldwide; Save the Children; the Sierra Leone Ministry of Health and Sanitation; the Niger National Institute of Statistics; the Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute (EHNRI); the Sudanese Federal Mini...

1 The Resource Exchange, Colorado Springs, CO, USA 2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Health Services, Division for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Ministry of Social Affairs and Social Services, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Division of Pediatrics, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel 5 Kentucky Children’s Hospital, Univer...

The varied performance of Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes in different contexts has highlighted the need for implementation of research that focuses on programme delivery issues. This paper presents the results of process evaluations conducted on two different models of CHW programme delivery in adjacent rural communities in in Gem District of Western Kenya. One model was implemented b...

The USF (family health unit) is a new type of healthcare unit defined by the Ministry of Health to enhance access to primary-care while improving efficiencies. USF governance model is based on more adequate public management methods and it introduces new practices of collaboration associated with “self-organization” environments. In this paper we explore the complexity theory concepts and appli...

The criteria for bariatric surgery indication have been widely discussed in obesity conferences and publications specialized in the subject, and many changes have been seen. In this article, we will discuss these indications, both official and those we believe have clinical grounds for referral, even outside of the criteria recommended by the Ministry of Health. The criteria recommended by the ...

BACKGROUND This article aims to investigate the processes, actors and other influencing factors behind the development and the national scale-up of the One Stop Crisis Centre (OSCC) policy and the subsequent health model for violence-response. METHODS Methods used included policy analysis of legal, policy and regulatory framework documents, and in-depth interviews with key informants from gov...

PURPOSE To analyze the structure of the Centers for Supporting the Family Health (NASF), in 2010, identify the satisfaction degree of speech language pathologists who work in this area and compare the model proposed by the Brazilian Ministry of Health with practice. METHODS Prospective and descriptive study, with 40 speech language pathologists inserted in NASF type one, from all Brazilian re...