This study comprises a systematic review and metasynthesis of qualitative literature on national and international databases to identify the main tools used to assess Primary Health Care (PHC). A total of 3,048 results were returned for literature written in Portuguese, Spanish and English published between 1979 and 2013. Thirty-three articles/studies were selected after thorough reading and an...

infrastructure development often leads to considerable changes in the land use. these changes are major causes of habitat fragmentation and ecosystem loss. moreover, decrease of the environmental impacts on biodiversity is among the most important objectives of sustainable development. for this purpose, environmental impact assessment (eia) along with the other appropriate tools can be applied ...

We outline a framework for the risk assessment of information infrastructures that generalizes the notion of dependency with respect to attributes such as confidentiality, integrity or availability. Dependencies are used to model an infrastructure at distinct abstraction levels and to discover attack strategies as well as risk mitigation plans. A plan is formulated in terms of set of countermea...

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Security Management is a necessary process in order to obtain an accurate security policy for Information and Communication Systems (ICS). Organizations spend a lot of money and time to implement their security policy. Existing risk assessment, business continuity and security management tools are unable to meet the growing needs of the current, distributed, complex IS and their critical data a...

UNLABELLED Assessment of potential allergenicity and patterns of cross-reactivity is necessary whenever novel proteins are introduced into human food chain. Current bioinformatic methods in allergology focus mainly on the prediction of allergenic proteins, with no information on cross-reactivity patterns among known allergens. In this study, we present AllerTool, a web server with essential too...

introduction: although logbook is a useful tool in learning and assessment of the student, its use in the education of undergraduate dentistry students is not well-established. the present study was conducted to assess the effect of logbook as a study guide and an effective method for assessment of the students in the fixed prosthesis course. methods: this quasi-experimental study was performed...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop a tool to identify patients with cancer who suffer from cachexia throughout all stages of the disease. DESIGN Tool development study. SETTING Oncology day care, follow-up clinics, radiotherapy, and hospice home care. SAMPLE 90 patients with cancer (25 men and 65 women). METHODS The Cachexia Assessment Scale (CAS) was created based on a thorough review of th...

Walking as a form of physical activity has immense health benefits, but it also economic benefits. is very efficient that prevents certain diseases and enables better quality life people who already have some disease.A considerable contribution walking detected in cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, obesity chronic pulmonary diseases.The aim this study was to make assessment the benefits ...