PURPOSE A feasible palliative care model for advance cancer patients is needed in Korea with its rapidly aging population and corresponding increase in cancer prevalence. This study describes the process involved in the development of a community-based palliative care (CBPC) model implemented originally in a Busan pilot project. MATERIALS AND METHODS The model development included steps I and...

A double-blind study to evaluate vitamin C supplements for respiratory-infection prophylaxis was conducted among 641 children at a Navajo boarding school over a 14-week period. Supplements of 1 and 2 g, or placebo, were given daily. A sample of each group had serial blood ascorbic acid determinations, which showed significant rises among groups treated with vitamin C, but no difference in mean ...

PHILADELPHIA faces a problem with serious implications for the health and welfare of its citizens in the lack of adequate facilities to care for chronically ill persons and for persons who are unable to assume the responsibilities of living alone and do not have relatives or friends willing or able to undertake responsibility for their care. This problem is not restricted to the indigent but to...

Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui manajemen pembelajaran boarding school ditinjau dari: perencanaan, pelaksanaandan evaluasi . Penelitian merupakan lapangan yang mengambil latar di MI An-Nur Sidoagung dibawah yayasan Kecamatan Sruweng Kabupaten Kebumen dengan jenis kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan metode observasi, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Uji keabsahan menggunakan tria...

Title of Dissertation: SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIAL SERVICES IN WOMEN’S PREGNANCY DECISIONMAKING: POLITICAL AND PROGRAMMATIC IMPLICATIONS Laura Selena Hussey, Doctor of Philosophy, 2006 Directed By: Professor James G. Gimpel, Department of Government and Politics This dissertation empirically evaluates the argument that welfare state expansion will reduce abortion. Its central question concerns the...

BACKGROUND In the healthcare sector, we often come across the burnout syndrome. It is an occupational syndrome which causes, physical and emotional exhaustion. More information is needed on the dangers of burnout and how often it occurs in healthcare. The purpose of this study was to investigate burnout and factors associated with the syndrome among nurses working with people that are mentally ...

objective: the purpose of this study is to evaluate job satisfaction and general welfare among the primary health workers (behvarzes) in the primary health centers in kashan. the following seven items were assessed: physical, social, and psychological, environmental, organizational, educational, and administration structure and job facilities. method: subjects consist of 22 male and 43 female p...