more necessary and more and more used.In earlier days and among backward and primitive peoples much opposition is felt, and many of us remember in India about 15 years ago the plague riots and the burning of plague camps and hospitals by the very people for whose good they were intended. In India the people and the educated classes are only slowly emerging from the dark ages as regards sanitati...

The decentralisation of Australia's centralised wage fixation system has been seen as providing opportunities for employers and trade unions to tailor working arrangements to suit the needs of the workplace and to provide better paid long-term jobs. This paper details the productivity bargaining between the Private Hospitals' Association of Queensland and The Australian Workers' Union in 1995-9...

INTRODUCTION Fungal contamination in hospitals has been a major health concern, especially in immunosuppressed patients. Construction programs increase the risk of fungal contaminations in hospitals. This study aimed to monitor and compare fungal contamination in two hospitals in Bandar Abbas, Iran, one of which was undergoing construction. Furthermore, the study determined the seasonal variati...

This paper compares costs for caring for patients according to common diagnosis groups in Australian public teaching, public non-teaching and private hospitals. Generally, the costs for general surgical procedures are highest in public teaching hospitals, followed by public non-teaching hospitals, and are lowest in private hospitals. However, the private sector is more expensive than the public...

One of the greatest challenges food research is facing in this century lies in maintaining sustainable food production and at the same time delivering high quality food products with an added functionality to prevent life-style related diseases such as, cancer, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, stroke. Functional foods that contain bioactive components may provide desirable health benefits beyo...

attributable to differences in these potential confounding variables. Although we were unable to present the numerical results of these analyses because of space constraints, we do refer to them in the paper. Although we were concerned about the impact of the low response rate and our chosen comparison population on the interpretation of our data we, like Dr Mindell, were sufficiently convinced...

OBJECTIVES Organizational learning is defined as creating, absorbing, retaining, transferring, and application of knowledge within an organization. This article aims to examine the mediating role of organizational learning in the relationship of organizational intelligence and organizational agility. METHODS This analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted in 2015 at four teaching hosp...