The United Nations publishes unemployment statistics for 123 countries. Most of these statistics are based on International Labour Office (ILO) criteria for the definition of unemployment. Many countries also produce unemployment statistics based on insurance records and on the basis of registered unemployment. This paper aims to compare the main features of the different methods. The dimension...

background: lung cancer is one of the fatal cancers in iran while 12% of the mortalities are related to this cancer in the country. this active hospital-based study was undertaken to determine the occurrence of lung cancer in fars province, southern iran. methods: data including face-to-face interview with patients and a survey of their medical and demographic records in relation to all invasiv...

The Medical Division of the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS) organizes and indexes general systems of records for medical research and administration. The main sources of records are the census, registrations of births and of deaths, hospital discharge records, registered cases of cancer and of congenital malformations, surveys by the Social Surveys Division, and samples of reco...

Interoperability is a major focus of the quickly evolving world of Health IT. Easy, yet secure and confidential exchange of imaging exams and the associated reports must be a part of the solutions that are implemented. The availability of historical exams is essential in providing a quality interpretation and reducing inappropriate utilization of imaging services. Today, the exchange of imaging...

The medical services are most important services for all of us and majority of the population all over the world mainly developing countries and the rural areas where there is an acute scarcity of the specialists and health services and health care providers. So the wireless health technologies will be achievable in rural areas but records are of paper type which are having the chances of getti...

objective: the aim of the present study was to investigate the demographic and pathological aspects of adenoid cystic carcinomas (acc) in an iranian sample based on a 20-year archive review. materials and methods: in this descriptive study, tumors of the head and neck registered between 1980 and 2000 were evaluated and cases of acc were selected. patients' medical records and pathology reports ...

BACKGROUND the process of registering new patients in primary care provides an ideal opportunity to assess their smoking status systematically and record this in electronic medical records; this identification then allows smokers to be targeted with effective cessation interventions. OBJECTIVE to use a dataset of electronic primary care medical records to assess the extent to which primary ca...

The objective of this study was to estimate genetic correlations between yield traits of cows treated with bovine somatotropin (bST) and the same yield traits of untreated cows. Lactation records from registered Holstein cows were divided by parity into 3 data sets: 1, 2, and 3 through 5. Approximately 10% of the records in each data set were from cows treated with bST. The numbers of records o...

Archives, both analogue and digital, are primarily concerned with preserving records as originals. Because of this, immutable data used in a blockchain structure seem logical choice when designing such systems. At the same time, archives maintain which may need to change over long term. It is requirement archival preservation be able update records’ metadata order not only guarantee authenticit...