This paper sets up an Evaluation Index System of the regional financial center with variable selected from three dimensions: economic development, financial development degree and innovation environment support. The principal component analysis methodology is then used to evaluate competition of six cities including Guangzhou. According to the composite score, Guangzhou is ranked fourth, behind...

N ordic countries have a long tradition of developing joint nutrition recommendations. The latest recommendations, issued on 3 October 2013 (called the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations, NNRs, 2012) are already in their fifth edition. The first NNRs were released in 1980 and thereafter a new edition has been issued every eight years. While the 1996 edition was published in Swedish, the two more ...

background: health records serve several purposes and must be retained to meet those purposes. these varied purposes influence how long health records must be kept, or their retention period. the present study aimed to recognize laws and procedures related to retention of health records in selected countries and provide a proposed guideline for iran. methods: this was an applied, descriptive-co...

Background. Recently published efficacy data for 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) provides an opportunity to update cost-effectiveness analyses of the current ACIP recommendations as well as potential extensions of the ACIP recommendations. Methods. We applied an economic model in a US cohort of 50-year old adults to eval...

The PERISTAT project was charged with developing an indicator set for monitoring and describing perinatal health in Europe as part of the European Commission's Health Monitoring Programme, run by the Directorate General for Health and Consumer Protection (DG-SANCO), which is working towards the establishment of a comprehensive health monitoring system at the community level. To develop its reco...