The Behaviour Change Communication (BCC) is a process of implementing communication strategies for the welfare of individual or communities to encourage them to adopt positive behaviours suitable to the local problem and the settings. Successful implementation of BCC essentially needs extensive research and meticulous planning based on the level of knowledge and attitude of the target populatio...

A systematic review on the effectiveness and costeffectiveness of Immunochemical faecal occult IFOBT for CRC screening was carried out. A total of 450 relevant titles were identified, 41 abstracts were screened and 18 articles were included in the results. There was fair level of retrievable evidence to suggest that the sensitivity and specificity of IFOBT varies with the cut-off point of haemo...

Cost-effectively collecting distributed state information is a challenging problem. It perhaps has no single perfect answer since different distributed application environments pose different requirements from the information collection process. In any case, knowledge of the environment, in terms of traffic models, load models etc. play a key role in determining tradeoffs between accuracy (need...

Background: Periprosthetic joint infection is a devastating complication of total joint arthroplasty. It seems that thepatient’s skin, nose, throat, and urine are important sites for microbial colonization. Colonization with staphylococcusaureus, especially methicillin resistant increases the risk of periprosthetic joint infection. The aim of this study was toassess the prevalence of staphyloco...

This article presents analysis and synthesis of findings concerning the problem of costeffective placement of best management practices (BMPs) emerging from NIFA CEAP and the USDA NRCS jointly-funded competitive grant projects, and future research needs. The synthesis focuses on two fundamental aspects of the cost-effectiveness problem: (1) how to assess the locationand farmer-specific costs of...

The choice of model design for decision analytic models in cost-effectiveness analysis has been the subject of discussion. The current work addresses this issue by noting that, when time is to be explicitly modelled, we need to represent phenomena occurring in continuous time. Multistate models evaluated in continuous time might be used but closed form solutions of expected time in each state m...

We anticipate that surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology will remain the gold standard in direct biomolecular interaction sensing during the next decade. Although in the past only one company (Biacore AB) mainly dominated the market (B90%) of high-quality SPR systems including optics, liquid handling and sensor chips, new players and new trends can be identified. As highlighted in Chapter ...

This thesis assesses the methods used in economic evaluation, the relationship of economic evaluation to decision-making and investigates the possible limitations of economic evaluation as it is currently used to support policies aimed at maximising population health gain. It then evaluates alternative methods of analysing data from economic evaluations to better inform policy decisions. The hy...

388 roviding quality emergency care in rural hospitals P low patient volumes can be cost prohibitive. Additionally, recruiting and retaining physicians in these rural areas is difficult. Mississippi, a mostly rural state, shares this nationwide problem: There simply are not enough Board Certified Emergency Medicine physicians to serve rural hospitals in the state. As a result, emergency departm...

Background: Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is an established but expensive treatment alternative for many forms of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). Currently, no studies exist on the costeffectiveness of RFA compared with that of medical treatment (MT) in adult Latin American population. Methods: Between 2007 and 2012, we identified 103 adults who underwent RFA for SVT in the National Unit of...