The use of genetically modified (GM) insects for control of human disease can be consistent with common ethical norms of international society to reduce human suffering. This paper considers a range of ethical issues including animal rights, informed consent, community consensus and environmental viewpoints. Each community needs to decide its own priorities for methodology of disease policy gui...

AIMS To investigate healthcare priorities among children (≤ 12 years), early adolescents (13-15 years) and late adolescents (16-18 years). METHODS A total of 2023 respondents from eight European countries rated the importance of nine healthcare factors. The relative importance of these factors was compared within and between age groups, using mean score differences and logistic regression. ...

In Switzerland, the federal authorities, the cantons, and the communes share the responsibility of healthcare, disease prevention and health promotion policies. Yet, the cantons are in most health matters independent in their decisions, thus defining as a matter of fact their own health priorities. We examined and analysed the content of the disease prevention and health promotion plans elabora...

BACKGROUND Global health is shifting gradually from a limited focus on individual communicable disease goals to the formulation of broader sustainable health development goals. A major impediment to this shift is that most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have not established adequate sustainable funding for health promotion and health infrastructure. OBJECTIVE In this article, we ana...

We take a fresh look at the expressivity of BIP, a recent influential formal component model developed by J. Sifakis et al. We introduce a process calculus, called CAB, that models composite components as the combination of a glue (using BIP terminology) and subcomponents, and that constitutes a conservative extension of BIP with more dynamic forms of glues. We study the Turing completeness of ...

The way the researches established the lines of direction for considering fight against schistosomiasis on the double aspect of transmission and morbidity control is outstanding. Chemotherapy in the morbidity control is emphasized. The research priorities for schistosomiasis control are mentioned.

Fuzzy control is a methodology that translates “if”-“then” rules Aj1(x1) & ... & Ajn(xn) → Bj(u) formulated in terms of a natural language, into an actual control strategy u(x⃗). Implication of uncertain statements is much more difficult to understand than “and”, “or”, and “not”. So, the fuzzy control methodologies usually start with translating “if”-“then” rules into statements that contain onl...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To obtain consensus on priorities for oncology nursing research in the United Kingdom.
. DESIGN A three-round online Delphi survey.
. SETTING Oncology nurses were invited via the United Kingdom Oncology Nursing Society (UKONS) database. Patient participation was invited through patient organizations.
. SAMPLE 50 oncology nurses and 18 patients.
. METHODS Eligible and ...