1Department of Neurology, Rudolf Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht; 2Department of Intensive Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht; 3Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden; 4Department of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and Einthoven Laboratory for Experimental Vascular Medicine, Leiden University Medical Cen...

Department of Pulmonology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Department of Pediatrics, Beatrix Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Department of Pediat...

a Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands b Department of Public Health and Caring Sciences, Family Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology, Uppsala University,Sweden c Spanish Primary Care Respiratory Group (GRAP), Spain. d Department of Public Health and General Practice, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway e School of Popu...

The Israeli Center for Technology Assessment in Health Care (ICTAHC) was established in 1998 at the Gertner Institute for Epidemiology and Health Policy Research, on foundations set in 1992 by the Medical Technology Assessment Unit. The Center is defined as an independent multidisciplinary research center, whose main aims are to assist in developing processes for the adoption of new technologie...

OBJECTIVE Participation in center-based child care among preschool-aged children is associated with an increased incidence of communicable illness. Although estimates of health care utilization and costs associated with child care attendance exist in other countries with different health care systems, nationally representative data for the United States are lacking. The objective of this study ...

from 22 may 1976 to 19 february 1977 out of 27742 patients which were referred to health and social welfare network of west azerbaijan in chonqralu (field laboratory of school of public health and institute of public health research in health services development research project in iran), 22693 (81.81%) simple cases were managed by the behvarz (female front line health worker), in nine health ...

710 n engl j med 361;7 nejm.org august 13, 2009 set up to encourage interaction and debate. We urge readers to visit the Forum section of the Center and share their ideas for the future of American health care. It is our hope that the entire body of work in the online Health Care Reform Center will inform the political process. Although the debate over how to repair and reinvigorate our health ...

In order to know the first-choice treatment by villagers of an endemic area of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) prior to medical attention in a health care center, a cross sectional study was realized in Pichupampa town. A census was made in order to collect demographic data and previous history of CL. 254 participants were surveyed. 41.7% (106/254) of the village had CL at least once in their live...

*College of Nursing, University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, †Occupational Medicine Residency Director, College of Medicine, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and ‡Allbright Health Care Center, Cincinnati Health Department, Cincinnati, Ohio Reprint Address: Donna M. Gates, EDD, RN, FAAN, College of Nursing, 3110 Vine Stree...