BACKGROUND Health information systems that monitor drug use do not perform in-depth analyses of sociodemographic characteristics and patterns of use, or of the factors that influence health problems. We describe the recruitment methodology and characteristics of a cohort of young cocaine users. METHODS A prospective cohort of 720 cocaine users who were not regular heroin users, recruited in t...

BACKGROUND Over 20% of women smoke throughout pregnancy despite the known risks to mother and child. Engagement in face-to-face support is a good measure of service reach. The Scottish Government has set a target that by 2010 8% of smokers will have quit via NHS cessation services. At present less than 4% stop during pregnancy. We aimed to establish a denominator for pregnant smokers in Scotlan...

BACKGROUND Kenya's human resources for health shortage is well documented, yet in line with the new constitution, responsibility for health service delivery will be devolved to 47 new county administrations. This work describes the public sector nursing workforce likely to be inherited by the counties, and examines the relationships between nursing workforce density and key indicators. METHOD...

Objectives: To determine why and when clinical care teams refer patients to the medical library.
 Methods: A 2018 survey of at a research hospital measured awareness library services available patients, facilitators barriers referral, likelihood future referral. Spearman correlations were used strength relationships between familiarity with how often respondents referred those services. Re...

The use of colonoscopy in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening has increased substantially in recent years. Media messages and changes in insurance reimbursement, as well as new screening guidelines from the American Cancer Society and the US Preventive Services Task Force, have contributed to this increase. Primary care providers (PCPs) are frequently responsible for making the recommendation and...

the purpose of this paper is to identify and explain the factors affecting female’s psychological empowerment in the information and knowledge services. this paper is based on applied research and mixed method including descriptive and survey. first by using qualitative approach, for expanding and explaining effective factors of pycholigical empowerment of women librarians and informationist, n...

BACKGROUND Individuals diagnosed with HIV in developing countries are not always successfully linked to onward treatment services, resulting in missed opportunities for timely initiation of antiretroviral therapy, or prophylaxis for opportunistic infections. In collaboration with local stakeholders, we designed and assessed a referral system to link persons diagnosed at a voluntary counselling ...

BACKGROUND The Zambia Ministry of Health (MOH) recruited and trained a new cadre of Community Health Assistants (CHAs) as part of its National Community Health Strategy. The inaugural class of 307 CHAs completed one year of training in July 2012 and deployed to their communities. METHODS The impact of the CHA program on the volume and type of health services provided at health posts and their...

the present research provides quantitative and descriptive data of the information service capabilities available at thehran university libraries. these include access to information resources, availability of various indexes, printed catalogs, computer terminals, access modes, working hours, membership requirements, borrowing pattens. the findings presented in form of tables, were analyzed bas...