learning to listen to expectant mothers: assessing learning needs     ahmadi fz [1] *     received: 22 dec , 2012 accepted: 25 feb , 2013       abstract   background & aims : different surveys in iran show that antenatal education is not conducting effectively. this research aims at interpreting pregnant women’s experiences of maternal health education to understand the current educational appr...

OVERVIEW: AGING IN 21 CENTURY AMERICA Americans have gained >25 years of average life expectancy during the 20 century, and there is no evidence of slowing in the 21st. Although clinical and public health interventions have allowed gains in healthy life expectancy (average age of disability onset) to keep pace with the striking gains in longevity, the sheer numerical increases of older persons ...

In patients with HIV, the use of highly active antiretroviral therapy has improved life expectancy. At the same time, this increase in life expectancy has been associated with a higher frequency of chronic kidney disease due to factors other than HIV infection. Besides HIV-associated nephropathy, a number of different types of immune complex and non-immune complex-mediated processes have been i...

When cancer is not curable, the focus of care shifts from cure to care. Patients and family members then have many questions about end-of-life care. The following information provided by the National Cancer Institute addresses life expectancy, when caregivers should ask for help, how caregivers can be attentive to patients' emotional needs, signs of dying and death, what to do after death, and ...

www.thelancet.com Published online February 21, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30314-8 1 Forecasting life expectancy by age and sex is broadly used for research and planning of health sevices, social services, pensions, and economics, and has been developed at the national and multicountry levels. The basic idea for predicting life expectancy is closely related to the concept of e...

Classification aims to map a data instance to its appropriate class (or label). In associative classification the mapping is done through an association rule with the consequent restricted to the class attribute. Eager associative classification algorithms build a single rule set during the training phase, and this rule set is used to classify all test instances. Lazy algorithms, however, do no...

A stable human resource base in the health sector is critical to achieving health-related Millennium Development Goals. There is a severe quantitative and qualitative shortfall of healthcare professionals in South Africa, and the existing and future health workforce production is inadequate for our healthcare needs. The production model must include all healthcare disciplines because the quadru...