OBJECTIVE To investigate the risk of cancer and potential gender effects in persons hospitalised with burn injury. DESIGN Population-based retrospective cohort study using record-linkage systems in Scotland and Western Australia. PARTICIPANTS Records of 37 890 and 23 450 persons admitted with a burn injury in Scotland and Western Australia, respectively, from 1983 to 2008. Deidentified extr...

BACKGROUND Healthcare in China has significantly improved, meanwhile many  socio-economic risk factors and health conditions factors affect accessibility and utilization of health services in rural areas. Inequity of health service in China needs to  be estimated and reduced. Andersen behavioral model is useful to assess the association of health service utilization with predisposing, enabling,...

Transgender/gender-nonconforming (GNC) individuals experience discrimination at high rates, including 19% in one study who reported having been refused medical care based on the their transgender/GNC identity. These individuals may also experience a lack of respect from medical personnel, a dearth of culturally competent knowledge and medical information around their medical needs, and concerns...

 Background: Health worker motivation has the potential to have a large impact on health system performance, and this depends on some factors. The purpose of this study was to determine the factors affecting this motivation. Methods: From Winter 2013 to Spring 2014, 1046 employees and physicians (439 males and 607 females) with a mean age of 36 and 37.2 years in men and women, respective...

background: the purpose of this study was to explore any gender-related differences in prevalence of and condition-associ­ated factors related to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (nafld) amongst police population in taipei, taiwan. methods: we studied a total of 1016 healthy adults with police work (972 males and 44 females) voluntarily admitted to physical check-up between january 2006 and de...