BACKGROUND The feminization of medicine has risen dramatically over the past decades. The aim of this article was to compare the advance of women with that of men and determine the differences between hierarchical status and professional recognition achieved by women in medicine. METHODS A retrospective study was carried out in the Hospital Clinic Barcelona, Spain, of the period from 1996 to ...

This study investigates the publication profiles of 140 accounting and finance faculty promoted to the senior rank of professor at UK and Irish universities during the period 1992 to 2007. On average, approximately 9 papers in Association of Business Schools (ABS) (2008)-listed journals, with 5 at the highest 3*/4* quality levels in a portfolio of 20 outputs are required for promotion to profes...

BACKGROUND Several health determinants are related to local conditions and prerequisites at community level. For this reason, strengthening community action has been one of five strategies implemented in health promotion since the end of the 1980s. Such action includes setting priorities, making decisions, planning strategies, and implementing them to achieve better health. The aim of this pape...

background: injuries are the first leading but predictable, avoidable and preventable cause of death among under five-year children worldwide. the present study aimed to identify the factors associated with mothers' beliefs and practices concerning injury prevention in under five-year children . methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from august to october 2011 in hamadan county, the...

By using a unique cross-sectional dataset of Chinese industrial firms, this paper investigates the external and internal effects of human capital on firms’ environmental performance. The result shows that firms have better environmental compliance because they are ‘pushed’ into compliance by the internal driver of human capital and ‘pulled’ to be environmental friendly by the external force of ...

Nuria Parra-Macias1* and Ana Lozano-Minana2 Author Affiliations 1Health Promotion Unit, Hospital Universitari Sagrat Cor Barcelona, Spain 2Frailty Department of Internal Medicine, Received: May 24, 2022 | Published: 31, Corresponding author: Parra-Macias, Health Viladomat, 288 08029, DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2022.44.007019

1 Department of Health Science, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga, Japan. 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Takashima General Hospital, Shiga, Japan. 3 Makino Hospital, Takashima, Japan. 4 Department of Cardiology, Otsu Red Cross Hospital, Shiga, Japan. 5 The First Institute for Health Promotion and Health Care, Tokyo, Japan. 6 Kyoto Women’s University, Kyoto, Japan. 7 Division of Bio...

including a-cellulose. It is concluded that the direct effect of auxin is probably on metabolism of matrix polysacchlar,ides and that the promotion of a-cellulose synthesis is induced by elongation. Fractionation of coleoptile tissue after 1-hour treatment with auxin does not show differences in incorporation as large as are observed after several hours of treatment. However, the data also demo...