This study compared the caries index (dmft), presence of sucking habits and facial alterations in children attended by the preventive program for infants and children assisted by spontaneous demand, at the same age, at the public sector of Maringá, PR. A total of 100 children were evaluated (1-6 years), who were divided into 2 groups: GI - children attended by the infant program with educationa...

The School Oral Health Program (SOHP), Kuwait, is a joint venture between the Ministry of Health, Kuwait, and Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Mass., USA. This program provides oral health education, prevention and treatment to almost 280,000 public school children in Kuwait. Services are delivered through a system of center- and school-based clinics and preventive mobile teams. One of the recent ...

We aimed to investigate the determinants of attendance to a preventive health check program and to explore the homogeneity of the attenders.4853 eligible persons living in the municipality of Randers, Denmark, from 2012 to 2013, aged 30–49 years, received an invitation to attend the ‘Check Your Health Preventive Program’. Data was obtained from the Danish National Registers. Socio-demographic f...

This paper discusses the issue of integrating production planning and preventive maintenance in manufacturing production systems. In particular, it tackles the problem of integrating production and preventive maintenance in a system composed of parallel failure-prone production lines. It is assumed that when a production line fails, a minimal repair is carried out to restore it to an ‘as-bad-as...

Receipt of key preventive services among Medicaid children in four States is examined. Between 1989 and 1992, small-to-moderate improvements in well-child visit and immunization rates were observed. Age, eligibility group, and statewide factors affected these rates. Uniformly low use of preventive dental care was found. These rates were generally higher among children with well-child visits. To...