BACKGROUND Educational intervention represents an essential element of care for cancer patients; while several single institutions develop their own patient education (PE) programs on cancer, little information is available on the effective existence of PE programs at the level of research and care institutes. In Italy such institutes--Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico--are ap...

MALARIA CONTROL MALARIA ELIMINATION (Phase I Getting to Zero) MALARIA ELIMINATION (Phase II 'Holding the Line') Personal protection (LLINs, repellants) Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Diagnosis & treatment (PCD & ACD/MBS where applicable) Chemoprophylaxis (MDA, IPTi) Surveillance (parasite and/or vector) Larviciding and source reduction Community participation in other disease control & health d...

BACKGROUND The study was conducted to investigate the diet barriers perceived by patients with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes and examine the associations between diet barriers and sociodemographic characteristics, medical condition, and patient-centered variables. METHODS Secondary subgroup analyses were conducted based on the responses of 246 adults with poorly controlled type 2 diabetes...

In 2007, a comprehensive review of the extant research on nonpharmacological interventions for persons with early-stage dementia was conducted. More than 150 research reports, centered on six major domains, were included: early-stage support groups, cognitive training and enhancement programs, exercise programs, exemplar programs, health promotion programs, and "other" programs not fitting into...

Depot4 is a tool for implementing programs as generalised translations. Such tools will help to meet the growing need for special field centered software. Based on extensive experience, a new kind of translator software has been developed by use of object-oriented techniques.

This article provides an overview of the findings from the Evaluation of Medicaid's Community Supported Living Arrangements (CSLA) Program. Results suggest that CSLA provided a useful model of beneficiary centered care for persons with developmental disabilities. The implications of the findings of this evaluation for current management of Medicaid programs are discussed.

This paper describes the main opportunities and challenges that we see for introducing more rigorous software engineering practices, particularly those centered on specification and validation, in industrial practice. Our perspective derives from our ongoing work on formal specification and verification of Java programs.