PURPOSE This study aimed to explore the competencies of public health workers (PHWs) of township hospitals in Chongqing Municipality (China), and determine the related impact factors of the competencies of PHWs; METHODS A cross-sectional research was conducted on 314 PHWs from 27 township hospitals in three districts in Chongqing Municipality (China), from June to August 2014. A self-assessme...

BACKGROUND The Tobacco Products Control Act, No. 83 of 1993 was introduced in South Africa in 1993. Due to the shortfalls of the 1993 Act, the Tobacco Products Control Amendment Act, No. 12 of 1999 was passed in 1999. The regulation relating to smoking of tobacco products in public places was gazetted in 2000 and implemented in 2001. SETTING The setting for the study was all selected register...

The French healthcare system is a universal healthcare system with no financial barrier to access to health services and cancer drugs. The objective of the study is to investigate associations between, on the one hand, incidence and survival of patients diagnosed with lung cancer in France and, on the other, the socioeconomic deprivation and population density of their municipality of residence...

INTRODUCTION Chagas disease is a parasitosis considered a serious problem of public health. In the municipality of Barcarena, Pará, from 2007 to 2014, occurred the highest prevalence of this disease in Brazil. OBJECTIVE To analyze the disease distribution related to epidemiological, environmental and demographic variables, in the area and period of the study. METHODS Epidemiological and dem...

The endemicity of American cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL) in the Cianorte municipality, Paraná State the occurrence of human cases with the probable infection locus in the urban area, the presence of a permanently preserved modified native forest in the urban perimeter, and the lack of knowledge of the fauna of sand flies in the municipality provided the impetus for this study. The objective of ...

AIM To evaluate cancer risk in Brezice municipality in the period 1984-2003 and compare it with the period 1970-1983, before Krsko nuclear power plant started operating in the vicinity. METHODS A descriptive geographical epidemiological study was performed to compare the cancer relative risks (RR) on the national, regional, and local level. We estimated RR for all cancers combined, the five m...

Although the organizational culture is one of the main issue of organizational studies, very few research has tried to explore the organizational culture change process through a systemic and dynamics perspective. This paper explore the dynamics of the organizational culture in a municipality over time, trying to show that: (1) the dynamics of the four typologies of organizational culture in th...

Holmgren, L. 2006. Forest Ownership and Taxation in a Swedish Boreal Municipality Context. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7098-6 Forest ownership and changes in the forestry sector have played an important role for development in northern inland Sweden and remain vital for a sustainable development. Examining forest business activity and the Swedish tax system this thesis ai...