UNLABELLED Tuberculosis (TB) is a notifiable disease by the Communicable Disease Control Law in Taiwan. Several measures have been undertaken to improve reporting of TB but the completeness and timeliness of TB notification in Taiwan has not yet been systemically evaluated. METHODS To assess completeness and timeliness of TB notification, potential TB cases diagnosed by health care facilities...

Squash is a racquet sport played in a similar style room as racquetball. In a squash match there are 2 players that alternate hitting a small, black, rubber ball. A complete match is played as best of 5 games, where each game is played to 11 points. Points are scored when a player fails to return a shot made by the opponent. The sport of squash is played in over 190 countries by millions of peo...

A Ministry of Health for Northern Ireland By LEONARD KIDD, M.D. A4 paper read before the Ulster Branch of the British Medical Association, Belfast, March, 1938 REVIEWING the numerous enactment§ passed during the gradual evolution of our present system of public health administration, one is struck by the multiplicity of authorities, both central and local. (a) Central.-The Minister of Labour is...

BACKGROUND Timely reporting of infectious disease cases to public health authorities is essential to effective public health response. To evaluate the timeliness of reporting to the Dutch Municipal Health Services (MHS), we used as quantitative measures the intervals between onset of symptoms and MHS notification, and between laboratory diagnosis and notification with regard to six notifiable d...

Research Question The authors studied the complexity surrounding organization of sport in nations without nation-state status, exploring three research questions: (1) How do representatives Sámi organizations Finland and Norway perceive act upon proposal to reorganize sport? (2) parliaments (3) state bureaucracy sport?Research Methods We interviewed Finland, an external consultant a official co...

Abstract Abuse and interpersonal violence threaten participant safety trust in sport. Many political project activities have sought to promote safeguarding policies within national sporting structures. Despite this, implementation of safe sport policy measures has been lacklustre, guidance is often disparate sometimes contradictory. Against this background, the Council Europe initiated developm...

the aim of the present study was to determine optimal locations to construct sports complexes based on anp model in the center of yazd city. this study was descriptive-analytical and applied and research method was field and library. in order to select an optimal location to establish a sports complex in the center of yazd, six factors were considered. after preparing the information layers, th...

The Canadian Concussion Collaborative (CCC) is composed of health-related organisations concerned with the recognition, treatment and management of concussion. Its mission is to create synergy between organisations concerned with concussion to improve education and implementation of best practices for the prevention and management of concussions. Each of the organisations that constitute the CC...