The primary purpose of this study was to assess the role, status and scope of workplace HIV/AIDS committees as a means of effective workplace governance of the HIV/AIDS impact, and their role in extending social protective HIV/AIDS-related rights to employees. In-depth qualitative case studies were conducted in five South African small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that were actively impl...

Randomized controlled trials have proven that periconceptional folic acid intake reduces the risk of neural tube defects (NTDs). This lead to different public health policies: fortification of foods in many countries and supplementation in some others. We concentrate here on pro's and con's of fortification policies. Meanwhile, new beneficial but also potential adverse effects are being hypothe...

in the present study, protective effect of teucrium polium l. (labiatae) extract on acetaminophen-induced hepatotoxicity was investigated in mice. animals were divided into six groups, each group consist of 8 mice. group one as the negative control group received normal saline, while group two received only crude extract of t. polium l. (500 mg/kg) for five days and group three as the positive ...

objective: the purpose of this study was to identify affecting factors on students’ environmental protection behavior (sipb). methods: statistical population of this research consisted of 1480 students in alborz agricultural technical higher education centers. a stratified random sampling method was used to select 145 student applying cochran's formula. the main tool to collect data was a resea...

In northern China, the recent eco-environment protective policies played a very important role in the ecological environment protection and rehabilitation. To better understand the quantitative effect of the prohibiting grazing policy on grassland desertification reversal process, in this paper, Yanchi County was selected as a case study to conduct a quantitative research on the effect of prohi...

Abstract The pandemic caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) highlighted the insufficient public health policies and lack of a national response strategy. Rehabilitation departments faced barriers to providing care in traditional manner needed consider protection patients staff, staffing personal protective equipment shortages, uncertainty about best practices address novel condition. Th...

BACKGROUND Citation data can be used to evaluate the editorial policies and procedures of scientific journals. Here we investigate citation counts for the three different publication tracks of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). This analysis explores the consequences of differences in editor and referee selection, while controlling for th...

Proceso editorial, justicia 1 (peor) 6 2,8 2 26 12 3 59 27,3 4 93 43,1 Durante el año 2012, el equipo editorial de Gaceta Sanitaria iseñó y envió una encuesta a los 2760 socios y socias de SESPAS. l cuestionario se diseñó en formato online y se envió por correo lectrónico a través de SESPAS en dos rondas: el primer envío se fectuó el 17 de abril y el segundo el 3 de mayo. Posteriormente e puso ...

Sensitive company information can leak to unauthorized parties in case employees do not perform effective protective measures while using application systems for their day-to-day tasks. To reduce the risks for such information leakage incidents, many companies require their employees to follow information systems (IS) security policies and promote awareness programs to increase IS security awar...

The idea for this Special Issue on ‘Human Rights Protection Migrants’ was born out of a combination frustration and scepticism in the face International Human Law’s enduring struggles to extend protections non-nationals, but also hope light (some) human rights bodies’ attempts carve ‘protective spaces’ migrants against backdrop hostile migration laws policies across globe [...]