drug and health literacy is a key determinant of health outcomes. there are several tools to assess drug and health literacy. the objective of this article is to determine drug literacy level and its relationships with other factors using a single screening tool. a cross- sectional survey was conducted among 1104 people in qazvin province, iran. based on the proportional-to-size method, partici...

commonly used environmental flow evaluation techniques range in complexity. some requires stream flow records alone, and some accounts for the habitat requirements of individual species life-stages and physical characteristics of the stream. hydrological based methods for environmental flow assessment are the first step in planning for environmental allocation in developing countries. for deter...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Prediction of voluntary upper extremity (UE) movement recovery is largely unknown in patients with little voluntary UE movement at admission. The present study aimed to investigate (1) the extent and variation of voluntary UE movement recovery, and (2) the best predictive model of the recovery of voluntary UE movement by clinical variables in patients with severe UE par...

The HAQ-II is a psychometrically improved 10-item version of the standard HAQ functional questionnaire. It is simpler and faster to administer and score, thereby reducing patient burden. HAQ-II is better correlated with clinical measures than the HAQ and is sensitive to change. The HAQ-II is suitable for use in the clinic and research studies.

Conducting quality assessment for streaming media services, particularly from the end user perspective, has not been widely addressed by the network research community and remains a hard problem. In this paper we discuss the general problem of assessing the quality of streaming media in a large-scale IP network. This work presents two main contributions. First, we specify a new measurement and ...

Conducting quality assessment for streaming media services, particularly from the end user perspective, has not been widely addressed by the network research community and remains a hard problem. In this paper we discuss the general problem of assessing the quality of streaming media in a large-scale IP network. This work presents two main contributions. First, we specify a new measurement and ...

INTRODUCTION Community health needs assessments (CHNA) are completed to meet varied regulatory and statutory requirements for local public health departments, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) hospitals, and Federally Qualified Health Centers. Although compliance is a motivating factor, these entities are committed to understanding the communities they serve and to developing strategies to address health ne...

Public health surveillance of communicable diseases depends on timely, complete, accurate, and useful data that are collected across a number of healthcare and public health systems. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) which support electronic sharing of data and information between health care organizations are recognized as a source of ‘big data’ in healthcare and have the potential to provid...

This study demonstrates the integration of rehabilitation and flood management planning in a steep, boulder-bedded stream in a coastal urban catchment on the South Island of New Zealand. The Water of Leith, the primary stream flowing through the city of Dunedin, is used as a case study. The catchment is steep, with a short time of concentration and rapid hydrologic response, and the lower strea...