Surveillance of surgical site infection (SSI) is an important infection control activity. The Caesarean section procedure was selected, as part of the Scottish Surveillance of Healthcare Associated Infection Programme, to monitor and report upon the incidence of SSI. Data were collected prospectively for 715 patients undergoing a Caesarean section procedure for 35 weeks during the latter months...

background: now the increasing growth of chronic diseases is the major health challenge worldwide. this survey was conducted to assess noncommunicable diseases related risk factors. methods: a population-based cross sectional study was conducted in 2005 and repeated annually by 2009 in hamadan province, the west of iran using two-stage cluster sampling method. a total sample of 6500 subjects 15...

In China, a newly arising genre of TV dramas known as “female drama” has become very popular among female audiences and brought about great changes to the television industry in recent years. Under framework objectification theory, this study examines relationship between consumption sexism, internalization beauty ideals, body surveillance China. Drawing on data collected from questionnaire sur...

WHO reacts to countries' immediate needs and initiates sustainable measures such as the development of laboratory networks and active surveillance systems. Photo credit: WHO The regional strategy for communicable disease surveillance, forecasting and response depend s on national, regional and global surveillance and containment plans for emerging and re-emerging disease threats. The main strat...

WHO reacts to countries' immediate needs and initiates sustainable measures such as the development of laboratory networks and active surveillance systems. Photo credit: WHO The regional strategy for communicable disease surveillance, forecasting and response depend s on national, regional and global surveillance and containment plans for emerging and re-emerging disease threats. The main strat...

Background and Objectives: Iran started malaria elimination campaigns many years ago. The purpose of this study was to review the malaria surveillance system in Iran.   Methods: The data of this study were obtained from the surveillance system of the Center for Communicable Disease Control, a review of records, documents, books and published articles, and also interviews with process owners a...

This study used objectification theory (B. L. Fredrickson & T.-A. Roberts, 1997) to predict that the media’s insidious practice of objectifying bodies socializes individuals to take an outsider’s perspective on the physical self (i.e., self-objectify) and to habitually monitor their appearance (i.e., engage in body surveillance). To test these hypotheses, a 2-year panel study using an undergrad...

background: in this study, we aim to compare insulin and leptin levels in adolescents with or without overweight and in those with or without abdominal obesity. materials and methods: this case-control study was conducted among 486 samples. we randomly selected 243 overweight and an equal number of normal-weight adolescents from among participants of the third survey of a national surveillance ...

OBJECTIVE State-level estimates of obesity based on self-reported height and weight suggest a geographic pattern of greater obesity in the Southeastern US; however, the reliability of the ranking among these estimates assumes errors in self-reporting of height and weight are unrelated to geographic region. DESIGN AND METHODS Regional and state-level prevalence of obesity (body mass index ≥ 30...