This paper presents a discussion regarding Public Health's main challenges: knowledge of it, professional practice and training human resources. It begins by recognising Latin-America's unequal and polar socio-sanitary context and the sanitary field's myriad single referents, paying special attention to essential public health functions, the Millennium development goals and the Latin-American A...

As automation continues to pervade people’s lives, it is critical understand the reasons why some interactions are successful while others fail. Previous research attempting explain this variability in HAI through individual differences working memory has been mixed. Research cognitive psychology demonstrated importance of attention control as a fundamental mechanism underlying higher-order cog...

This paper reviews the evidence on the well-known positive association between socioeconomic status and health. We focus on four dimensions of socioeconomic status -education, financial resources, rank, and race and ethnicity -paying particular attention to how the mechanisms linking health to each of these dimensions diverge and coincide. The extent to which socioeconomic advantage causes good...

We study whether people became less likely to switch Medicare prescription drug plans (PDPs) due to more options and more time in Part D. Panel data for a random 20 percent sample of enrollees from 2006--2010 show that 50 percent were not in their original PDPs by 2010. Individuals switched PDPs in response to higher costs of their status quo plans, saving them money. Contrary to choice overloa...

introduction: optimal child development necessitates proper nutrition in childhood. despite of improvements in child nutrition, there are still lots of challenges in proper child nutrition which shows the necessity of using the past experiences more than ever. despite of particular interest of iranians to cardinal humors (temperaments), unfortunately, families and medical staffs are not appropr...