normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 introduction: death-related information is source for identifying the health prerequisites and formulating the related programs. due to importance of data for decision making, evaluation of it to determine the rate of documentation and errors is necessary. methods: in this descriptive, cross-sectional study, all issued cer...

T H E ATTAINMENT of the highest possible level of hea l th by all the people of the world is the challenging objective of the new World Heal th Organization, whose constitution was signed on July 2 2 , 1946 , by representatives of 6 1 nations. This organization, established by the Internat ional Health Conference held in New York City, is the first fully empowered international agency in public...

a variety of abnormalities that an internationally acceptable provisional classification is highly desirable in order to facilitate communication between scientists with different backgrounds. The present memorandum presents such a classification; it briefly describes the criteria for diagnosis of the main types of hyperlipidemia as well as the methods of their determination. Because lipoprotei...

a variety of abnormalities that an internationally acceptable provisional classification is highly desirable in order to facilitate communication between scientists with different backgrounds. The present memorandum presents such a classification; it briefly describes the criteria for diagnosis of the main types of hyperlipidemia as well as the methods of their determination. Because lipoprotei...

Ӧ Tunc alp, WM Were, C MacLennan, OT Oladapo, AM G€ ulmezoglu, R Bahl, B Daelmans, M Mathai, L Say, F Kristensen, M Temmerman, F Bustreo a Department of Reproductive Health and Research including UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland b Department of Maternal, N...

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a time of substantial change for the World Health Organization (WHO), which plans on initiating reforms to improve its leadership, increase cooperation between member states and become more efficient and transparent. Though the proposals for reform have only been described in broad strokes thus far, one thing is certain: It all begins with money. “This WHO debate about reform has been going on ...

BACKGROUND Healthcare reforms initiated in the early 2000s in Québec involved the implementation of new modes of primary healthcare (PHC) delivery and the creation of Health and Social Services Centers (HSSCs) to support it. The objective of this article is to assess and explain the degree of PHC organizational change achieved following these reforms. METHODS We conducted two surveys of PHC o...