INTRODUCTION We report the burden of disease and risk factors measured by causes of death, years of life lost attributable to premature mortality (YLLs), years of life lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for 1990, 2005, and 2010 in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS We used the Global Burden of Diseases 2010 (GBD 2010) methodology to estimate the c...

In order to examine whether a notification of genotypes related to a susceptibility to smoking has any influence on an intention to quit, a pilot study was conducted for 61 smokers out of 66 municipal government employees who attended an anti-smoking seminar in November 2005 or January 2006 (MG), and for 46 smokers (employees and students) on a medical campus (Tsurumai Campus) of Nagoya Univers...

INTRODUCTION Influenza is a major contributor to the preventable health burden of Australians each year. The National Immunisation Program provides influenza vaccine for those at highest risk of severe disease. This review of influenza epidemiology examines current data on influenza disease burden in Australia, in the context of several comparable countries having programs with much broader eli...

Enhanced surveillance for invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) was conducted in all Australian states and territories in 2007 and 2008 with comprehensive comparative data available since 2002. There were 1,477 cases of IPD notified to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System in Australia in 2007; a notification rate of 7.0 cases per 100,000 population. In 2008 there were 1,628 cases;...

In this paper, we propose an intelligent notification of a new e-mail, and describe an implementation of the notification system. There are two ways to read e-mails by using a computer. One way is a mail system on a user’s personal computer. The other way is a web mail system on a web server. Using a web mail system is better for users because they can read e-mails by using other person’s perso...

A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 57,995 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System with a notification received date between 1 October to 31 December 2014 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each state or territory is presented in Table 3. Table 1: Reporting of no...

A summary of diseases currently being reported by each jurisdiction is provided in Table 1. There were 64,307 notifications to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) with a notification received date between 1 July to 30 September 2014 (Table 2). The notification rate of diseases per 100,000 population for each state or territory is presented in Table 3. Table 1: Reporting...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to audit, against agreed standards, the control of bacterial meningitis, in particular completeness of notification and appropriateness of distribution of chemoprophylaxis to contacts; and to implement appropriate changes and monitor their impact. DESIGN The first phase involved determination, for the years 1983 and 1984, of completeness of notification by comparis...

Publish/subscribe services, specifically notification servers, are used as the middleware for the implementation of a large set of collaborative software engineering tools. With their popularization, many notification servers are being developed to support specific application domains. At the same time, general-purpose notification servers provide a large set of functionality for a broad set of...