Environmental hazards caused by living conditions and human behaviour in residential areas are types of manmade hazards which have rarely been studied and documented in literature. Available studies that had considered theconventional residential environment had proved that residents’ perception were influenced by human and environmental factors. With focus on educational institutions, this pap...

OBJECTIVE To qualitatively assess the discharge processes and postdischarge care in the community for infants discharged after congenital heart interventions in the first year of life. DESIGN Qualitative study using semistructured interviews and Framework Analysis. SETTING UK specialist cardiac centres and the services their patients are discharged to. SUBJECTS Twenty-five cardiologists a...

BACKGROUND Our obstetrics and gynaecology undergraduate teaching module allocates 40-50 final year medical students to eight teaching hospital sites in the West Midlands region. Based on student feedback and concerns relating to the impact of new curriculum changes, we wished to objectively assess whether the educational environment perceived by students varied at different teaching hospital ce...

OBJECTIVE Maternal morbidity, either pregnancy related or pre-existent, can become life threatening and of such severity as to warrant termination of pregnancy (TOP). In this situation, chances of fetal survival are usually poor, either because of low gestational age and/or because of the fetal effects of the maternal condition. Examples include severe growth restriction in pre-eclampsia and in...

Sexual violence profoundly affects the social well-being of victims through its numerous adverse mental health outcomes, which may affect survivors’ employment and earnings.However, scant scholarly literature examines impact sexual on women’s earnings in Zimbabwe. Using data collected from 173 working women Zvimba Hurungwe districts, ordered logit model results showed that (both lifetime past 1...

The current study concentrates on the influence of family background, labor-market conditions and existing tuition policies on tertiary-education choices. We explore the natural experiment of changes in tuition policies happened during 1995-2006 years in the Russian Federation (passage from state-subsidized education to mixed forms of tertiary education: on a state-subsidized and full-tuition b...

During the last decades most industrialised countries have experienced a rapid expansion of tertiary education enrolments. The sector of tertiary education became more differentiated through the creation of many different subjects, fields and curricula of study. At the same time, men and women tend to prefer different fields of study which likely also provide different opportunities on the labo...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence of fetal dextrocardia, associated cardiac and extracardiac malformations, and outcome. DESIGN Retrospective echocardiographic study. SETTING Two tertiary centres for fetal cardiology. PATIENTS 81 consecutive fetuses with a fetal dextrocardia presenting at Guy's Hospital, London, between 1983 and 2003 and at Hôpital Robert Debré, Paris, between 1988 and ...