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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"public health service."”.
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Speaking in tongues: bilingualism and public health service advocacy
… investigates an individual’s compliance to the healthcare scenario they are presented with. Research has shown that a bilingual’s values are triggered through the use of one of their languages. Chinese/English and Spanish/English bilingual individuals from Singapore and the United States …
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The lived experience of being a speech-language therapist in the Western Cape public health service
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 188-203).
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Investigating Patient Attitudes towards Quality of Service Management in the Public Health Service Sector: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
Purpose - Healthcare has been recognised as one of the key social responsibilities in any society, and the quality of healthcare available in a country is one of the key recognised standards and indicators for measuring the quality of life and standard of living obtainable in a particular society …
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An analysis of the development and administration of Section 314(d) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1973
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An Assessment of Decentralisation Effectiveness on Public Health Service Delivery in Rural Tanzania:A Case Study of Pangani and Urambo Local Government Authorities
… of Decentralisation on the Delivery of Public Health Services in Rural Tanzania Drawing Experiences From Pangani and Urambo and Local Government Authorities (LGAs).The Study Adopted A Case Study Design and Employed Mainly Qualitative Approach to Address the Problem.The Study Used Mixed …
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A home physiotherapy service for stroke patients in Malta: constraints and recommendations. The process of setting up a home physiotherapy service for hospitalised stroke patients within the public health system in Malta - new knowledge contributing to a strategy document.
Home physiotherapy is a valid service option for the patient who was recently discharged from hospital after sustaining a stroke, as it enhances functional independence in friendly and familiar surroundings, as opposed to an outpatient clinic (Bader 2008). The aim of this study was to investigate …
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Mining bodies: U.S. medical experimentation in Guatemala during the twentieth century
… particular on experiments conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS), the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (PASB), and the Guatemalan government during the 1940s in Guatemala on sexually-transmitted infections (STIS). During these experiments, U.S. and Guatemalan doctors intentionally …
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Supply chain coordination and influenza vaccination
… value of sales (caused by the nonlinear health benefits of vaccination that are due to infection dynamics) and vaccine production yield issues. In this thesis we present two models in the interface of operations and supply chain management and public health policy. In the first model, we …
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Adsorption and co-precipitation of heavy metals on hydrous ferric oxides (HFO) from acidic waters
… and Mn concentrations exceeded USEPA and U.S. Public Health Service drinking water standards. The geochemical computer model PHRHEQC and laboratory-derived complexation constants (K) were used to predict the amount of heavy metals that should be adsorbed on HFO. The predicted values are …
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Wastewater Treatment Comes To Detroit: Law, Politics, Technology And Funding
… Waters Treaty of 1909. The United States Public Health Service also reported on the pollution that entered the Detroit River from Detroit's sewers. Pollution by sewage threatened lives with a dramatic increase in cases of Typhoid Fever and other gastro intestinal sicknesses. Chlorination …
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The Relation of Weight Loss and Improved Fitness to Survival in Healthy Males
<p>Obesity is a critical public health problem because of its prevalence, medical and psychosocial effects, and resistance to intervention. Weight loss in overweight individuals has been encouraged by the United States Public Health Service and by the medical community as a means for improving …
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Access to dementia diagnosis and support in a diverse South Asian community : a qualitative study
… dementia, this population accesses dementia services less frequently, compared with the majority white population. The disparity between the prevalence of people with dementia and the reported incidence of dementia, especially among South Asian populations (the UK‟s largest ethnic minority), …
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A review of the routine monitoring data for antiretroviral patients in the public health sector in the Western Cape Province, South Africa
… therapy (ART) in the Western Cape Province public health service began treatment as early as January 2001. These patients were funded jointly by non-government sources, such as the Desmond Tutu Foundation (DTF) and Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and the state, on account of the then limited …
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The Use of a Programmed Textbook in Diabetic Patient Education
… filmstrip provided by the United States Public Health Service. The study was conducted in connection with the Los Angeles County General Hospital Metabolic Clinic and the White Memorial Hospital Lipid Clinic. A group of 37 patients who met the criteria of an I.Q. of at least 60, a reading …
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The Birth of Public Sexual Education in the United States: Women, Rhetoric, and the Progressive Era
… during, and directly after the emergence of public sexual education initiatives in the United States, while emphasizing the role that several key women played in that process. The chapters in this study follow something of a chronological structure, moving from the mid-to-late nineteenth …
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Smoking cessation counseling: What do physicians really say and how do they say it?
The U.S. Public Health Service Clinical Practice Guideline recommends that physicians provide tobacco cessation interventions to their patients at every visit. While many studies have examined the extent to which physicians implement the guideline's "5 A's" (for smokers ready to quit) few studies …
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Investigation of liquid carryover in the girdler-sulfide process for production of heavy water at the AEC Savannah River Plant
… Extract (CCE) method adopted by the U.S. Public Health Service as a standard for the determination of organic micropollutants in drinking water may be inadequate and unreliable. Analysis of the water treatment program at the Savannah River Plant showed the most probable cause of carryover …
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Characterization and Molecular Analysis of Fragilysin: The Bacteroides fragilis Toxin
… infections. This research was supported by a Public Health Service grants AI 322940 and AI 32940-03 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and by the Commonwealth of Virginia project 6127250
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Acesso a medicamentos pela população brasileira: dados da pesquisa nacional de saúde 2019
… need to guarantee this access through efficient public policies. Objective: to analyze access to medicines in Brazil and associated factors, based on data from the 2019 National Health Survey (PNS). Methods: this is a crosssectional population-based study that used data from the 2019 PNS, …
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Navy Nurses' Experiences during Operation Unified Assistance Aboard the USNS MERCY: A Grounded Theory Study
… one team with members from the Navy, the U.S Public Health Service, a non-government organization (NGO), and a civilian mariner crew to provide humanitarian aid. Despite these efforts, there is a dearth of scholarly research work published on nurses' experiences during the disaster. The …
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