About half of the world’s population lives in rural and remote areas, but only a quarter of doctors and less than a third of nurses serve this half [13]. In addition, the WHO report predicts that, over the next few decades, about 40% health professionals worldwide will leave their ...
Almost one quarter (22.1%) had no disaster plan provisions for children with special health care needs, and one quarter reported having no plans for postdisaster counseling. Almost half (42.8%) had never met with local emergency medical services (EMS) officials to discuss emergency planning....
Footnote 1 Only one-quarter of included documents (n = 21) provided an explicit definition of the terms used. Several documents contained definitions of health equity that addressed key aspects of the WHO’s definition of health equity, including the absence of differences in health at the ...
An unidentified ransomware groupthreatensvia fax to publish data stolen from PIH Health (CA) during a December 1 ransomware attack that continues to impact the provider’s IT systems. PIH staff are “scrambling,” according to one employee. “It’s a day-to-day thing. The majority of locatio...
For those whose substance use meets diagnostic criteria for abuse or dependence, the estimates for concurrent personality disorder fall between a quarter and half the substance use treatment population (compared with an approximately 10% in the general population). There are relatively few screening ...
Participants were enrolled if the primary extensive caries lesions were located in the pulpal quarter of the dentine. However, lesions that were extremely deep, penetrating through the entire thickness of the dentine, were excluded. Similarly, lesions that affected less than three-quarters of the ...
About one-quarter of the respondents had to be excluded from the regression analyses because of missing values for sociodemographic variables; most were missing household income. Respondents missing household income were less likely to be food insecure (P < 0 0.05) and more likely to be <25 y ...
Near-infrared spectroscopy (NiRS) is a relatively new technology of brain imaging with its potential in the assessment of cerebrovascular health only recently discovered. Encouraging early results suggest that NiRS can be used as an inexpensive and porta
Aim is to have 30% patients to use kiosks during the first quarter of the year. The report generated by Ambulatory Electronic Medical Record will show the patient, the date and time of the appointment, and the appointment status, along with other information about the appointment. The Kiosk ...
More than one quarter of persons with SMI had been victims of 1 or more violent crimes within the past year. For all crimes, prevalence ratios were higher than incidence ratios. This indicates that the high incidence among persons with SMI is not accounted for by a few persons being ...