scholarly journals Streptococci and Leucocytes in Milk. I

1906 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
William G. Savage
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Bacteriological Examination ◽  
Milk Samples ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fresh Milk ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Work Done

The undoubted fact that milk may act as a vehicle for the transmission of a number of diseases has directed considerable attention to the Bacteriological and Public Health aspects of milk. Yet it cannot be said, tuberculosis excepted, that the bacteriological examination of milk has afforded in the past much assistance in the prevention of disease, while only very occasionally has a subsequent examination served to elucidate the cause and origin of a milk-spread epidemic. A survey of the literature of the subject will show that although extensive work has been carried out upon the bacteriology of milk, the subject is so large and many-sided that what is known is but an insignificant proportion of what requires to be ascertained. A great deal of the work done has been in relation to tuberculosis. Almost all the milk examinations have been carried out with mixed milk samples, and not with quite fresh milk from individual cows.

scholarly journals Availability and Utilization of WHO Lifesaving Medicines for Children under Five in Public Health Facilities of the Jimma Zone, South West Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Tidenek Mulugeta Tujo ◽  
Tadesse Gudeta Gurmu
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Children Under Five ◽  
Under Five ◽  
The Past ◽  
Jimma Zone ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Medicines For Children

Background. The increased morbidity and mortality rates in children under five in developing countries are mostly attributed to poor availability and failure of prescribing lifesaving medicines. This study was aimed at evaluating the availability and utilization of the WHO-recommended priority lifesaving medicines for children under five in public health facilities. Method. A cross-sectional survey complemented with a qualitative method was conducted in 14 health centers and four hospitals in the Jimma Zone, Ethiopia. In the facilities, we assessed the availability within the last half year and on the day of the visit. Utilization of the medicines was assessed through a review of patient records of the last one year. Twelve in-depth interviews were carried out to collect the qualitative data, and the analysis was executed using thematic analysis. Results. For treatment of pneumonia, amoxicillin dispersible tablets and gentamycin injection were available in 94.4% of the facilities. For treatment of malaria, artemether/lumefantrine was available in 61.1% of the facilities. For pain management, paracetamol tablets were available in 94.4% of the facilities. AZT+3TC+NEV for HIV/AIDS management was available in all facilities. At least one essential medicine was out of stock in the past six months with the average duration of 33.6 days in health centers and 28.25 days in hospitals. Oral rehydration salt and zinc (84.7%) and AZT+3TC+NEV (100%) had better utilization. However, for almost all cases, other nonpriority medicines were highly prescribed. Lack of administrative commitment, supply of near expiry products, complexity of diseases, and lack of customized child formulations were among the challenges of availability and utilization of those medicines. Conclusions. The overall availability of lifesaving medicines on the day of the visit was fairly good but with poor utilization in almost all facilities. Some products were not available for considerable length of time in the past six months.

The Kingdoms in Illyria Circa 400–167 B.C.

1966 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. G. L. Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Political Organization ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The One ◽  
Almost All

The positions and the extent of these kingdoms have been disputed in the past, especially by Droysen, Zippel, Meyer, and Beloch, and they are the subject now of an interesting and well-documented paper by F. Papazoglou, entitled ‘Les origines et la destinée de l'état Illyrien: Illyrii proprie dicti’. His conclusions are that there was a specific political ‘Organization’ called ʾΙλλυριοί that almost all the known kings of Illyria—he gives fifteen of them between 400 and 167 B.C.—were rulers of this organization; and that this organization was not the one and only tribal organization known by this specific name, the ‘Illyrii proprie dicti’ of Pliny, HN iii. 144 and P. Mela ii. 55. In the course of the paper he does not mention any use of the term ʾΙλλυριοί before 423 B.C.; he shows no knowledge of the topography of the areas and little concern with topography; and he makes some statements which are erroneous, at least in part, e.g. that when Glaucias took the title ‘king of the Illyrians’ the Taulantii disappeared for ever from history—yet he quotes from Livy the terms given to the Taulantii by Rome in 168 B.C. Moreover, his conclusions do not seem to me to be probable.

EDWIN CHADWICK'S SELF-FASHIONING: PROFESSIONALISM, MASCULINITY, AND THE VICTORIAN POOR

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 353-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priti Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Legislative Politics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sanitary Condition ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time ◽  
Scholarly Attention

IN THE PAST DECADE EDWIN CHADWICKhas been the subject of several scholarly inquiries; indeed one can almost speak of a “Chadwick industry” these days. This is not, however, the first time he has attracted significant scholarly attention: in 1952, S. E. Finer's and R. A. Lewis's biographies initiated our century's first evaluation of him, culminating in M. W. Flinn's excellently edited reprint of Chadwick's most important text,The Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain(referred to as theSanitary Report). Yet the Chadwick that emerges in recent accounts could not be more different from the mid-century Chadwick. The post-war critics saw him as a visionary, an often-embattled crusader for public health whose enemies were formidable but whose vision, extending the liberal and radical tradition, ultimately prevailed. Cultural critics, on the other hand, present a Chadwick who misrepresented (if not outright oppressed) the poor and who was instrumental in developing a massive bureaucracy to police their lives. Thus, while earlier accounts highlighted Chadwick's accomplishments, the progress of public health reforms, and the details of legislative politics, more recent ones draw attention to his representations of the poor, the erasures in his text, and the growing nineteenth-century institutionalization of the poor that theSanitary Reportpromotes. Chadwick, in other words, is portrayed as either a pioneer of reform or an avatar of bureaucratic oppression.

The role of palaeoclimate studies: modelling

1993 ◽  
Vol 341 (1297) ◽  
pp. 341-342 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Multiple Equilibria ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Atmospheric Composition ◽  
Climate Modelling ◽  
The Past ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All

Stepping back from the topic of the meeting, I should like to begin by addressing the role of palaeoclimate studies in the subject of climate and its prediction. I do not believe that it is only by looking at the past that one can see into the future. However, I do believe that studies of past climates have an important role to play. To perform climate modelling and to compare the data from models with observations, one must have a conceptual framework. Important elements in this framework are the roles of continents, mountains, solar input and atmospheric composition. It must include notions of rapid change. For example, the response to increasing atmospheric CO2 may be very slow until a certain critical point when it becomes very rapid: the ‘Joker in the pack’. The possibility of multiple equilibria, more than one possible climate for the same external conditions, must be recognized. The average situation is essentially irrelevant in a system that spends almost all of its time in either of two equilibra.

APPLY ON MEDICAL ERRORS IN HEALTH RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS IN TURKEY: ARTICLES AND GRADUATE THESISON ANATIONAL REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (11) ◽  
pp. 241-256
Author(s):  
Mustafa MACİT ◽  
Sibel ORHAN ◽  
Muhammet GÜMÜŞ
Keyword(s):  
Medical Errors ◽  
Medical Error ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Done

Medical errors are recognized as an important issue within the scope of patient safety and it should be stated that they have started to take a noteworthy place in the public debate within the scope of health care policies. Medical errors, which have existed since the past but have been increasing recently, are very important within the scope of health services. In this context, it should be noted that it is quite small and has a number of studies from the recent past of Turkey. This study aims to compile and examine the researches made within the scope of medical errors and to investigate the factors affecting the medical error, the effects resulting from the errors, the attitudes towards the error and the types of errors, and to reveal the current information about the factors that affect them. we focus on medical error concept in this context, international and national research on the subject being discussed, relating to work done for medical bug in Turkey is presented, and gives advice on behalf of the work to be done in the future.

scholarly journals PERSONAL HISTORY OF MY ENGAGEMENT WITH CUPRATE SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, 1986–2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
PHILIP W. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
Cuprate Superconductors ◽  
Personal History ◽  
New Method ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cuprate Superconductivity ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All

Six months ago, I was asked to write a personal history of my engagement with the high-Tc problem of the cuprate superconductors, in a rather informal and autobiographical style. As the work proceeded, I realized that it was impossible and would have been dishonest to separate out my rather amusing but seminal early fumblings from the complete restructuring of the problem which I have achieved during the past decade. But the result became considerably too long, by over half, for its intended recipient. The assignment had left me with no obligation to deal with all the fascinating but irrelevant phenomenology which I had more or less instinctively ignored on my way, but that feature also fails to endear the article to any conceivable editorial board containing knowledgeable experts on the subject. Also, their purpose was for it to serve as an "introduction to the more technical debates", but its message is that almost all of these are not relevant. They are not, on the whole, focused on achieving understanding of the crucial experimental anomalies, many, if not most, of which are now understood. The key to the problem is a new method of dealing with the constrained Hilbert space which follows from the necessity of Gutzwiller projection.

On Health and Economic Development: Some Problems, Methods, and Conclusions Reviewed in a Perusal of the Literature

1966 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 433-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Perlman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Health Problems ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Medical Problems ◽  
Health And Economic Development ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Work Done

Interest in the consequences for economic activity of the development of disease, preventive medicine, and of other public health problems is not exactly new. Professor Sigerist, in many ways the doyen of the subject, summarized our background quite well in 1941. “We are”, he wrote, “often inclined to believe that the economic approach to medical problems is new, that we inaugurated it. This is not the case …. Max von Pettenkofer in Munich, reasoned very much along the same lines as we do today” [18:2]. Thus, I have precedent for citing work done in this very city as the logical place to start my discussion. One could, as indeed Sigerist himself did, argue that von Pettenkofer (upon whose work I shall base this analysis) wrote with the knowledge of earlier writers like Chadwick, Simon, Snow, and Budd. But, I am inclined to accept Sigerist's assessment of von Pettenkofer's importance and use his two public lectures as the springboard from which to launch my discussion.

Fundamental parameters of x-ray microanalysis: A brief introduction

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Peter Duncumb
Keyword(s):  
Microprobe Analysis ◽  
Electron Microprobe Analysis ◽  
X Rays ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Fundamental Parameters ◽  
The Past ◽  
Basic Physics ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Physical Laws

It is indeed fortunate that nature has provided us with such well-defined physical laws governing the generation of x rays and their interaction with matter. This benefit has given electron microprobe analysis two major advantages over many other techniques of analysis: it can be applied to almost all elements in the periodic table and it can be applied quantitatively. Nevertheless, we are continually striving for better and better quantitation over a wider range of conditions, and there is a corresponding pressure to improve our knowledge of the physics. The purpose of this session is to identify the fundamental parameters by which these physical laws are expressed, and to explore their relative importance in determining the accuracy of which the technique is capable.The essential link between the basic physics of microprobe analysis and its useful application is the physical model used to represent the process numerically. Many such models have been proposed in the past 40 years and these are properly the subject of a separate session on quantitative analysis.

Companion animals: a reservoir for methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureusin the community?

2010 ◽  
Vol 138 (5) ◽  
pp. 595-605 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. LOEFFLER ◽  
D. H. LLOYD
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Animal Species ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mrsa Infection ◽  
The Subject

SUMMARYThis article reviews the literature on the epidemiology of methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus(MRSA) in dogs, cats and horses. Over the past 10 years, MRSA has emerged as an important pathogen in veterinary medicine, especially in countries with a high MRSA burden in human hospitals. During the same period, community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections in humans without apparent links to healthcare facilities have increased dramatically. Although animal infections occur outside human hospitals, significant epidemiological, clinical and genetic differences exist between CA-MRSA in humans and the majority of MRSA infections in the different animal species. The recognition of MRSA in animals has raised concern over their role as potential reservoirs or vectors for human MRSA infection in the community. However, available data on MRSA transmission between humans and companion animals are limited and the public health impact of such transmission needs to be the subject of more detailed epidemiological studies.

Off-Label Drug Use and Promotion: Balancing Public Health Goals and Commercial Speech

2011 ◽  
Vol 37 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 225-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron S. Kesselheim
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Prescription Drugs ◽  
Drug Label ◽  
Safety And Efficacy ◽  
Off Label ◽  
Commercial Speech ◽  
The Past ◽  
Health Goals ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Universe

Off-label promotion of prescription drugs has become a source of substantial controversy in the past decade. Before a new drug reaches the market, its safety and efficacy must be certified by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). But the FDA does not simply approve a drug for general use. Rather, it approves drugs for the specific uses requested by manufacturers, who choose the universe of possible indications when they undertake pre-marketing clinical trials. The approval is therefore tied to a particular disease that is the subject of the manufacturer's pre-approval testing and the FDA's formal review. The conditions for which the product is approved are spelled out in the official drug label, including the dose evaluated by the FDA, and the details of administration in which the FDA has determined the drug showed efficacy. The label also describes the safety concerns related to the use.

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