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Epidemic theory predicts that the vaccination threshold required to interrupt local transmission of an immunizing infection like measles depends only on the basic reproductive number and hence transmission rates. When the search for optimal strategies is expanded to incorporate economic constraints,...
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PMID: 21825129
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Midwives face great challenges in practice in caring for women with multiple medical, social and psychological needs. This article highlights the issues such as extreme grief reaction, fear of abandonment and stigma and prejudice that women face when they are diagnosed HIV positive during pregnancy....
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PMID: 21473320
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BACKGROUND. An aim of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa (CMSA) project 'Strengthening Academic Medicine and Specialist Training' was to research the number and needs of specialists and subspecialists within South Africa. METHODS. Data were collected from several sources: Deans of the 8 Faculti...
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PMID: 21920124
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The first female Jewish doctors in Eretz Israel at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries were partners in laying the foundations of its health system in Eretz Israel. They were young doctors in their late twenties or even mid-thirties, graduates of European medical sc...
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PMID: 21560607
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We examined public use data for general population surveys that collect information on healthcare coverage and access on an annual or periodic basis for the nation. Data sources examined include the following: Current Population Survey, Survey of Income and Program Participation, National Health Int...
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PMID: 20966785
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We have analyzed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control-region and coding-region sequence variations in 168 Cham and 139 Kinh individuals from Vietnam. Around 77% and 95% matrilineal components in the Chams and the Kinhs, respectively, could be assigned into the defined mtDNA haplogroups. Additionally, t...
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PMID: 20513740
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The government of Afghanistan, with international partners and donors, has achieved substantial public health improvements during the past 8 years. But a critical gap remains: capacities to detect and respond to disease outbreaks that could constitute a public health emergency of international conce...
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PMID: 20825338
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We provide a historical perspective, review AIM panels and software packages, and discuss recent successes and unexpected insights into human diseases that exhibit disparate rates across human populations....
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PMID: 20594047
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We human beings may consider ourselves, there was nothing special about the way we came into existence. Modern human cognition is a very recent acquisition; and its emergence ushered in an entirely new pattern of technological (and other behavioral) innovation, in which constant change results from...
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PMID: 20509011
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This molecular genetics study was conducted in Karachi, Pakistan from 2004 to 2006 to provide guidelines for prenatal diagnosis programmes in the country. Blood samples of patients with beta-thalassaemia minor (n=200) and beta-thalassaemia major (n=150) were collected from hospitals, transfusion cen...
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PMID: 21218725
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Concerning the human resource management in the health care, Hungarian analysts focus mainly on cross-national migration, which was instigated considerably by joining the European Union in 2004. Contrasted to other health care professionals, dentists emphasized also the importance of in-country migr...
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PMID: 21058494
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We analyzed 9,079 Mexican-American respondents to the 2001 California Health Interview Survey (CHIS) grouped as born in the US, living in the US 10 or more years, or living in the US less than 10 years. The CHIS provides the largest Mexican-American sample in a US survey. Access to care meant having...
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PMID: 19052868
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I review the conditions facing citizen-children, and consider the consequences to the children and to the U.S. To remedy the effects of deportation policies and practices, federal immigration enforcement must follow sound child welfare models. Solid health and educational research helps immigration...
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PMID: 20693727
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We analysed the microevolution dynamics of Postua, a mountain village of North Western Italy, by means of demographic methods. The uniqueness of this community is due to its past geographical and cultural isolation and to the high frequency of marriage between relatives. During the study period cons...
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PMID: 20873211
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We set forth to estimate the number of board certified neurologists, and to evaluate the foreseeable changes in the next decade. In the beginning of 2010 there were 1310 physicians in Hungary with an official license to practice neurology. During 2009 neurological performance at least once during th...
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PMID: 20812454
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Simon A Parfitt,
Nick M Ashton,
Simon G Lewis,
Richard L Abel,
G Russell Coope,
Mike H Field,
Rowena Gale,
Peter G Hoare,
Nigel R Larkin,
Mark D Lewis,
Vassil Karloukovski,
Barbara A Maher,
Sylvia M Peglar,
Richard C Preece,
John E Whittaker and
Chris B Stringer
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We present new evidence from Happisburgh (Norfolk, UK) demonstrating that Early Pleistocene hominins were present in northern Europe >0.78 Myr ago when they were able to survive at the southern edge of the boreal zone. This has significant implications for our understanding of early human behaviour,...
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PMID: 20613840
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We identified 465 Hg C individuals out of 4284 males from 140 East and Southeast Asian populations. We genotyped these Hg C individuals using 12 Y-chromosome biallelic markers and 8 commonly used Y-short tandem repeats (Y-STRs), and performed phylogeographic analysis in combination with the publishe...
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PMID: 20448651
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We summarize five cases where AI-MEG used photography in their medical examinations, and consider the ethical role physicians play in helping asylum seekers obtain refuge. Though photographs cannot capture all forms of trauma, as visual documents, they are a compelling form of concrete evidence of t...
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PMID: 20359805
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Exporting nurses has been a long-standing economic strategy for the Philippine government, despite the fact that the Philippines' domestic health system is weak and existing supplies of health workers are poorly distributed. This study explores the role of nursing schools as "migrant institutions" i...
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PMID: 20399550
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Climate change is occurring and has tremendous consequences for children's health worldwide. This article describes how the rise in temperature, precipitation, droughts, floods, glacier melt and sea levels resulting from human-induced climate change is affecting the quantity, quality...
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PMID: 20403822
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These findings indicate that issues of power and identity construction have great implications for the uptake of HIV prevention strategies by African immigrant groups and reveal important opportunities on which to focus prevention efforts....
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PMID: 20465975
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We examine relationships between immigrant generation and physical activity (PA) among Mexican, Chinese and Filipino adults, who represent the three largest immigrant groups in the US, and the extent to which the relationships are confounded by SES. Data from the 2000 US Census was linked with data...
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PMID: 20378226
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The aim of the present research was to examine the experience of extended periods of immigration detention from the perspective of previously detained asylum seekers and to identify the consequences of these experiences for life after release. The study sample comprised seventeen adult refugees (six...
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PMID: 20378223
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We describe and evaluate the available evidence for and against each of these. What this shows is that: (1) there are few studies that have directly investigated specific risk factors in migrant and minority ethnic populations, with often only 1 or 2 studies of any relevance to specific explanations...
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PMID: 20513653
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We must train 800 medical students per year. MALAG adopted this recommendation. As a first step, MALAG approved two new programs: a special program for Academic Reserve candidates (Atudaim) and a new (5th) medical school in the Galilee. These two new programs, together with the new 4-year MD program...
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PMID: 20941932
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PNAS (107 Suppl 2)supplement_2 2010
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We discuss genetic variation in African populations contextualized with what is known about archaeological and linguistic variation. What emerges from this review is the importance of using independent lines of evidence in the interpretation of genetic and genomic data in the reconstruction of past...
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PMID: 20445100
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The attendance of migrant women at the national breast cancer screening in the Netherlands is high; however, a much lower attendance was found in a study carried out in one region of the Netherlands some years ago. An increase in the attendance rates of migrant women over time was assumed, but no na...
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PMID: 20150815
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This paper uses archival sources and autobiographies to give a fuller account of the lives of three Russian women psychologists, each of whom voluntarily emigrated several years before the Third Reich. As such, their stories contribute to gender history, emigration history, and ethnic history. The c...
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PMID: 20533767
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Rural and urban settlements of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are characterized by intense marriage migrations: both indigenous residents of different uluses (districts) of the republic (7-30%) and migrants from outside Yakutia (7-29%) contract marriages in five administrative centers analyzed in t...
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PMID: 20583606
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Tuberculosis has re-emerged as a public health concern in high-income countries in the last few decades. The European region accounts for only 5% of world TB cases. The incidence of new TB cases in Europe varies from very low rates in Scandinavian countries (six to eight cases/100,00...
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PMID: 20406085
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In Washington State, the Conrad Program has increased the number of physicians in underserved areas who frequently stay beyond their obligations. The significant movement away from rural areas for postobligation employment, however, highlights the long-term need to continue state efforts to recruit...
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PMID: 20354376
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We carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in a French hypertension unit, comparing 719 patients born in Northern Africa to 3558 controls born in Europe, individually matched for age and sex. Using a Bonferroni adjusted alpha-level=0.001, we found no significant difference between the grou...
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PMID: 20001390
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The purpose of the present study was to explore the perceptions of Korean and Japanese nurses' about nursing in Australia.
There are increasing numbers of overseas nurses entering Australian nursing. More nurses educated in Asian countries are arriving.
Qualitative research methodology comprised in-...
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PMID: 20465749
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