A comprehensive examination of delayed emotional recovery in borderline personality disorder 2015

A comprehensive examination of delayed emotional recovery in borderline personality disorderSkye Fitzpatrick, Janice R. Kuo*Ryerson University, Department of Psychology, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 2K3, Canada Journal of Behavior Therapy andExperimental Psychiatryjournal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/jbtep ...

Virtual surveillance of communicable diseases: a 20-year experience in France

Inserm has developed, since 1984, an information system based on a computer network of physiciansin France. It allows for constitution of large databases on diseases, with individual description of cases,and to explore some aspects of the mathematical theory of communicable diseases. We developed userfriendlyinterfaces for remote data entry and GIS tools providing real-time atlas of the epidemiologicsituation in any location. The continuous and ongoing surveillance network is constituted of abou ...

Value of the Tuberculin Skin Test in Screening for Tuberculosis in Dialysis Patients

M.A. Habesoglu, D. Torun, Y.Z. Demiroglu, M. Karataslı, N. Sen, H. Ermis, Nurhan Ozdemir,and F.O. EyubogluABSTRACTBackground. Hemodialysis patients are at high risk for tuberculosis, and a tuberculinskin test (TST) is not usually helpful in detecting tuberculosis infection because of anergicreactions. Prophylactic therapy against tuberculosis in dialysis patients is important toenhance transplantation success. Herein we evaluated the value of TST in screening fortuberculosis and analyzed any com ...

Screening for pulmonary tuberculosis using chest radiography in new employees in an industrial park in Taiwan

Shih-Bin Su, MD, MS,a,b Chien-Fang Chiu, MD,a Cheng-Ta Chang, MD,c Kow-Tong Chen, MD, PhD,dChing-Yih Lin, MD,e and How-Ran Guo, MD, MPH, ScDb,fTainan, TaiwanBackground: Pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is prevalent in Taiwan, but it is suspected that its occurrence has been underestimatedby the National TB Surveillance Program. A pre-employment health examination is mandated by law in Taiwan, providing a mechanismto assess the occurrence of TB more accurately.Methods: A pre-employment TB screening pr ...

Public health law and tuberculosis control in Europe

R.J. Cokera,, S. Mounier-Jacka, R. Martinb   Summary Background: Tuberculosis control is an important public health challengein many European countries. Law is an important tool that policy-makers candraw upon to support control efforts and, according to the World HealthOrganization, represents a tangible expression of political commitment and will.Despite this, little national research, and even less cross-national comparativeresearch, has been conducted to describe and analyse legislative ...

Tuberculosis in pregnancy – Case studies and a review of Australia’s screening process

Fergus P. McCARTHY,1 Shelley ROWLANDS1 and Michelle GILES21Obstetrics Department and 2Infectious Diseases, Royal Women’s Hospital, Carlton, Victoria, AustraliaAbstractFew changes have occurred in the management of tuberculosis over the past two decades and many of the recentdevelopments are in the area of diagnostics. The application of these to the pregnant population is not yet established.Two cases recently managed at the Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne highlight the need for cl ...

Identification of tuberculosis cases by port health screening in Essex 1997–2003

Sally Millership and Amelia Cummins AbstractBetween 1997 and 2003 an annual average of 1867 newentrants seen at the port of arrival were notified to thecommunicable disease teams who now form the EssexHealth Protection Unit. We examined the number of individualswho made contact with health services by linkingport health and tuberculosis databases with combinationsof surname, forename and date of birth the number of newentrants developing tuberculosis. We also searched paperrecords for all incide ...

Screening of Immigrants and Refugees for Pulmonary Tuberculosis in San Diego County, California

Study objectives: To evaluate the outcomes of a tuberculosis (TB) screening program for recentimmigrants to San Diego County, CA, and to compare the demographic and clinical characteristicsof pulmonary TB cases occurring in recently arrived foreign-born persons detected throughthis screening with those of similar cases found through routine surveillance.Design: Retrospective review of computer databases and medical records.Setting: Local public health department.Patients: Recent immigrants and r ...

At Home in the City, Introduction to Urban Housing Design

Foreword xiPreface xvIntroduction: What is urban housing? 1PART ONE – ISSUES IN URBAN HOUSING1 Context: The Environmental Imperative 19Climate change 19Population change 22A new policy for housing 27Where to build 33Key points 37Case examples1A Leamington Spa 281B Kings Cross Railway Lands 342 Standards: Dividing the Space 39The drive to raise standards 39Changing attitudes to housing density 44Density and housing form 50The advantages of high density 56Key points 593 Infrastructure: The U ...

BRITAIN modern architectures in history

306 صفحه پی دی اف IntroductiononeEfficiency: From Modernity to ModernismtwoCompassion: Modern Architecture Builds the 'Just City'threePoetics: The Moral Dilemma of Modern AestheticsfourProduction: White Heat and BurnoutfiveHappiness: The Reintegration of ArchitecturesixConscience: The Architecture of Fruitful AnxietysevenDifference: Local Action and Global ThoughtReferencesSelect BibliographyAcknowledgementsPhoto AcknowledgementsIndex7135389125163197247278290296297298 ...