Search results for "overcrowding"

High Cryptosporidium prevalences in healthy Aymara children from the northern Bolivian Altiplano.

1998

The prevalence of Cryptosporidium infection was determined in four Aymara communities in the Bolivian Altiplano, between the city of La Paz and Lake Titicaca, at an altitude of 3,800-4,200 meters. Single stool specimens were randomly collected from 377 5-19-year-old students, all apparently asymptomatic. The total prevalence (31.6%) is possibly the highest reported among healthy humans (a maximum of 9.8% and 2.0% in coprologic surveys in underdeveloped and developed countries, respectively) and one of the highest even in symptomatic subjects. No significant age and sex differences were observed. Such an infection prevalence is probably related to the poor sanitation conditions, contaminated…

Homeownership and Living Conditions of the Immigrant Population in Spain: Differences and Similarities among Immigrant Groups

2016

International migration has become a highly relevant issue over the last decade. In this paper, we study the homeownership and living conditions of the immigrant population in Spain in a period of ...

Predictors of emergency department referral in patients using out-of-hours primary care services

2016

Background Out of hours (OOH) doctors could manage many cases limiting the inappropriate accesses to ED. However the possible determinants of referral to ED by OOH doctors are poorly studied. We aimed to characterize patients referred from the OOH to ED service in order to explore the gate-keeping role of OOH service for hospital emergency care and to facilitate future research in improving its cost-effectiveness. Methods A retrospective study was made through data collection of 5217 contacts in a local OOH service in the North-East of Italy (from 10/01/2012 to 03/31/2013). Results Only 8.7% (=454 people) of the total contacts were referred to ED. In the multivariate analysis, the significa…

Advances in survival analysis: applications and extensions of the "standard" competing risks model

2023

‘Back Door Sentencing’ in Italy: Common Reasons and Main Consequences for the Recall of Prisoners

2012

Italian law only provides the general conditions for the institution of recall. It follows that significant discretionary powers are enjoyed by the surveillance judges (and in particular by the Surveillance Tribunal) who evaluate on a case-by-case basis whether the commission of another offence or the infringement of parole conditions demonstrate the offenders' negative attitude to reintegrate into society. However, especially with reference to the commission of serious crimes, the judges' discretionary assessment can result in a restrictive application of the law on recall with the consequence that parolees are returned to prison even when they commit minor violations. The Italian peniten…

Limits in medical care and social relief during the Spanish Civil War in a rear-guard city: the inclusa of the provincial hospital of Valencia.

2016

Due to its geostrategic condition during the Spanish Civil War, Valencia became one of the Republican cities welcoming more refugees, including many children. In this scenario of demographic and health crisis, the town had to restructure the assistance network in order to accommodate thousands of displaced children, who often had their relatives in faraway places. The paper focuses in the progressive rehabilitation undertaken by the Inclusa of Valencia, which was the provincial foundling hospital. This included deep changes both in its operation and in the admission criteria, particularly following the transfer of the Inclusa of Madrid to Valencia. The resulting overcrowding encouraged the …

SmartCrowding™ : Bruk av SmartCrowding™ i komplekse situasjoner ved Stavanger Universitetssykehus

2019

Masteroppgave helse- og sosialinformatikk HSI500 - Universitetet i Agder 2019 Background: Over the past years, over-filled hospital wards, critical and complex situations has created an increased amount of difficulties in Norwegian hospitals. This is also true for Stavanger University Hospital. In order to better tradethese challenging situations, Stavanger University Hospital decided to implement «plan for høy aktivitet»(«plan for high activity»), and «Smartcrowding™» as Multi Criteria Decision Analyses Software. The intended purpose of these tools is to ensure a higher level of patient safety, as well as to generate a common understandingof the activity level at Stavanger University Hospi…

Overcrowding in the Emergency Department: Could a Patient-centred Mobile App Change This Paradigm?

2020

Evolution of the electronic monitoring in Poland

2017

Electronic monitoring is a new solution in Polish penal law. It should be noted that the electronic monitoring was initiated in the United States of America by psychologist Ralph Schwitzgebel in 1964. In Poland the system of electronic monitoring appeared in a later period of time. One of the basic legislator’s purposes was to reduce overcrowding in prisons. This institution was used from the date of the entry into force of the Act of 7 September 2007 about serving a sentenceof imprisonment outside prison in the system of electronic monitoring (Dz. U. 2007, No. 191, item. 1366), which was experimental. The next important legislative changes concerning the electronicmonitoring have been intr…

It’s More Fun in the Philippines? The Challenges of Tourism

2017

The Philippines have been in recent years a minor destination of international tourism flows, especially from Europe. Most visitors are Asians (Korea, Japan), Americans or Australians. This chapter examines some strengths of the Philippines in terms of tourism potentials (landscapes, undersea diving, cultural heritage), then its organizational and infrastructural weaknesses (transportation), as well as the lack of proper maintenance of tourism assets and the overcrowding of Boracay island, before examining the tourism policies of the national government (the successful “Its more fun in the Philippines” campaign, development of gambling, medical tourism and ecotourism). Four case studies in …