THE EFFECT OF ISLAMIC MICROFINANCE ON POVERTY ALLEVIATION: STUDY IN INDONESIA by Wahibur Rokhman

“…The four indicators of poverty alleviation were used: income levels, children’s education, health care, and business progress. This study used the sample of 150 borrowers from 20 Islamic microfinance institutions in Central Java, Indonesia. …”
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Sick Day Management for Adults with Diabetes Who Take Insulin by Nancy Gal, Linda B. Bobroff

“…The best way for people with diabetes to prevent a minor illness from becoming a major illness is to have a personalized sick day plan designed with their health care provider before they become ill. This 4-page fact sheet is a major revision that discusses ways in which illness affects diabetes control, development of a sick day plan, times to call your health care provider, checking blood glucose and urine ketones, medicines, and diet. …”
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Poorly Differentiated Neuroendocrine Tumor of the Rectum Coexistent with Giant Rectal Villous Adenoma Presenting as McKittrick-Wheelock Syndrome by Sammy G. Nakhla, Traci T. Murakami, Srinath Sundararajan

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Measuring Quality in Emergency Medical Services: A Review of Clinical Performance Indicators by Mazen J. El Sayed

“…This paper reviews the current approaches to measuring quality in health care and EMS with a focus on currently used clinical performance indicators in EMS systems (US and international systems). …”
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Utilization of Integrated Community Case Management and Its Factors in Southern Ethiopia: Facility Based-Cross-Sectional Study by Samuel Yohannes, Yitagesu Habtu, Bereket Abreham, Menen Ayele

“…A multistage sampling technique was used to select study participants in health care facilities offering child health care services. …”
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Characterization of the attention to the Occupational Health in the Policlínico Juan José Apolinaire Pennini. Cienfuegos 2018. by Yoleysi Arteaga Cuéllar, Pedro Luis Veliz Martínez, Sarah Hernánez Malpica, Noelia Castro Ladrón de Guevara, Leticia Castro Morejón, Pedro Ricardo Borges Cabrera

“…<p><strong>Background:</strong> considering that work accidents constitute a large source of cost generation and that in Cuba there is an aging age distribution, health care for workers is a fundamental process in primary health care.…”
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Effect of Treatment with Salsalate, Menhaden Oil, Combination of Salsalate and Menhaden Oil, or Resolvin D1 of C57Bl/6J Type 1 Diabetic Mouse on Neuropathic Endpoints by Matthew S. Yorek, Lawrence J. Coppey, Hanna Shevalye, Alexander Obrosov, Randy H. Kardon, Mark A. Yorek

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Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Postexposure Prophylaxis against HIV Infection among Healthcare Workers in Hiwot Fana Specialized University Hospital, Eastern Ethiopia by Endalkachew Mekonnen Eticha, Ashenafi Beru Gemeda

“…Postexposure chemoprophylaxis can prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in risk health care workers; however routine adoption of these practices by the workers has been limited. …”
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Awareness and healthcare-seeking behavior regarding acute respiratory infections among mothers of under-five children in rural Tamil Nadu: A hospital-based cross-sectional study by Rasha Aslam Koranath, Abhilasha Nair

“…Those who do not seek health-care services for their child’s illness believe that the disease is self-limiting, while others try traditional medicines at home before seeking health-care services. …”
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A Qualitative Study on the Pathways to Evidence-Based Antenatal Care in Periurban Ghana by Jones Asafo Akowuah, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Benedict Osei Asibey

“…Maternal health care has become a major concern on international fora in the 21st century. …”
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Dissociating social reward learning and behavior in alcohol use disorder by Simon Jangard, Björn Lindström, Lotfi Khemiri, Nitya Jayaram-Lindström, Andreas Olsson

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Medical professional image in the social media by Muscovites: managerial and methodological aspects by I. V. Bogdan, A. A. Dreneva, D. P. Chistyakova

“…The study has allowed to describe the main elements of the specialists’ image among the population, including the perception of “typical” physical characteristics for a health care worker, professional and personal qualities, and the relationship between the image of a physician and a nurse, where the former usually has a higher status than the latter. …”
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Classification of Thyroid Nodules with Stacked Denoising Sparse Autoencoder by Zexin Li, Kaiji Yang, Lili Zhang, Chiju Wei, Peixuan Yang, Wencan Xu

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Paraoxonase 2 Induces a Phenotypic Switch in Macrophage Polarization Favoring an M2 Anti-Inflammatory State by Marie Koren-Gluzer, Mira Rosenblat, Tony Hayek

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Access to Complex Abortion Care Service and Planning Improved through a Toll-Free Telephone Resource Line by Wendy V. Norman, Barbara Hestrin, Royce Dueck

“…The service provided unanticipated benefits to health care planning and monitoring of provincial health care related service delivery and gaps. …”
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Will things feel better in the morning? A time-of-day analysis of mental health and wellbeing from nearly 1 million observations by Daisy Fancourt, Feifei Bu, Jessica K Bone

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Career Choices and Career Progression of Junior Doctors in Dermatology: Surveys of UK Medical Graduates by Atena Barat, Michael J. Goldacre, Trevor W. Lambert

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Reconstructing Risk Dimensions in Telemedicine: Investigating Technology Adoption and Barriers During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Taiwan by Tzu-Chi Wu, Chien-Ta Ho

“… BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has shifted health care toward virtual and online models, impacting both users and providers. …”
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A ‘training of trainers’ programme for operational research: increasing capacity remotely by Angela Willemsen, Eskinder Wolka, Yibeltal Assefa, Simon Reid

“…The World Health Organization (WHO) Structured Operational Research Training Initiative (SORT-IT) programme promotes how OR contributes to improved health care delivery and health outcomes. A partnership project between the International Institute of Primary Health Care (IPHCE) in Ethiopia and The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia modified the SORT-IT programme to deliver a hybrid Training of Trainers programme and improve OR capacity. …”
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Relationship between social activities and cognitive impairment in Chinese older adults: the mediating effect of depressive symptoms by Qianke Yang, Shichong Lin, Zhuyun Zhang, Shuhao Du, Dan Zhou

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