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There is a striking disparity between the estimated need for mental health care by 18-25% of the nation's elderly, and the minimal utilization of private and publicly funded services by this age cohort. Recognition that the elderly are not well served by existing systems led a trilogy of major Philadelphia aging, mental health, and health organizations to form a partnership for the purpose of improving, expanding, and integrating service delivery for a segment of the population which has been overlooked. A training model was devised to overcome the organizational isolation of agencies serving mutual clients with interrelated problems. For training purposes, the city was divided into five sections. Consultants were recruited to organize staff development groups from the health, mental health and senior centers in the georgraphic areas to which they were assigned. This paper describes the interagency training experience, the receptivity of the participants, and discusses the issues which must be addressed to improve coordination of elderly services by the aging, health, and mental health systems.     

Current status of oral health research in Africa: an overview

Background: Research in oral health contributes effectively to decisions and strategies aimed at improving the oral health of populations. Further contributions to enhance current knowledge of oral health in Africa are required. Objectives: The principal objective of this study was to produce an analysis of oral health research published from different subregions of Africa and to estimate bilateral and multilateral international cooperation in oral health research during the period 2005–2010. Methods: The PubMed database was searched for published articles on topics related to oral health in Africa. A total of 935 oral health‐related articles were retrieved during April and May 2011. Results: Publications emanating from Nigeria and South Africa accounted for a striking 68% of all oral health‐related material published from Africa during the study period. Researchers from 30 different countries had participated in collaboration on at least one published article. A total of 262 journals had published at least one item examining oral health in Africa, but only 29 journals had published more than seven articles. These 29 journals accounted for 66% of all published material and induced non‐African reviews (26%) and African reviews (40%). Conclusions: This study shows strong variation among countries in the production of articles on oral health whereby rich countries produce greater quantities of published research and poorer nations more frequently develop research partnerships with other countries.     

科普图册在婴幼儿外阴阴道炎家属健康教育中的应用

目的 探讨科普图册在婴幼儿外阴阴道炎健康教育中的应用效果.方法 针对门诊0～5岁婴幼儿外阴阴道炎患儿的家长,以预防婴幼儿外阴阴道炎的健康教育为主要内容,插入图片设计制作成科普图册并投入使用.将86名0～5岁患儿的家长随机分成观察组和对照组各43名,对照组以发放健康小册加面对面指导,观察组以发放科普图册结合面对面指导的健康教育方式,在发放资料后4～8周进行电话随访.结果 观察组对该疾病的相关知识的知晓率、疾病治愈率和对健康教育方式的满意度高于对照组.结论 以科普图册的方式进行健康教育指导,能取得更满意的效果.

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Objective The study aims to assess the health education effects of popular scientific brochure with pictures on infant vulvovaginitis. Methods Parents of female child outpatients aged 0～5 years old with vulvovaginitis of our hospital were selected for health education, mainly about how to prevent vulvovaginitis. Popular scientific brochure with pictures was designed for use. Eighty six parents of female child patients aged 0～5 with vulvovaginitis were randomly divided into the control group and the observation group with 43 people in each group. In the control group, health brochures were issued and face-to-face guidance were carried out. In the observation group, popular scientific brochures with pictures were issued and faceto-face guidance were carried out Phone call investigations were done 4-8 weeks after issuing of education materials. Results Awareness rate, vulvovaginitis cure rate of their female child and satisfaction rate to education method of the observation group were significantly higher than the control group. Conclusions Health education guidance in form of popular scientific brochure with pictures can get more satisfactory effects.     

Fate of abstracts presented at the annual meetings of the American association of clinical anatomists

A recent study examined the rate of full‐length research paper publication following abstract presentation at the British association of clinical anatomists (BACA) annual meetings. The accepted standard for research dissemination is peer‐reviewed publication following presentation at a national or international meeting. The study objectives were quantitative assessment of the abstracts presented at the American Association of Clinical Anatomists' (AACA) annual meetings with regards to the rate of subsequent full‐length publication and comparison to BACA publication rates. All abstracts presented at the AACA annual meetings between 2003 and 2010 were analysed. MEDLINE was searched to identify peer‐reviewed publications arising from each presented abstract. In total, 1,120 abstracts were presented with 22.9% (n = 257) subsequently published as full‐length research papers. The mean number of abstracts presented each year was 140.0 ± 35.9. The median time to publication was 16 months. Chi‐squared analysis showed the publication rate of abstracts presented at AACA (22.9%) was not statistically significantly different to BACA (20.4%) (P = 0.09). A total of 11.3% (n = 29) of the articles were published as full‐length research articles before presentation as an abstract at an AACA meeting compared to 5.4% of abstracts presented at a BACA meeting. These rates are lower but comparable to those of surgical specialty meetings. Further work should try to identify any concerning reasons for the reduced rate of abstract publication in anatomical research. Clin. Anat. 30:140–144, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.