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Participation of Refugee Women Living with Disabilities in Income Generating Activities was curtailed by exclusion and limited opportunities which sustained dependence to development organizations. The study therefore assessed the factors affecting participation of women with disabilities in Income Generating Activities in Kakuma Camp. Social Model of disability explained how enablers or barriers were sustained by society. Descriptive survey design was used with mixed methods approach for data collection.

At the end of the 20th century, as a result of studies of psychogenesis, literacy studies, and institutionalization of National Curriculum Parameters, a new curriculum for teaching of reading and writing has been instituted.

25 Years ago, the internet suddenly changed the way we do business: from one day to another, enterprises could work faster and be more cost efficient, thanks to the world wide web and all of its innovations. Today, we find ourselves once again on the verge of such a drastic shift in business opportunities. 250 years after the industrial revolution began, we have arrived at a critical threshold in the evolution of computing.

Introduction: The process of industrialization and urbanization impacts the environment and consequently the human health. Among health problems is the development of chronic diseases, where the risk of cancer has been the subject of scientific interest. Objective: To evaluate the relationship between economic and industrial growth and the increase in hospitalization rates due to neoplasms. Method: Ecological study, with secondary data on the Gross Domestic Product – GDP, resident population, and hospitalizations for neoplasms.

Background: Immunohistochemical markers can be used to classify breast cancer into distinct biological subtypes that behave differently. The Hormone receptors (estrogen receptor (ER) and progesterone receptor (PR)), and human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2) profile of breast carcinoma have a significant role in determining patient's prognosis, in addition to early detection of cancer, planning treatment and monitoring response to treatment. Increase use of tumor markers represents a shift in understanding of the basic biology of breast cancer, and treatment modules.

Objective: to evaluate the frailty syndrome in the elderly hospitalized in a teaching hospital. Method: cross-sectional study with 107 elderly hospitalized in a teaching hospital at Campos Gerais, Ponta Grossa – PR, from October 2016 to April 2017. Data collection included the application of the Mini Mental State Examination, Fragility Scale of Edmonton and a sociodemographic and health questionnaire. Data was analyzed using Stata®12 Software. The association was verified through simple linear regression (Fisher's F and Student's T tests), significance level of p 0.05.

Introduction of the study: Nursing Profession is an important part of the health care system, which works for the Wellbeing of health, inhibition of illness, and care of persons who are physically, mentally ill and disable people in all ages (Althabe et al., 2015). According to the Armstrong et al., (2015), the best evidence of nursing care can be assessed by their competencies,. The nursing supervisor plays an important role organizing patient care activities. Objectives: To identify the difference in management competencies among head nurses of Public and Private Hospitals of Lahore.

U-mineralization in the Gudarukoppu area, close to the SE-margin of India’s Mesoproterozoic Cuddapah basin is of a low-temperature, remobilized, hydro (epi)-thermal vein-type that appears to be a consequence of regional deformation - metamorphism-K-Mg-Fe-P-B-metasomatism, all of which affected the area to different degrees within the structurally weak major shear zone. Its U-ore (quartz apatite cataclasite, assaying 0.29% U3O8 and < 0.01% ThO2) was subjected to a preliminary laboratory-scale mineral processing study.

This study aimed to analyze contributions from the health situation as a tool to support municipal management in monitoring and control of leprosy. A cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach performed in the city of Vitoria de Santo Antão/PE. The results showed an incidence of leprosy of 11,04/100.000 inhabitants in the general population, being 5,99/100.000 in children younger than 15 years of age. It was also found that only 44.44% of the total cases were discharged because of cure, keeping far away from the achievement of goals laid down by WHO.

A cross-sectional and quantitative study aimed at analyzing socio-economic, family environment, access and use of dental services, subjective aspects and their relationship with dental caries in 253 children aged 12 years old enrolled in municipal schools of a medium-sized municipality of south of Brazil. A clinical examination was carried out to collect cases of dental caries using the decayed, missing and filled teeth index (DMFT), classifying children into two groups: Group 1: Caries Free and Group 2: With caries experience.