[Relation between body mass index and dental caries among adolescents].

Background: Obesity and dental caries are both multifactorial diseases. Their prevalence is increasing among infants and adolescents. Research results on the association between dental caries and obesity are contradictory and the nature of factors involved remains unclear.

Internet or dvd for distance learning to isolated rural health professionals, what is the best approach?

Background: Distance Learning (DL) is a means to overcome the barriers that prevent health workers access to medical education and training sessions to update their knowledge. The main objective of this study is to compare the knowledge acquisition among practitioners Heads of Health Based Center (HBC) for the management of hypertension in two training modalities, one interactive, via internet (by Visio conferencing and video Conferencing), and other non-interactive, via DVD in the three regions (Miarinarivo, Moramanga and Manjakandriana) of Madagascar.

Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study comparing two distance learning methodologies, one via internet (VS or VD) and the other via DVD before and after training.

Assessment of the nursing skill mix in Mozambique using a task analysis methodology.

Background: The density of the nursing and maternal child health nursing workforce in Mozambique (0.32/1000) is well below the WHO minimum standard of 1 nurse per 1000. Two levels of education were being offered for both nurses and maternal child health nurses, in programmes ranging from 18 to 30 months in length.

[Physiology of hemostasis].

After having remained the essential modalities leading haematologic anamnesis and clinical examination, first we describe, for each of the three haemostasis steps, the routine laboratory tests and secondly, a more specific schedule prescribed only after having found abnormalities in the first tests.