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Vet Sci
September 2020
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chattogram Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Khulshi, Chattogram 4225, Bangladesh.
Avian influenza (AI) is endemic and frequently causes seasonal outbreaks in winter in Bangladesh due to high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 and low pathogenic avian influenza (LPAI) H9N2. Among avian influenza A viruses (AIV), H5, H7, and H9 subtypes have the most zoonotic potential. Captive birds in zoos and safari parks are used for educational, recreational, breeding, and conservational purposes in Bangladesh.
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December 2008
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Alhambra, California 91803, USA.
The purpose of this study was to conduct a needs assessment of a potential social service resource telephone program component among high risk youth who received the Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) classroom-based program (approximately 1 year earlier). Results supported youths' overwhelming receptiveness of a social service referral program. The vast majority of respondents indicated a strong desire for resource and referral information on vocational, educational, recreational, transportation, and mental health and drug counseling.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Golden Age Association, a 6,000-member senior center, provides educational, recreational, social, cultural, and physical activities to well, aged people. In 1983, a training program was developed to enable the center to offer new services and programs to a growing senior population during a time of budgetary restrictions. The importance of maintaining and increasing the quality of life of seniors was paramount.
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November 1989
Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR 97219.
Methadone maintenance has become the treatment of choice for heroin addiction because of its beneficial effects on illicit opiate use and criminality. Yet methadone maintenance falls short in a variety of ways; methadone clients continue to use drugs, experience high rates of psychopathology and alcoholism, and fail to become employed and integrated into the community. These problems are endemic in addicts, but also can be attributed to a host of strategic and tactical failures in methadone maintenance treatment itself.
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