https://www.selleckchem.com/products/SB590885.html OBJECTIVES To measure the use of healthcare services and assistive devices by centenarians in five countries. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using a survey questionnaire. SETTING Community-dwelling and institutionalised centenarians living in Japan, France, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 1253 participants aged 100 or in their 100th year of life, of whom 1004 (80.1%) were female and 596 (47.6%) lived in institutions. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Recent use of medical visits, nursing care at home, home-delivered meals, acute care hospital stays overnight, professional assessments such as sight tests, mobility aids and other assistive devices. A set of national healthcare system indicators was collected to help interpret differences between countries. RESULTS There was considerable variability in the healthcare services and assistive devices used by centenarians depending on their country and whether they were community-dwelling or institutionalised. In contrast to the relatively homogeneous rates of hospiublished by BMJ.OBJECTIVES The optimal size of the health workforce for children's surgical care around the world remains poorly defined. The goal of this study was to characterise the surgical workforce for children across Brazil, and to identify associations between the surgical workforce and measures of childhood health. DESIGN This study is an ecological, cross-sectional analysis using data from the Brazil public health system (Sistema Único de Saúde). SETTINGS AND PARTICIPANTS We collected data on the surgical workforce (paediatric surgeons, general surgeons, anaesthesiologists and nursing staff), perioperative mortality rate (POMR) and under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) across Brazil for 2015. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES We performed descriptive analyses, and identified associations between the workforce and U5MR using geospatial analysis (Getis-Ord-Gi analysis, spatial cluster analysis and linear re