Combining the High Tech with the Soft Touch: Population Health Management Using eHealth and Peer Support

Integration of diverse approaches may offer paths to meeting population health challenges, such as how to provide ongoing diabetes self-management support to the 387 million people with the disease around the world. The Affordable Care Act challenges us to improve the health of whole populations, with an eye toward chronic diseases in particular. The centrality of highly variable human behavior provides enormous challenges to managing populations of those with chronic diseases. It requires reorienting resources within the health care system to address ongoing, effortful, and complex behaviors of patients amid strong competing priorities

Seismic hazard assessment and site-dependent response spectra parameters of the current seismic design code in Albania

A probabilistically based hazard map of Albania expressed in terms of PGA for 475 years of return period following the spatially smoothed seismicity approach proposed by Frankel (1995) and developed by Slovenian researchers (Lapajne et al. 1997), is presented.  Taking advantage of this development, an effort has been made to analyze the parameters of site-dependent acceleration response spectra parameters of the current seismic design code KTP-N.2-89 in Albania