Levels cross-national

This in itself is not too surprising. What is much more surprising is that a number of cross-national surveys have shown that the degree of income inequality in a given society is strongly related to the society s level of mortality. The more steep the income gradient (the more severely the poor... 

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While the focus of almost all studies included in this chapter was the adaptation of a patient safety cUmate measure from the USAto their own national and healthcare contexts, maity of the questions we will have to answer in future might be better addressed at a cross-national level. At the level of the survey instmment this would require a certain amount of consistency regarding the use of terminology and the addition or removal of items - a minimal shared item set. Taking cross-national similarities and differences into account (especially with regard to internal consistencies of the various safety climate dimensions) might help to improve further the overall quality of the HSPSC and to further our understanding of factors at the level of healthcare systems that may have a considerable impact on safety climate. 

In summary, this chapter highlights that the uptake of the HSPSC in Europe has been rather impressive and that psychometric testing has provided us with the knowledge needed to evaluate the measurement qualities of the various national / language versions. We believe that this is an excellent basis from which we can move forward at both national and cross-national levels. 

CP-1 was assembled in an approximately spherical shape with the purest graphite in the center. About 6 tons of luanium metal fuel was used, in addition to approximately 40.5 tons of uranium oxide fuel. The lowest point of the reactor rested on the floor and the periphery was supported on a wooden structure. The whole pile was surrounded by a tent of mbberized balloon fabric so that neutron absorbing air could be evacuated. About 75 layers of 10.48-cm (4.125-in.) graphite bricks would have been required to complete the 790-cm diameter sphere. However, criticality was achieved at layer 56 without the need to evacuate the air, and assembly was discontinued at layer 57. The core then had an ellipsoidal cross section, with a polar radius of 209 cm and an equatorial radius of309 cm [20]. CP-1 was operated at low power (0.5 W) for several days. Fortuitously, it was found that the nuclear chain reaction could be controlled with cadmium strips which were inserted into the reactor to absorb neutrons and hence reduce the value of k to considerably less than 1. The pile was then disassembled and rebuilt at what is now the site of Argonne National Laboratory, U.S.A, with a concrete biological shield. Designated CP-2, the pile eventually reached a power level of 100 kW [22]. 

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