Since the target populations for this study are formal sector employees, they were contacted at their workplace during working days.
In a first step farms were contacted through the public veterinary sector and through contacting local veterinarians.
Private sector primary care physicians were selected from a previously validated list containing 89 names, and private sector dieticians, podiatrists/chiropodists, pharmacists and nurses identified from the yellow pages of the telephone book were contacted by telephone.
Our sampling frame, made available to us by OPPQ, consisted in the list of physiotherapists who, as of June 2010, worked in the private sector in Québec, and accepted to be contacted for research purposes (as declared in the annual membership renewal), which totaled 957 out of 1529 physiotherapists working in the private sector.
He had been contacted by battalion commanders with the 4th Infantry Division in a violent sector of the Sunni Triangle, in Iraq.
The college has done some good work for the sector and we will be contacting ministers and college members to discuss how this work can be taken forward".
In total 766 adult cases were contact cases, sharing a residential plot with one or more TST participants living in the formal sector of the community.
Even though the study is evaluating a relatively long period of time, there is a risk of underestimating the number of patients with COPD, since those with a contact in the primary sector only but not in the secondary sector are recorded as having had contact but not as having received a diagnosis.
In employment, the public sector is another important place where contact on a daily basis can be maintained.
When you drill down further, the service sector is something you'd come into contact with throughout your life.
