Broad’s Accounts of Temporal Experience

Serbian Experience with National Health Accounts

Serbia, as many countries in Eastern Europe, is in the process of reforming its health system in an effort to improve the efficiency and efficacy of health services and to achieve equal distribution of health resources. Representatives of Ministry of Health (MOH), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), and Institute of Public Health (IPH) articulated an overall health vision for the health sector in Serb...

Shards of sorrow: Older men's accounts of their depression experience.

The experience of depression is diverse based on social locations and context. A sociological perspective building on masculinity, illness work, and the self provides a useful theoretical framework to understand how older men negotiate emotional suffering. This article examines older men's accounts of their depression experience from a social constructionist approach. This analysis is based on ...

Identification of Temporal Event Relationships in Biographical Accounts

This paper examines the efficacy of the application of a pre-existing technique in the area of event-event temporal relationship identification. We attempt to both reproduce the results of said technique, as well as extend the previous work with application to a newlycreated domain of biographical data. We find that initially the simpler feature sets perform as expected, but that the final impr...

Positive experience with medical savings accounts in Singapore.

National health accounts: Lessons from the U.S. experience

The national health accounts (NHA) are the framework within which type of services and sources of funding for health care expenditures are measured. NHA, devised to portray the structure of health care delivery and financing in the United States, provide essential information necessary for the formulation of public health policy and for international comparison. In this article, the authors des...