Budget holding: the first 150 days in Calverton.

Budget-holding: the answer to Australian primary care reform?

In common with other Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, Australia is experiencing growth in expenditure on health care. However, while many other nations continue to pursue some variation of managed competition to address these problems, Australia has chosen a more incremental reform path, with initiatives such as the General Practice Strategy, restrictions ...

GP Budget Holding: Scoring a Bullseye or Missing the Target?

the first ten days

i am a community midwife and working in a health sector in south of england. my work scope is very wide and includes different types of parents with different specifications. many of them are young and primipara. i am working as community midwife for ten month. after start of my work, i gained complete knowledge for giving enough information about preconception cares to mothers. many of clients...

Hyperbolic Geometry : the First 150 Years

This will be a description of a few highlights in the early history of non-euclidean geometry, and a few miscellaneous recent developments. An Appendix describes some explicit formulas concerning volume in hyperbolic 3-space. The mathematical literature on non-euclidean geometry begins in 1829 with publications by N. Lobachevsky in an obscure Russian journal. The infant subject grew very rapidl...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)--150 days on.

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) has been identified as a new clinical entity in the year 2003.1,2 It was on 12 March 2003 that the World Health Organization (WHO) issued a global health alert on the disease then known as atypical pneumonia. On 16 March 2003, the disease received its name SARS. Singapore entered the picture when the Ministry of Health issued its first circular on 13...