Fees can serve as deterrents to Cambodian health care

Dispatch from the medical front. Fees can serve as deterrents to Cambodian health care.

How Can Bee Colony Algorithm Serve Medicine?

Healthcare professionals usually should make complex decisions with far reaching consequences and associated risks in health care fields. As it was demonstrated in other industries, the ability to drill down into pertinent data to explore knowledge behind the data can greatly facilitate superior, informed decisions to ensue the facts. Nature has always inspired researchers to develop models of ...

The vocation to serve: cornerstone of health care.

Twenty-five hundred years ago, Hippocrates bequeathed a set of ethical precepts that emphasized the social transcendence of the practice of medicine and the profound commitment of physicians to serve patients and their families selflessly and with a pure heart.[1] Traditionally, small-town medical practice facilitated spontaneous interpersonal relationships between family doctors and nurses and...

Access to health care for all? User fees plus a Health Equity Fund in Sotnikum, Cambodia.

User fees in health services are a source of much debate because of their potential risk of negative effects on access to health care for the poor. A Health Equity Fund that identifies the poor and pays on their behalf may be an alternative to generally ineffective fee exemption policies. This paper presents the experience of such a Health Equity Fund, managed by a local non-governmental organi...

Japanese health care: low cost through regulated fees.