FINDING PROFESSIONAL PERSONNELS TO INCREASE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY IN REMOTE AREAS

Membrane reactors: A way to increase efficiency

Evaluated strategies to increase attraction and retention of health workers in remote and rural areas.

The lack of health workers in remote and rural areas is a worldwide concern. Many countries have proposed and implemented interventions to address this issue, but very little is known about the effectiveness of such interventions and their sustainability in the long run. This paper provides an analysis of the effectiveness of interventions to attract and retain health workers in remote and rura...

Beyond the efficiency index: finding a better way to reduce overuse and increase efficiency in physician care.

Current strategies for addressing health care costs stress physician performance measurement and commonly use an efficiency index (EI). During seven years of conducting individual practitioner pay-for-performance (P4P), we found that using EIs hindered our work on reducing overuse of services. This paper offers an alternative approach through the identification of variation in key cost drivers....

Opportunities to Increase Efficiency in Health Care

Transient increase of manganese-superoxide dismutase in remote brain areas after focal photothrombotic cortical lesion.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Free radicals including superoxide are responsible for postlesional cytotoxicity. In contrast to the constitutive CuZn-superoxide dismutases (SODs), manganese-superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) is inducible and has the potential to protect neurons by its superoxide dismutating activity. Therefore, we studied the presence and the regional changes in Mn-SOD within the brain afte...