Legislating for health: locating the evidence.

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Locating industrial landfill using analytical hierarchy process (AHP)(Case study: Natanz-Isfahan industrial suburbs)

Locating landfills in urban areas is one of the most important issues in urban planning because of the effect on economy, ecology, and environment, therefore the right management and principled landfilling of solid waste is the major concern all over the world especially in the developed countries. In locating landfills, different criteria should be considered. In the present study, locating si...

مکان­یابی و تخصیص خدمات بیمارستانی با در نظر گرفتن معیارهای هزینه و کارایی: مطالعه موردی شهرستان آمل

ABSTRACT Introduction: Locating hospitals and health care centers and assigning them to clients is one of the major challenges that managers and urban planners encounter it. Right decision in this area is so important that wrong decisions in addition to increasing costs of providing health services, can cause irreparable damages to the individual and social health. The efficiency of such models...

Legislating AIDS away: the limited role of legal persuasion in minimizing the spread of the human immunodeficiency virus.

Research in Sensibility of Locating Damage Methods Based on Mode Shape to Damage Intensity

Structural health monitoring and damage detection is one of the most important subjects for mechanic and aerospace engineers. Structural fault can cause uncompensated problems for both human and environment. There are several methods for solving this problem, but the most useful methods are those which focuse on structural change in the vibrational properties. This paper presents a feasibility ...