Objective. To investigate and share the major challenges and experiences of building a regional health information exchange system in China in the context of health reform. Methods. This study used interviews, focus groups, a field study, and a literature review to collect insights and analyze data. The study examined Xinjin's approach to developing and implementing a health information exchang...

Authoritarian regimes, such as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), seek to bolster legitimacy by facilitating communications between citizens and government officials. This article investigates the operation of online consultation, a process through which citizens offer feedback on draft laws and regulations. The article specifically examines the importance of demographic characteristics and sub...

We study the behavior of Stanley decompositions and of pretty clean filtrations under reduction modulo a regular element.

We define the Augmentation property for binary matrices with respect to different rank functions. A matrix A has the Augmentation property for a given rank function, if for any subset of column vectors x1, ..., xt for for which the rank of A does not increase when augmented separately with each of the vectors xi, 1 ≤ i ≤ t, it also holds that the rank does not increase when augmenting A with al...

background & purpose: since 2005, a reform known as rural insurance and family medicine scheme has introduced to primary health care network in iran in rural areas and small towns. the content of the reform implies a substantial change in those aspects of health centers that mainly could be categorized as structural quality. although, this is the requirement of all health care providers, they a...

Background: The objective of the health system reform plan is to review individuals’ satisfaction in the field of health and to reduce their concerns and medical expenses. The disregarding of some workers in this plan seems to have resulted in their dissatisfaction, which can in turn cause problems such as neglecting of patients and patients' dissatisfaction. Therefore, the identification...

The εi are called the elementary divisors of A and à is called the Smith normal form or elementary divisors form of A. In Section 3 we give an algorithm for computing for a given matrix A, its rank r and a prime p the p-parts of the elementary divisors of A. During the algorithm we perform row operations on the matrix A which are driven by only considering certain reductions of row vectors modu...

A characterization of the roots of the 3x3 median filter is given. We define the properties of local smoothness and of local roughness for the roots of the 3x3 median filter. Roots that are locally rough everywhere are binary and periodic; otherwise, unlike the 1D case, a root may be non binary or non periodic. This partially generalizes to dimension 2 the results of Brandt [1] and Tyan [2]; in...