A special study conducted by public assistance agencies in 20 States in 1946 gave answers for thefirst time to questions about the types and amount of medical services the agencies were able to provide to assistance recipients and the costs of the various services. An article in the Bulletin for June 1952 discussed medical services for aged recipients. This article deals with the costs of such ...

The TCAR team developed multiple systems in just a matter of weeks for both participating in the TAC-KBP evaluation under the entity linking and the slot filling paradigms. TCAR's entity linking processes consisted of one that leveraged information retrieval and a separate that sought to appeal to extraction-based techniques. With regard to slot filling, since the TAC evaluation was touted as a...

OBJECTIVE To determine which characteristics and circumstances were associated with very early and second-trimester abortion. METHODS Paper and pencil surveys were collected from a national sample of 8,380 non-hospital U.S. abortion patients in 2014 and 2015. We used self-reported LMP to calculate weeks gestation; when LMP was not provided we used self-reported weeks pregnant. We constructed ...

According to current Spanish law, patients are guaranteed the right to make decisions on the medical treatment they receive. However, this exercise of autonomy in health care causes ethical conflicts which are hard to resolve. Health workers' duty to assist patients and the concept of personal rights may lead health professionals to prescribe actions which are contrary to the patient's wishes. ...

This article summarizes to some extent the predominating Marxist and structuralist schools explanations of the international poverty trap. It also looks at more recent theoretical contributions to this topic, for instance lack of knowledge in underdeveloped countries. For several decades, rich countries tried to give some public assistance to poorer ones, to give them an initial momentum for th...

The BioNEC is the acronym of the name: Bio-devices and Nano-Electronics of Cells. This is a course that was approved in the Curricular Area of the Faculty of Electronics, Micro-systems master specialization. The paper wish to present all the fields developed around this course, which proposal was announced 3 years ago at ICL’2005 Conference. This paper will present the e-Healthcare implying, th...

Technical Aid Centers (TACs) in Norway supply devices, such as wheelchairs and hearing aids, to people with handicaps. When a device is returned to a TAC, the TAC staff must decide whether to scrap it or to refurbish it so that it can be used again. The Norwegian National Insurance Administration (NNIA) found that decision makers were scrapping units too frequently, basing their decisions mainl...

Background: Post-tonsillectomy bleeding is life threatening. A previous study found that 30% of patients who suffered from post-operative bleeding did not seek medical assistance although instructed to do so. We therefore compiled a new list of instructions and a colorful illustrated booklet written in 4 languages.

Food globalization has become an important topic in the discourse on globalization. There has been a rapidly rising trend of multinational food corporations integrating and dominating foreign agro-food markets. A clear example of this trend is present in China, whose economy and food industry experienced an influx of foreign direct investment and multinational retail and restaurant branches dur...

BACKGROUND Countries face conflicting incentives to report infectious disease outbreaks. Reports of outbreaks can prompt other countries to impose trade and travel restrictions, which has the potential to discourage reporting. However, reports can also bring medical assistance to contain the outbreak, including access to vaccines. METHODS We compiled data on reports of meningococcal meningiti...