T new millennium has ushered in leftist governments across Latin america. With the election of fernando Lugo as Paraguay’s president in april 2008, every country in south america except colombia and Peru had elected a left-of-center president during the prior decade. in central america, el salvador, Guatemala, and nicaragua also elected left-leaning presidents, and mexico’s 2006 election saw a ...

BACKGROUND It is becoming increasingly necessary for community health centers to make rehabilitation services available to patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. However, for a number of reasons, including a lack of expertise, the small size of community health centers and the availability of only simple medical equipment, conventional rehabilitation therapy has not been widely used in China...

This paper studies an overlapping generations model with selfish agents, natural resources and human capital externalities. The initial result is to quantify the economic effects of intergenerational transfers by comparing a complete markets allocation with transfers to an allocation without transfers due to incomplete markets. The core contribution is then to show that a higher resource regene...

Masami Akai, Meigen Liu, Zong-Yao Wu and Tiecheng Guo From the Department of Rehabilitation for Movement Functions, Research Institute, National Rehabilitation Center, Tokorozawa, Japan, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Southwest Hospital, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing,...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of centers are using active rehabilitation and ambulation for critically ill patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) as a bridge to lung transplantation. This investigation assessed the economic impact at a single center of ambulatory versus non-ambulatory ECMO strategies as a bridge to lung transplantation. METHODS We conducted a single-center r...