T he Commonwealth Fund 2001 International Health Policy Survey shows significant differences in the health care experiences of adults in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.While each country excels in its performance on certain dimensions of health care— no one country is uniformly “the best”—several distinct health system patterns emerged upon close analy...

Significant racial, socioeconomic, and geographic disparities exist nationwide in cancer screenings, treatments, and outcomes. Differences in health and social service provision and utilization may contribute to or exacerbate these disparities. We evaluated the composition and structure of a referral network of organizations providing services to underserved cancer patients in an urban area in ...

The Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland followed different strategies in the use of nonstandard methods of privatization. In regard to resrirurion, the Czech Republic carried out physical return of property, Hungary weakly implemented financial compensation and Poland has not yet approved a programme. Management and employee buyouts were eschewed in the Czech Republic, took the form of employee ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate out-of-pocket costs and the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure in people admitted to hospital with acute coronary syndromes in Asia. METHODS Participants were enrolled between June 2011 and May 2012 into this observational study in China, India, Malaysia, Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand and Viet Nam. Sites were required to enrol a minimum of 10 consecuti...

Healthcare organizations are under siege by cybercriminals with the intent to do harm and extort money from their victims. The profile of cybercriminals has evolved from "script kiddies" and rogue individuals who wanted to see how far they can infiltrate a company's IT infrastructure to a more sophisticated, well-funded, and organized effort backed by syndicated crime rings and nation-states mo...

Financial compensation of women donating oocytes for infertility therapy or for research is justified on ethical grounds and should acknowledge the time, inconvenience, and discomfort associated with screening, ovarian stimulation, and oocyte retrieval, and not vary according to the planned use of the oocytes, the number or quality of oocytes retrieved, the number or outcome of prior donation c...

This paper will outline the changing forms of cooperation between national tax authorities in the taxation of income or profits from international business, especially transnational corporations (TNCs). The case study will illustrate broader trends of transformation both of statehood and the international state system, from the classical liberal model based on interdependence and coordination o...

BACKGROUND Health system responsiveness measures (HSR) the non-health aspect of care relating to the environment and the way healthcare is provided to clients. The study measured the HSR performance and correlates of HIV/AIDS treatment and care services in the Wolaita Zone of Ethiopia. METHODS A cross-sectional survey across seven responsiveness domains (attention, autonomy, amenities of care...

Every year, several environmental causes let significant amounts of grain spoil even though it is properly stored in dedicated silos. To reduces the resulting financial losses, engineers have developed a special robot called grainbutler. The robot is supposed to cover the entire area in a systematic way. To this end, a PC-based control software derives the robot’s current position and submitts ...

BACKGROUND The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 gave states the option to withdraw Medicaid coverage of nonemergency care from most legal immigrants. Our goal was to assess the effect of PRWORA on hospital uncompensated care in the United States. METHODS We collected the following state-level data for the period from 1994 through 1999: foreign-b...