BACKGROUND Both rising healthcare costs and the global financial crisis have fueled a search for policy tools in order to avoid unsustainable future financing of essential health benefits. The scope of essential health benefits (the range of services covered) and depth of coverage (the proportion of costs of the covered benefits that is covered publicly) are corresponding variables in determini...

   In recent years, water pollution and pesticide residues in the food chain have become a serious environmental and health hazard problem. Therefore, an efficient technology is essential for complete mineralization of pesticides to non-toxic forms. Nanotechnology offers many potential benefits to improve existing environmental technologies using new materials with effective performance, re...

This paper uses longitudinal data from the Dutch OSA Labor Supply Panel (1980-2000) to examine the phenomenon of unemployment scarring in the Netherlands. The study extends current research by not only asking if earlier unemployment damages subsequent employment careers and wages but also explores variation by the level of unemployment insurance benefits and key individual characteristics such ...

Current health reform proposals in most developing countries stress health gain as the chief evaluation criterion. Essential service packages are formulated using cost-effectiveness methods for the selection of interventions without sufficient regard for other factors that are significant for successful implementation and acceptance by the needy. This paper presents the results of research unde...

We applied a decision tool for rationing choices, with a predetermined budget of about 11 US dollars per household per year, to identify priorities of poor people regarding health insurance benefits in India in late 2005. A total of 302 individuals, organized in 24 groups, participated from a number of villages and neighborhoods of towns in Karnataka and Maharashtra. Many individuals were illit...

'Probiotics' and 'prebiotics' by definition should have health benefits. Health claims on microorganisms proposed as probiotics and probiotic stimulating agents (prebiotics) suggest that there is a relationship between the specific food and maintaining good health or that the food can reduce the risk of a disease. The Health Claim Regulation in European Union aims at a level consumer protection...

Surgical access to the paraclinoid segment of the internal carotid artery is important to know for surgical treatment of aneurysms of the paraclinoid, carotid-ophthalmic and/or anterior cavernous segments of the interAlındığı tarih: 13.01.2013 Kabul tarihi: 01.10.2013 Yazışma adresi: Uzm. Dr. Bülent Güçlü, Sağlık Bakanlığı Şevket Yılmaz Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Nöroşirürji Kliniği, Yıldır...