public health management is a pillar of public health practice. only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. with this in mind, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) has developed an innovative program called improving public health management for action (impact) which aims to address th...

Background & Aims of the Study: Recent studies indicated that particulate matter can have the lung irritation, chronic lung diseases, lung tissue, etc. The aim objective of this study was to assess the mortality associated with exposure to PM10 concentrations in Ilam, Iran, during 2013. Materials & Methods: PM10 data were taken from Ilam's ...

CLIODNA MCNULTY1∗, JO BOWEN2, REBECCA HOWELL-JONES3, MARK WALKER4, ELAINE FREEMAN4 1Department of Microbiology, Health Protection Agency Primary Care Unit, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Gloucester GL1 3NN, UK E-mail:[email protected] 2Previously Health Protection Agency Primary Care Unit, Now Scientist Unit, Health and Safety Laboratory, Harpur Hill, Buxton SK17 9JN, UK 3Previously H...

Abstract Plants are the basis of nearly all food chains. The evolutionary response to inevitable predatory and other contingent hazards has provided plants with remarkable regenerative plastic capabilities. Teleonomy been characterized as purposive, adaptive goal-directed behaviour. evidence that agents, they act purposefully, is indicated by numerous behaviours, most notably plasticity. Throug...

U ovom je radu moja namjera ponuditi novo objašnjenje sebstva iz teorijskih perspektiva biologije i dinamičkih sustava. To znači da podržavam ideju sebstvo posljedica bioloških kontrolnih mehanizama, bilo unutarnjih procesa ili kao ishod međudjelovanja organizma okoliša. Iz perspektive teorije sistema, se može razumjeti svežanj uzoraka proizlazećih prilagodbe živućeg sustava na uvjete prvom dij...

This paper investigates whether improvements in women’s political representation are associated with higher child survival, and whether any improvements are greater for girls. It also differentiates the caste of both the child and the political leader. We use within-district variation in electoral outcomes for 286 districts across 31 years and within-mother variation in survival outcomes for 0....

Integrated care is now a recognized paradigm for health care reforms around the globe. The need to address the problem of fragmented systems of care that undermine the performance of health care systems and result in poor quality care and outcomes to people has become a key policy ambition in many countries and regions. For example, in the Americas, resolutions have been passed in support of in...

We model asymmetric information arising from physician agency, and its effect on the design of payment and health care quantity. The physician-patient coalition aims to maximize a combination of physician profit and patient benefit. The degree of substitution between profit and patient benefit in the physician-patient coalition is the physician’s private information, as is the patient’s intrins...

BACKGROUND An important goal of home health care is to assist patients to remain in community living arrangements. Yet home care often fails to prevent hospitalizations and to facilitate discharges to community living, thus putting patients at risk of additional health challenges and increasing care costs. OBJECTIVES To determine the relationship between home health agency work environments a...