Decentralization of health systems has made Background sub-national/regional healthcare systems the backbone of healthcare delivery. These regions are tasked with the difficult responsibility of determining healthcare priorities and resource allocation amidst scarce resources. We aimed to review empirical literature that evaluated priority setting practice at the meso level of health systems. :...

There is an immediate need to step up the flow of credit to agricultural and other rural activities in India for improving rural productivity and economic welfare. In this context, we propose an ICT-based solution for improving the delivery of credit and other services to the rural areas through unbundling and outsourcing of the rural banking operations. The solution involves setting up of a co...

Objective To report a rare successful pregnancy after fertility treatment in a patient with Swyer syndrome. Design Case report. Setting Herts & Essex Fertility Centre, Cheshunt, UK. Patients A 36-year-old patient with 46, XY gonadal dysgenesis. 31 year old husband with normal sperm analysis. Interventions Chromosomal analysis, Saline infusion sonography, Pipelle endometrial scratch, ICS...

countries around the world are experiencing an ever-increasing need to make choices in investments in health and healthcare. this makes it incumbent upon them to have formal processes in place to optimize the legitimacy of eventual decisions. there is now growing experience among countries of the implementation of stakeholder participation, and a developing convergence of methods to support dec...

a b s t r a c t there are three types of nerve fibers that are involved in the transmission of pain stimuli: c fibers (slower fibers) for thermal, mechanical and chemical stimuli, a-delta fibers for thermal or mechanical stimuli and a-beta fibers for touch stimuli. clinically, this is crucial in making an accurate assessment of the pain level experienced by a suffering patient, in indicating th...

Background: Decentralization of health systems has made sub-national/regional healthcare systems the backbone of healthcare delivery. These regions are tasked with the difficult responsibility of determining healthcare priorities and resource allocation amidst scarce resources. We aimed to review empirical literature that evaluated priority setting practice at the meso level of health systems. ...

American options exercised by physical delivery of a portfolio of cash and underlying stock are considered in the binary tree model under small proportional transaction costs. Dynamic programming type recursive algorithms are developed for computing the ask and bid prices of such options, extending the Snell envelope construction. Representations of the ask and bid prices of American options wi...

Decentralization of health systems has made Background sub-national/regional healthcare systems the backbone of healthcare delivery. These regions are tasked with the difficult responsibility of determining healthcare priorities and resource allocation amidst scarce resources. We aimed to review empirical literature that evaluated priority setting practice at the meso level of health systems. :...

Decentralization of health systems has made Background sub-national/regional healthcare systems the backbone of healthcare delivery. These regions are tasked with the difficult responsibility of determining healthcare priorities and resource allocation amidst scarce resources. We aimed to review empirical literature that evaluated priority setting practice at the meso level of health systems. :...

OBJECTIVE To describe the spectrum of oxygen-delivery methods. DESIGN Clinical audit. SETTING Medical wards of a tertiary referral teaching hospital in August 2004. PARTICIPANTS 98 medical patients receiving supplemental oxygen. RESULTS Of the 98 patients, 40 were not receiving oxygen by customary methods. In classifying the patterns of oxygen delivery, we describe the transcephalic, su...