INTRODUCTION Today, it is recognized that factors other than health services are involved in health improvement and decreased inequality so identifying them is the main concern of policy makers and health authorities. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of governance indicators on health outcomes. METHODS A panel data study was conducted to investigate the effect of governance...

Treatment of chicken blood smears and semithin sections from Epon-embedded mouse tissues with aqueous solutions of the 3-aminonaphthalimides FA-142, FA-2043, and FA-2143 induced a strong green-yellow fluorescence of chromatin under violet or violet-blue excitation. Chromatin emission was abolished by previous DNase or hot TCA treatment. The use of 3-methoxy (FA-655) and 3-nitro derivatives (M-4...

The reference model presented in this article encourages the breakdown of M-Health systems into the following five key dimensions: (1) Communication Infrastructure: a description of mobile telecommunication technologies and networks; (2) Device Type: the type of device being used, such as PDA, sensor, or tablet PC; (3) Data Display: describes how the data will be displayed to the user and trans...

The South Pacific countries of Vanuatu, Samoa, and Papua New Guinea have ascended rapidly up the development spectrum in recent years, refining an independent and post-colonial economic and political identity that enhances their recognition on the world stage. All three countries have overcome economic, political and public health challenges in order to stake their claim to sovereignty. In this...

INTRODUCTION The Comprehensive Chronic Care Programme (CCCP) is an intensified programme designed to provide comprehensive care for the management of diabetes mellitus, hypertension and hyperlipidaemia at a primary healthcare setting. A formative study was done to evaluate the effectiveness of the CCCP compared to the normal polyclinic management of diabetes mellitus. MATERIALS AND METHODS Co...

INTRODUCTION Many acutely ill elderly people are frail and suffer from polypharmacy. They often present with nonspecific symptoms at hospital admission and are therefore often under-triaged and insufficiently treated resulting in adverse health outcomes. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of polypharmacy and frailty and to identify if frailty and polypharmacy may predict adverse hea...

We investigate the relationship between household debt and health outcomes for OECD countries over the period 1995 to 2012. Using a dataset of aggregated, standardized and objective measures of household debt and health outcomes, we estimate an instrumental variable (GMM) model in order to deal with endogeneity and reverse causality concerns between health and debt. We find that higher househol...