The menu-setting problem (MSP) determines the goods and services an institution offers and the prices charged. It appears widely in health care, from choosing the services an insurance arrangement offers, to selecting the health plans an employer proffers. The challenge arises because purchases are subsidized, and consumers (or their physician agents) may make cost-ineffective choices. The intu...

Affordable and subsidized housing providers must design and implement housing strategies: where, when and with what types of housing to best meet the needs of lowand moderate-income households for affordable/low-cost permanent shelter. Recent research has proposed a multiobjective integer programming model for this purpose that jointly optimizes measures of net social benefit and equity and add...

In the works of domestic and foreign authors it is noted that in modern conditions innovations determine vector development territories. Also, most important condition for regions sufficiency necessary resources to ensure positive dynamics economic growth. To date, regional budgets are characterized by need subsidized contributions, since their incomes do not cover amount expenses. Within frame...

Mr. Smith is a 38-year-old single, unemployed man who lives on his own in subsidized housing. He has been an outpatient of yours for the last year or so, and he also has a community case manager who has known him for the last decade or so. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia, paranoid type, since he was 19 years old, and he has also been diagnosed with cannabis abuse since he was 25 and wi...

The anti-retroviral (ARV) treatment programme in Nigeria is delivered through selected teaching and mission hospitals at a free/subsidized rate. The government aims to scale up ARV treatment in the country. However, non-adherence to ARV medication can lead to viral resistance, treatment failure, toxicities and waste of financial resources. This study examined the factors responsible for non-adh...

BACKGROUND In resource-constrained health systems medical travel is a common alternative to seeking unavailable health services. This paper was motivated by the need to understand better the impact of such travel on households and health systems. METHODS We used primary data from 344 subsidized and 471 non-subsidized inbound medical travellers during June to December 2013 drawn from the North...