This chapter focuses on costing methods usually applied in cost analysis and health-related economic evaluations. The quality of an economic evaluation depends on the quality and precision of data collection and on transparency and comprehensivenness of costing resources. Costs, from an economic perspective, are related to opportunity costs; this economic conceptualization is different from a f...

BACKGROUND Emergency Medical Care is an important component of health care system. Unfortunately it is however, ignored in many low income countries. We assessed the availability and quality of facility-based emergency medical care in the government health care system at district level in a low income country - Pakistan. METHODS We did a quantitative pilot study of a convenience sample of 22 ...

OBJECTIVE To implement the Safe Abortion Care (SAC) model in public health facilities in the Tigray region of Ethiopia and document the availability, utilization, and quality of SAC services over time. METHODS The project oriented providers in 50 public health facilities in Tigray to the SAC model. Changes in SAC indicators between baseline and endline were assessed using a retrospective revi...

Welfare is the hope of everyone, including farmers, that various efforts are made so income and welfare farmers can increase. One them through empowerment produce independence both economically, managerially, socially. This study aims to find out how implementation shallot in improving identify supporting inhibiting factors empowering Medan Marelan District, City. uses a qualitative approach. D...

Warehouse availability is very important to support the smooth running of a company'sbusiness which expected economic development. Realizing this, government through PT. Medan Industrial Estate provides warehousing facilities for companies in city and its surroundings by renting land, warehouses facilities. How (Persero) increases warehouse efficiency so that it interest user companies, availab...

Traffic congestion is a major urban transportation problem which occurs when the traffic volume exceeds the capacity of existing road facilities. The occurring of traffic congestion is due to the freedom of owning private vehicle, poor traffic facility and unrestricted urban population growth. In this study, identification of maximum flow and bottleneck path in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia wa...

Objective: identify the facilities and the difficulties in planning the teaching-service integration of the undergraduate courses in Nursing, Medical and Dental in the Primary Care Units of a county of southern Brazil. Method: it is a descriptive case study with qualitative approach. As a technique for data collection were used document analysis, semi-structured interviews and participant obser...

The introduction of electronic medical records (EMRs) can expose patients to the risk of infringement of their privacy. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between patients' concerns about information privacy and their protective responses. A questionnaire survey conducted in a Taiwanese hospital revealed that, regarding information privacy, patients' concerns about the co...

The DISCUS framework is a generic reusable software architecture that provides high levels of interoperability between Imagery related applications. DISCUS is also a working government furnished testbed that integrates commercial and government software together including imagery applications, mensuration, office automation, mapping, and databases. In the DISCUS experiment we have shown that it...

A framework for developing real-time programs on embedded PC hardware is presented. Programs consist of a number of real-time tasks and a single non real-time task. Program development and testing is assisted by the automatic collection of task execution times and frequencies during system operation. Tasks have access to device drivers for input/output and can communicate with each other. Addit...