the aim of the present study was to compare and analyze football referees' status in iran and england. this study used factors and variables which affected this issue (assessor scales). method of this research was descriptive and library-based. results showed that iran referee structure was not in accordance with england and more development and variety was observed in england referee stru...

Dr Howard-Tripp raises a very important issue concerning our need to promote cost-effective use of health resources in our health care system. However, ensuring appropriate patients have periodic preventive health examinations is essential to better managing health care costs in our aging society. For example, in 2001 the economic burden of physical inactivity and obesity in Canada was $5.3 bil...

here we consider some non-autonomous ordinary differential equations of order n and present some results and theorems on the existence of periodic solutions for them, which are sufficient conditions, section 1. also we include generalizations of these results to vector differential equations and examinations of some practical examples by numerical simulation, section 2. for some special cases t...

The book begins by charting the rise of the Dutch life insurance industry and the early debates about the necessity of medical selection. Horstman shows convincingly how an advisory role distinct from family practice emerged, due both to the industry's desire for objective risk assessment, and to the NMG's concern that medical assessment by family practitioners breached patient confidentiality....

anada is often described as having a national health insurance system; this is not entirely accurate, however, since each of the 10 Canadian provinces (and two territories) administers its own health insurance plans. Although the hospital and medical components of those plans are subject to federal guidelines, the provincial governments make their own decisions about health care financing and p...

Health equity is the basic theory of universal health insurance and the objective of reform of the medical welfare system. Based on health equity theory with the perspective of giving priority to disadvantaged groups, this article takes Zhejiang province as an example and adopts a mixed-method approach to explore the effects of the reform of the medical welfare system on health equity for older...