T he age limits entitling to publicly subsidized dental care were abolished in Finland by the amended provisions of the Primary Health Care Act and the Health Insurance Act, which entered into force in their entirety on December 1, 2002. Before that, the local municipal authorities could limit the access to dental care on the basis of age. Likewise, the eligibility for reimbursement under healt...

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases (NCD) pose challenges to Cambodia's health system. Medicines for NCD are on the National Essential Medicines List but no clinical guidelines support their utilization. Two social health protection schemes aimed at the informal sector population exist (Health Equity Funds and Insurance) together with two disease-specific interventions (a Peer Educator Network...

In this paper, we report the puzzling results of a study which examined IT capital investment and productivity at three of the largest IT user sites in the U.S. for the period 1970-1990: Social Security Adininistration (SSA), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Based on detailed IT invesunent, employment, and output data over twenty years, we found tha...

This month’s theme “Knowledge translation in global health” offers an opportunity to highlight the overlooked but dramatic impact of social entrepreneurs in the health sector and to detail ways in which their knowledge, innovations and enterprise can add strength and utility to systems ripe for change. The global health sector and its corporate, academic, governmental and philanthropic partners...

weden is situated in northern Europe. Despite a rather small population (8.7 million in 1992), the country is the fifth largest in area in Europe. Most of the population lives in the southern parts and the coastal areas, leaving many parts sparsely populated. The demographic transition to an aged population is more accentuated in Sweden than other countries. In 1992, 18 percent of all citizens ...

Introduction: Demographic change and population ageing are global processes without precedent. The 21st century will witness even more rapid ageing than did the century just past and governments, private sector as well as civil society should work together to give answers to the social and economic challenges we will all be facing. Description: Edad&Vida (Age and Life) (http://www.edad-vida.org...

background: medial educations' models should train physicians with competencies and commitment to meet health needs in the community. this social accountability in medical education is not a new concept but provides equity, quality, relevance and cost-effectiveness in health care system. the aim of this study was to assess the knowledge of faculty members towards the situation and activiti...

We examine the distribution of hours of work across 2-digit industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three types: health and social work, a group that produces goods with home substitutes and all others. We attribute the disparities to the different tax and subsidy policies that countries follow, in a nested CES preference structure with home...

We examine the distribution of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three groups: one that produces goods without home substitutes and two others that have home substitutes — health and social work, and all others. We attribute the disparities to the countries’ tax and subsidy policies. High taxation substantially red...

I argue that increased foreign competition can affect technical choice and skill differentials even when actual imports do not rise significantly. I present a model of General Oligopolistic Equilibrium ("GOLE") in which a reduction in import barriers (whether technological or policy-imposed) encourages more strategic investment by incumbent firms. The predictions accord with many of the stylise...