A successful exchange model provides a simple and intuitive front-end shopping experience for eligible consumers, a support module to promote broker and navigator usage, and a robust back-end system to integrate with issuers, state and federal agency systems. States must examine the following four important criteria: • Implementation cost. • Solution flexibility and interoperability. • Speed to...

A successful exchange model provides a simple and intuitive front-end shopping experience for eligible consumers, a support module to promote broker and navigator usage, and a robust back-end system to integrate with issuers, state and federal agency systems. States must examine the following four important criteria: • Implementation cost. • Solution flexibility and interoperability. • Speed to...

Eco-certification schemes are usually launched with various incentives provided by local governments to facilitate green building development and energy retrofits. A number of barriers retrofitting have been identified in previous literature, while the eco-certification existing buildings under-researched. Drawing on a set data retrievable from BEAM Society other sources, we carried out an anal...

Octapharma has read with great interest the report prepared by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH) on the cost-effectiveness of Octaplas® compared to FFP. This is the second version of this costeffectiveness report, which is entitled “Octaplas Compared with Fresh Frozen Plasma to Reduce the Risk of Transmitting Lipid-Enveloped Viruses: An Economic Analysis and Budge...

background: taxi drivers have the most important role in the public transport services. they are exposed to various harmful agents and occupational hazards. noise is a harmful occupational factors and hearing loss is its most important effect. protection of drivers against hearing loss is essential. this study was performed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss among taxi and agency drive...

ABBREVIATIONS. MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; HCUP, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project; AHCPR, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; HC, Household Component; MPC, Medical Provider Component; IC, Insurance Component; ICD-9-CM, International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification; SID, State Inpatient Databases; NIS, Nationwide Inpatient Sample; AHA, A...

ABBREVIATIONS. MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; HCUP, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project; AHCPR, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; HC, Household Component; MPC, Medical Provider Component; IC, Insurance Component; ICD-9-CM, International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification; SID, State Inpatient Databases; NIS, Nationwide Inpatient Sample; AHA, A...

To this end, a social marketing agency was contracted to develop a comprehensive multimedia, multilevel communication strategy. Various communication materials were developed, including innovative marketing tools for private sector producers of low-cost sanitary rings and slabs to generate consumer demand. DPHE and UNICEF revamped their approach to social mobilization, including instituting the...