OBJECTIVE To assess the availability, utilization and functional capacity of the public health delivery system in terms of human resources, equipment, supplies and health provider knowledge regarding management of obstetric complications. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in March 2003 for Multan's public health delivery system. A complete inventory of equipment, supplies, drugs, ...

PROBLEM Hypoxaemia in children with severe or very severe pneumonia is a reliable predictor of mortality, yet oxygen was not available in most paediatric wards in Malawi. APPROACH The Child Lung Health Programme in Malawi made oxygen available by supplying oxygen concentrators and essential supplies to 22 district and 3 regional hospitals' paediatric wards. Five key steps were taken to introd...

BACKGROUND Cholera is endemic in Malawi with seasonal outbreaks during the wet season. People living around Lake Chilwa rely on the lake for their water supply. From May 2009 to May 2010, a cholera outbreak occurred in fishing communities around Lake Chilwa. This paper describes the outbreak response and lessons learned for prevention and management of future outbreaks. METHODS Starting in Ja...

The implementation of costs management systems has been extremely helpful to healthcare area owing to their efficacy in cutting expenditures as well as improving service quality. The ABC classification is an applied strategy to stocktaking and control. The research, which consists of an exploratory/descriptive quantitative analysis, has been carried out in order to identify, in a year time peri...

We present the conditions in which a toroidal type, line frequency, power transformer can yield reduced stray magnetic field, reduced weight and size, and improved efficiency over an E-I laminate transformer in single phase linear power supplies. These benefits must be considered in relation to the disadvantages of slightly higher cost and greater inrush current. WHY CHOOSE A LINEAR POWER SUPPL...

Abbreviations: (AACE)American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, (ADA) American Diabetes Association, (AMA) American Medical Association, (CGM) continuous glucose monitoring, (CMS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CPT) current procedural terminology, (DMEPOS) durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies, (E/M) evaluation and management, (HCPCS) Healthcare C...

Th e aim of the study is to determine the rules governing the modern cash management in food and beverages processing enterprises with a full operating cycle with a particular emphasis on environmental conditions infl uencing enterprises. Having a full operating cycle is defi ned as a situation in which the small or medium enterprise has a stock of materials or raw materials, which it then as a...

A control system for Hall B at the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is being developed within the framework of the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS). The Hall B equipment currently under EPICS control includes numerous beam line devices, high voltage power supplies, detector gas systems, and safety systems. The status of the control system is described.

This paper surveys more than twenty types of tactile illusions and discusses several of their aspects. These aspects include the ease with which they can be demonstrated and whether they have clear visual analogs. The paper also shows how to construct equipment made of simple supplies able to deliver well-controlled tactile signals in order to conveniently demonstrate four different tactile ill...