the importance of health indicators in the recent years has created challenges in resource allocation. balanced and fair distribution of health resources is one of the main principles in achieving equity. the goal of this cross-sectional descriptive study, conducted in 2010, was to classify health structural indicators in the fars province using the scalogram technique. health structural indica...

Minnesota's approach to the development and use of State health expenditure accounts (SHEAs) was developed to assist State policymakers with decisions regarding health care reform. The accounts are based on an annual survey of third-party payers and summary Medicaid and Medicare data. Summary data are presented along with a discussion of data collection methodology, estimation, and disseminatio...

The binding of phytohemagglutinins from Phaseolus vulgaris (erythroagglutinating phytohemagglutinin (E-PHA) and leukoagglutinating phytohemagglutinin (L-PHA)) and from Lens culinaris (lentil-PHA) to human platelet cell surfaces has been demonstrated. Each platelet binds on an average 500,000 to 600,000 molecules of E-PHA with an apparent dissociation constant of 0.5 X 10m7 M. These values were ...

S 2012 1 Policy-driven Improvements In Crowding: System-level Changes Introduced By A Provincial Health Authority And Its Impact On Emergency Department Operations In

A number of Pseudomonas strains accumulated polyhdroxyalkanoate (PHA) from a variety of aromatic hydrocarbons. In many strains the level of PHA accumulation was dependent on the side chain length of the phenylalkanoic acid provided for growth. 4 of the 8 strains accumulated increased levels of PHA as the side chain length of the phenylalkanoic acid substrate increased. PHA accumulated from styr...

After examining the major determinants of inefficiency in health care markets and several recent proposals to correct these problems, this paper introduces a market-oriented alternative which could be highly efficient while meeting all the established goals of a national health plan. To achieve these objectives, traditional forms of insurance would be replaced by a system with the following cha...

BACKGROUND A complex, poorly understood bifurcated health policy regime exists for Canada's First Nations people for extended health benefits coverage. This research adds to a small body of literature on the regime's impact on access and quality of care and its role in perpetuating health inequities in First Nations populations. METHODS Using a case study of sleep apnea care in Saskatchewan, ...

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are natural polyesters stored by a wide range of bacteria as carbon source reserve. Due to its chemical characteristics and biodegradability PHA can be used in chemical, medical and pharmaceutical industry for many human purposes. Over the past years, few Burkholderia species have become known for production of PHA. Aside from that, these bacteria seem to be interest...

1Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China; 2Jiangxi Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Nanchang, China; 3Future Position X, Gavle, Sweden; 4School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College of Hazhong University of Science and Technology, Hubei, China; 5Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska I...