The main objective of this essay is to analyse neoliberalism as an alternative for political administration. According a theory developed in Brazil, administration encompasses both macro- and micromanagement principles represent the interests agenda social class, or some fraction it. findings are that neoliberal rationale its management principles—efficiency, accountability, performance, compet...

BACKGROUND In resource-constrained health systems medical travel is a common alternative to seeking unavailable health services. This paper was motivated by the need to understand better the impact of such travel on households and health systems. METHODS We used primary data from 344 subsidized and 471 non-subsidized inbound medical travellers during June to December 2013 drawn from the North...

This paper aims to model the dynamics of social deprivation in Mexico using a Markovian approach. First, we establish scenario where list items characterizing evolves as first-order Markov chain under sample period (2002-2012). Then, estimate latent states and ergodic vectors hidden-Markov verify strength conclusions drawn from such scenario. After collecting results both kinds analyses, find s...

This paper explores the role of morphological markedness constraints in an OT framework with interleaving of phonological and morphological constraints. Morphological markedness constraints are constraints against the realization of marked combinations of features. For example, a constraint like *[+GROUP +RESTRICTED] (*DUAL) would penalize any output with a single morpheme realizing features [+...

BACKGROUND Illness-related costs incurred by patients constitute a severe economic burden for households especially in low-income countries. High household costs of illness lead to impoverishment; they impair affordability and equitable access to health care and consequently hamper tuberculosis (TB) control. So far, no study has investigated patient costs of TB in the former Soviet Union. MET...