BACKGROUND Cancer care in Alberta, Canada is publicly funded and provides patients with access to health care facilities and providers. The distribution of patients and health services across Alberta presents challenges to the delivery of cancer care, especially radiation therapy. In this study, we examined the association between patient and health system factors, the use of radiation therapy ...

PURPOSE To determine changes in cataract surgical rate (CSR) in Fars Province from 2006 to 2010 and identify the contributions of public and private sectors. METHODS This descriptive report is part of the Iranian Cataract Surgery Survey. To determine the provincial CSR, weights of major (>3000 annual surgeries) and minor (≤3000) centers were calculated based on the number of centers chosen fo...

This study estimates the costs and profits of extracting dead trees from forests to be sold at provincial centers via sub-provincial as lumber, firewood unused materials for production energy. The effect site conditions on cost profit was examined. Forest registration data including subgroup area, tree species, forest stocks; polygonal describing province/sub-province, protected/nonprotected, b...

INTRODUCTION Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) is an immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) therapy, which is associated with toxicities, limited availability, increasing utilization, and high cost. This study aimed to assess short- and long-term IVIg utilization in patients with ITP at two tertiary care centers in Ontario, Canada, to determine the proportion of IVIg used in ITP compared with all usage,...

Second-trimester maternal serum screening (MSS) for Down syndrome has been widely used in routine prenatal care in developed countries. The screening combines maternal age-specific risk of Down syndrome with risk estimation obtained by measuring maternal serum markers to assign women an expected risk of having a term Down syndrome pregnancy. Diagnostic tests were offered to women whose risk exc...

background & purpose: since 2005, a reform known as rural insurance and family medicine scheme has introduced to primary health care network in iran in rural areas and small towns. the content of the reform implies a substantial change in those aspects of health centers that mainly could be categorized as structural quality. although, this is the requirement of all health care providers, they a...

1 2 Eric Rhoden, Mingyu Zhang, W. Allan Nix, M. Steven Oberste 3 4 Division of Viral Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA; Immunization 5 Planning Institute, Henan Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Zhengzhou, Henan, 6 China 7 8 * Corresponding author: M.S. Oberste, 1600 Clifton Rd NE, Mailstop G-17, Atlanta, GA, 30333, USA; 9 phone: +1-404-639-54...

BACKGROUND Rural emergency departments (EDs) constitute crucial safety nets for the 20% of Canadians who live in rural areas. Pilot data suggests that the province of Québec appears to provide more comprehensive access to services than do other provinces. A difference that may be attributable to provincial policy/guidelines "the provincial ED management Guide". The aim of this study was to prov...

Roughly the size of Alaska, Mongolia is a landlocked country between Russia on its northern frontier and China on its southern border. With just over three million inhabitants, it is sparsely populated, with nearly half of the people living in the capital city of Ulaanbaatar, and in other provincial centers. The tribal networks in Mongolia are the main tenants of social structural characteristi...