Background and Objectives: Public-Private Partnership (PPP) is a well-established model to alleviate the risk of investment in health domain. While the model is widely applied in the developed countries, the adoption of the model in many developing countries is hampered partly by the lack of knowledge on dimensions and requirements of its local implementation. The present study...

Radiology in Vietnam was really established after Victory Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, which was the end of the war against French invasion. Along with development of health care, the system of community health care and the program of socialization of health care of Vietnam were developed, after the war against the United Statesin 1975. Radiology has grown very fast and nowadays it can meet most ...

Only very recently have Vietnamese researchers begun to be involved in the domain of Natural Language Processing. As there does not exist any published work in formal linguistics or any recognizable standard for Vietnamese word categories, the fundamental works in Vietnamese text analysis such as part-of-speech tagging, parsing, etc. are very difficult tasks for computer scientists. All necessa...

regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have usedpublic private partnership model to improve their health facilities. public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. moheb hospital is the first iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. the p...

OBJECTIVE to explore knowledge about gestational diabetes (GDM) among a multi-ethnic sample of women who were receiving antenatal care in Melbourne, Australia. DESIGN cross-sectional comparative survey. SETTING diabetes clinic located in a public hospital in Melbourne's Western suburbs. PARTICIPANTS 143 pregnant women with GDM from Vietnamese, Indian, Filipino and Caucasian backgrounds. ...

Background Very few studies have assessed performance of Botswana public hospitals. We draw from a large research study assessing performance of the Botswana Ministry of Health (MoH) to evaluate the performance of public hospital system using the World Health Organization Health Systems Performance Assessment Framework (WHO HSPAF). We aimed to evaluate performance of Botswana public hospital sy...

BACKGROUND A long length of stay (LOS) in the emergency department (ED) associated with overcrowding has been found to adversely affect the quality of ED care. The objective of this study is to determine whether patients who speak a language other than English at home have a longer LOS in EDs compared to those whose speak only English at home. METHODS A secondary data analysis of a Queensland...

background very few studies have assessed performance of botswana public hospitals. we draw from a large research study assessing performance of the botswana ministry of health (moh) to evaluate the performance of public hospital system using the world health organization health systems performance assessment framework (who hspaf). we aimed to evaluate performance of botswana public hospital sy...

INTRODUCTION In January 2011, Sydney South West Public Health Unit was notified of a large number of people presenting with gastroenteritis over two days at a local hospital emergency department (ED). METHODS Case-finding was conducted through hospital EDs and general practitioners, which resulted in the notification of 154 possible cases, from which 83 outbreak cases were identified. Fifty-e...

This paper presents our first attempt at constructing a Vietnamese-French statistical machine translation system. Since Vietnamese is an under-resourced language, we concentrate on building a large VietnameseFrench parallel corpus. A document alignment method based on publication date, special words and sentence alignment result is proposed. The paper also presents an application of the obtaine...