BACKGROUND The prevalence of type 2 diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate in developing countries. However, glycaemia control remains suboptimal and insulin use is low. One important barrier is the lack of an efficient and effective insulin initiation delivery approach. This study aimed to document the strategies used and proposed by healthcare professionals to improve insulin initiation i...

BACKGROUND Cooperation of all health sectors and early diagnosis of the disease are the key factors for controlling tuberculosis. This study assesses the patterns of reported tuberculosis cases in Iran. METHODS This was a cross sectional study. Tuberculosis cases were defined according to World Health Organization and Iran's national TB guidelines. Final data were prepared for analysis using ...

In 2000, former US President Bill Clinton asked the United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement Project Impact, a community-based mitigation initiative, in six Central American and Caribbean countries that were devastated by hurricanes Georges and Mitch. Project Impact had been used for a number of years in the United States to help communities prepare for natural disa...

Introduction Analysis of local privatization is giving increasing relevance to the insights provided by transaction costs and industrial organization theories. These theories point to the importance of a sector's market structure and incentives as the key factors explaining differences between sectors and dynamics within sectors. By focusing on incentives we see how contracting creates pressure...

This paper draws on the work of Streeck and Schmitter (1985) and its subsequent use by Puxty, et al (1987) to analyse the development of accounting regulation in the U.K. public sector. It provides an extension to prior literature through the application of a framework, based on modes of social order, to investigate divergence in the approaches to accounting regulation between the public and pr...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the prevalence and factors associated with cesarean delivery according to whether care was provided in public or private hospitals in Brazil. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study based on a cohort of live births between April 2004 and March 2005. A total of 1,344 mother-child pairs were followed up during the first month of life. The variables analyzed were the soci...

This paper uses Italian survey data for 1995 to study differences between public and private sectors in the level of self-reported workers’ satisfaction for nonpecuniary job attributes. Econometric results show that public employees are on average more satisfied, but the size of the differential is rather small in absolute value. A decomposition exercise suggests that two thirds of the premium ...

This interview-based study explores trust in public-private cooperation by addressing the research questions: what are the main sources of distrust in public-private contracting? And why? We compare two Spanish social services subfields: one with high levels of cross-sector distrust and another one with no distrust between public and private sectors. The sources of the identified cross-sector d...