The overprovision and irrational use of antibiotics and injections are a major public health concern. Public reporting has been adopted as a strategy to encourage good prescribing practices. This study evaluated the effects of public reporting on antibiotic and injection prescriptions in urban and rural primary care settings in Hubei province, China. A randomized control trial was conducted, wi...

The article considers the place and role of public trust in functioning sector institutions. Trust government is a multi-conceptual category, which based on combination economic, social, political interactions between authorities at different levels citizens. authors propose to conduct an epistemological study three main (micro-, meso-, macro-) intermediate levels. At micro-level, it proposed d...

Drrnands for h ish transaction procrssing rates from databasc systsms Ird to the use of parallel processing techniqiiçs for transxtions and queries. Most commercial parallel database systems suffer from sxceptionally high hardware and software costs. Availùbility of public domain software (such as PVM and MPI) that hnmcsses several workstations on a LXN into a vinual pardlel machine provides a ...

BACKGROUND The population of Ghana is increasingly becoming urbanized with about 70% of the estimated 27 million people living in urban and peri-urban areas. Nonetheless, eight out of the ten regions in Ghana remain predominantly rural where only 32% of the national health sector workforce works. Moreover, the rural-urban disparities in the density of health tutors (staff responsible for pre-se...

There has been considerable public debate surrounding the efficiency of higher education in the United States. Using Data Envelopment Analysis, we look at the efficiency of a majority of the institutions of higher learning in the United States. Using two different approaches, we find some evidence that private institutions of higher learning are more efficient than public ones. In particular, m...

OBJECTIVES Regular and quality CD4 testing is essential to monitor disease progression in people living with HIV. In Haiti, most laboratories have limited infrastructure and financial resources and have relied on manual laboratory techniques. We report the successful implementation of a national specimen referral network to rapidly increase patient coverage with quality CD4 testing while at the...

Internet kiosks typically provide weak security guarantees and therefore cannot support secure web access or transactionoriented applications such as banking and bill payment. We present the design and implementation of a practical, unobtrusive and easy-to-use security architecture for KioskNet, a system for low-cost rural Internet kiosks. Our system uses a combination of physical and cryptogra...

Objective: To evaluate the incidence of a software program package at Brazilian public eye care institutions through an online survey. The package is made up of the institutions’ websites, electronic medical records, regulatory assistance control system and the preoperative scheduling system. The aim is to analyze if this type of software facilitates the provisioning of eye care services, the p...

This qualitative study aimed to acknowledge the importance of practice in public and private institutions in the training of nurses in residency programs. Data were collected at two hospitals between February and March 2013, through interviews. From their analysis the following categories emerged: experience of graduate nurses in residency programs in ICUs of public and private institutions and...

Partnerships between developed and developing country institutions are increasingly becoming important in addressing contemporary global health challenges faced by health systems. Inter-university health collaboration such as the Nottingham Trent University (UK) and Makerere University School of Public Health (Uganda) partnership provide opportunities for working together in training, research ...