The rapid economic growth of China features boom of the non-state sector and relative stagnancy of the state-owned enterprises (SOEs). These macro statistics themselves do not justify the popular belief that non SOEs will definitely continue to outperform SOEs and that accordingly SOEs should be transferred to other types of ownership as soon as possible. The performances of both economic secto...

This study explores the meaning of use community psychiatric rehabilitation (CPR) services to gain knowledge improve and shed more light on how facilitate recovery. The topics explored included: motivation for participation, perception expectation towards CPR, interactions with professionals in CPR Center, feelings activities. A qualitative approach was adopted, 30 consumers were interviewed fa...

1 Human Engineering Research Laboratories, VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Pittsburgh, PA 15206, USA 2Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA 3Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL 61820, USA 4Amsterdam Rehabilitation Research Center, Reade, 1040 HG Amsterdam, Th...

This paper presents an evidence-based introduction to assessing and managing the dizzy patient. It is based upon a literature review highlighting current best practice and the clinical experience of the author. Dizziness is common, often chronic and largely untreated, resulting in great personal and economic loss. Serious pathological causes of dizziness may be quickly and effectively screened ...

1Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taoyuan 33302, Taiwan 2School of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei 10051, Taiwan 3Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Center for Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA 4Department...

Patients with dementia require rehabilitation involving several health professionals, where interdisciplinary care can further enhance the routine of patients and their families. Objective To compare the functional performance of elderly with dementia before and after an interdisciplinary intervention program provided by a healthcare service of medium complexity. Methods Three cases with cl...

OBJECTIVES There has been an increased request for intensive training and rehabilitation of patients with brain damage in Norway. These programs are demanding with regard to personnel, travelling, time and economic resources. We aimed to indicate cost and gain to make these programs cost-effective. METHODS A retrospective study included all patients referred to the Northern Norway Regional He...

In recent years, the Chinese government has made great efforts to establish an insurance system for workrelated injuries and we have witnessed tremendous developments in its workers’ compensation system, provision of work rehabilitation services and research on service efficacy. These perhaps were fuelled by the enactment of the Trial Measures for Employees’ Work Injury Insurance (No. 266) in 1...

Changes in comparative advantage should reflect changes in factor endowment, but increasingly, changes in trade policies also affect a region’s trade performance. Based on the arguments in Balassa’s stages of comparative advantage thesis, this paper looks at the performance of manufacture exports in a number of Asian and Latin American economies over the period 1981-1997 and examines the reveal...

This paper utilizes the feature of the CHDS data from New Zealand that children are sampled for extremely long individual histories of their class size experiences as well as their scholastic and early labor market outcomes. Our interest is to explore the full set of empirical implications of the recent experimental evidence on class size effects on student achievement from the United States in...