background different strategies for addressing the challenge of prioritizing elective patients efficiently and fairly have been introduced in norway. in the time period studied, there were three possible outcomes for elective patients that had been through the process of priority setting: (i) high priority with assigned individual maximum waiting time; (ii) low priority without a maximum waiti...

BACKGROUND Because the demand for health services outstrips the available resources, priority setting is one of the most difficult issues faced by health policy makers, particularly those in developing countries. However, there is lack of literature that describes and evaluates priority setting in these contexts. The objective of this paper is to describe priority setting in a teaching hospital...

In dynamic carrier allocation (DCA) strategies, carriers are assigned priorities. Based upon how priorities are assigned to carriers, DCA strategies are classified into three classes: static-priority, dynamic-priority, and hybrid-priority strategies. In this paper, we lay out a theoretical foundation for DCA strategies: we first develop the concept of optimal reuse pattern and then propose a mo...

The papers and commentaries in this special issue illuminate progress made by low- and middle-income countries towards implementation of the Programme of Action (PoA) agreed by 179 countries during the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo in 1994. The PoA presents a path-breaking sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) framework for global and national popula...

After a 'golden age' of extraordinary growth in the level of development assistance for health (DAH) since 1990, funding seems to have reached a plateau. With the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals, debate has intensified regarding what international financing for health should look like in the post-2015 era. In this review paper, we offer a systematic overview of problems and proposal...

In this paper, targeting eye injuries caused by volcano disaster, we propose a medical image delivery service that streamlines the delivery of victim image data from a disaster area to specialist doctors in city hospitals using the Delay Tolerant Network (DTN). The service is used for an emergency response to provide quick feedback to healthcare workers after images are received by a hospital. ...

BACKGROUND As in many countries around the world, there are high expectations on academic health science centres and networks in England to provide high-quality care, innovative research, and world-class education, while also supporting wealth creation and economic growth. Meeting these expectations increasingly depends on partnership working between university medical schools and teaching hosp...

Applying a robust human rights framework would change thinking and decision-making in efforts to achieve Universal Health Coverage (UHC), and advance efforts to promote women's, children's, and adolescents' health in East Africa, which is a priority under the Sustainable Development Agenda. Nevertheless, there is a gap between global rhetoric of human rights and ongoing health reform efforts. T...

Several distributed mutual exclusion algorithms define the order in which requests are satisfied based on the priorities assigned to requests. These algorithms are very useful for real-time applications ones or those where priority is associated to a quality of service requirement. However, priority based strategies may result in starvation problems where high priority requests forever prevent ...