In the present paper we describe the structure of the Chinese health care system and sketch its future development. We analyse issues of provider incentives and the actual burden sharing between government, enterprises and people. We further aim to identify a number of current problems and link these to a discussion of future challenges in the form of an aging population, increased privatizatio...

Batley, M., Packer, N. & Redmond, J. (1981) in Chemistry and Biological Activities o f Bacterial Surface Amphiphiles (Shockman, G. D. & Wicken, A. J . , eds.), pp. 126-136, Academic Press Inc., New York Brautigan, V. M., Childs, W. C., I11 & Neuhaus, F. C. (1981) J. Bacteriol. 146, 239-250 Cabacugan, E. & Pieringer, R. A. (1981) J. Bacteriol. 147, 75-79 Childs, W. C., 111 & Neuhaus, F. C. (1980...

Treatment practices vary widely across hospitals, often with little connection to patients’ medical needs. We assess impacts of these differences in delivery at childbirth. find that infants quasi-randomly delivered hospitals higher C-section rates are born better shape and less likely be readmitted, suggestive evidence improved survival. These benefits driven by avoidance prolonged labors pose...

Health insurers increasingly compete on their networks of medical providers. Using data from Massachusetts’s insurance exchange, I find substantial adverse selection against plans covering the most prestigious and expensive “star” hospitals. highlight a theoretically distinct channel: consumers loyal to star hospitals incur high spending, conditional state, because they use these hospitals’ car...

This paper reports on a re-evaluation of the German health care reform of 1997. A previous evaluation found a limited effect of a 4.4 percent reduction of the number of doctor visits in a sample of pharmacy customers. The re-evaluation based on a representative household survey, the German Socio-Economic Panel, yields a much larger effect. The paper uses this case study to discuss the methods a...

Iiie pyrexial diseases of this country have engrossed a la1"?0 sliare of our attention, and to a certain extent our efforts i11 this field of enquiry have been attended by success. Uuhappi" ly much still remains to be done, but let us hope that the constant elForta of the Indian Medical Gazette, to keep this important subject beforo its readers, may in the end succeed in accumulating such a hea...

I11 t.his article, the spectral ailalysis of cat,egorical time series is applied t,o t,he st.udy of DNA sequences. By ineails of t,lle st,udy of the spectral eilvelope for a ho~nologous DNA seglneilt from five different, pri1nat.e species, some global crit,eria are proposed to measure their similarity: and some iilforinat,ion concerning t,heir evolut,ioilary origin is obt,ained.

This paper was first published in the Singapore International Conference on Networks 'SD, pages 56-6l. Lt, describes t.lw cos r---rOS , Al'vIIGO I\HIS+, AMIGO Advanced, and MacAll IT models of gl'Oup C0l1111 11 I11 icat.ioIl , and compares them from four key perspectives. The need for an int.rgrated a.pproach t.o modelling group working is stat.ed, and features that should be included in any mo...

The ARIES #1 vision system is used to acquire drum surface images under controlled conditions and subsequently perform autonomous visual inspection leading to a classification as 'acceptable' or 'suspect'. Specific topics described include vision system design methodology, algorithmic structure, hardware processing structure, and image acquisition hardware. Most of these capabilities were demon...

In this article, we propose an organizational communication oriented approach to Risk Management. The business domain studied here is the pharmaceutical industry, which has a high sensitivity to communication. Through two examples, we show how and in which context risk management can be an essential component in corporate management, by laying partially aside financial aspects, although they ar...