We present a generalized model to assess the impact of regionalization on patient care outcomes in the presence of heterogeneity in provider learning. The model characterizes best regionalization policies as optimal allocations of patients across providers with heterogeneous learning abilities. We explore issues that arise when solving for best regionalization, which depends on statistically es...

Urban green spaces can provide many types of ecosystem services for residents. An imbalance in the pattern leads to an inequality benefits such spaces. Given current situation environmental problems and basic geographical conditions Xi’an City, this study evaluated mapped four kinds from perspective equity: biodiversity, carbon sequestration, air purification, climate regulation. Regionalizatio...

The attrition of small volume surgical and maternity services in rural Canada over the past three decades has made access to these especially challenging for citizens. While many closures have occurred as consequences regionalization, a strategy regionally centralize healthcare services, studies investigating outcomes regionalization focused on costs medical endpoints rather than direct experie...

This article focuses on Quebec's most recent reform in the regionalization of health care to understand why the government chose to transform the regional boards into agencies. This case study used interviews and documentary analysis. Rooted in a political science perspective, the conceptual framework is inspired by the work of John Kingdon (1995) and draws on the four variables that influence ...

Regionalization of health care is a method of providing high-quality, cost-efficient health care to the largest number of patients. Within pediatric medicine, regionalization has been undertaken in 2 areas: neonatal intensive care and pediatric trauma care. The supporting literature for the regionalization of these areas demonstrates the range of studies within this field: studies of neonatal i...

abstract the averages of monthly minimum temperature and wind speed in 32 synoptic stations in northwest and west of iran used for calculate windchill temperature from november to april. then maps of spatial differences were drawn for every month and windchill regions classified by cluster analysis. keywords: iran, windchill, regionalization, classification.