SHORTFALLS IN THE PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE In many countries, health programmes continue to be low in level and quality and uneven in coverage though effective medical technologies are readily available. In many parts of the world, health services have not reached the rural or urban poor, or services are grossly inadequate or unreliable. There is imbalance between curative and preventive progra...

Metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver develops in over 50,000 US patients each year and is rapidly fatal if untreated. Even the most active chemotherapeutic agents rarely prolong survival for more than 3 years. Liver resection is the only potentially curative treatment, affording 5-year survival in one-third of patients. The only absolute contraindications to liver resection are poor genera...

Background: Homeopathy is used by 12 to 24% of European cancer patients, representing 40.4% of patients at European integrative cancer centers. In 2011, a Swiss literature review on homeopathy led to homeopathic treatment coverage in the Swiss national health insurance program. Homeopathy for curative pediatric cancer treatment is limited to 7.4% in the Netherlands, but, 76.5% of German parents...

BACKGROUND There are few studies that have analyzed the context of health care utilization, particularly in Latin America. This study examines the context of utilization of health services in Ecuador; focusing on the relationship between provision of services and use of both preventive and curative services. METHODS This study is cross-sectional and analyzes data from the 2004 National Demogr...

Indian health system is characterized by a vast public health infrastructure which lies underutilized, and a largely unregulated private market which caters to greater need for curative treatment. High out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditures poses barrier to access for healthcare. Among those who get hospitalized, nearly 25% are pushed below poverty line by catastrophic impact of OOP healthcare...

Parents face trade-offs between investing in child health and other fitness enhancing activities. In humans, parental investment theory has mostly been examined through the analysis of differential child outcomes, with less emphasis on the actions parents take to further a particular offspring's condition. Here, we make use of household data on health-seeking for children in a high mortality co...

after curative treatment of hodgkin’s lymphoma, increased risk of certain solid tumors has been reported. to best of our knowledge this is the first report of metachronous pancreatic adenocarcinoma which developed outside the previous radiation field in a patient with relapse hodgkin’s lymphoma. herein we present an 81-year-old female who developed pancreatic adenocarcinoma four years after the...

Background Public district hospitals (PDHs) in Tunisia are not operating at full plant capacity and underutilize their operating budget.   Methods Individual PDHs capacity utilization (CU) is measured for 2000 and 2010 using dual data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach with shadow prices input and output restrictions. The CU is estimated for 101 of 105 PDH in 2000 and 94 of 105 PDH in 2010.   ...

There was a time when works on Hypnosis were associated with French names like Charcot, Liebault, Bernheim or British names like Elliotson, Esdaile, Braid but this book contains articles mainly by Americans. Hypnosis has made great strides in that country and is used particularly at the famous Psychiatric Menninger Clinic at Topeka, Kansas. I would like to see it more widely used here. The book...