OBJECTIVE To study the trends of socioeconomic inequalities and socioeconomic inequalities in self-perceived health in Spain between 1987 and 2001. METHODS We estimated the distribution of educational level and per capita provincial income, and the differences in less-than-good self-perceived health by educational level and per capita provincial income in each period. RESULTS The percentage...

ACCESS AND UTILISATION OF HEALTH CARE: The armed conflict that engulfed the Solomon Islands between 1998 and 2003 significantly disrupted the provision of health care especially in rural and remote areas. There is one doctor for 3,300 people and approximately 13 nurses and midwives for 10,000 people. Despite limitations 87% of people seek health care when sick. FINANCING THE HEALTH SYSTEM: The ...

this paper discusses central-local relations for healthcare policy in china from a principal-agent perspective, based on schistosomiasis control. in order to control the disease, the central government produced the outline of the mid-long-term national plan for schistosomiasis prevention and control (2004-2015) in 2004. by discussing the implementation of the national outline at the provincial ...

Nakhonsawan Provincial Health Office, Nakhonsawan 60000, Thailand. Received for publication: March 16, 2006. Reprint request: Panithan Santibhavank, M.D., Nakhonsawan Provincial Health Office, Nakhonsawan 60000, Thailand.

Laboratory of Neonatal Medicine of National Health and Family Planning Commission, Departments of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China Departments of Pediatrics and Neonatology, First Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China Department of Neonatology, Gansu Provincial Women and Children’s Hospital (Gansu Provincial Maternity ...

This study explores the interaction between innovations and financial markets using newly available data of China that present significant geographic variations in economic development. Empirical evidence suggests that provincial banking development encourages local innovations, and provincial intellectual property (IP) protection raises the market values of local firms. Firmlevel innovations l...

1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial University Key Laboratory of Internet of Things Application Technology, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China 2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing Techniques, Department of Electronics Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China 3. Department of Electronic Sci...