... increased substantially in Afghanistan and Guatemala and the application of active management of third stage of labor (AMTSL) in several countries including Niger, Mali, Afghanistan, and Ecuador ... and coaches, such as training plans and materials for quality improvement training, monitoring (data collection forms, forms for data compilation and analysis, monitoring manual, data storage, ... to measure achievement of an aim related to increasing antenatal care coverage. Usually, the same set of indicators is measured across all participating collaborative improvement sites to help...
... explanatory variables and dependent variable (i.e., Log FDI), economic fundamentals are lagged by one year. Second, an analysis is made to analyse the impact of selective policies and bilateral ... The impact of average tariff rates (TARIFF) on FDI inflows is examined. The sources of average tariff rates for the countries in the sample are UNCTAD’s Trains database and WTO’s Trade Policy ... Investments to DevelopingCountries: Is Africa Different? World Development, 30 (11), 107-119. Bhattacharya, A. Montiel, P.J. and Sharma, S., (1996) Private CapitalFlowsto Sub-Saharan Africa: An Overview...
... Electricity Generation: The Case of Thailand”, Thanh and Lefevre (2000) Abstract: They apply the impact pathway approach (IPA) to estimate health impacts and corresponding damage costs of sulfur ... Holgate, S., Koren, H., Samet, J. and Maynard, R. (Eds), Air Pollution and Health, Academic Press, London, pp917-928. Saroa da Motta, Ronaldo and Ana-Paula Fernades-Mendes, 1996. “Health ... Multipollutant Analysis: The Case of Santiago, Chile”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 79: 1636-1641. Krupnik, Alan and Anna Alberini. 1997, “Air Pollution and Acute Respiratory Illness:...
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... Director of Nursing to gain access to nursing staff in the DATH, andinformed consent was obtained from all participants.Data analysis A 'bottom up' approach to coding [23] was used. ... British Journal of Nursing 2001,10(4):254-265.34. Charest CA: Analysisofa transcultural innovation: the social-isation of Filipino-graduate nurses into an acute health careorganisation in the ... 31. Narayanasang A, White E: A review of trans-cultural nursing.Nurse Education Today 2005, 25:102-111.32. Mc Auliffe E, Johnston F: The Adaptation of Overseas Nurses to Irish Culture and the...
... indirect measures. No clinical audit of HR performance to assess EMOC quality was found in theliterature. Performance measures are often combined withan analysisof the availability of material and ... place to encourage a mediation of culturesamong patients and caregivers [60].Technical quality of EmOCThis review shows that data for evaluating the technicalquality of EmOC are scarce. Variations ... Theimplications of shortages of health professionals for mater-nal health in sub-saharan Africa. Reproductive Health Matters2006, 14:40-50.42. Islam MT, Haque YA, Waxman R, Bhuiyan AB: Implementation...
... Human development reportfor these values [40].Statistical analysis For analysis, the year of the independent variable wasmatched to the year of the dependent variable. If the exactyear value ... doctors to pharmacists to health administrators, much of the literature on healthworker shortages has focused on doctors and nurses, inlarge part because of data availability [17,18]. The causes of ... using an arcsin transformation of thedependent variable, as per Speybroeck et al. [26].ResultsData for health workers, adult female literacy, GDP, landarea and rural population were available...
... RAPIA (Rapid AssessmentProtocol for Insulin Access) approach [43] promises to be a practical approach that can be readily adapted to evalu-ate health care services for chronic disease management ... NM, Badawy YA, el-Zeiny NA, Merdan IA: Sociodemo-graphic determinantsof management behaviour of diabeticpatients. Part II. Diabetics' knowledge of the disease andtheir management behaviour. ... "Western" and African literatureare available to health workers in Africa; which do theyprefer, and why?Prescribing"It was noted that all facilities had at least a drug formu-lary. Again...
... Research assistance was provided by Ms. Pamela Mjandana and Mr. Nehrunaman Pillay. - 2 - The Volatility ofCapitalFlows in South Africa: Some Empirical Observations I. SUMMARY AND ... various components of South Africa’s capital account. It suggests that long-term capital, which consists primarily of bank loans, is the only form of capital that is negatively correlated to ... be for the SARB to wait until South Africa enjoyed capital inflows and to make an assessment as to whether these inflows were likely to stay. This approach would enable the NOFP to be lowered...
... capital flowsto emerging markets. This share is likely to decline to 35 percent in 2006, but remain substantially above the 10-year average of 24 percent. ã Latin America’s share of total ... closes the gap as it attracts increasing investor interest. ã Private flowsto the Africa/Middle East region are likely to remain small at 4-6 percent of total flows, with much of it accounted ... private capital inflows are set to moderate to $146 billion this year from $166 billion in 2004 as flows in all categories of investment are likely to recede. Capitalflows are expected to...
... found that oral cancer was associated withtobacco, alcohol and the use of wood stoves (102).Another case-control study from South America of 784 cases of oral, pharyngeal and laryngeal cancerreported ... han difundido ampliamente, aunquerara vez en combinacio´n. Es necesario aprovechar esaexperiencia.La contaminacio´ n del aire en locales cerradosconstituye una importante amenaza para la ... sobretodo entre las mujeres, algunas de las cuales acabandesarrollando enfisema o cor pulmonale. Datos prelimi-nares sugieren tambie´n una asociacio´n con lasenfermedades que afectan al intersticio...
... Determinantsofcapital structure for listed firms in the Vietnam stock Exchange Market”. Danang University Press, Danang, Vietnam. [6] Stata Web Book. University of California, Los Angeles. ... Finance,and the Theory of Investment”. American Economic Review. [3] Rajan, R. G. & Zingales, L, (1995), “What do we know about capital structure? Some evidence from international data”. ... Journal of Finance. [4] Trần Đình Khôi Nguyên (2006). Capital structure in small and medium-sized enteprises: the case of Vietnam”. ASEAN Economic Bulletin. [5] Nguyễn Ngọc Vũ (2003). “Determinants...
... Environmental Epidemiology Program, Harvard School of Public Health,665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115; azanob@sparc 6a. harvard.eduThis research was part of the APHEA-2 project, which was funded ... Department of Medical, Statistics, Warsaw, Poland;and11Municipal Department of Public Health, Madrid, Spain.Address correspondence to: Antonella Zanobetti, Department of EnvironmentalHealth, ... true pattern of the data rea-sonably well, little bias will be introduced.We have adopted that approach for a systematicexamination of the lag between air pollution and dailydeaths in the Air...