... expenditure incurred by the Ministry ofHealthof Malaysia, which is the main provider of healthcare for the country. Therefore, this study will focus only on the public health expenditure under the control ofthe Ministry of Health. According tothe ... When assessing which ofthe key functions in thehealth system that seems to have fallen short of their potential, the questions often lie with the planning, management and the operation ofthehealth system. Many health systems have fallen short of its potential due ... consistently over a considerable period of time. The later part ofthe thesis will be the indepth study of how thehealth policy is reflected in the allocation of resources through the breakdown ofhealth expenditure. ...
... Dose-response function relates health effects to air pollution concentrations and other factors affecting health Slope of dose-response function measures the percentage change in thehealth outcome for ... for each of 10,000 people saves one statistical life Value of a Statistical Life (VSL) If each ofthe 10,000 people is willing to pay $500 for the in 10,000 risk reduction the Value of a Statistical ... Value of lost leisure time Value of expenditures to treat illness Value of expenditures to avoid illness Discomfort (pain) of illness Value to Society ofthe Risk Reduction = Individual’s...
... if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they have excluded themselves from further ... seem correct to say that the statue’s arm is a part ofthe lump of bronze, even though it is correct to say that a part ofthe lump of bronze composes the arm For the part ofthe lump of bronze ... it, then, it seems, by analogy with the statue and the lump of bronze, every part ofthe body must be a part ofthe person but not every part ofthe person can be part ofthe body: that is to...
... if they mean to abandon reasoned argument altogether, even in defence of their own position, then I have Introduction nothing more to say to them because they have excluded themselves from further ... conception ofthe whole of reality, we cannot hope to render compatible the theories and observations ofthe various different sciences: and providing that conception is not the task of any one of those ... philosophical analysis ofthe concept of seeing: but each will have more credibility tothe extent that it is consistent with the other METAPHYSICS AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF MIND The philosophy of mind is not...
... teleological theory of representation over the causal theory may encourage us to try to extend it tothe case of mental representation, that is, tothe attitudinal states of subjects of experience ... content to solve the problem of misrepresentation, then it begins to look as though the causal theory is doomed to failure Nor should we forget that the theory is also beset by other problems The ... circularity, as the basis of a naturalistic account ofthe origin of mental content.16 The key idea here is to appeal tothe biological theory of evolution by natural selection – the underlying...
... account of our concepts of mental states than as a theory ofthe nature of mental states themselves 52 An introductiontothe philosophy of mind ing an adequate account ofthe character of mental ... states of consciousness to other human beings, so that to deny consciousness tothe hypothetical pile of pebbles in the circumstances envisaged would be to succumb to narrow-minded prejudice, ofthe ... character: there would be nothing it was like for this creature to experience the tang of lemon, the whiff of woodsmoke, the colour of ripe tomatoes, or the sting of a nettle And the issue raised...
... ground between them, the sky behind them, and other objects in their vicinity (together with their colours and shapes) And these other ingredients ofthe perceived scene – or many of them, at any ... to divide one’s attention in a way which seems to be psychologically impossible From the point of view ofthe causal theory, then, it is easy enough to 148 An introductiontothe philosophy of ... dif- 136 An introductiontothe philosophy of mind ficult question to answer We can, however, begin to get a grip on it by drawing on some ofthe findings ofthe previous chapter We noted there that...
... profoundly implicated in the more pressing conflicts ofthe age The complex intersection of these two histories – the political turmoil ofthe 1790s and the broader hegemonic shift towards the ... sphere altogether in favour of an equation of literature with poetry But these Romantics, as we now refer to them, none the less sought to establish the importance of their vision of aesthetic ... authority, these apparently distinct histories became part ofthe same story ofthe fragmentation ofthe ideal of literature as a public sphere The excesses generated by the French Revolution, on the...
... m , the body and the spirit, the ego and the id, the brain and the mind Part ofthe change in paradigm exemplified by the shift from dream c o n t e n t to dream f o r m is the adoption ofthe ... qualities of dreaming, whatever the details ofthe individual stories and scenarios might b e T h e radical change in emphasis, from the analysis of c o n t e n t tothe analysis of f o r m ... on a steep mountaintop; the void falls away tothe left As the climbing party rounds the trail tothe right, I am suddenly on a b i c y c l e , which I steer through the group of c l i m b e r...
... rsi, θtb the angle spanned by the tooth at radius rsb, wtb the width ofthe tooth base, dtb the depth ofthe tooth base, dtte the depth ofthe tooth tip edge, and dttc the depth ofthe tooth tip ... between the tooth Thus wstR = rstθ st (15.2-31) The width of slot between the base ofthe tips is taken as the average ofthe distance ofthe chord length ofthe inner corners ofthe tooth tips at the ... that the reciprocal of wsiR is set tothe average ofthe reciprocals ofthe chord lengths between inner corners of slot at the top ofthe slot (under the tooth tip) and the outer corners of the...
... force the Goths into the Empire Battle of Adrianople, 378 Previous tothe year 375 the attempts ofthe Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of adventure, their ... description ofthe different kinds of unbelievers and the penalties attached to a refusal to accept the religion ofthe government.[7] The Church survives the Empire In these provisions ofthe Theodosian ... the officers ofthe Church, who were called theclergy, and the people, or laity Tothe clergy was committed the government ofthe Church as well as the instruction of its members In each of the...
... assumed to be larger than all the elements tothe end of each ofthe auxiliary arrays, to help accomplish the task of moving the remainder of one ofthe auxiliary arrays back to a after the other ... compares to sort an array of N elements Proof If CN is the number of compares that the Program 1.1 uses to sort N elements, then the number of compares to sort the rst half is C⌊N/2⌋ , the number of ... proportional to N logN A full proof of this requires a careful model ofthe computer to be used in terms ofthe operations involved and the time they take, but the result holds under rather generous...
... m) The change ofthe locations ofthe individuals in the phase space is governed by the dynamics ofthe flow field and the individual motion, as well as the growth of 10 CHAPTER INTRODUCTIONthe ... concentration total loss of phytoplankton fraction of Lp recycled in the upper box fraction of Lp sinking down into the lower box loss of zooplankton fraction of Lz recycled in the upper box fraction of ... through the model food web One ofthe fundamental laws which the biogeochemical models have to obey is the conservation of mass The total mass, M, may be expressed by the mass of one ofthe chemical...
... were the duties of these officers There were also the deacons, who appear to have had thecareofthe poor ofthe community The first Christians looked for the speedy coming of Christ before their ... [Sidenote: The Huns force the Goths into the Empire Battle of Adrianople, 378.] Previous tothe year 375 the attempts ofthe Germans to penetrate into the Empire appear to have been due to their love of ... but they had also learned that they could defeat the Roman legions The battle of Adrianople may, therefore, be said to mark the beginning ofthe conquest ofthe western part ofthe Empire by the...
... the velocity ofthe observed star relative tothe Earth The overall relative velocity is the sum ofthe rotational velocity ofthe Earth, the velocity ofthe Earth round the Sun and the Solar System ... around the centre ofthe Galaxy, in addition to any velocity ofthe star The rotational velocity ofthe Galaxy makes the largest contribution tothe sum, so it gives the order of magnitude of this ... visible tothe naked eye are the statistics written in the band of stars ofthe ‘Milky Way’ Studies ofthe distribution and motion of these stars reveal that we are situated towards the edge of a...
... High-Quality Health Care, The Quality Chasm’s Ten Rules to Guide the Redesign ofHealth Care, 2-1 2-2 The Six Aims of High-Quality Health Care, 57 The Quality Chasm’s Ten Rules to Guide the Redesign ofHealth ... inadequacy of M/SU healthcare is a dimension ofthe poor quality of all healthcareThe quality problems of overall healthcare received substantial attention among thehealthcare community and the ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining tothehealthofthe public The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the...
... observed the rising and setting ofthe sun and the several phases ofthe moon The more thoughtful among them have then proceeded to ask the question, “Why? Why does the moon wax and wane? Why does the ... refer tothe totality of things but also suggested an elegant, ordered universe The aesthetic aspect ofthe meaning ofthe term kosmos is reflected in the English word cosmetic Thus, tothe early ... projection of shadows ofthe travelers and the objects onto the wall in front ofthe prisoners For the prisoners, the projected shadows constitute reality This corresponds tothe lowest form of understanding...
... ever asked themselves whether they are fitted for historical work, ofthe true nature of which they are12 often ignorant Generally their motives for choosing an historical career are ofthe most ... Bancroft, the historian ofthe Pacific Coast of California, resolved to collect materials for the history of events many ofthe actors in which were still alive, he mobilised a whole army of reporters ... subsidies to agents of theirs occupied in cataloguing and transcribing, in the great depositories of Europe, the documents which relate tothe history of England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the...