measuring financial vulnerability from spending on medical care

... Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care Medical Care Economic Risk Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care Panel on ... reserved Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care Prepublication Copy Uncorrected Proofs PANEL ON MEASURING MEDICAL CARE RISK IN CONJUNCTION WITH ... National Academy of Sciences All rights reserved Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care Prepublication Copy Uncorrected Proofs CONCLUSIONS...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 10:20

... majority of medical opinion would take a different view [13] The qualifier for the approach is the ‘rationality’ or ‘reasonableness’ of the opinion If an opinion is deemed irrational or unreasonable, ... care, arising from contract and/or tort laws, to their patients The duty of care demands the practitioner provides a professional service with reasonable skill and care - a standard of care that ... were reasonably foreseeable Implications for practitioners and hospitals The legal duty for a medical practitioner is to ensure the services he/she provides are of reasonable skill and care as...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:02

... classify incidents of EMI by second-generation and third-generation telecommunication signals on 61 critical care devices Methods Medical equipment In all, 61 different medical devices (27 different ... defined as an influence on monitoring with a significant level of attention needed, causing substantial distraction from patient care; light (L) is defined as an influence on monitoring without a ... significant (influence on monitoring with a significant level of attention needed, causing substantial distraction from patient care, for example an incorrect alarm or inaccurate monitoring of blood...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:35

... Primary health care Board received Yes 0 reports about EL monthly Number of time discussion among Once/ Once/ Once/ Once/ village health officers monthly (times) month month month month The rate ... intervention Activity Intervention communes BI AI Primary health care Board have content Once/y on primary health care for EL (times) ear Once/ month Control communes BI AI Once/year Once/year ... questionnaire - Medical examination for EL to determine disease status - The intervention community compared before and after and comparison with control: Intervention model "health care based on medical...

Ngày tải lên: 25/07/2014, 14:07

... physicians In response to its chronic deficiency of medical access, the province introduced a state-sponsored healthcare system to provide care for its citizens Other provinces with inadequate medical ... not only medical care, but also advances in medical science efforts to achieve reform, from Roosevelt to George W Bush, is brilliantly described by Blumenthal and Morone [5] Their fine book demonstrates ... [2], the group that has most carefully followed Medicare expenses in the US, discretionary decisions by physicians account for most of the massive variation in Medicare costs that are born in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 12:20

... Discussion The discussion is organised into the three themes: (1) biomedical care; (2) ethnomedical care; and (3) healthseeking The findings are discussed in relation to other African contexts Biomedical ... their decisions was uncertain Fatima's situation was one of the most vulnerable among the informants and her story sums up the unpredictability and discontinuity of the life condition of the people ... internal health conditions combined with the extreme vulnerability of external conditions disrupted all illness actions and left Fatima with few choices which may have had severe consequences for...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... humiliation and intrusion of the conditionalities of the International Financial Institutions (IFIs) In the Asian region this entailed a huge build-up of currency reserves and the development of regional ... suffers from fragmentation and the proliferation of decision-making on national, regional and global levels Intergovernmental forums (G7/8, G10, G20, G24); regional bodies such as the European Union ... financial institutions undertake and organise financial transactions within and across borders This framework can be formulated along a continuum that runs from the national to the international.1...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2014, 19:47

... derivatives being the only exception – but to be offered by financial institutions in one-to-one transactions Their capital strength, liquidity, professionalism, and reputation of trust and confidentiality ... intermediation becomes useless This contrasts with the practitioner’s view of financial intermediation as a value-creating economic process It also conflicts with the continuing and increasing economic ... information technology, deregulation, deepening of financial markets, etc tend to reduce transaction costs and informational asymmetries, financial intermediation theory shall come to the conclusion...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:11

... on- site visits of the study hospitals Conclusions This study provides data that only few acute care hospitals in Goma care for victims of sexual violence In addition, these hospitals suffer from ... Conflict and Health 2011, 5:2 http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/5/1/2 for sexually abused women at these institutions Over the years, apart from other medical fields, these institutions ... regions) since Nov 2009 (data retrieved from the Health District Office Goma, Jan 2011) Considering that many victims of sexual violence never seek medical care and that some who seek medical care...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... future directions Menlo Park: AAAI Press Liang, L., & Wu, D.-S (2005) An application of pattern recognition on scoring Chinese corporations financial conditions based on back propagation neural network ... of leaveone-out cross-validation and the process of Max normalization The breakdown of this research is divided into five section Section is a description on research background Section builds ... relations and concordance indices on feature Fk can be expressed as Fig Definition (Concordance indices between cases with the assertion that two cases are indifferent) "wk Let C(ci, c0) denote concordance...

Ngày tải lên: 23/12/2013, 17:17

... autotransfusion in cancer surgery: demonstration of efficient elimination of contaminating tumor cells Transfusion 1999, 39:608-15 44 Hardy JF: Pharmacological strategies for blood conservation in cardiac ... manuscript submission; AR: made revisions in the final version of the manuscript, gave final approval for manuscript submission; AA: conceived the idea, made revisions in the final version of the manuscript, ... minimisation of phlebotomy blood sampling [39], enhancement of hemopoiesis [45], optimisation of cardiopulmonary status [48] and minimisation of oxygen consumption to provide adequate perfusion to...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 06:20

... researchers from RAND to attend the Council of Colonels and to provide observations on the proceedings and conclusions RAND provided feedback to the AMEDD on the Council of Colonels session, which contained ... session • Team organization meeting in team rooms and deliberations on the first six hours of the eight-hour operation Day 2: • Instructions update given in plenary session • Deliberations on the ... identifying medical issues in the Army’s Transformation It contains an assessment of the three AMEDD Transformation Workshops (ATW I–III) conducted at the RAND Washington Office on 16–18 April,...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 17:20

... summit (Section 3) Section concludes on the role of the African Development Bank Update on the Outlook Economic Prospects 2.1 In light of this fast evolving context, all projections for economic indicators ... increased demand from Regional Member Countries Financial Regulation, Supervision, and Surveillance 3.3 Since the beginning of 2009, the governance and regulation of financial institutions and markets ... Cameroon, Swaziland, Equatorial Guinea Algeria, Botswana, Gabon, Lybia, Namibia Source: Calculations based on the AfDB Socio Economic database Note: Vulnerability is assessed based on: (1) macroeconomic...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 21:20

... expiratory flow rate  Bronchoconstriction  Exacerbation  Inhaled corticosteroids Asthma is a common, potentially serious, even life-threatening, chronic medical condition seen amongst nearly all groups ... required Age of onset, R20 y (maturity onset diabetes) Duration,

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:20

... mobile phone in the past 12 months to pay bills MEASURING FINANCIAL INCLUSION 26 F I 1.2 G U R E Account penetration among mobile money users in economies with the highest use of mobile money Mobile ... collect data on financial inclusion can help build local statistical capacity and increase the comparability of financial inclusion indicators across economies MEASURING FINANCIAL INCLUSION and over ... population shares living on less than $2 a day are calculated using Gallup World Poll household data on monthly income, which is converted to international dollars using household consumption data from...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 19:20

... chairman) * Chief Operations Officer (COO) – Responsible for the corporation's operations, the COO looks after issues related to marketing, sales, production and personnel More hands -on than the CEO, ... allow only limited comparability of the financial strength of companies The non -financial performance can be measured using operational KPIs Market share, innovation rate or customer satisfaction ... relationship’ as a contract under which one or more (principals) engage another person (the agent) to perform some service on their behalf This relationship involves delegating some decision-making...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 15:43

... support His contention that rationality is much more than deduction, calculation and the application of rules His emphasis on the crucial importance of context for means/ends deliberation The specifics ... emotions, and sensations understood on the basis of bodily experience Informal reasoning considers emotion to be a way of connecting with and understanding the world The fact that emotion occasionally ... the coronary artery bypass.” The first location, a container, would be a good condition, the second location, a container, would be a bad condition But what is the implied trajector of this event?...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 19:20

... per person on health care, and 18% of the U.S economy was devoted to health care Health care spending is consuming an increasing share of economic activity over time and has exceeded economic ... Health Care Costs Impact Families and Employers? 17 Families cut back on care and face financial consequences because of health care costs, especially those with chronic medical conditions Health ... national health care spending has fallen from 9.5% to 3.9% Half of health care spending is used to treat just 5% of the population Although only 10% of total health expenditures, spending on prescription...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... Asians (section 4) is followed by a discussion of some recent genetic studies in the young (section 5) Section contains a discussion on prediosposing factors and section has focus on prognosis ... general population Dominance of left sided lesions (12 right colon, 24 left colon,11 rectum) and left colon amongst colon cancer patients; study group Cozart, USA comprises of only young patients

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 02:20

... impact on basketball In 1942 and 1943 the Stenos won the national women's basketball championship By then they were experienced competitors having won the national AAU consolation competition in ... holding key positions, Iowa had strong seasons Iowa won four consecutive Big Ten titles, five between 1985 and 1991 In 1987-88 it was ranked number one in the nation for eight consecutive weeks ... citizens once again For the players, it was harder But now, one would never have known they are state champions The only change here at school is the addition of the new trophies:'ll 148 FROM SIX ON SIX...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 18:20