Provinces optimistic for health accord talks

More inequality with demise of health accord.

Health in Brazil - Optimistic Outlook?

The Brazilian health system is mixed: public and private. There is a public system SUS and the system of supplementary health (health insurance companies). The SUS was very well designed and implemented for about 25 years (1988). ANS National Agency of Supplemental Health is even younger, created in January 2000. ANS is the regulatory agency under the Ministry of Health. The two systems coexist...

Dire prognostication with the death of the Health Accord.

With the 10-year health care funding agreement between the federal, provincial and territorial authorities expiring at the end of March, health authorities and public health advocates are expressing concern about the erosion of national, universal health care as we know it. The 2004 Health Accord was a formal agreement between the federal and provincial governments, guaranteeing the latter an a...

ACCORD Solutions for Flexible Working

Introduction In the last ten years the new, very promising, market of multimedia services has been attracting more and more computing, entertainment and communication industries. The incredible rate of growth which characterises the demand for multimedia service is driving the R&D sector towards the definition and implementation of telecommunication systems able to guarantee efficient and simul...

Optimistic Heuristics for MineSweeper

We present a combination of Upper Confidence Tree (UCT) and domain specific solvers, aimed at improving the behavior of UCT for long term aspects of a problem. Results improve the state of the art, combining top performance on small boards (where UCT is the state of the art) and on big boards (where variants of CSP rule).