Some Medical Problems in the State's Service

Some medical problems in pregnancy.

Pregnancy is an elegant masterpiece of physiological adjustment and as such is well tolerated by most healthy women. When the tenuous divide between the physiological and pathological state breaks down, however, it can become for the mother and her foetus a life-threatening event calling for skilled obstetrical and medical management.. One of the more significant events contributing to improved...

Some problems of medical education.

Some Medical Problems in China To-Day

queue starting to form for the out-patient session to-morrow. The men are coughing and spitting, and making themselves as comfortable as possible against the wall, whilst the women squat with undersized infants tied on to their backs. By the morning the crowd will have grown to a great throng waiting for the hundred-odd new tickets that will be given out so that they may consult a doctor. Many ...

Problems in the Measurement and Performance of Service-Sector Productivity in the United States

In the past two decades, the American economy has evolved quite differently from most other advanced industrialised economies. Unlike economies which have experienced a large increase in unemployment, the US unemployment rate in 1994-95 has been little different than in other prosperous years, such as 1972, 1979, and 1987-88. Instead, there is now a general consensus that the most intractable p...

Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal

Health services and policy research (HSPR) represent a multidisciplinary field which integrates knowledge from health economics, health policy, health technology assessment, epidemiology, political science among other fields, to evaluate decisions in health service delivery. Health service decisions are informed by evidence at the clinical, organizational, and policy level, levels with distinct...