BACKGROUND Since 2005, Kenyan medical universities have been training general practitioners, providing them with clinical, management, teaching and research skills, in order to enhance access to and quality of health care services for the Kenyan population. This study assesses what expectations family physicians, colleagues of family physicians and policy makers have of family medicine, what ex...

N "For the Sake of the Children" [Summer 1992], Richard Gill criticizes a study several collaborators and I published on the effects of divorce on children.* Gill first charges that our methodology and our interpretation are flawed, then launches into a broader discussion of contemporary marriage and divorce. In an earlier Public Interest article, "Day Care or Parental Care?" [Fall 1991], Gill ...

ver the past few decades, national material prosperity, both in this nation and elsewhere in the industrialised world, has improved. Gross Domestic Product has risen to record levels. The health of many nations has improved, as measured by infant mortality and longevity and money spent on education has grown. Children's rights have been the focus of renewed attention and the ratio of children t...

results: the finding revealed that intention of family physicians to reduce referral rate of patients to specialists was significantly related to two theory-based variables of subjective norms (r = 0.38, p < 0.001) and perceived behavioral control (r = 0.43, p < 0.001), and not to attitudes. a stepwise regression entering direct measures of the theory variables explained 35% of the variance on ...

almost half of the largest corporations in the United States had extended their own employee benefit plans to recognize same-sex partners (most of them also including de facto heterosexual couples for the first time). The vast majority of major universities and colleges had taken the same step by that time. While some of these changes were induced by legal or statutory change at the local or st...

$90-$180 in March 1974. It remained at that level until January 1979 when, under a provision of the 1977 amendments, it was raised to a maximum of $230 a month. The amendments also provided that the special minimum PIA be subject to the same automatic cost-of-living increases as regular benefits. Thus, effective June 1979, the highest special minimum PIA is $252.80 per month. Tbe special minimu...

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we show that this time consistency ...