BACKGROUND Health care systems in OECD countries are increasingly facing economic challenges and funding pressures. These normally demand interventions (political, financial and organisational) aimed at improving the efficiency of the health system as a whole and its single components. In 2009, the English NHS Chief Executive, Sir David Nicholson, warned that a potential funding gap of £20 bill...

BACKGROUND The partograph is currently the main tool available to support decision-making of health professionals during labour. However, the rate of appropriate use of the partograph is disappointingly low. Apart from limitations that are associated with partograph use, evidence of positive impact on labour-related health outcomes is lacking. The main goal of this study is to develop a Simplif...

The delivery of modern health services is a complex activity that increasingly relies on inter-professional collaboration. The different roles of the members of these inter-professional teams may depend not only on traditional job demarcations but also on a division of labour that maximizes efficiency and improves outcomes.

saeed reza abadi assistant professor, faculty of law, shahid beheshti university, tehran, iran corresponding author: [email protected] hamed edrisian ms. student, economic law, faculty of law, shahid beheshti university, tehran, iran [email protected] one of the most important and effective measures of governments in social, economic and cultural fields is regulating relationships between...

The realization of sustainable development depends on the efficient use of energy resources. Energy consumption productivity and efficiency are among important indices that play a critical role in explaining the behavior of energy consumption structure of different economic sectors, which in turn, plays a key role in policy making. From among economic sectors, the agriculture sector, as an impo...

this study was conducted in delta state nigeria to establish a nexus between rural-urban migration and child labour. random sampling was applied to select rural settlements and this study covers 450 sample farming households. the results show that rural-urban migration influence child labour (p

this study examined the effects of agricultural child labour on children’s perception of farming occupation in delta state, nigeria. a total of 336 respondents comprising of 112 farming household heads and 224 children in the selected households were used for the study.farming activities of the children were highest during weekends. highest level of participation was recorded in herbicide and p...

This study examined the effects of a yoga program during pregnancy, on maternal comfort, labor pain, and birth outcomes. A randomized trial was conducted using 74-primigravid Thai women who were equally divided into two groups (experimental and control). The yoga program involved six, 1-h sessions at prescribed weeks of gestation. A variety of instruments were used to assess maternal comfort, l...

Decision augmentation theory (DAT) holds that humans integrate information obtained by anomalous cognition into the usual decision process. The result is that, to a statistical degree, such decisions are biased toward volitional outcomes. We introduce our model and show that the domain over which it is applicable is within a few standard deviations from chance. We contrast the theory's experime...