Editorials 742 During the past two decades, access to primary health care has been dramatically improved in Ethiopia as a result of a national health extension programme. More than 40 000 community health extension workers have been trained to deliver preventive and basic curative interventions in villages across the nation. 1 The health extension workers are trained for a year, then employed b...

This study analyzes the role of economic indicators in country-level innovation, represented by patents in the technology sector. Innovation indicators include the ratio of patents owned by foreign residents and the number of patent applications in each industry in the technology sector. Economic indicators include GDP, gross national income, labor cost, R&D expenditure, real minimum wage, tax ...

BACKGROUND Evidence shows that in Iran alcohol abuse rate may be of concern, especially among the youth. The mental and social health and addiction Department of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education has designed a plan to prevent, treat, and rehabilitate the patients abusing alcohol in a time period of 2011-2015. METHODS In a 6-month period, three guiding committees of experts in the ...

The current paper, first, documents Ghana’s ‘success’ story. Second, it identifies the strategy employed. Third, it provides a brief history of why and how the strategy was adopted. Fourth, it provides some rationale for the success of the strategy, including the roles of domestic and international actors. Fifth, it conjectures the viability of the strategy into the future. Finally, the paper d...

a lot of people think that the economic development of a country is associated with its grossdomestic product (gdp), but gdp does not consider aspects as important as the environmental performanceof a country. nowadays, environmental issues are one of the most important aspects of the long termdevelopment of a country and play an important role in a nation’s wealth. although the analysis of cou...

Recent literature contains many stories of how foreign aid affects economic growth: aid raises growth in countries with good policies, or in countries with difficult economic environments, or mainly outside the tropics, or on average with diminishing returns. The diversity of these results suggests that many are fragile. I test 7 important aid-growth papers for robustness. The 14 tests are mini...

The primary aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between school attainment, school completion, and economic development. In doing so it also examines the effect of other macroeconomic variables on school attainment and completion. Estimation is conducted using a panel dataset of 138 countries. Our results show that income levels, government expenditure on education, and political in...

Government regulation of business activity has been recognized as having critical impact on countries economic development. The aim of this research is to empirically explore the role played by information and communication technology (ICT) on the regulatory environment for doing business at the country level. We expect that the greater the access to information, the better the regulatory frame...

The necessity to develop cardiac surgery centers in the emerging world is widely accepted. Numerous groups and organizations from the developed world are involved in such work; however, the best method in which to develop a sustainable center in the emerging world is still debated. Herein, we present an approach that we have used in several such projects, which involves regular and frequent ins...