Background Globally, insufficient information exists on the costs of nursing agencies, which are temporary employment service providers that supply nurses to health establishments and/or private individuals. Objective The aim of the study was to determine the utilisation and direct costs of nursing agencies in the South African public health sector. Design A survey of all nine provincial health...

introduction all nations are striving for development. economic development is one of the main parts of development process, but not all of it. populations health is one of the main factors of economic development, and child’s mortality is one of the main factors of population health status. the aim of this study is investigating the role of socioeconomic disparties in under 5 mortality in east...

BACKGROUND There is need for the Uganda Ministry of Health to understand predictors of primary health care pharmaceutical expenditure among districts in order to guide budget setting and to improve efficiency in allocation of the set budget among districts. METHODS Cross sectional, retrospective observational study using secondary data. The value of pharmaceuticals procured by primary health ...

BACKGROUND Healthcare system reform of Sanming city has become a leading healthcare reform model in China. It has developed a rigorous pharmaceutical reform consisted of the Zero Mark-up Drug Policy and the Centralized Procurement of Medicine Policy to bring down drug expenses and total health expenditures. However, despite the credit and much attention have been given to Sanming's pharmaceutic...

financial management systems follow triple goals of financial stability and discipline, strategic allocation of resources and operational efficiency. these triple goals are known as triple framework. medium term expenditure framework (mtef) of government is a process taken in order to achieve the triple goals mentioned in many countries over the world during recent years. in this process, the g...

Estimation of Theoretically Plausible Demand Functions From U. S. Consumer Expenditure Survey Data Lester D. Taylor University of Arizona The purpose of this paper is the application of four popular theoretically plausible consumer demand systems to a common cross-sectional data set that combines expenditure data from the quarterly BLS consumer expenditure surveys with price data that are colle...