BACKGROUND The double burden of infectious diseases coupled with noncommunicable diseases poses unique challenges for priority setting and for achieving equitable action to address the major causes of disease burden in health systems already impacted by limited resources. Noncommunicable disease control is an important global health and development priority. However, there are challenges for tr...

PROBLEM Despite medical advances, health disparities persist, resulting in medicine's renewed emphasis on the social determinants of health and calls for reform in medical education. APPROACH The Green Family Foundation Neighborhood Health Education Learning Program (NeighborhoodHELP) at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine provides a platform for the school's community-focused mission. Neigh...

this study examines the mediating role of sense of powerlessness on the relationship between the perception of accountability and citizenship participation among the students of university of tehran. lack of proper accountability can lead to a sense of powerlessness for students to influencing the processes and cause them no incentive to provide cooperation. accordingly, accountability variable...

BACKGROUND A common challenge for health sector planning and budgeting has been the misalignment between policies, technical planning and budgetary allocation; and inadequate community involvement in priority setting. Health system decentralisation has often been promoted to address health sector planning and budgeting challenges through promoting community participation, accountability, and te...

Objective: To describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who are not transported to hospital after an emergency (999) call to the East Midlands Ambulance Service, the reason for non-transportation, and the priority assigned when the ambulance is dispatched. Methods: The first 500 consecutive non-transported patients from 1 March 2000 were identified from the ambulance ser...

ATM switches are now being designed to allow connections to be partitioned into priority classes, with packets being emitted for higher priority classes before packets are emitted for lower priority classes. Accordingly, allocation of network resources based on different priority levels is becoming a realistic possibility. Thus we need new methods to do connection admission control and capacity...

OBJECTIVES To explore the influence of values and context in public health priority-setting in local government in England. STUDY DESIGN Qualitative interview study. METHODS Decision-makers' views were identified through semi-structured interviews and prioritization tools relevant for public health were reviewed. Interviews (29) were carried out with Health and Wellbeing Board members and o...

OBJECTIVE To describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients who are not transported to hospital after an emergency (999) call to the East Midlands Ambulance Service, the reason for non-transportation, and the priority assigned when the ambulance is dispatched. METHODS The first 500 consecutive non-transported patients from 1 March 2000 were identified from the ambulance ser...

This study investigated end-of-life priorities of terminally ill patients and their intimate associates. A primary goal was to reduce the number of items in an existing instrument measuring survivors' evaluations of the quality of dying and death. Three Seattle-area patient samples (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients, hospice patients, and participants in an efficacy trial of comple...

In reservation-based multiple access protocols, before obtaining a contention-free access to the channel, a mobile terminal must wait for its request packet to be successfully sent to the base station. A pseudo-Bayesian Aloha algorithm with multiple priorities is proposed in this paper to reduce the waiting time of delay sensitive request packets in a multimedia environment. Packets are transmi...