PROBLEM The Chinese central government launched the Health System Reform Plan in 2009 to strengthen disease control and health promotion and provide a package of basic public health services. Village doctors receive a modest subsidy for providing public health services associated with the package. Their beliefs about this subsidy and providing public health services could influence the quality ...

BACKGROUND Supervision is meant to improve the performance and motivation of community health workers (CHWs). However, most evidence on supervision relates to facility health workers. The Integrated Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH) Program in Morogoro region, Tanzania, implemented a CHW pilot with a cascade supervision model where facility health workers were trained in supportive sup...

Recently, I had to treat such a case in a village ^ here any laboratory help or consultation with aijy other doctor is rather a matter of dreams. *he case, however, was saved rather unexpectedly in a very short time with dihydrostreptomycin sulphate and sulfadiazine. The village Babhnan market (District Basti) \as been an endemic area for plague for a long time. Most of the inhabitants are not ...

We report a prevalence study of environmental pleural plaques in subjects over 50 years old from the northeastern Corsican village of Murato, built on asbestos surface deposits. The percentage of plaques was 41%, versus 7.5% in the control village of Vezzani. Although surface deposits contain both chrysotile and tremolite, airborne pollution and asbestos lung burden of exposed inhabitants consi...

Instant messaging and presence-systems have long been popular in the “fixed” Internet world with tens of millions of PC users. The success has come despite the heterogeneous environment of multiple incompatible IM systems. In the mobile domain, however, instant messaging and presence is a relatively young thing. Hoping to avoid fragmentation in mobile IM and presence, Wireless Village was forme...

on 1st August, 1932. Came for treatment on 3rd August, 1932. Finished treatment on 17th August, 1932. He stated:? ' I was sitting outside my house when a mongoose rushed at me and caught hold of my finger tip. A few boys of the village came running after it saying that it was mad and had bitten a dog and a grown-up calf in the village. The mongoose, however, escaped into an enclosure where farm...

1 Introduction According to standard, pre-philosophical intuitions, there are many composite objects in the physical universe. There is, for example, my bicycle, which is composed of various parts-wheels, handlebars, molecules, atoms, etc. Recently, a growing body of philosophical literature has concerned itself with questions about the nature of composition. 1 The main question that has been r...

Increasing human population growth has led to elevated levels of human-carnivore conflict. However, some carnivore populations have adapted to urban environments and the resources they supply. Such associations may influence carnivore ecology, behaviour and life-history. Pockets of urbanisation sometimes occur within protected areas, so that anthropogenic influences on carnivore biology are not...

the following study aims to present a consistent framework for the sustainable development of the troglodyte village of kandovan, taking into consideration the present situation of the village and the paramount importance of preserving its unique way of life with the ultimate goal of making efficient improvements on the living conditions of its inhabitants. located in north-western iran, this t...