BACKGROUND Economic transition which took place in China over the last three decades, has led to a rapid marketization of the health care sector. Today inequity in health and poverty resulting from major illness has become a serious problem in rural areas of China. Medical Financial Assistance (MFA) is a health assistance scheme that helps rural poor people cope with major illness and alleviate...

BACKGROUND China uses both social health insurance (SHI) programs and a medical financial assistance (MFA) program to protect the poor from illness-induced financial risks. The MFA provides a dual benefit package targeting low-income families: subsidizing these families' participation in SHI programs, and providing cash aid to protect them from catastrophic health expenditure (CHE). This study ...

Students’ employability has long been a challenging issue for many liberal arts colleges and universities. There has been widespread recognition recently that liberal arts students are highly valued as employees. But there is also a public perception that liberal arts students may not be well equipped to face the challenges of employment in the information age. This study is a collaborative eff...

The aim of this study was to determine the examination researches about use technology by fine arts teachers. conducted according content and citation analysis model. In context, Web Science (WOS) Core Collection indexes were included. document scanning in WOS environment, keywords ‘Fine arts’, ‘Teachers’ ‘Technology’ searched. total, 169 documents examined analysed one one. They year, type, ca...

The performance scores of children (aged 11 to 16 years) in verbal and spatial memory tests were compared for two groups (n = 30, each), one attending a yoga camp and the other a fine arts camp. Both groups were assessed on the memory tasks initially and after ten days of their respective interventions. A control group (n = 30) was similarly studied to assess the test-retest effect. At the fina...

A 2 revised manuscript for Journal of Neurophysiology 1 2 Changes in interhemispheric inhibition from the active to resting primary 3 motor cortex during a fine-motor manipulation task 4 5 Takuya Morishita , Kazumasa Uehara, and Kozo Funase 6 7 1 Human Motor Control Laboratory, Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Sciences, 8 Hiroshima University, Japan; 9 2 Research Fellow of the Japan Socie...

the relationship between creativity and mental health and the extend to which different aspects of creativity (elaboration, flexibility, fluency and originality) could predict different aspects of mental health, was studied in college students. 248 subjects were selected as an available pool of subjects and they were given creativity, anxiety, depression, self-esteem and perceived stress tests....