BACKGROUND An approach to improve management of student clinical placements, the Building Teams for Quality Learning project, was trialed in three different health services. In a previous paper the authors explored in some detail the factors associated with considerable success of this approach at one of these services. In this paper, the authors extend this work with further analysis to determ...

How to cite this article: Ogunfowokan O. Bite-tohospital time and morbidity in victims of Viper bite in a rural hospital in Nigeria. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #371, 7 pages. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ phcfm.v4i1.371 Background: Mortality amongst in-hospital patients bitten by carpet viper in northern Nigeria has reduced, related to use of a monospecific ovine Fab snake anti...

Background One common challenge to social systems is achieving equity in financial contributions and preventing financial loss. Because of the large and unpredictable nature of some costs, achieving this goal in the health system presents important and unique problems. The present study investigated the Household Financial Contributions (HFCs) to the health system.   Methods The study investiga...

This paper offers a synthesis of agricultural household modeling, its evolution and uses; presents a general yet simple agricultural household model, estimated with Mexican village data and programmed using General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) software; and uses this model to explore household-level impacts of agricultural policy changes on production and incomes under alternative rural-mar...

iran is a large country with a vast variety of tribes and ethnic groups. these various tribes are unified with a national language and culture while using their own local languages and enriching ethnic art forms. among iranian ethnic groups, the turkmen are remarkable for their art of carpet weaving which has a unique structure compared to other designs and textures. the charming motifs on turk...

the purpose of this research was analyzing knowledge of women with household jobs agriculture toward innovation management in masjed soliman township, khouzestan province, iran. the population of this study included women with household jobs agriculture in masjed soliman township. the total number of members was 100 people. due to the low number of population, census methods were used to collec...

background one common challenge to social systems is achieving equity in financial contributions and preventing financial loss. because of the large and unpredictable nature of some costs, achieving this goal in the health system presents important and unique problems. the present study investigated the household financial contributions (hfcs) to the health system.   methods the study investiga...

Th e article investigates the consequences of credit constraints on rural household consumption in China. Based on a unique rural fi nance and consumption survey, the authors fi rst identify the credit constraint status of rural households from formal fi nancial institutions. Th en, they apply an endogenous switching regression model to compare the consumption responses to household production ...