BACKGROUND The potential benefits of coordinating infectious disease eradication programs that use campaigns such as supplementary immunization activities (SIAs) should not be over-looked. One example of a coordinated approach is an adaptive "sequential strategy": first, all annual SIA budget is dedicated to the eradication of a single infectious disease; once that disease is eradicated, the an...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had an annual budget of approximately $327 million to fund health departments and community-based organizations for core HIV testing and prevention programs domestically between 2001 and 2006. Annual HIV incidence has been relatively stable since the year 2000 and was estimated at 48,600 cases in 2006 and 48,100 in 2009. Using estimates on HI...

The present research emphasizes the analysis of different variables budget, its use and applicability; organizational information systems, supporting decision-making process foundation, in terms construction development scenarios Colombian State; reason why learning teaching public finance is essential for proper understanding budget importance fulfilling state purposes.The continuous training ...

We consider the budget allocation problem in binary/multi-class crowd labeling where each label from the crowd has a certain cost. Since different instances have different ambiguities and different workers have different reliabilities, a fundamental challenge is how to allocate a pre-fixed amount of budget among instance-worker pairs so that the overall accuracy can be maximized. We start with ...

Increasing accessibility and affordability of healthcare services has been considered as an important policy objective since the beginning of 1980s in Iran. However, current 60- 70% health care out-of-pocket payments create a barrier to an equal access to quality health services, especially in terms of new medicines which affects equity issues and "health" in Iran. Currently, health insurance o...