a International Health Policy Program, Bangkok, Thailand. Correspondence to Viroj Tangcharoensathien (e-mail: [email protected]). doi: 10.2471/BLT.07.048587 At the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000, the 191 Member States of the UN reaffirmed commitments to work towards a world in which elimination of poverty and sustainable development are the highest priorities. Governments, health d...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this situation analysis was to explore the views of health and non-health professionals working with women of childbearing age on current and future delivery of preconception care in one National Health Service (NHS) Board area in Scotland. METHODS The situation analysis was undertaken using a mixed methods approach. Six focus groups were conducted organised by profe...

In recent years, concern has grown about the sustainability of health system financing in Estonia. Nevertheless, no systematic overview of the health financing system has been available to serve as a basis for comprehensive discussions. This case study aims to fill this gap using a framework for country-level analysis of health care financing arrangements proposed by Kutzin (2001). The framewor...

The Moroccan population is about 28 million people, predominantly young. The existing sectors in the fields of psychiatry and mental health are academic, public health, private, and military. Despite significant progress, there only 250 psychiatrists practicing in Morocco. However, 25 years ago, fewer than 10 were practicing. There are also about 50 clinical psychologists, 300 specialized nurse...

Dyna is an AI architecture that integrates learning, planning, and reactive execution. Learning methods are used in Dyna both for compiling planning results and for updating a model of the eeects of the agent's actions on the world. Planning is incre-mental and can use the probabilistic and ofttimes incorrect world models generated by learning processes. Execution is fully reactive in the sense...