This objective of this paper is to explore the public sector's role in infertility management in India. It focuses on services available in the public sector, problems faced by and critiques of public sector providers. A postal survey was conducted with a sample of 6000 gynaecologists and in-depth interviews were conducted with 39 gynaecologists in four cities. The role of the public sector in ...

In 1901, the Arizona Territorial Legislature codified territorial law that illegalized advertising, causing, or performing abortions anywhere in Arizona. The 1901 code, in conjunction with the federal Comstock Act, regulated the advertisement and accessibility of abortion [3] services and contraceptives in Arizona. The Federal Comstock Act of 1873 [4] had illegalized the distribution of materia...

Even small companies do not use physical stamps to prepay postal services, but have a franking machine which can be logically loaded with a certain amount of stamps which are printed on letters for example. Special purpose franking machines, which are still widely used in practice, however have security and handling problems. It was relatively easy to forge stamps and in some cases one needed t...

BACKGROUND Occupational physicians and general practitioners often appear to differ in their attitudes to the provision of health screening, health promotion and vaccination in the workplace. AIM This study aimed to explore the attitudes of occupational physicians and general practitioners to particular aspects of workplace health services. METHOD Anonymous piloted postal questionnaires wer...

In today’s Internet era, electronic mail is replacing telephony and postal mail as the primary means of communication for hundreds of millions of individuals. Free email services, such as Microsoft’s Hotmail and Yahoo’s Yahoo! Mail, each have tens of millions of subscribers. However, these and other current e-mail systems unfortunately are not capable of handling the scale of Internet e-mail us...

Locally-commissioned pharmacy public health services have developed in England over the last 20 years. Few studies have sought pharmacist views on commissioning and provision of public health services in general. This study sought views of community pharmacists (n = 778) in 16 areas of England on services provided, decisions about services, support, promotion and future developments, using a po...

BACKGROUND Electronic medical records (EMRs) used in primary care contain a breadth of data that can be used in public health research. Patient data from EMRs could be linked with other data sources, such as a postal code linkage with Census data, to obtain additional information on environmental determinants of health. While promising, successful linkages between primary care EMRs with geograp...

A Reply Card Processing (RCP) Service was developed at CEDAR to demonstrate as to how the United States Postal Service could deliver business and courtesy reply cards to clients electronically instead of physically. The electronic delivery of the more than one billion cards that the USPS processes in a year was to expedite the order fulfillment cycle for participating customers, resulting in co...

Making high-bandwidth Internet access pervasively available to a large world-wide audience is a difficult challenge, especially in many developing regions. As we wait for the uncertain takeoff of technologies that promise to improve the situation, we propose to explore an approach that is potentially more easily realizable: the use of digital storage media transported by the postal system as a ...