Background and Introduction: Emigration of healthcare workers from developing countries is on the rise and there is an urgent need for policies that increase access to and continuity of healthcare. In this commentary, we highlight some of the negative impacts of emigration on maternal and child health and discuss whether team-based healthcare delivery could possibly mitigate the shortfall of ma...

Value-based healthcare delivery is being discussed in a variety of healthcare forums. This concept is of great importance in the reform of the US healthcare delivery system. Defining and applying the principles of value-based competition in healthcare delivery models will permit future evaluation of various delivery applications. However, there are relatively few examples of how to apply these ...

Healthcare systems around the world are facing the challenge of information overload in caring for patients in an affordable, safe and high-quality manner in a system with limited healthcare resources and increasing costs. To alleviate this problem, we develop an integrative healthcare analytics system called GEMINI which allows point of care analytics for doctors where real-time usable and rel...

Background: Health services utilization (HSU) is an important health outcome indicator, a surrogate measure of access to healthcare, that influences the outcomes of health status and consumer satisfaction, is a surrogate measure of access to healthcare. To most healthcare providers, understanding patterns of HSU is important for health system resource planning and allocation. In studies of HSU,...

Introduction The Comprehensive Healthcare (CHC) module was developed to introduce pre-clinical medical and pharmacy students to the concept of comprehensive healthcare. This study aims to explore their shared learning experiences within this module. Methodology During this module, medical and pharmacy students conducted visits to patients' homes and to related community-based organisations in s...

Background Shared decision-making has received national and international interest by providers, educators, researchers, and policy makers. The literature on shared decision-making is extensive, dealing with the individual components of shared decision-making rather than a comprehensive process. This view of shared decision-making leaves healthcare providers to wonder how to integrate shared de...

We prove that a system of linear congruences of a particular form has at most a unique solution below a certain bound which can be computed efficiently. Using this result we develop attacks against the DSA schemes which, under some assumptions, can provide the secret key in the case where one or several signed messages are available. MSC 2010: 94A60, 11T71, 11Y16.

We consider the issue of determining the D0-D̄0 width difference ∆ΓD experimentally. The current situation is reviewed and suggestions for further study are given. We propose a number of D0 decay modes in addition to those studied in the recent E791, FOCUS and BELLE lifetime determination experiments. Then we address prospects for determining CF CDS strong phase differences, like δKπ which appea...

The fast evolving managed healthcare industry (which now includes Medicaid) is being challenged to reduce the costs involved in providing quality healthcare to the population it manages, and is facing many compulsory reporting and tracking requirements. These require eecient coordination of human and automated tasks as well as information to ow across multiple enterprises. One of the most criti...

Objective: describing the characteristics of the articulation between the services that compose the mental health network of children and adolescents, through the referral and counter-referral system. Method: descriptive study developed in 25 services, based on information obtained from self-administered questionnaires applied to coordinators through the Ministry of Health electronic system. Da...