he announcement on 6 May 2004 by the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) of the 16 countries eligible to receive funding under the Bush Administration’s Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) is a key step in the process of determining the direction of development assistance by applying quantitative international comparators to the governance performance of developing countries. It is the latest...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate patient satisfaction in outpatient pediatric surgical care and assess differences in scores by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES). STUDY DESIGN Observational, cross-sectional analysis. SETTING Outpatient pediatric surgical specialty clinics at a tertiary academic center. SUBJECT AND METHODS Families of patients received a patient satisfaction survey follow...

The aim of the present paper is to assess local residents' awareness of utilizing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to purchase fresh produce at local farmers' markets, and to determine internet use and media preferences of study participants prior to implementation of a social marketing campaign. A needs assessment was conducted to collect baseline data in an underserve...

Complexity bears its methodological and doctrinal contribution to the general health and medical assistance management, as well as to the clinical context and medical training. Internal Medicine possesses the cultural and methodological tools to confront the challenge of complexity which modern medicine. The science of complexity has suggested an alternative model in which the disease as well a...

It has been argued that much of international medical volunteering is done for the wrong reasons, in that local people serve as a means to meet volunteers' needs, or for the right reasons but ignorance and ill-preparedness harm the intended beneficiaries, often without volunteers' grasp of the damage caused. The literature on ethical concerns in medical volunteering has grown tremendously over ...

In the past few years a number of individuals and groupsboth public and private-have studied public assistance to reappraise the Federal and State-local roles in financing the programs. Discussion of possible changes in Federal responsibility has ranged from eliminating to increasing the Federal share. This article reviews the financing of the programs since 1935, sets forth some questions on t...

The impact of COVID-19 on the global healthcare system was detrimental, and India not an exception. A crucial part India’s fight during pandemic nation’s astonishing vaccination delivery. From actively curbing spread managing affected to initiatives for our vast country, faced numerous challenges in delivery pandemic. compassionate initiative supply vaccines across globe remarkable. With rising...

The system of medical support in the territory of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan is based on four levels of medical treatment. Level 4 is organized outside the war theatre, in the territories of the countries that are a part of the stabilization forces of international organizations (NATO). Both the tasks and the structure of medical support are adjusted to fit the requirements of ...

BACKGROUND Place of delivery is a crucial factor which affects the health and wellbeing of the mother and newborn. Institutional delivery helps the women to access skilled assistance, drugs, equipment, and referral transport. Even though 34% of pregnant women received at least one antenatal care from a skilled provider in Ethiopia by 2013, institutional delivery was 10%. The main objective of t...

Every day, women survive physical or sexual violence. Some survive as a result of services they receive in the aftermath of the abuse. The study presented here explored women's experiences of victimization and their use of and perceptions about the services they received. It is learned that what providers usually prioritize and what the women in this study used-namely emotional, psychological, ...