OBJECTIVE To estimate the effect of "Seguro Popular" (SP) on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure in the medium term. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used the 'Encuesta de Evaluación del SP' --SP Survey Evaluation-- (2005-2008). We analyzed the SP effect on the rural cohort during two years of follow-up (2006 and 2008) and in the urban coho...

200 J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2012;38:200–201. doi:10.1136/jfprhc-2012-100399 First marriage The divorce of King Henry VIII from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, has, over the centuries, produced a positive paper storm of academic books and popular works, examination papers and essays. As a subject it has also inspired a number of films and TV documentaries. King Henry posed an argumen...

BACKGROUND We assessed aspects of Seguro Popular, a programme aimed to deliver health insurance, regular and preventive medical care, medicines, and health facilities to 50 million uninsured Mexicans. METHODS We randomly assigned treatment within 74 matched pairs of health clusters-ie, health facility catchment areas-representing 118 569 households in seven Mexican states, and measured outcom...

Science/art millennial, medicine involves, by its nature, a strong commitment to basic principles of bioethics that are summarized in the pursuit of health and welfare of people and communities in their broadest sense. Such commitments may be more formal, such as obedience to the Codes of Ethics and Ethics; public, such as oaths, or consciousness, which are the prayers. The latter model is the ...

The individual prayers fo r protection within the Psalter are marked by a consistency in terms o f the context supposed and the nature o f violence experienced by the psalmists. Consistently, these psalms also assert that the right to retributive violence against the enemies belongs to Yahweh alone. Such a consistent pattern indicates that those responsible fo r assembling the Book o f Psalms i...

[Bak] has introduced a new class of adaptive networks, which tries to function in a volatile environment. The resulting dynamics, called adaptiue performance networks, show uctuation over a wide range of time scales. We introduce some guide lines for training and testing these new type of networks, which will be used to examine the power of these networks.

CAM therapies have become increasingly  popular in pediatric populations. phytotherapy are the most common CAM used in children. Yet, little is known about children’s preferences for CAM. But It is expected to become more widely integrated into the modern medical system, including the medical curriculum.The aim of this study is to introduce the prevalence and characteristics of CAM use in Pedia...