OBJECTIVES To assess newborn care knowledge and practices among mothers. METHODOLOGY A cross-sectional study was conducted at a tertiary care hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 170 mothers accompanying their infants attending the Paediatric Out Patient Department were interviewed through a structured questionnaire. Areas of inquiry included Antenatal care seeking, delivery care, cord c...

The patient-centered medical home has been promoted as a way of organizing health services delivery to reduce costs while offering superior health outcomes and coordination of care. The Affordable Care Act promotes the patient-centered medical home as a tool to reshape the delivery of health care in the U.S. Preliminary findings from demonstration projects indicate overall positive results in t...

The aim of this study was to develop a humane alternative to the traditional remote devices that deliver punishers contingent on home-alone dog barking. Specifically, we evaluated the use of remote delivery of food contingent on intervals of not barking during the pet owner's absence. In Experiment 1, 5 dogs with a history of home-alone nuisance barking were recruited. Using an ABAB reversal de...

The Mobile IP Standard has been developed to support mobility over the Internet. This standard contains several drawbacks as in the cases where packets are routed via sub-optimal paths and significant amount of signaling messages is generated due to the home registration procedure which keeps the network aware of the current location of the mobile nodes. Recently, a dynamic hierarchical mobilit...

Many technologies introduced into the home have become a part of everyday life. Today, many factors, such as the availability of broadband access, the growth of home networks, and the popularity of devices such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) and cell phones are combining to reshape the home use of electronics. As all the devices in the home become fully connected, we move towards the nex...

BACKGROUND High out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE) make delivery care difficult to access for a large proportion of India's population. Given that home deliveries increase the risk of maternal mortality, in 2005 the Indian Government implemented the Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) program to incentivize poor women to deliver in public health facilities by providing a cash transfer upon discharge. W...

BACKGROUND Beyond examining their overall cost-effectiveness and mechanisms of effect, it is important to understand patient preferences for the delivery of different modes of chronic heart failure management programs (CHF-MPs). We elicited patient preferences around the characteristics and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a clinic or home-based CHF-MP. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A Discrete C...

The changing landscape of health care coverage and delivery has been influenced and accelerated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Initially, the emphasis of the ACA was on access to care with the expansion of public and private insurance coverage options. Gradually, the priorities shifted toward delivery system changes, influenced by value-based payment models and the associated need for more c...

India accounts for the highest number of maternal and child deaths globally. A large body of empirical research suggests that improvement in the coverage of institutional delivery is essential to reduce the burden of maternal and child death. However the dynamics of choice of place of delivery is poorly understood. Using qualitative survey data consisting of twelve focus group discussions, cond...