OBJECTIVES In order to improve the quality of services at village clinics (VCs), which are important primary care service providers in rural China, the Chinese government has encouraged the township hospitals to own and manage VCs. There are currently three models of ownership and management of VCs: township hospital-owned and -managed (HVC), village committee-owned and -managed (VVC), and priv...

Parasitic infection during pregnancy is a major cause of anaemia in Africa. Social and environmental risk factors for the transmission of human parasites vary according to geographical location. Knowledge of the geographical distribution of parasitic helminths and malaria parasites is key to any interventional programme. Thus, in August-November 2005, a hospital-based study was conducted on 300...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of comprehensive intervention by health education and medical intervention to dyslipidemia Uyghur patients in low-income rural areas in Xinjiang, China. METHOD A multistaged (prefecture-county-township-village) stratified cluster random sampling method was used to select participants in southern Xinjiang. Twelve villages in Jiangbazi Township in Jiashi County ...

this paper investigates the relationship between the lagos megacity and ota township, a small township onits periphery. the study examines linkages between and lagos in terms of growth, urban development as well as mobility. 553 questionnaires were administered to household heads across the 12 residential districts of ota township. survey was carried out by systematic random sampling. classifie...

BACKGROUND Shigellosis is rare in Taiwan, with an average annual incidence rate of 1.68 cases per 100,000 persons in 2000-2007. However, the incidence rate for a mountainous township in eastern Taiwan, Zhuoxi, is 60.2 times the average rate for the entire country. Traveling between Zhuoxi's 6 villages (V1-V6) is inconvenient. Disease transmission among the villages/tribes with endemic shigellos...

An efficient approach to implement dynamic batch means estimators in simulation output analysis Mingchang Chih and Wheyming Tina Song* System Development Center, Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology, Lungtan Township, Taoyuan, Taiwan 32546, Republic of China; Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 30013, Republic...

1Department of Electrical Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 40704, Taiwan 2Department of Electrical Engineering, National Chung Cheng University, 168 University Road, Mig-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621, Taiwan 3Graduate Institute of Networking Communication Engineering, Chaoyang University of Technology, 168, Jifong E. Road, Wufong Township, Taichung City 41349, Taiwan 4Department of Electrical En...