PURPOSE Asthma-related morbidity and mortality are increasing, and the financial burden imposed by this condition will substantially increase. Nevertheless, little information is available regarding the nature and magnitude of the burden due to asthma at the national level. This study was conducted to characterize the financial burden imposed by asthma in the Republic of Korea at the national l...

BACKGROUND United States health care spending rose rapidly in the 2000s, after a period of temporary slowdown in the 1990s. However, the description of the overall trend and the understanding of the underlying drivers of this trend are very limited. This study investigates how well historical hospital cost/revenue drivers explain the recent hospital spending trend in the 2000s, and how importan...

Although the percentage of US drivers with valid driver's licenses varies from state to state, it has historically been high enough to constitute a useful sampling frame for many public health purposes. Over the past decade, states have had to restrict access to this information to comply with the Driver's Privacy Protection Act (18 U.S.C. 2721-2725). In 2009 and 2010, the authors conducted a s...

this research aims to study the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company. the relationship between the components of quality costs and quality in company has been studied separately for materials, manpower, machinery, and whole of company. in this study, traditional method was used to collect quality costs and paf model was used to determine the components of ...

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exposure to vibration is the cause of some occupational injuries and diseases. objective of this study was determination of vibration exposure of tractor drivers and assessment of musculoskeletal disorder . this cross-sectional and descriptive- analytical study was administrated to 95 tractor drivers to census method and measuring induced vibration to the drivers was done in three axis, x, y, a...

Faced with surging drug development costs and fierce generic competition, pharmaceutical companies are under increasing pressure to find ways to increase and prolong the profitability of both existing and new products. In addition, many of the advanced molecules being developed by biotechnology companies require more efficient delivery than that offered by conventional delivery routes and syste...

Analyzing the costs of any production task can be complex. In this case, the many scenarios that must be considered make the analysis even more difficult. To analyze different work splits, we have developed a cost model that can be used to examine the effects of the cost drivers under different scenarios. We have also identified and examined a number of other issues beyond those in the congress...

Evidence suggests that in spite of the value potential of information technology (IT), institutions in the health care sector have been slow to adopt it. To the extent that significant problems in health care such as patient safety, medical errors, and escalating costs can be addressed through IT, accelerating its diffusion throughout the system is an important public policy issue. This researc...

Strong bequest motives can explain slow asset run-down in retirement. Yet strong precautionary motives provide an equally compelling explanation, and it is hard to tease these two motives apart empirically. We develop a series of “strategic” survey questions that allow for bequest and precautionary motives to be separately identified. Our questions are developed in the context of a model that s...