In this study, we compare self-perceived unmet need across Canadian provinces and assess how the reasons for unmet need - problems with availability, accessibility and acceptability - vary. This cross-sectional study uses data from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2.1) conducted in 2003. Overall, 11.7% perceived having had unmet healthcare needs in the previous 12 months. The adjusted prov...

OBJECTIVE In 1999, the Metropolitan Ambulance Service (MAS), Melbourne, Australia began implementing The Emergency Operations Plan (1998). One of the initiatives of the plan was the addition of crews with one advanced paramedic skills (APS) officer and one non-APS officer (mixed crews). All previous APS crews contained two APS officers working together. There was concern that mixed crews would ...

© CIPFA, 2004 The Italian National Health Service (INHS) offers some important lessons for regionalizing and introducing quasi-markets into a health care system. The INHS was established in 1978 and was modelled after the British National Health Service. In the 1990s, jurisdiction over health care was devolved from central government to Italy’s 21 regions. Since then the regions have been exper...

We report a pilot study with the Flower Workshop, a new modality of psychosocial rehabilitation group activity. Cognitive performance in schizophrenia and other mental conditions can be impaired depending on the tasks to be executed and their respective social context. The vulnerability of these individuals can be reduced by means of cognitive and socio-affective facilitation. We conducted a pi...

Department of Paediatrics, Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Trust, University of Oxford, and Oxford University Clinical Academic Graduate School, Oxford, United Kingdom; Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Centre of Geographic Medicine Research-Coast, Kilifi District Hospital, Kilifi, Kenya; Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University ...

A population of 968 pregnant Navajo women was followed in a prospective study conducted from 1980 to 1983 at the Indian Health Service Hospitals in Gallup and Crownpoint, New Mexico. The purpose of the study was to examine social and cultural influences on obstetric and neonatal complications. The extent of traditional cultural practices and the availability of social support were ascertained i...

I would like to share with you a brief overview of the oral health and the oral health delivery system available for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) people. The purpose of my presentation is to briefly provide insight on the basis of Federally sponsored health care for AI/AN; why the Indian Health Service exists; who receives services; why they receive them; and what type of services ...

This study was inspired by the observation that foreign financial service firms operating in the City of London do not suffer the liability of foreignness to the extent suggested by theory. To examine the reasons for this departure from theory, the study advances a theoretical framework that distinguishes between three types of advantages that together account for the competitive performance of...