The article addresses expanding of global economic systems by studying Sámi strategies addressing Norwegian High Northern Policies (NHNP) launched the Ministry Foreign Affairs from 2005. NHNP attracted economy, labour and knowledge to Arctic region. responding are analysed using agency theories in geography, contributes expand content agencies e.g. understanding its embedding specific historica...

1Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, ON, Canada; 2Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, St Hyacinthe, QC, Canada; 3Centre for Foodborne, Environmental, and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Guelph, ON, Canada; 4Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses, Public Health Agency of Canada, Saskatoon, SK, Canada; ...

this paper reviews the essence of effective governance and importance of a multi-sectoral approach in generating health systems response to hiv/aids. this comprehensive approach highlights the importance of integrating reproductive sexual health programs and hiv prevention services, including peer education, life skills, and voluntary counseling and testing (vct), for prevention of mother–to-ch...

BACKGROUND The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 introduced 2 new reimbursement structures, the Interim Payment System (IPS, 1997-2000) and the Prospective Payment System (PPS, begun October 2000) for Medicare home health agencies (HHAs) under the fee-for-service program. OBJECTIVE This article describes and compares the impact of these changes on the Medicare home health market from a period befor...

A systems biology examination of the human female genital tract shows 1 compartmentalization of immune factor expression 2 3 Adam Burgener, Annelie Tjernlund, Tove Kaldensjo, Max Abou, Stuart McCorrister, 4 Garrett R. Westmacott, Kenzie Mogk, Emma Ambrose, *Kristina Broliden, *Blake 5 Ball 6 7 University of Manitoba, Department of Medical Microbiology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 8 Proteomics Gr...

Regulatory transparency is an imperative characteristic of a reliable National Regulatory Authority. In the region of the Americas, the process of building an open government is still fragile and fragmented across various Health Regulatory Agencies (HRAs) and Regional Reference Authorities (RRAs). This study assessed the transparency status of RRAs, focusing on various medicine life-cycle docum...

national health information network (nhin) is a network in which all health care organizations, government agencies and other health-related organizations are connected to each other to exchange information about health. due to the necessity of a framework for nhin development, in this paper, according to the literature review, a definition for nhin framework was provided, and then the nhin rel...