The incentives in the Medicare and Medicaid physician payment systems and their effects on six interrelated aspects of health care costs and beneficiary access to care were analyzed. Research results and data presented indicate that Medicare and Medicaid physician payment incentives are inconsistent with current public policy goals of (1) containing inflation in fees and expenditures, (2) encou...

The structural funds are used to promote economic development as part of European Union Cohesion Policy. Previously the main beneficiary countries were in southern Europe and on the periphery. For 2007-13, the funds are being increased, and directed towards the EU's new Member States. The Commission has been working with national health ministries, and regions, to develop expertise in applicati...

BACKGROUND The number of physicians available in a given country, their efficiency, quality and specialization is of utmost epidemiological importance. AIM To evaluate the availability of physicians in Chile. MATERIAL AND METHODS The information about the number of physicians in Chile up to the year 2004, was obtained from the Ministry of Health, national universities and the register of im...

e-governance is related to the use of approprairte technology for increasing public relation that promotes democratic declaration of oponion and human independence, supporting of economical development & delivering services failry & efficiently. in order to achieve the aim in the it age, public institutions constrained to have digital portals. these portals should be privacy respected, devilver...

Technology is revolutionizing education. Global networks, powerful personal computers, and user friendly, graphically oriented software are creating a new infrastructure that promotes rapid, efficient access to information. Images, text, audio, and video can be integrated into interactive multimedia presentations, providing a hierarchy of knowledge that can be traversed by the click of a mouse....

ABSTRACT A vibrant and commercially active center is often the result of interesting, diverse building styles and or built-forms, pedestrian density along with variety of quality public places where people feel comfortable, spending time and shopping items for domestic and commercial functions in cities like Addis Ababa. The scale and design of buildings, pedestrian density, and other phy...

D ATA on health insurance ownership and use of hospitals were collected in the national survey of a sample of beneficiaries conducted by the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance in the fall of 1957. The following highlights on ownership of hospitalization insurance or hospital-surgical insurance and on use of general hospitals by the aged persons in the surveyed families are from the preli...