Outbreaks of infectious diseases or multi-casualty incidents have the potential to generate a large number of patients. It is a challenge for the healthcare system when demand for care suddenly surges. Traditionally, valuation of heath care spatial accessibility was based on static supply and demand information. In this study, we proposed an optimal model with the three-step floating catchment ...

background: low birth weight (lbw) is one of the most important health indicators in the world. it has certain known and unknown causes. the present study was designed to evaluate the role of socio-behavioral factors on neonatal birth weight. methods: the current case-control study was conducted on 300 eligible neonates (150 lbw infants as cases and 150 normal body weight infants as controls) i...

Over the past years, the scientific community has witnessed a tremendous growth of applications in heath care telematics. The adoption rate of web based practices was not the same for all medical specialties. Others such as cardiology were fast adopters mainly due to the “electric” nature of the standard diagnostic tools (electro-cardiographer) but others such as psychiatry are still lagging fr...

For over ten years, the Rhode Island Department of Health (HEALTH) has sponsored the monthly submission of Health by Numbers to Medicine & Health/Rhode Island. The principal reason for this collaboration has been to offer physicians a statewide perspective of the health status of the population and the characteristics of the health care system. A second reason has been to demonstrate to physici...

satisfaction surveys have become the primary means of evaluating perceptions of quality in the health care industry, including occupational health services. In occupational health, nurses need to know not only it injured workers are satisfied with their case, but also if injured workers' employers believe heath care provided to their workers was satisfactory. One problem is the lack of publishe...

Children with special health care needs are those who have, or are at risk for, chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional conditions and who also require health and related services of a type or amount not usually required by typically developing children. Formulation of an emergency care plan has been advocated by the Emergency Medical Services for Children (EMSC) program throu...

The Heath-Jarrow-Morton framework refers to a class of models that are derived by directly modeling the dynamics of instantaneous forward-rates. The central insight of this framework is to recognize that there is an explicit relationship between the drift and volatility parameters of the forward-rate dynamics in a no-arbitrage world. The familiar short-rate models can be derived in the HJM fram...