Better information on the financing of the health sector is an essential basis for wise policy change in the area of health sector reform. Analysis of health care financing should begin with sound estimates of national health expenditure--total spending, the contributions to spending from different sources and the claims on spending by different uses of the funds. The member countries of the OE...

The research was undertaken to determine the trends in the amount and the structure of the health care expenditures in Croatia from 2000 to 2013. It is based on routinely collected and publicly available data, The Annual Reports of the Croatian Health Insurance Fund and OECD data. The income of Croatian Health Insurance Fund (CHIF) increased by 66.9%, while total expenditures increased by 62.1%...

COVID-19 has presented significant challenges for public healthcare systems across the globe. The critical challenge organisations is to provide effective health care patients, while simultaneously keeping frontline staff safe. Telemedicine emerged as a prominent service intervention this end. integrates technologies into medical practices alleviate need face-to-face interactions through video ...

There is renewed interest in the revival of health co-operative as a “third option” for meeting health care needs of populations in developing countries in the context of health sector reforms. This article reviews some international experiences with health co-operatives. We briefly assess the history of health co-operatives in industrialized countries where they originated and review past expe...

147. An antibiotic stewardship program in the emergency department decreased piperacillin-tazobactam use and increased guideline-concordant antibiotic prescribing for uncomplicated cystitis Michelle Haas, MD; Bryan Knepper, MPH, MSc; Kevin Kaucher, PharmD; Kati Shihadeh, PharmD; Jeffrey Sankoff, MD; Timothy Jenkins, MD; Medicine/ Infectious Diseases, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, CO; Me...

One of the pillars of epidemiologic research on the long-term health effects of air pollution is to estimate the chronic exposures over space and time. In this study, we aimed to measure the intra-urban ambient carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations within Urmia city in Iran, and to build a model within the geographic information system (GIS) to estimate the annual and seasonal means anywhere with...