background and objectives: while social network analysis has left a remarkable practical impact in the healthcare field, the potential implication of this methodology in the primary health domain is poorly researched. hence, this study aimed to explore the use and usefulness social network analysis in the context of primary health care. methods: the health volunteers of imam ali health center i...

The impact of early childhood health shocks on long-term outcomes has long been a major focus in the economics literature. This paper employs a detailed panel dataset in a poor, rural province in China to analyze the impact of early childhood shocks, proxied by rainfall in the county and year of birth, on the evolution of cognitive and non-cognitive skills over time. The results suggest that th...

We consider FPU-type atomic chains with general convex potentials. The naive continuum limit in the hyperbolic space-time scaling is the p-system of mass and momentum conservation. We systematically compare Riemann solutions to the p-system with numerical solutions to discrete Riemann problems in FPU chains, and argue that the latter can be described by modified p-system Riemann solvers. We all...

Our estimate of how price shocks influence health care provision relies on a number of institutional details about provider payments in the Medicare health insurance system. We therefore include an overview of the Medicare payment system here to strengthen our assumption about the exogeneity of certain price shocks, as argued briefly in section I.1 When Medicare was created by the Social Securi...

p olicy makers in housing sector seeks to use instruments by which they can control volatility of housing price and prevent high disturbances of the bubble and price shocks, or at least, reduce them. in the portfolio and speculation theories, it is emphasized that speculative demand for housing is the main cause of shocks and price volatilities in the sector. the theory of housing price bubble ...

despite a renewed focus in the field of global health on strengthening health systems, inadequate attention has been directed to a key ingredient of high-performing health systems: management. we aimed to develop the argument that management – defined here as the process of achieving predetermined objectives through human, financial, and technical resources – is a cross-cutting function necessa...

the current limited focus on management in global health activities is highly problematic given the amounts of financial and human resources that are pouring into health system strengthening interventions and the complexity of clinical operations across settings. by ensuring that public health and healthcare practitioners in domestic and international settings receive management training in the...

background: the national health accounts keep track of all healthcare related activities from the beginning (i.e. resource provision), to the end (i.e. service provision). this study was conducted to address following questions: how is the iranian health system funded? who distribute the funds? for what services are the funds spent on?, what service providers receive the funds? methods: the req...