BACKGROUND Phase angle (PhA) is derived from the resistance and reactance measurements obtained from bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) and is considered indicative of cellular health and membrane integrity. This study measured PhA values of rehabilitation patients and compared them to reference values, measures of functional ability and serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels to explore their ...

OBJECTIVE To understand how national and provincial tuberculosis programme managers in Pakistan perceive and engage with the Stop TB strategy, its strengths, weaknesses and their experience in its implementation. National and provincial tuberculosis programme managers play an important role in effective implementation of the Stop TB strategy. DESIGN A qualitative interview study was conducted...

1910 through the first year of World War I, were a period of shifting public health challenges and the emergence of a distinctive and cohesive Canadian approach to managing them. Driven by the vision and work of a fairly small group of dedicated public health leaders, this half-decade saw rapid growth of the Association, along with remarkably intense activity in the development of Cana-da's pub...

Background Fiscal Decentralization (FD) in many cases is encouraged as a strong means of improving the efficiency and equity in the provision of public goods, such as healthcare services. This issue has urged the researchers to experimentally examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization indicators and health outcomes. In this study we examine the effect of Fiscal Decentralization in...

The authors are indebted to Chandika Indikadahena who has maintained the data files on which the NHA-2000 have been constructed. This construction would not have been possible without an input from several dozen persons who have responded to data request and commented preliminary versions of the data files; this input will be acknowledged in a forthcoming releases on NHA.

The concept of a medical savings account – in its purest form, a vehicle to allow people to save money to spend on health care – was initially developed in the United States in the 1970s. In the 1980s and 1990s the concept was translated into policy in a handful of countries, either as part of a private health insurance market (South Africa and the US) or to complement publicly-financed health ...