Small farms in the US have significant challenges financial management. This study examines how small farmers undertake farm management to meet their agricultural and farm-related spending expenses. Using primary survey data from Tennessee, investigates factors influencing extent of use five financing sources expenses: cash/fund directly generated sale products, farmer’s past savings, household...

Introduction: Every year several disease outbreaks, such as influenza-like illnesses (ILI) and other contagious illnesses, impose various costs to public and non-government agencies. Most of these expenses are due to not being ready to handle such disease outbreaks. An appropriate preparation will reduce the expenses. A system that is able to recognize these outbreaks can earn ...

Background The student costs of residency interviewing are of increasing concern but limited current information is available. Updated, more detailed information would assist students and residency programs in decisions about residency selection. The study objective was to measure the expenses and time spent in residency interviewing by the 2016 graduating class of the University of Kansas Scho...

Background: Evaluation of the impacts cutaneous of leishmaniasis (CL) on the patients, their family and government are necessary. Unfortunately these evaluations have not been done. Objective: Due to increased incidence of CL in Isfahan province especially in rural areas, this study was done to assess the expenses of this disease in Isfahan in 1999. Patients and Methods: 196 patients were selec...

medicines constitute a substantial proportion of out-of-pocket (oop) expenses in indian households. in order to address this issue, the government of india launched the jan aushadhi (medicine for the masses) scheme (jas) to provide cheap generic medicines to the patients (http://janaushadhi.gov.in/about_jan_aushadhi.html). these medicines are provided through the jan aushadhi stores established...