BACKGROUND Diabetes is a chronic disease that requires routine and complicated self care. Although self care can be managed by most diabetes patients, there are many variables that may make diabetes self-management difficult. AIM The study examined the relationship between clients' demographic variables and diabetes self-management in diabetic clients in Amman city/Jordan. METHOD The data w...

OBJECTIVES To develop and validate a self-efficacy measure of diabetes self-management, the Lifestyle Self-Efficacy Scale for Latinos with Diabetes (LSESLD), designed for low-income, Spanish-speaking Latinos with diabetes. DESIGN Quantitative and qualitative methods. SETTING Community health centers in central and western Massachusetts. PARTICIPANTS Low-income Latinos (N = 252) enrolled i...

A shift towards decentralization in many low-income countries has meant more skills are demanded of primary health care managers, including data and information handling at all levels of the health care system. Ministries of Health are changing their central reporting health information systems to health management information systems with emphasis on managers utilizing information at the point...

This study assesses the reported farm income crisis in Canada and uses farm financial data to illustrate the importance and impact that management skills and practices have on farm income and net worth. For grain and oilseed farms, large farms produce higher revenues per hectare and achieve economies of scale on operating expenses, interest and depreciation, making them significantly more profi...

(1) The 2007 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule that increased compensation for cognitive (Evaluation and Management) services at a rate exceeding increases for procedural services resulted in modest increases in rural primary care physician income in a prototypical practice. (2) A prototypical cognitive primary care practice realized a higher percentage increase in income, but a protot...

Aim: To calculate total cost incurred by patients for Multi-drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) management and evaluate their financial resources. Financial details regarding MDR-TB management were collected from 30 patients. Average daily drugs cost was Rs. 166.83. Average family monthly income was Rs. 8333.33. Average Per Capita Income was Rs. 1473.67. Financial help for treatment was provid...

potential growth of dairy sector is highest and more reliable compared to crop sector, indicating that dairy sector can play vital role to increase income among farmers in rural areas than crop sector in sri lanka. credit and farmer training in management ability have been major concerns of dairy development efforts. therefore, this study wasconductedto assess the impact of credit and farmer tr...

By building a game model between the institutional investors and the management, an analysis has been conducted to uncover the influential factors that are crucial to the role switching of institutional investors when confronting tunneling behaviors of the management: supervision cost, shareholding ratio, invisible income, fines and patience. In cases of lower supervision cost, higher sharehold...

the main objective of this study is analysis of effective factors on production risk management among orange farmers. statistical population of research included all orange farmers of jiroft (kerman province). using the cochran formula were selected 25 cases, but to increase the validity of the research findings, by class random sampling the number of 125 questionnaire distribution among the me...