We document the impact of the AIDS crisis on non-AIDS-related health services in 14 sub-Saharan African countries. Using multiple waves of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for each country, we examine antenatal care, birth deliveries, and rates of immunization for children born between 1988 and 2005. We find deterioration in nearly all these dimensions of health care over this period. The m...

BACKGROUND Research has documented dramatic differences in health care utilization and spending across U.S. regions with similar levels of patient illness. Although patient outcomes and quality of care have been found to be no better in regions of high health care intensity, it is unknown whether physicians in these regions feel more capable of providing good patient care than those in low-inte...

This article assesses the opportunities and challenges for different categories of FinTechs in SAARC ASEAN regions. We consider global financial inclusion data released by World Bank map responses to gain insights into respective develop a new index, termed FinTech Opportunity Index (FOI), conceptualise barriers based on individual savings, borrowings, purchasing behaviour, payment preferences....

purpose: development inequalities in rural regions, especially in regard to infrastructures and delivery services impose numerous undesired consequences over towns and villages. hence this research attempted to assess the infrastructure – services development level of villages in central district of koohdasht county (lorestan province). methodology: the research is an applied and descriptive- a...

Many Social Network Services (SNSs) such as Facebook and MySpace rely on a web server that enables the communication between users. As a consequence, SNSs’ users require Internet access to participate and interact with their contacts, a service that is not usually available in rural and developing areas. In this paper we introduce Goose, a distributed SNS for developing regions which provides s...

Mountain regions meet an increasing demand for pleasant landscapes, offering many cultural ecosystem services to both their residents and tourists. As a result of global change, land managers and policy makers are faced with changes to this landscape and need efficient evaluation techniques to assess cultural ecosystem services. This study provides a spatially explicit modelling approach to est...

Background: Organizational commitment and its significant impact on the job satisfaction and performance has been the subject of many studies. Regarding the importance of organizational behavior and its role in service quality, the purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between nurses’ organizational commitment and hospital services in order to improve its qu...