this paper discusses central-local relations for healthcare policy in china from a principal-agent perspective, based on schistosomiasis control. in order to control the disease, the central government produced the outline of the mid-long-term national plan for schistosomiasis prevention and control (2004-2015) in 2004. by discussing the implementation of the national outline at the provincial ...

Nakhonsawan Provincial Health Office, Nakhonsawan 60000, Thailand. Received for publication: March 16, 2006. Reprint request: Panithan Santibhavank, M.D., Nakhonsawan Provincial Health Office, Nakhonsawan 60000, Thailand.

BACKGROUND Although an increasing number of studies are documenting uses of syndromic surveillance by front line public health, few detail the value added from linking syndromic data to public health decision-making. This study seeks to understand how syndromic data informed specific public health actions during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. METHODS Semi-structured telephone interviews were conduct...

BACKGROUND In 2003, Médecins Sans Frontières, the provincial government, and the provincial health authority began a community project to guarantee financial access to primary health care in Karuzi province, Burundi. The project used a community-based assessment to provide exemption cards for indigent households and a reduced flat fee for consultations for all other households. METHODS An eva...

Aim : The aim of the present study was to evaluate the concept of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) in a provincial hospital and analyze whether the CPD can offer opportunities for Advanced Professional Development (APD) in nursing staff. Method and material: The study involved 23 clinical nurses of tertiary education employed in α provincial hospital. Collection of data was performed u...

Laboratory of Neonatal Medicine of National Health and Family Planning Commission, Departments of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Children’s Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China Departments of Pediatrics and Neonatology, First Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming, Yunnan, China Department of Neonatology, Gansu Provincial Women and Children’s Hospital (Gansu Provincial Maternity ...

This study explores the interaction between innovations and financial markets using newly available data of China that present significant geographic variations in economic development. Empirical evidence suggests that provincial banking development encourages local innovations, and provincial intellectual property (IP) protection raises the market values of local firms. Firmlevel innovations l...

Abstract The present study attempted to experimentally analyze the effect of fiscal illusion in the form of Flypaper effect on spending demand levels of provincial governments in Iran. To this aim, theoretical foundations and literature review were presented, and then the model used for investigation was specified. Finally, using time series data for provinces of Iran during 2000-2013 estimat...

1. School of Computer and Information Engineering, Fujian Provincial University Key Laboratory of Internet of Things Application Technology, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen 361024, China 2. Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Signal and Image Processing Techniques, Department of Electronics Engineering, Shantou University, Shantou 515063, China 3. Department of Electronic Sci...