86 research outputs found
Supporting safe motherhood : a review of financial trends : full report
Get PDFThis study is designed to measure financial trends and new initiatives in support of the Safe Motherhood (SM) Initiative, identify issues of statistical methodology that may constrain the analysis, and establish a baseline for 1988 against which to measure future financial trends. Global support for specific safe motherhood activities is limited. Funding for selected safe motherhood activities is estimated to have increased (in current dollars) from 818.8 million in 1988. About half this amount was for so-called core activities, including family planning services. The magnitude of support for prevention of the complications of pregnancy is less certain. General health, population and nutrition sector flows increased substantially over the same period and estimated World Bank safe motherhood expenditures in 1989 are triple the previous year's total. New specific safe motherhood activities are beginning to emerge in the form of care for the complications of pregnancy, better secondary and tertiary facilities, training and promotional workshops. In conclusion, it is clear that policies to support maternal health are widely endorsed. However, the effectiveness of donor financing may require far greater attention to two special problems: (a) improving data on SM financial trends; and (b) strengthening recipient countries'capacity to activate project demand.Early Child and Children's Health,Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems,Health Monitoring&Evaluation,Health Systems Development&Reform,Gender and Health
Population-based estimates of hepatitis E virus associated mortality in Bangladesh
Get PDFHepatitis E virus (HEV) is a significant public health problem in many resource-poor countries. China has produced and licensed an effective HEV vaccine, but there are limited population-based data on HEV-associated mortality to make informed decisions about introducing the vaccine. The overarching aim of the research in this thesis was to estimate the population-based rate of HEV-associated mortality in Bangladesh.
To address this aim, we set up acute jaundice surveillance in six hospitals to estimate the prevalence of HEV infection among patients admitted with acute jaundice. We conducted a mortality survey in the hospitals’ catchment areas to identify deaths associated with acute jaundice. In the rural communities, we applied a novel survey method to identify jaundice-associated deaths and estimated the method’s sensitivity and cost-savings compared to the established house-to-house survey method. The population-based estimates of HEV-specific mortality were then estimated by combining the hospital data with the mortality survey.
In the six study hospitals, the prevalence of acute HEV was 34% among patients aged ≥14 years admitted with acute jaundice. The case fatality rate of all acute HEV patients was 5%, but was 12% in pregnancy. The sensitivity of the community knowledge method in identifying maternal deaths was 100% and jaundice-associated deaths aged ≥14 years was 97%. The community knowledge approach required 36% of the staff time to undertake compared to the house-to-house survey. In the hospitals’ catchment area (population of 2.3 million), we identified 612 acute jaundice deaths aged ≥14 years, including 25 maternal deaths. HEV-associated mortality was 0.9 (95% CI: 0.7-1.9) per 100,000 population aged ≥14 years; the maternal mortality ratio associated with HEV was 4.7 (95% CI: 0.7-13.0) per 100,000 live births; the HEV-associated stillbirth rate was 8.1 (95% CI: 3.3-14.8), and the neonatal mortality rate was 22.5 (95% CI: 8.5-39.4) per 100,000 live births.
This study provided a robust estimate of HEV-associated mortality in Bangladesh which can be used to determine the cost-effectiveness of HEV vaccination and other control measures to help prioritise public health interventions. The low-cost survey method could be a valuable tool for estimating the population-based burden of hepatitis in low-and middle-income countries
Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2016. Sydney: National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit, the University of New South Wales
Get PDFFitzgerald O, Paul RC, Harris K, Chambers GM 2018
Assisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2017. Sydney: National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit, the University of New South Wales
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An Economic Analysis of the IFMPO
Get PDFThe Integrated Farm Management Program Option (IFMPO) of the 1990 farm bill is designed to increase crop management flexibility and promote the use of resource-conserving crops. Economic analysis of this program indicates that, although the current format provides flexibility, it provides little economic incentive to adopt resource-conserving crop rotations.Farm Management,
European Unification: The Origins and Growth of the European Community. European Documentation 3/1986
Get PDFAssisted reproductive technology in Australia and New Zealand 2020. Sydney: National Perinatal Epidemiology and Statistics Unit, the University of New South Wales.
Get PDFPhysician Financial Incentives and Cesarean Section Delivery
Get PDFThe 'induced demand' model states that in the face of negative income shocks physicians may exploit their agency relationship with patients by providing excessive care in order to maintain their incomes. We test this model by exploiting an exogenous change in the financial environment facing obstetrician/gynecologists during the 1970s: declining fertility in the U.S. We argue that the 13.5% fall in fertility over the 1970-1982 period increased the income pressure on ob/gyns, and led them to substitute from normal childbirth towards a more highly reimbursed alternative, cesarean delivery. Using a nationally representative micro-data set for this period, we show that there is a strong correlation between within state declines in fertility and within state increases in cesarean utilization. This correlation is robust to consideration of a variety of alternative hypotheses, and appears to be symmetric with respect to periods of fertility decline and fertility increase.
RECONSTRUCTION OF LANDSIDE FOR LABRAQ AIRPORT LIBYA
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Labraq airport located in Labraq city , 25 km east of the Albetha in Libya
circle on the spin-off 27-21 north at its intersection with longitude 74-22 east longitude
and altitude of 650 m above sea level.
This airport built in 1967, a total value of 1,000,000 dollar US by a group Bethune
Syrian national and project manager Renaissance architecture.After the military coup
stoppedin 1986, the airport return as an airport of a civilian-military joint, and in 1996 it
has not been converted to a civilian airport only. The condition of Labraq airports
nowadays isold building or already 45 years, not modern,the small size of the passenger
terminal, administration, departure halls, reception rooms, security and baggage claim
conducted in one small building which causing obstruction of the work.
Theobjective of this study isto make design for reconstruction of the terminal
building for Labraq Libya airport to be more comfortable and more modern and to
quantitatively evaluate the characteristics of the terminal configurations. The secondary
data is taken by the official report of the Labraq airport that consists of data such as the
number of passengers, the number of airplane, seat capacity, periodical flight, parking
lot capacity for departure and arrival, width of terminal building, and the number of
employees.The other secondary data supporting this research are also downloaded from
internet which consists of population growth, economic growth, and growth of tourism
industry in Libya.
Therefore with the prediction in the next ten year thetotal passangers in 2020 will
two times the existing passangers.This means that minimum terminal bulding is about
two times the existing building. The new design is also already draw by considering all
the aspects i.e. the number of passengers and be more comfortable and more modern.
Key words:terminal building, passenger, reconstruction, Labrag airport
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