) quality, ii) efficiency, and iii) ownership.i) Quality of health care is the most important good of the health production … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with … industrialised countries, approximately one third of health care expenditure is generated by inpatient care. For this reason …

standard and international trade. The estimation results allow us to formulate some interesting policy conclusions. …

delivers pregnancy health information via telephone required a novel approach. While there are some methodological challenges …BACKGROUND:Teratology Information Services (TIS) educate the public and health professionals via telephone regarding … the safety of drugs and other exposures during pregnancy and lactation. Currently TIS consultations are free, but funding …

total patient costs. However, when patient costs are added to the total costs of pregnancy, they did not substantially … costs during pregnancy.Given that the majority of missed cardiac anomalies were amongst low risk women, a decision …Research and Development Division of the Department of Health …

fertility levels; (2) if achild health model provides a stronger indicator of fertility than child mortality alone;and (3) what …-year time span (1990-2005) is used. Resultsindicate that both the child mortality rate and the child health model are strong … indicatorsof fertility change and produce better results than population mortality or socioeconomicfactors alone. Use of health …

Child mortality is defined as the death of children under five years old. Worldwide, child mortality was about 8 … of access to export markets.In the instance of food contamination, young children and the elderly are typically most at …