The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

) 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 …

uncertainty in exposure to health risk due to drinking a groundwater source contaminated with a carcinogen, 2) the uncertainty in …

The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious … three areas: studies that estimated the health-related economic costs of wildfire-smoke exposure; epidemiology studies … related to the health risk of wildfire smoke; and general economic studies that estimated the monetary value of preventing the …

a price premium to avail the benefits of RFID and suggested privacy and health concerns associated with RFID use while … debunking myths regarding privacy and health concerns. The need to quantify the benefits of 3D body scanning in the apparel …