health who met to discuss problems and potential solutions at the intersection of these fields. This report summarizes this … specific patent doctrines that can provide or help provide sufficient incentives for health-related innovation? Second, is … health information being used proprietarily and if so, is this type of protection appropriate? Third, does IP conflict with …

fundamental, but less dramatic health and health care problems of our nation. Antibiotic-resistant microbes are not new . Nor is …

The health systems are discussed worldwide. Is international benchmarking of whole health systems a potential tool to …

Education and health sectors are known to have massive impact on the quality of human life. In this context, the health … sector is discussed in this study to analyse the impact of fiscal decentralisation on basic health infrastructure in Pakistan …. Provincial datasets (1980-2001) from three provinces were used for the analysis of provincial health indicators. It was learnt …

Medicine, and masters in social work students, fellows from the university's masters in public health program and fellows from …

than those without. The more seriously ill, the less likely a patient finds the health services to be satisfactory. The …

dementia extremely difficult, involving a wide variety of social and health care interventions. Typically, these two aspects of … they interact along the dementia care continuum. There are no effective health care treatments for stopping dementia, which … with dementia can have positive health benefits to both patient and family. In particular, the use of group-living, where …

Greek health outcomes compare favourably with the OECD average. However, the health care system is seen as not working … well by the population. One source of dissatisfaction is the high proportion of private household spending on health …, including informal payments, while public health spending relative to GDP is one of the lowest in the OECD. This situation leads …

About one in ten patients are harmed during health care. This paper estimates the health, financial and economic costs … of this harm. Results indicate that patient harm exerts a considerable global health burden. The financial cost on health …