The investigation was conducted in one rural commune. Information was gathered about socio-economic status (SES) and food consumption of 544 households with 3 categories of SES. The results showed that the energy intake of household increased with higher socio-economic conditions. Rice, fat/oil, nut and sesame were most consumed in the households of the medium socio-economic status. The consumption of meat, fish, eggs and fruits tend to increase with better higher SEC. Vegetables consumption was low at all studied households.
Economics ; Food

Industrial Accident Compensation Insurance (IACI) has a history of about 50 yr, and is the oldest social insurance system in Korea. After more than 20 times of revision improvements in benefits, its contents and claim systems have been upgraded. It became the protector of injured workers and their families, and at the same time became the system which could cope with both financial burden of employers and their responsibilities. However, there are some issues to be reformed to upgrade the IACI: 1) the problems in the approval system of occupational diseases, 2) quality improvement of workers' compensation medical care, 3) vocational rehabilitation and return to work, 4) workers' compensation premiums and out-of-pocket money of injured workers, 5) issues in application of IACI. Growth of IACI cannot be achieved by an effort of an individual. Efforts by workers, owners, and government, in addition to physicians and welfare professionals toward the same goal are required for the next level improvement of IACI.
Humans ; Industry/economics ; Insurance, Accident/*economics ; Occupational Diseases/economics ; Rehabilitation, Vocational/economics ; Workers' Compensation/*economics

AIDS Serodiagnosis ; economics ; Counseling ; economics ; Humans ; Mass Screening ; economics

Humans ; Mass Screening ; economics ; Research ; economics

OBJECTIVETo understand the projects completion and research progresses in pediatrics which were funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), and evaluate the accomplishment objectively and justly.

METHODSThe completion status of projects in pediatrics funded by department of clinical medicine II from 2002 to 2006 was analysed retrospectively, and important research achievement and outstanding development in some projects were reported.

RESULTSDuring the period between 2002 and 2006, 420 articles were published, and the average was 8.1 papers per project, which included 56 papers that were published in journals indexed by SCI (the average was 1.1 papers per project). The completion of general project was better than that of "the Young Researchers Fund" and small grant project. Ten post-doctors, 102 doctors and 109 masters were trained. Two projects were awarded with the first grade prize and another 2 with the second grade prize at the provincial and ministerial level, 4 items applied for patent and 1 was granted. These completed projects, which were mainly related to 7 of 12 subspecialties in the field of pediatrics, such as the respiratory disease, nephrology, neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, hematology, neonatology, are the major portion of the application projects and subsidized projects funded by NSFC, and achieved great research progresses.

CONCLUSIONDuring the period between 2002 and 2006, the 52 completed projects in pediatrics showed difference in the distribution and quality of accomplishment among subspecialties and among types of supported projects; there are some gaps between pediatrics and some other clinical basic subspecialties II, this situation released the research status and problems in development of pediatrics in China. The general projects completion was good, and many projects obtained research achievements, which reflect the leading function of NSFC in pediatric research.

Within 3 year implementing of the project there was the contribution of 24 peer collaborators. In overall the peer collaborators had got rather low education, difficult economical condition, but they were active with rather high efficacy in the access of health education for female sex worker in community. Knowledge about HIV increased year by year with 62%, 89%, 95%. Fundamental knowledge about STIs also increased with 50%, 83%, 92%. The skills of communication was evaluated concurrently with the knowledge. The level of satisfaction through 3 years was 67%, 86% and 94% consecutively. The supply of condom was adequate consistantly.
HIV ; Education ; Economics

There are some new progresses including patient care, active change of attitude for patients, enhanced hospital regulation, strengthened medical equipment, elimination and eradication of serious and/or social diseases. The hospital network have had some limitations including complications in the treatment, attitude for patients, hospital management, overload of higher level hospitals, sewage disposal and income of health staffs. From which the study introduced 10 major solutions including organization, medical equipment, health economic management, drug supply and delivery, profession guidance, patient care and health staff's life.
Hospitals ; Economics, Hospital

This study introduced the health financial solutions to assure the equity and efficacy in the health protection and care, the financial resources (tax, health insurance, hospital bursar), the financial distribution (between geological regions) the health services, resource distribution and effective use of available financial resource and financial resource for poor
Health Care Sector ; economics

In order to develop internal force and economic practice, continuously regulate a management task, use safely, sensibly, economically drug in the hospitals and contribution on the pharmaceutical Branch of Vietnam. Ministry of Health have been had direction of number of 04/1998/CT-BYT dated April 3th 1998 with 5 contents.
Pharmaceutical Preparations ; Safety ; Economics

Humans ; Physicians ; economics