MEASURING FINANCIAL PROTECTION IN HEALTH IN BRAZIL: CATASTROPHIC AND POVERTY IMPACTS OF HEALTH CARE PAYMENTS USING THE LATEST NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION SURVEY

This paper measures financial protection in health in Brazil by estimating the incidence and describes the profile of catastrophic expenditures and impoverishment due to household out-of-pocket (OOP) health spending.It uses the latest Brazilian consumption survey (POF 2017/2018) to analyze the composition of household health spending and applies tw

This study suggests 5 evaluation criteria (safety and technology, environmental impact, economic Sound meters feasibility, social factors, and institutional factors) and 24 evaluation indicators for a NFC (nuclear fuel cycle) derived using factor analysis.To do so, a survey using 1 on 1 interview was given to nuclear energy experts and local reside

Implantable electrical interfaces with the nervous system were first enabled by cardiac pacemaker technology over 50 years ago and have since diverged into almost all of the physiological functions controlled by the nervous system.There have been a few major clinical and commercial successes, many contentious claims, and some outright failures.Thes

Among various types of supernumerary nipples, intra-areolar polythelia (IAP) is an extremely rare congenital malformation.The authors report a case of a young woman with unilateral IAP on her right breast.The patient was 24 years Micro Switches old; she had had it since she was 5 or 6 years old, and it had enlarged 3 to 4 years before presentation