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PHC Project (Primary Health Care) was introduced in 1981. This provides basic medical care to rural areas through hospitals and health centers. District Hospitals and Provincial Hospitals act as referral hospitals. The Philippines Department of Health has allocated 60% of its budget to the running of government hospitals. The government spends 40 million on pharmaceuticals, amounting to 16% of the Department of Health budget, but... 

Table 2 summarizes the settings of the studies included in this evaluation. The settings of most studies were university or community hospitals (n = 33 and n = 25, respectively). University-affiliated community hospitals and government hospitals were also common (n=12 and n= 10, respectively). Less common settings were ambu-... 

Government hospital " Pharmacotherapeutic monitoring To study effect of clinical RPh on health care outcomes 6.03 1... 

Doctors foun(j mainly in three settings in Japan. Private practices run by independent doctors are known as clinics as long as alley have 20 or fewer beds. Private hospitals have more than 30 beds, but are also owned and managed by the doctors who work at the facility. The remaining doctors work in hospitals run by universities or the government. Hospital-based physicians are salaried, while independent doctors are reimbursed on a fee-for-service basis, with fees determined by the government (163). 

In Sri Lanka, 700,(XX) kg a of pesticides ate imported to be used in food production. In 1986, pesticide poisoning was the 6th leading cause of mortality in major hospitals and accounted for 57% of hospital admissions [3]. Approximately 13,(XX) people a" present to government hospitals for treatment of pesticide poisoning (the number of deaths is around 1(X)0 a ). Among these, nearly 25% are occupational (V unintentional exposures. 

Government hospitals reported 4031 cases of pesticide poisoning between 1980 and 1987 (Philippine Daily Enquirer, June 1, 1994). Another report by the National Poisons Control and Information service listed 1302 poisoning cases between January 1992 and March 1993 in the National Capital region alone. 

In Thailand, the Division of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health has the primary responsibility of collecting poisoning data. However, these data rely on case reports of Government Hospitals and some private clinics and therefore the number of actual poisoning cases are assumed to be understated (Sinhaseni,... 

Present address - Nephrology Unit, Hillel Yaffe Government Hospital, Hadera, Israel. 

Institute of Endocrinology, Tel-Hashomer Government Hospital, Israel... 

The authors wish to thank Dr. B. Lunenfeld, Institute of Endocrinology, Tel-Hashomer Government Hospital (Israel), for the ultracentrifugal studies and for the diffusion constant determination. 

Department of Chemical Pathology,Tel-Aviv University Medical School,Tel-Hashomer, Rogoff-Wellcome Medical Research Institute, Beilinson Hospital,Petah-Tikva, and the Rehabilitation Center for Children, Asaf-Harofeh Government Hospital, Zrifin, Israel. 

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