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11	Quantitative determinants of need and demand for primary care in the district of Columbia Andoh, Jacob Yankson 08 May 2015 (has links) This study, quantitative determinants of need and demand for primary health care in the District of Columbia (DCPC), analysed data over a twenty-year period from 1985 to 2004, on need and demand for primary care using standard and epidemiologically innovative statistical measures for physician distributions and socio-demographic characteristics in the District of Columbia (DC). The study attempted to answer the question: Using U.S census-based small area aggregations, Census Tract Groupings (CTGs), that are not zip-code areas or legislative/political boundaries, can a multivariate predictive model be developed using physician distributions, primary care service index (PCSI) and composite need scores (CNS) to explain variations in primary care visits shortages? Primary care visits shortages and priority scores (PCPS) were calculated, analysed and presented for CTGs in the District of Columbia from 1985 to 2004. Results indicated that the abundant supply of DC-based physicians – indicated by decreasing population per physician ratios of 239 (1985) to 146 (2004) – appear to be a long-term trend. As raw physician counts increased, the ratio of satisfied visits to demand decreased, from 2.62 (1985) to 1.80 (in 2004). This result appears to indicate that, due to inequities in distribution of primary care physicians in DC’s small areas, the increasing numbers of primary care physicians were by themselves, not sufficient to address the city’s overall primary care visits need. Epidemiological profiles and physician distribution analytical methods appear to be useful for small area analysis of urban primary care shortage areas and for setting priorities. Physician rates per 1,000 pop may be a necessary but not sufficient statistic for estimating urban primary health care needs / Health Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies) Primary care Need methodology Census tract grouping Physicians distribution Primary care service index Composite need score Primary care priority score Potential demand Satisfied demand Primary care visits shortage Primary care planning 362.109753
12	Family deceased estate division agreements from old Babylonian Larsa, Nippur and Sippar Claassens, Susandra Jacoba 11 1900 (has links) In most cases in a deceased person’s estate, there are problems with co-ownership where more than one family member inherits the deceased family estate assets. To escape the perils of co-ownership the beneficiaries consensually agree to divide the inherited communallyshared asset/s. This agreement can take place immediately after the death of the family estate owner or some time later regarding some or all of the said assets. On the conclusion of the division agreement, the contractual party who receives the awarded assets enjoys sole ownership and the other contractual parties by agreement retract their ownership. In a jurisprudential content analysis of forty-six recorded family deceased division agreements from Old Babylonian Larsa and Nippur, essential elements are identified which are the framework and qualification requirements for a family deceased division agreement. Within this framework the concepts, terms and elements of the agreement are categorised as natural and incidental elements, which reflect the specific law traditions and choices of contractual parties and show the unique scribal traditions in the different Old Babylonian city-states of Larsa, Nippur and Sippar. The aim of the study is to shed a more focused light on the interpretation of recorded Old Babylonian division agreements and to show that the division agreement was a successful, timeless, estate administration mechanism and tool to obviate any undesirable consequences of co-ownership of the bequeathed property. / Biblical and Ancient Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Ancient Near Eastern Studies) Ancient Near Eastern Law Mesopotamian Law Old Babylonian Law Cuneiform Studies Division agreements Redistribution agreements Partition agreements Allotments Inheritance share Inheritance Co-ownership Preference share “First-born” share “Heart is satisfied” “From straw to gold” Cuneiform agreements Old Babylonian contracts Mesopotamian contracts Methodology 340.535 Law, Assyro-Babylonian Law, Ancient -- Sources Contracts -- Iraq Inheritance an succession -- Iraq Cuneiform inscriptions Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634

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Quantitative determinants of need and demand for primary care in the district of Columbia

Family deceased estate division agreements from old Babylonian Larsa, Nippur and Sippar