THE ECONOMICS OF HEALTHCARE ACCESS: A SCOPING REVIEW ON THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF HEALTHCARE ACCESS FOR VULNERABLE URBAN POPULATIONS IN LOW- AND MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES

Abstract Background The growing urban population imposes additional challenges for health systems in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).We explored the economic burden and inequities in healthcare utilisation across slum, non-slum and levels of wealth among urban residents in LMICs.Methods This scoping review presents a narrative synthesis an

For curved shield tunnels in composite strata, the excavation face may undergo sliding failure due to the interface effect of soil layers, the over-excavation of shield cutterhead, and the asymmetrical thrust of jacks.Inspired by the silo theory, this paper establishes the calculation model and formula for the ultimate support pressure in the excav

This paper presents the installation The City [within] The Drawing, the conclusive piece in a series of four installations that engage in exploring the material and temporal limits of architectural drawing conventions.Consisting of both drawn and modelled elements, the installation brings together elements of the previous works in a cumulating tran

Holonic Manufacturing Systems are a new manufacturing paradigm.They are included into distributed methodologies and propose new manufacturing management schemes that combine self-organization, dynamic hierarchies and horizontal relationships.This approach is closer to manufacturing system nature than centralized or strictly traditional hierarchical

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