Until the start of the new century, efforts to strengthen health systems focused solely on the public sector and health programs overseen by public bodies. The private sector was sidelined in certain countries and even banned in others. At the same time, some private-sector stakeholders readily adapted themselves to this special situation so as to avoid becoming part of a structured health system.
This volume notes profound changes in health care around the world in two areas. The stakeholders involved in the health sector are increasing in number and diversifying as a result of the...
Until the start of the new century, efforts to strengthen health systems focused solely on the public sector and health programs overseen by public...
Until the start of the new century, efforts to strengthen health systems focused solely on the public sector and health programs overseen by public bodies. The private sector was sidelined in certain countries and even banned in others. At the same time, some private-sector stakeholders readily adapted themselves to this special situation so as to avoid becoming part of a structured health system.
This volume notes profound changes in health care around the world in two areas. The stakeholders involved in the health sector are increasing in number and diversifying as a result of the...
Until the start of the new century, efforts to strengthen health systems focused solely on the public sector and health programs overseen by public...
The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture and construction. This palace, built 2500 years ago in western Iran, lay at the centre of the Persian Empire that stretched from the Nile and the Aegean to the Indus Valley. First rediscovered in 1851, the palace of Darius was partly excavated over the next century. But it was only field research between 1969 and 1979 by the noted French archaeologist Jean Perrot which revealed the site's full dimension and complexity. Its bull-headed capitals,...
The palace complex of the Persian King Darius I, the Great (522-486 BCE), provides unique evidence of the sophistication of Achaemenid architecture an...
Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical -Wisdom- written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church: -For our time is a very shadow that passeth away-. From the young bachelor s -angry vow- to -live for himself and turn the key on his heart- in Watch and Ward (1871) to the decisive The Turn of the Screw (1898) and to the final -turning the tables- on -an awful agent- of the Apollo Gallery in the nightmare of A Small Boy and Others (1913), this refined -ambassador- of American letters, sharing some of the idiosyncrasies of...
Discovering Lamb House in 1896, Henry James fell under the spell of the words of Biblical -Wisdom- written on the tower clock of Rye parochial church:...
