POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS ON THE BENEFIT BASKET OF NATIONAL SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE SCHEME IN SIERRA LEONE: A PROSPECTIVE VIEW

Background.The government of Sierra Leone introduced social health insurance (SHI) scheme to provide universal health coverage to people.This study was carried out to assess the population characteristics and their implications on the benefit basket of the proposed national health insurance scheme.Methods.A cross-sectional study design was employed

MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a kind of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) that regulate the expression of target genes and play a role in the occurrence and development of cancers.Colon cancer (COAD) is the second most common cause of cancer-related mortality.However, the prognostic EYEWEAR value of miRNAs in COAD is still confusing.In this study, we obtain miRNAs a

Abstract Background Although great progress has been made in treatment regimens, cervical cancer remains as one of the most common cancer in women worldwide.Studies focusing on molecules that regulate carcinogenesis may provide potential therapeutic strategies for cervical cancer.B7-H6, an activating immunoligand expressed by several tumor cells, i

Contemporary Next Generation Networks (NGN) are mainly built on the Internet Protocol (IP) and Ethernet.Major challenge for emerging types of wired Neon Indicator and wireless IP-based networks is to provide an adequate Quality of Service (QoS) for different services.The quality of evaluation requires a detailed knowledge of the performance require

Schizophrenia results in part from a failure of prefrontal networks but we lack full understanding of how disruptions at a synaptic level cause failures at the network level.This is a crucial gap in our understanding because it prevents us from discovering how genetic mutations and environmental risks that alter synaptic function cause prefrontal n