Further, that access to diagnostic services in the initial phase was slow or rationed, resulting in patients not obtaining timely cancer investigations.
It also represents a huge gamble by AOL, once a commanding presence as the US's dominant internet service provider in the initial dotcom boom of the 1990s, and the subject of a disastrous merger with Time-Warner in 2000 that was eventually unwound in 2009.
This led to a lack of trust and resistance from service providers in the initial phases.
This article aims to contribute to the evidence available to SRH policy-makers and programs in the Philippines and elsewhere, reporting findings of in-depth interviews and focus group discussions conducted with SRH service providers in the initial phase of a three-year participatory action research program in the Philippines.
Fewer than half the services participating in the initial workshops were engaged actively by a CIEIS link worker during the following year (due to unwillingness to prioritise further time for this from community organisations, and possibly also to a lack of assertive engagement by busy CIEIS clinicians in the absence of a clear, positive initial response from the services they contacted).
Educational attainment was significantly associated with the use of reproductive healthcare services in both the initial and follow-up phases except for PNC visits in the follow-up phase.
Virgin will be the first customer to put the four-engine long-haul Airbus A340-600's in service, with the initial commercial flight on the New York- to-London route set for later this month.
The difference between the two types of ventures – one is social entrepreneurship and the other social service – isn't in the initial entrepreneurial contexts or in many of the personal characteristics of the founders, but rather in the outcomes.
However, the computer log data shows that the e-appointment service is still in the initial knowledge stage of the innovation-decision process, and only the 'innovators' in the patient population adopt and continuously used this innovation by the end of the field study.
While medical services were vital in the initial aftermath following the earthquake, prolonged availability of free aid-based program and services greatly undermines existing infrastructure (Schwartz 2008).
