Factors Associated with Patient Waiting Time at a Medical Outpatient Clinic: A Case Study of University of Nairobi Health Services
Background: Excessive long waiting time in outpatient clinics in Africa is a constant challenge for patients and the health providers of these facilities. Prolonged waiting times are associated with poor adherence to treatment, missed appointment and failure or delay in initiation of necessary treatment. The time a patient spends at each service point before being attended to by a health provider and the overall total time a patient spends in a health facility from the arrival time to the dep...
The Actuarial Conditions for the Valuation of Pension Liability to Become Zero Under Minimum Funding Standard Architecture
Abstract Pension valuation exercises for a defined benefit scheme requires an appraisal of both the schemes assets and its liabilities in different circumstances. The valuations are required to comply with regulatory standards, most notably the minimum funding standard. The objectives of this study are: (i) to compute the estimate of minimum funding standard of pension liability (ii) to establish the actuari...
A Mathematical Technique of Computing Technical Provisions and Premiums in General Business Insurance Under the Influence of Chain-Ladder and Cape Cod Framework
ABSTRACT An insurance company promises its policyholders to pay out benefits if certain events occur, for example, events such as a car accident and health conditions. When this is happens, the insurance company has a liability to pay the claims by technical provisions or claim reserving. The calculation of claim reserving must be done carefully in such a way that it should not cause loss to the company. Two of the common methods to calculate technical provisions in non-life insurance are the...
CHM 101: Exams
1. Which of the following has a positive charge? 2. How many electrons are there in the valence shell of the O2– ion? 3. What is the formula of the compound formed between magnesium and oxygen? 4. Which one of the following statements concerning elements in the Periodic Table is correct? 5. Which one of the following species has the same electron configuration as Al3+ cation?
GST 103: Aspects of Culture
1. Taboos are part of the……………… of society. 2. The late Dr. Ladi Kwali was renowned for the art of…………………… 3. Culture is ……………………………. derived. 4. Sanctions within a society ensures………….. to laid down rules and regulations.
GST 103- Nigerian History
1. The two accounts of origin of the Igbo asserts that they came from 2. The Europeans were not happy with Benin because of the following, except 3. Which year was the British punitive expedition sent to Benin 4. The rulers of the Oyo Empire took the title of
GST 104: HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE/HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
On the simplest level, deined as the knowledge of the world of nature. Human investigative endeavour (HIE) whose object is the natural world and natural phenomena A tool developed and employed to interrogate the natural world However, science generally is viewed in three main ways as; i. A method for acquiring knowledge or studying and understanding the world. o The steps of that method includes; observation, problem deinition, hypothesis formulation, experimentation, conclusion and theory fo...
GST 104- Human Reproduction, Infertility and Abortions
For human to be formed there must be a man and woman. The man will produce the sperm and the woman the eggs.
PSB 100- Past Exam Questions
1. Discuss three modes of heterotrophic nutrition found in fungi a. With the aid of a diagram describe the alternation of generation in a moss plant b. Enumerate five characteristics of pteridophyta 2. Name four groups of algae with examples b. briefly describe the economic use of algae with examples
PSB 101- Gymnosperms
Gymnosperms are flowerless plants that produce cones and seeds. The term literally means naked seeds as they are not encased within an ovary. Rather they sit exposed on the surface of the leaf like structures called bracts
BASIC CONCEPTS OF LOGIC
WHAT IS LOGIC? Logic may be defined as the science of reasoning. However, this is not to suggest that logic is an empirical (i.e., experimental or observational) science like physics, biology, or psychology. Rather, logic is a non-empirical science like mathematics. Also, in saying that logic is the science of reasoning, we do not mean that it is concerned with the actual mental (or physical) process employed by a thinking entity when it is reasoning. The investigation of the actual reasoning...
Accounting concepts and conventions
Accounting concepts define the assumptions on the basis of which financial statements of a business entity are prepared. Concepts are those basic assumptions and condition which form the basis upon which the accountancy has been laid. Business entity concept This concept assumes that, for accounting purposes, the business enterprise and its owners are two separate independent entities. Thus, the business and personal transactions of its owner are separate. For example, when the owner in...
ACC 111- Introduction to Accounting
1. Accounting started in what year in Babylon? 2. Cost accounting is the subsidiary of _________ 3. List four users of accounting information in order of priority
Financial Acccounting
The prupose of financial accounting is to equip accounting proffessional with the knowledge of essiential framework of assumptions that underpun relaible skills to compile financial statements for sole traders.
GST 104: Physics
1. The first petroleum Company in Nigeria is __________ 2. Petroleum is made up of mainly 3. General studies programmes were adopted by NUC in ___________
