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Showing 1 to 20 of 60 for “"Health Care Policy"”.
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Explaining Radical Change in Ghanaian Health Care Policy
… the causes of welfare state change, including health care reform, emphasizes stability, yet there is evidence of remarkable changes taking place in welfare systems in much of the developing world. This study analyzes health care reform in Ghana, a country which has experienced significant …
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The Integration of Health Care Policy in Medical Education
… do not include introductory courses on various health care policy topics. The 2005-2006 U.T. Southwestern Congressional Health Care Fellowship activities are examined in this thesis, including Avian Influenza, the Ryan White Care Act reauthorization, and Massachusetts Health Care Reform Plan. It …
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Community health decisions: An analysis of a grassroots venture into citizen participation in health care policy prioritization issues
Health care policymaking has been largely a closed system in which policymaking experts, special interest groups, and politicians have joined forces to decide what was best for the health care of the American people. This system has been shortsighted leading to severe long-range consequences on …
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INTEREST GROUPS IN RESPONSE TO THE OBAMACARE: THE CHANGING ORGANIZATIONAL FIELD OF HEALTH CARE POLICY IN THE UNITED STATES
This dissertation explores the health care policy organizational field in the United States (U.S.) and its changes due to the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). In particular, this study provides the interest groups’ role in the ACA’s evolution process. The ACA …
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Hearing health care in the United States: A multi-scale spatial & political economic analysis of health care policy and access to audiology services
This project addresses hearing health care workers (audiologists) in the United States and the ways that structural, top-down pressures shape their spatial behavior and practice, which cumulatively affects the availability and accessibility of their services at multiple scales. Hearing loss is the …
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Improving access to maternal health care beyond health care policy: pregnant women's experience of maternal public health care services in Cape Town, South Africa
Unequal access to maternal health care continues to be a concern in South Africa despite the efforts of government and health practitioners to make the system more inclusive and accessible to all women, especially for women who have been previously disadvantaged prior to and during Apartheid. …
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Illinois Legislative Policy-Making: A Qualitative Study Exploring the Social Construction of Health Issues Related to Women
… of how each can apply to the study of women's health issues. Implications of the results can help improve the public health community's ability to predict, and perhaps more effectively influence, the future direction of health care policy at the state government level.
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Essays in the efficient provision of health care: Temporal issues in childhood immunization policy
One of the main targets of health care policy reform is the underserved population. Among this group are preschool children who are not adequately immunized. In the United States, childhood immunization rates for children aged 2 are low by global comparison. In response to goals of a 90 percent …
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United Kingdom National Health Services: a case study of workforce transformation in an integrated care organisation using actor-network theory
… changes including the most recent one; bringing care as close as possible to patients home have affected the services provided as well as those who provide them. One of the local acute health care organisations has chosen to integrate with the community and primary care services in response to …
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The demand for health care services in Nigeria : a nested logit model
… understand better the factors that influence the health care demand decisions of Nigerian households. The achievement of this objective involves the estimation of the parameters of the demand for health care services in order to understand the nature of health care choices that Nigerian households …
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Political Awareness and Public Opinion on Health Care Reform
… public opinion, especially on contentious policy issues such as health care reform. Political information from elite discourse is often partisan in nature, which shapes citizens’ attitudes toward policy issues. Citizens who are politically aware process political information differently …
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Exploring the influence of culture on diabetes self-management: perspectives of Gujarati Muslim men
… Similarly, and in contrast to current health care policy, which frequently perceives self-management as a set of interjected behaviours, self-management was perceived as the ways in which the man chooses to incorporate his diabetes into the totality of his life. The synthesis of the …
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A study of the hypertension-related knowledge, awareness and health behavior among hypertensive patients of Cambodian
… the relationship among knowledge, awareness and health behavior of the patients with hypertension in Cambodia. METHODS: A cross – sectional correlation descriptive survey was done with the 180 hypertensive patients in the two urban areas in Cambodia. Close end questionnaires were analyzed using …
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Application Of The Green House Model To The U.s. Geriatric Veteran Population
… to serve the nation and deserve excellence in care. The Green House concept is a culture change model, with a goal to change not only the physical setting for residents, but to also create an environment to improve holistic outcomes. There are only three states in the Veterans Affairs (VA) …
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Regional Inequalities in Mortality in Bulgaria // Регионални неравенства в смъртността в България
… differences can be used while making regional health care policy decisions. Aims: To measure regional differences in age-standardized mortality rates from all causes of death, from Class II, IX, X, and XX and different specific causes of death for all 28 regions in Bulgaria for the period …
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Patient Access to Medical Information: A Multi-Perspecitive Study
Recent U.S health care policy emphasizes increased patient access to medical information to empower patients and improve quality of care. However, little is known about what access should consist of, how these systems will impact patients and physicians, and whether their use leads to better …
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Public participation in health care decision-making : the Canadian experience
Public participation in the policy process is being encouraged, is happening more frequently and is more valued. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in the area of health care. Canadians are becoming more involved in the health care decision-making process. They are taking a more active role …
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
… historical tracks to developing their respective health care systems. While Canada incrementally developed a system of universal coverage through national public insurance, the United States repeatedly failed to achieve universal healthcare reform and infamously maintains its hybrid public-private …
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Understanding of Coronary Heart Disease in South Asian Migrant Men in the UK
… their understanding in the context of current health care policy • To suggest ways to provide culturally sensitive health promotion programs to these groups A phenomenological perspective using qualitative research methodology and focus group interviews were used to obtain a more precise and …
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