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Showing 1 to 20 of 521 for “"Health Policy"”.
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Public Health Policy: An Ethical Analysis of Quarantine
<p>As a public health measure quarantine has both historical and contemporary significance both in the United States and abroad. On the surface it represents a low-cost, low-tech way in which the spread of disease can be mitigated as its core requirement is that those who may have been exposed to …
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Social patterns in knowledge evolution and health policy
… social patterns in knowledge evolution and health policy. Knowledge can be considered to be a network of interconnected concepts, hence, understanding its latent topological structure can reflect many facts about the evolution of knowledge. Here, we study the evolution of computing and …
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State Level Mental Health Policy Making Under Managed Care
The adoption of managed care in public mental health care programs at the state level was a relatively new development in state mental health policy during the 1990s. The introduction of managed care for public mental health occurred primarily through the use of Medicaid managed care waivers, but …
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Modelling longitudinal data on respiratory infections to inform health policy
… to prevent future outbreaks, by informing public health policies such as drug stockpiling, vaccination regimes or non-medical interventions. We investigate the use of statistical models to quantify burden of respiratory disease and evaluate effectiveness of public health interventions, while …
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Taking Care of Heroes: A Cultural Study of Health Policy Formation
This dissertation examines the formation of health policy as a cultural process in a large federal bureaucracy in the United States, namely the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The everyday experience of bureaucrats working in the VA is used to answer the question: why does the VA fail to meet …
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Informing public health policy and practice in populations with diverse needs
… is a gap between those with the best and poorest health, which has implications for the health outcomes of some of the most disadvantaged groups in the community. In this thesis, I present four applied research projects that were undertaken across a broad range of public health policy and practice …
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Understanding the formation of American mental health policy preferences, 1952-1981
… outpatient-centered, drug-based model of mental health care was physically feasible from the 1950s onward, with the introduction of thorazine and other first-generation antipsychotics. However, it was not until 1981, with President Reagan’s veto of the Mental Health Systems Act, that American …
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Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications
… hold immense potential for improving public health decision-making in complex, uncertain, and high-risk environments. Yet, there are several key challenges that stand in the way of successfully leveraging large-scale, heterogeneous, and noisy data into timely and actionable policy insights. …
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Multi-stakeholder study of the Malaysian mental health policy implementation within urban populations
Global studies investigating scaling-up of mental health services have highlighted mental health policy development and implementation as a priority area, especially in low- and middle-income countries. This research aimed to investigate Malaysia’s National Mental Health Policy (NMHP) development …
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Convergence or Consequentialism: A study of health policy towards drug users in two countries.
… changes which have taken place in the area of health policy towards intravenous drug users over the past two decades; the relationship between competing perspectives in policy and the impact of AIDS on that policy. To illustrate this, policy perspectives in two countries towards the provision …
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Paying the Price of War: United States Soldiers, Veterans, and Health Policy, 1917-1924
… eight turbulent years in the World War I era, policy makers, soldiers, and veterans laid the groundwork for the extension of government sponsored medical care to millions of former service members. In the process, they built a pillar of the American welfare state. Legislation and rehabilitation …
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A unified computational framework for modeling health policy adoption in complex real-world environments
The success of any large-scale policy intervention from public health campaigns to urban planning and economic policy ultimately depends on how individuals and organizations respond to these programs. This presents a fundamental and persistent challenge in predictive modeling of real-world …
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Participation of people with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa
… Africans with psychosocial disability in mental health policy development in South Africa? A systematic literature review (objective 1) addressed the question: ""What supports people with psychosocial disability to participate in national mental health policy development?"" The WHO Checklist for …
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Mental health policy outcomes: an examination of older adults' mental health service use, 2002-2012
The underutilization of mental health services (MHS) by older adults – and especially by racial/ethnic minority elders – is a well-recognized problem. Though several national-level mental health policies have been enacted and implemented over the past decade, rates of underutilization remain high. …
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Indigenous knowledges in health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand and Saskatchewan Canada: A comparative study
… of Māori words and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that engages Māori words and concepts resonates with Māori community values and aspirations and is thought to contribute to the revitalisation of Māori knowledges. Absent from the literature is an …
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Three essays on the effects of health policy on health care financing, demand, and provision
… dissertation evaluates the effects of a rural health insurance program in China and tort reforms in the United States. Rural residents’ health status, health-seeking behaviors, financial burden, physicians’ practices, and total hospitalization charges are discussed in the three chapters …
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