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Showing 1 to 20 of 127 for “"Health care delivery"”.
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Technological change and health care delivery
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1996.
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Essays on health care delivery and financing
This thesis contains essays on health care delivery and financing. Chapter 1 studies the effect of organizational structure on physician behavior. I investigate this by studying emergency department (ED) physicians who work in two organizational systems that differ in the extent of physician …
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Certificate of need legislation in health care delivery.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1975
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Socioeconomic inequalities in Zambia's public health care delivery system
… taken to mean that individuals in equal need of health care should use the same amount of care, irrespective of their socioeconomic status. Using the above definitions, this thesis, examines equity/inequality in the utilization of public health care in Zambia. Concentration curves, concentration …
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South African medical practitioners’ experiences of the current health-care delivery system
… critical point in the debate about the future of health-care in the occupation-specific dispensation (OSD). It also faces the exodus of valuable human resources that was perceived as greener pastures, as medical practitioners become increasingly dissatisfied with governmental policy, wage …
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Using prediction to facilitate patient flow in a health care delivery chain
A health care delivery chain is a series of treatment steps through which patients flow. The Emergency Department (ED)/Inpatient Unit (IU) chain is an example chain, common to many hospitals. Recent literature has suggested that predictions of IU admission, when patients enter the ED, could be used …
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Evolutionary struggles of supply chain strategy in home-based health care delivery
As the healthcare industry in United States continues to be constrained by increasing costs, new delivery channels are coming into practice. One such channel is home healthcare. Home healthcare presents challenges on the basis of acceptability by the medical community, insurers and patients, …
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Factors influencing attraction and retention of registered nurses in a large health care delivery system.
… and retention of registered nurses in a large health care delivery system.
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Analysis of aspects of health care delivery and safety for space tourism and space passengers
Non-career space travelers from around the world will be venturing into space as commercial programs develop and mature. There are multiple forces promoting human suborbital and orbital flight, including; public interest and desire, market and financial drivers, technological advances, and a …
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Monitoring success of HIV/AIDS health care delivery : balancing donor requirements with internal management needs
Health care delivery organizations bear the burden of meeting monitoring and evaluation requirements set by numerous external organizations often at the cost of implementing internally defined management needs. Monitoring and evaluation in global health delivery has received increasing attention …
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South African health care practitioners’ experiences of the current health care delivery system in Uthungulu District
Health is a human need and considered to be a human right across all societies. Access to health care services is not a problem for those who can afford it, but, for those who cannot provide for themselves, legislation needs to protect their rights. Although there is legislation in place to protect …
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Uneasy Tensions in Health Care Delivery in a Rural Appalachian Coal Mining Community: Envisioning Alternative Solutions
… average. While the existence and extent of poor health outcomes for these "vulnerable populations" are well documented, less research attempts to explain why such inequities persist and how they might be resolved. Thus, many vulnerable individuals fail to get adequate health care. How can health …
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Health care delivery systems : using the MIT CCS proces handbok to create organizations for the 21st century
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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Colorectal cancer: a comparative study of models of health care delivery in two adjacent trusts in South Wales
… individual components of different models of health care in colorectal cancer, this is the first study comparing two models in their entirety. Hypothesis The distinct model of service delivery in Trust A picks up a higher percentage of early colorectal cancers than the model of service …
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The evolving health care delivery systems : applying the process handbook methodology to gain a vision of the future
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1995.
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OMB Circular No. A-76 : efficiency review : and performance measurement of the Department of Defense health care delivery system
… and organizational efficiency. The Military Health Services System (MHSS) has been notorious for its assumed inefficiency. This apparent "waste" gets attention when health costs go up as productivity trends downward when measured by the Composite Work Unit (CWU) . This thesis examines the CWU …
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Health system accountability and primary health care delivery in rural Kenya. An analysis of the structures, PROCESS, and outcomes.
Globally, health systems accountability and engagement are increasingly claimed to be vital means to improve services by providing mechanisms for potential beneficiaries to contribute to the design, implementation, and evaluation of service delivery. In Kenya, these have taken the form of hospital …
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Exploring nurses? experiences in community mental health care delivery during the covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative study in the Accra metropolis
Mental health care in Ghana recently shifted from a focus on institutional care to the inclusion of community-based care. This shift helped to broaden the scope of mental health care in the country through the establishment of community psychiatric units in most regional and district health …
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