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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Health care service"”.
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Potentially Traumatic Event Experiences and Health Care Service Use in Liberia
… events (PTE) is associated with increased health care service use. Information on patterns of health care use and expectations by this group of individuals can be useful for providing patient-centric care and improving health system accountability and responsiveness. Despite the necessity …
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Determining the Impact of Telehealth on Rural and Remote Health Care Service Delivery in Canada
There are disparities in health status and outcomes between rural and remote residents and their urban counterparts, and these disparities are caused in part by inequitable access to health services. For decades provincial and territorial decision makers have implemented numerous health human …
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Health, health insurance coverage, health care service utilization and family structure among children of immigrants
… may alleviate or exacerbate barriers to better health and health care among children of immigrants, whose families tend to be highly interdependent and reliant on family cohesion as a survival strategy to manage challenges associated with immigrant status, such as policy restrictions, legal …
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An evaluation of health-care service delivery in rural areas with specific reference to Ndengeza Township
… particularly the previously excluded groups. Health care system was one of the ear marked areas by the South African government for post-apartheid transformation. Resultantly, access to health care was declared a right and incorporated into the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa …
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Reach out and be healed : constitutional rights to traditional African healing
The introduction of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act 22 of 2007 has made lawful the practice of traditional healing. As everyone has the right of access to health care services, the question of whether the state bears a duty to reasonably provide access to traditional healing as an element …
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An investigation into the understanding of basic genetic inheritance amongst amaXhosa caregivers of patients with Haemophilia
… genetic inheritance among isiXhosa-speaking caregivers of patients with the genetic bleeding disorder haemophilia. Haemophilia A and B are X-linked recessive inherited, lifelong bleeding disorders that are caused by deficiencies in blood clotting factors. The condition predominantly affects …
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Change and Continuity of Yi Medical Culture in Southwest China
… to biomedicine and incorporation of state-run health care service into their own medical systems. This work provides a comprehensive ethnographic account of health care practices in the two communities. Throughout this research, I examine the cultural and historical discrepancies which …
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A Life Course Perspective on the Social Determinants of Multiracial American Health
Few studies provide data on the health of self-identified multiracial (two or more races) Americans. Subsequently, we know little about this population and existing health disparities. Three areas relevant to multiracial health include health status, health care service utilization, and health …
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A study of community genetics at Umlazi Township of KwaZulu-Natal
… and the ability of the present structure of health care services to provide necessary genetic service to this community. The study revealed that the health care practitioners who come in contact with clients or patients with genetic disorders encounter problems in rendering care to them. …
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Adapting the Lean Enterprise Self Assessment Tool for health care
… management, however applying this tool in health care organizations has been inhibited by language and underlying assumptions from product manufacturing. An adaptation of the LESAT specifically for health care is proposed. Review of the literature and special reports on health care are used …
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Reasons for attrition from a smoking cessation program.
… (QuitSmart) used by the North Texas Veterans Health Care Service (NTVHCS). The QuitSmart program utilizes the Stages of Change Model, with its focus on the last three stages (preparation, action, and maintenance). It was proposed that factors including shame-proneness, guilt, anger/hostility, …
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The experiences of readmitted mental health service users in a private in-patient treatment facility in Gauteng
Relapse and readmission in mental health is relatively common and occurs as a result of various factors. Acknowledging the role of mental health services in preventing this readmission is vital for appropriate programmes to be developed and implemented, which will adequately address the needs of …
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Trust and gender in patient-practitioner relationships
… the phenomenon of patient trust in primary health care providers. Using the qualitative methodology of Memory Work, this research draws largely on social constructionism to understand gendered 'lived' experiences of trust within the patient-practitioner relationship. The central question of …
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Effect of Intervention Program for Patients with Hypertension Registered in Home Health Care
… patients group under the customized visiting health care service and control group. It was performed by using nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The subjects for this study are registered hypertensive patients under the customized visiting health care service in S-city, …
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Are you sure we're talking about the same person? different professional perspectives on a single patient : challenges for an integrative approach within the primary mental health care system
… of placing intern psychologists in primary health care centres was introduced by the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Cape Town. This allowed interns the opportunity of experiencing and evaluating psychiatric services in situ at clinic level within the primary mental health care …
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Governmentality: Welfare, Health and Higher Education as Sites of Agency, Resistance and Identity
… and all examined aspects of public service delivery and use. Using Foucault's notion of governmentality, this body of research is concerned with questions of how we govern, and how we are governed, and with the relation between the government of ourselves, the government of others, …
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Value of contracting as an active purchasing mechanism of healthcare services : a South African case study
… purchasing is a way of ensuring that the healthcare interventions that are provided, improves the health systems responsiveness. Contracting for health services, as a component of strategic purchasing, has been promoted as an important mechanism to improve the efficiency of resource use, …
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Barriers to utilization of primary health care facilities by pregnant women during labour in Mopani District, Limpopo Province
Background: Facilities of primary health care were with intent to increase accessibility to health care services by communities in the facilities’ locality, with higher priority for previously disadvantaged communities. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine barriers to the utilization …
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The implementation and evaluation of a mhealth intervention to address secondary traumatic stress among frontline mental health care providers in South Africa
Providing mental health care to trauma survivors may lead to secondary traumatic stress (sts) amongst mental health care service providers (mhcps) and existing interventions for sts are labour intensive and have limited accessibility. in contrast, mobile health (mhealth) interventions offer an …
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