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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Health care utilisation"”.
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Women's and Men's Health care utilisation from a cost perspective
… of this thesis was to explore sex differences in health care utilisation and costs (i) in a region in Sweden, (ii) in treatment of dialysis patients across the region, and (iii) in the treatment of specified dermatological diagnoses at an outpatient specialist clinic. Data were retrieved from …
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Analysis of equity in the pattern of health care utilisation in South Africa
The study seeks to assess South Africa’s health care utilisation pattern in the post apartheid era. This is based on the equity driven policy objectives of the health care system that were meant to have impact on individuals’ health care utilisation patterns. A framework of factors influencing …
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Health care utilisation in Estonia: socioeconomic determinants and financial burden of out-of-pocket payments
Käesolev uuring annab esmakordse ülevaate tervishoiuteenuste kasutamise mustritest, sotsiaal-majanduslikest erinevustest teenuste kasutamisel, omaosaluse osatähtsusest leibkonna kuludes ja omaosalusest tingitud finantskoormustest Eesti tervishoius. Sotsiaal-majanduslikke erinevusi tervises on …
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The effect of health insurance on health care utilisation among people with non-communicable diseases in Zambia
… with inequalities in NCDs and access to NCDs care persisting. Evidence suggests that these inequalities can be reduced by an effective health insurance system. Health insurance may also improve quality of care through improved finance but also by reducing out of pocket payments. Thus health …
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The effect of health insurance on health care utilisation among people with non-communicable diseases in Zambia
… with inequalities in NCDs and access to NCDs care persisting. Evidence suggests that these inequalities can be reduced by an effective health insurance system. Health insurance may also improve quality of care through improved finance but also by reducing out of pocket payments. Thus health …
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Population Level Burden and Inequities in Maternal Health in Zambia
Inequities in access to and utilisation of maternal and child health services pose significant challenges to overall health improvement. Despite the preventable nature of most maternal and child deaths, these challenges persist - leading to poor maternal and child health outcomes. Compared to …
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Population Level Burden and Inequities in Maternal Health in Zambia
Inequities in access to and utilisation of maternal and child health services pose significant challenges to overall health improvement. Despite the preventable nature of most maternal and child deaths, these challenges persist - leading to poor maternal and child health outcomes. Compared to …
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Country of birth and socioeconomic disparities in utilisation of health care and disability pensions - a multilevel approach
… same country may present a related pattern of health status and health care utilisation, perhaps because they share a number of socioeconomic and cultural characteristics in addition to their common geographic origin and language. Rather than using simple ethnical or geographical categories, we …
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Rapid versus slow rate advancement of feeds for enterally fed extremely low birth weight infants < 1000g: randomised controlled trial
… has on the incidence of; NEC, mortality, growth, health care utilisation and other morbidities in very low birth weight (VLBW) and extremely low birth weight (ELBW) infants. 2. To establish the safety and efficacy of commencing enteral breast milk feeds at 24 ml/kg/day on the day of birth and …
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A prospective investigation of cognitive-behavioural models of irritable bowel and chronic fatigue syndromes: implications for theory, classification and treatment
… cases had higher levels of disability, but not health care utilisation. Finally, when subthreshold cases of IBS and CFS were compared to their diagnosed counterparts, on the whole they did not differ with regard to the psychological risk factors, disability or health care utilisation. These …
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The impact of costs and perceived quality on utilisation of primary health care in Tanzania : rural-urban comparison
Health services utilisation, which is sometimes used as a proxy measure for equity is a complex subject to study. Identifying and explaining the important factors determining health care utilisation is a key to a better assessment of whether countries' health policies address the equity concerns of …
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Scaling up ART in Rwanda: the financial and economic costs
… on data from 3,310 patients in 3 ART sites. The health care utilisation and cost data obtained, supplemented by appropriate secondary data, were used to estimate the cost perpatient period and lifetime costs. These were then used to model the costs of scaling up and to explore the financial …
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Factors that affect the utilisation of primary health care services: perception of community in selected villages of Sekhukhune District, South Africa
Primary Health Care utilisation and the quality of health care delivery globally have recently been regarded as poor, more especially in the developing countries. In South Africa 84% of the population depends on the government health care system. The South African health system has adopted the PHC …
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The diagnostic pathway to a surgical lymph node excision biopsy service in a HIV and TB endemic region in a Western Cape Tertiary Institution
In the HIV/TB endemic public care setting of the Western Cape, diagnostic consideration of patients with persistent lymphadenopathy is focused towards extra- pulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB), more than other infectious or malignant causes of lymphadenopathy. We investigated patients consecutively …
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Factors influencing access to emergency obstetric care amongst women seen in one of the tertiary health facilities in Delta State, Nigeria
… Historical evidences indicate that maternal health care by a skilled birth attendant is one of the key strategies for maternal survival. However, the rate of maternity care utilisation and reduction of maternal death is very low in Nigeria. This study was designed to investigate factors …
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A Comparison of cardiac rehabilitation versus standard care in elderly patients with heart failure
… findings suggest that enhancement of self-care through education, optimisation of pharmacological therapy, exercise training, lifestyle modification and counselling improves patient outcomes and reduces hospitalization. Cardiac rehabilitation, a service that incorporates all the …
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Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam
… measure the impact of the Vietnamese Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) programme on out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of health care after correcting for care-seeking and insurance-seeking self-selection biases; 2) to measure the effect of the VHI programme on socioeconomic-related inequality in …
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Neonatal mortality in developing countries: an analysis of trends and determinants
… mortality, and more specifically how health care variables are associated with deaths in the first month of life. In particular the association between care at delivery and neonatal mortality is difficult to determine: in developing countries many women only seek skilled care once …
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Alcohol income and health: a complicated but desirable mix
… The possible impact of alcohol consumption on health status and health care utilisation is also examined. Potential endogeneity and selection bias is accounted for throughout. Endogeneity is where an independent variable included in the model is determined within the context of the model …
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REPRODUCTION AND CHILDBEARING HEALTH: REAL-WORLD EVIDENCE FROM ADMINISTRATIVE DATABASES
… sociological challenges requires comprehensive health and public policy action. Objectives. The main objective of this work was to monitor reproductive and childbearing health. The various projects identified conditions and factors affecting the health of children and mothers from an …
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