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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Healthcare equity"”.
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Queering Healthcare Equity: Exploring How Two Community Health Centers That Specialize in LGBTQ Healthcare Frame Cultural Competence
… advocacy and funding, significant inequities in healthcare access, quality of care, and health outcomes have continued to persist for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ) communities. Intersecting marginalized identities such as race, gender, and disability compound …
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<b>Designing for Healthcare Equity: Implementation of Care Coordination within a Pediatric Healthcare System - </b><b>Application of Implementation Mapping</b>
… research studies the implementation of health equity-focused care coordination within the pediatric context of Children's Mercy Kansas City (CMKC). Employing a pragmatic paradigm, the study integrates action research and case study methodologies, leveraging both inductive and deductive …
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Assessing Academic Health Centers’ Readiness to Implement Social Accountability to Advance Health Equity
… dissertation examines how AHCs can advance healthcare equity by implementing social accountability (SA) into their structures, policies, and practices. research has significant implications for healthcare equity and social responsibility theory, practice, and policy.</p><p dir="ltr">This …
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HEALTH EQUITY IN PAIN MANAGMENT DURING THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC: HOW STEREOTYPES, RACISM, BIAS HARM VULNERABLE POPULATIONS
… crises. Additional oversight and inclusion of healthcare equity is needed to combat this unethical gap in patient care. There are numerous ways to create pain management equity, in terms of conversations around pain along with the proper distribution of pain medication, especially opiates. The …
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Parallel Processes of Posttraumatic Stress and Metabolic Dysfunction: Long-Term Costs of Trauma on the Psychological and Physical Health of 9/11 Survivors
… exposed to trauma and may help improve healthcare equity.</p>
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Migration and Health Systems performance in low- and middle- income countries
… (WHO) framed responsiveness, fair financing, and equity as the intrinsic goals of a health system. In line with this framework, we attempted to map existing research on migration and health system performance. A qualitative systematic review was conducted. We followed the processes indicated for …
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Fixing cracks in the US health system : addressing inefficiency and inequality with technology and transparency.
The United States (U.S.) healthcare system is the most expensive among developed countries, yet it faces persistent challenges. Primary issues include rising costs, inefficiencies, limited access to care, and pockets of poor-quality outcomes. This dissertation examines some critical cracks in the …
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An agent-based model of the emergency medical services system in Nelson Mandela Bay municipality
… most underprivileged communities, and enhance healthcare equity in the re gion. To achieve this, the research provides decision-makers in the Eastern Cape Department of Health (ECDoH) with a set of evidence-based recommendations for reducing response times, and improving the efficiency of staff …
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Equity in healthcare
… of cultural and racial identities with healthcare processes and outcomes. This thesis explores how these identities affect critical factors such as hospital stay duration, mode of arrival, and systemic biases, thus, contributing to inequities in emergency care. Employing a predictive …
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Optimizing Equity in Healthcare Access: An Integer Programming Approach to Emergency Department Closures and Travel Burden Disparities in Ontario
… this with multi-period planning and geographic equity mechanisms. Compared to ad hoc closures, TG-CpMP reduced affected DAs by 35–76% and lowered maximum travel times.
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Aproximación a la capacidad instalada de equipos de tomografia computarizada en Colombia
Este estudio se enmarca en el contexto de la creciente demanda de tecnologías médicas avanzadas, como la tomografía computarizada (TAC), en un sistema de salud que enfrenta importantes desafíos de equidad y acceso. La investigación se centra en evaluar la distribución y la capacidad instalada de …
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Outcome valuation in the economic evaluation of healthcare
Economic evaluation of healthcare interventions (such as pharmaceuticals, medical devices and technologies) considers both the effect of the intervention on patients, and the costs borne by the government and often the individual themselves. This simultaneous consideration of costs and benefits is …