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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Healthcare interventions"”.
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Results-based financing: a means for enhancing healthcare interventions : the case of Argentina
… focus on performance and effectiveness of public interventions can be beneficial for addressing development goals ¬ setting the attention on health initiatives¬, especially in developing nations who face unfavorable budget constraints. We intend to provide insight to evaluate the potential role of …
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Circular Progress: Health and Healthcare within Albertan Indian Residential Schools, 1920 - 1950
… examination of nutrition, sanitation, disease, healthcare interventions, and mental health in the schools, it is seen that any “progress” the Department made in regards to the health of students was circular. Department officials used the inherent flaws in the system of school governance – which …
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On healthcare and healing - my inquiry into learning from giving birth too soon - learning from and for liminality
… in neonatal units and years of community-based healthcare interventions for my children, I turned to both action research and healthcare improvement as a path to self-recovery and contribution-making. I describe my starting point of traumatic challenges to my person as a ‘digging the ground …
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AI-assisted Development of Energy Harvesters for POCT
… specific pathogen detection, crucial for timely healthcare interventions. A key component of this research is the multipotentiostat, a PCB board design incorporating four AFE chips that perform potentiostat operations like cyclic voltammetry simultaneously, with capabilities for Arduino Nano …
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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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Implementing Total Quality Management Philosophy through Human Capital Development: An Exploratory Study of Selected Ready-Made Garment Establishments in Bangladesh
… an HCD framework integrating both learning and healthcare interventions has an explicitly positive nexus with TQM philosophy.
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Implementing Total Quality Management Philosophy through Human Capital Development: An Exploratory Study of Selected Ready-Made Garment Establishments in Bangladesh
… an HCD framework integrating both learning and healthcare interventions has an explicitly positive nexus with TQM philosophy.
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An explorative descriptive study of social and religious barriers affecting access of young black women to sexual and reproductive healthcare in Cape Town
… Black women's access to sexual and reproductive healthcare in Cape Town. Previous research studies have been conducted on barriers limiting access of women to sexual and reproductive healthcare. These studies are important as women have the right to be in control of their own healthcare …
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An Exploration of a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to Facilitate the Creation of Internet Interventions
… the increasing burden incurred due to rising healthcare costs. Healthcare interventions focus on the promotion of good behaviours; prevention of bad behaviours; provision of support for shared decision making; increasing knowledge and improving monitoring.<br/><br/>Healthcare researchers …
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Affective state recognition in Virtual Reality from electromyography and photoplethysmography using head-mounted wearable sensors.
… a range of applications, including education, healthcare, marketing, and entertainment. As the uses of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technologies are growing, there is a rapidly increasing need for robust affect recognition in VR settings. However, the integration of affect detection …
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Determinants of Health-Related Quality of Life in Arab American Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
… such as diabetes and needs to be considered by healthcare providers. It is one of the most important outcomes of healthcare interventions, representing an integral public health goal in Healthy People 2000, 2010, and 2020. Arab Americans (AAs), one of the most rapidly growing minorities in …
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Predictive Modelling Approach to Data-Driven Computational Preventive Medicine
… developing inexpensive predictive models from healthcare data to classify the potential occurrence of adverse health events. In particular, the data-driven methodology is founded upon a heuristic-systematic assessment of several machine-learning methods, data preprocessing techniques, models’ …
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A Distance-Based Clustering Framework for Categorical Time Series: A Case Study in Episodes of Care Healthcare Delivery System
… how compensation structures influence overall healthcare costs is a central issue in health economics. Episodes of Care (EoC) is a compensation structure that bundles payments for healthcare interventions that belong to a well-defined health event. Since the variation of clinical pathways can …
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Development, implementation and evaluation of harm reduction techniques for drug users.
… within health and social care state policies and interventions should be selected on the basis of evidence available to demonstrate their benefits. The provision of services for drug users is no exception to this. Harm reduction is a broad term used to describe drug policies and interventions that …
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Co-designing the inflammatory arthritis self-management (aiM) intervention.
… arthritis. The benefits of self-management interventions for people living with long-term conditions are well established. To date, most of the inflammatory arthritis self-management interventions have targeted only rheumatoid arthritis. Therefore, there is a need for a self-management …
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The Experiences of People with Schizophrenia or Shizoaffective Disorder in Accessing Non-Psychiatric Health Care
… accessing non-psychiatric health care services. Healthcare can be accessed upon a variety of levels such as primary care physicians, specialized physicians, or emergency services. For the purpose of this study, all three levels of entry to healthcare were considered and included. Doing so …
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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 …
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Targeting uptake of exercise-promoting structured patient education intervention: foundational research and process description of a discrete choice experiment to understand perceived intervention utility and design preferences for men with prostate cancer
… aspects of the design process for complex healthcare interventions, including the organisation of the various independent components and features of the interventions or how they are presented to the users, can influence their overall uptake and long-term sustainability. The discrete choice …
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Microbial, metabolic and molecular determinants of neonatal mortality in the rural areas of Limpopo Province, South Africa: umblical cord blood metabolomic profile and bacterial anaysis and their association with perinatal complications
… as significant contributors. Proactive healthcare interventions during antenatal care visits are crucial to minimize complications. Additionally, when looking at microbial analysis, there was no significant association between bacteremia and perinatal complications but highlighted a …
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Time series analysis for evaluation of antimicrobial stewardship interventions
… antimicrobials are used across the whole healthcare system including to support cancer chemotherapy, and organ transplantation. The use, including avoidable misuse and over use, of antimicrobials drives antimicrobial resistance. The World Health Organisation has described antimicrobial …
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