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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Healthcare policies"”.
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The fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa - the perceptions of men who have sex with men: about HIV/AIDS-related healthcare policies, services, and interventions targeting them
… the perceptions of MSM about HIV/AIDS related healthcare policies, services and interventions targeting them. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with MSM and key informants about HIV/AIDS responses targeted at MSM in South Africa. Findings show that MSM are generally unaware about …
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Returning to post-Katrina New Orleans: Exploring the processes, barriers, and decision-making of African Americans
… began, housing, employment, education, and healthcare policies in New Orleans changed. These institutional changes employed urban revitalization and poverty removal strategies adapted to disaster recovery. This study differs from previous research by examining these changes with an …
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Essays on Individual Incentives and Private Information
… inventory systems, revenue management and healthcare policies. The first model studies the impact of multilateral asymmetric information about inventories in a two-echelon inventory systems. The second model applies optimization techniques to solve a monopolist's revenue problem where the …
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"A Hospital Built By Them, For Them": The Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital Building Fund Campaign and the Evolution of Black Healthcare Traditions in Columbia, South Carolina
… of struggling against discriminatory funding policies and in-fighting within the black community, the city's two major African-American hospitals merged in the late 1930s to form the Good Samaritan-Waverly Hospital (GSWH) in hopes of building a new, state-of-the-art healthcare facility. As …
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Aggravating Factors, Migraine Severity, and Healthcare Access among UK South Asians: A Systematic Review
… health literacy, and structural inequalities in healthcare access contribute to disparities in diagnosis and treatment for this population. Methods: A systematic literature review was conducted using databases such as PubMed, EBSCOhost, ScienceDirect, and Google Scholar. A total of 10 studies …
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Implications of a Universal Healthcare System in the United States: Why Individual Health Is Now of National Concern
… paper explores the implications of these new healthcare policies in the United States, given that a universal healthcare system has already being put in place. More specifically, it explores the question "Does the new 'universal healthcare' system bring with it obligations for citizens …
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes-Related Healthcare Service Use in the United States, 2016–2020
… develop diabetes and its complications. Proper healthcare service use is important for reducing the prevalence of diabetes and the risk of complications. However, minority populations receive a lower quality healthcare service and have greater barriers to diabetes self-management. To get a …
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Assessing Organizational Systems Redesign In Improving Management and Patient Care: An Implementation Study
<p>Access to care and healthcare expenditure remain top tier priorities within several domains of population health, impacting Safety Net Hospitals in particular, and affecting a need to optimize care to meet systems and individual care needs, while operating under ever increasingly limited …
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The Perspectives of the Woman/Nurse/Executive Working in the Managed Care Environment of Southern California
… involve nursing education, nursing research, and healthcare policy. Nursing education needs to be revamped to adequately prepare nurses for the expanding nurse executive roles. Additional research which explores the personal and professional value shifts involved in shaping these new roles is …
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Essays on the impact of housing insecurity and other socioeconomic factors on health-related outcomes among Medicare beneficiaries during the Great Recession
… they have informed less of relevant housing or healthcare policies focused on preventing or mitigating the effects of housing insecurity during economic crises. In this dissertation, I drew from nationally representative Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data to evaluate the role of housing …
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Lymphoedema in a remote and rural area: An investigation into the prevalence of lymphoedema and its effect on daily living and quality of life in a remote and rural area in the far north of Scotland.
… of the condition is dependent upon knowledgeable healthcare professionals and patients, who are aware of the importance of self care and self management in the long term maintenance of the condition.<br/>The challenges for effective lymphoedema management may be exacerbated when the person lives …
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Intersex, discrimination and the healthcare environment : a critical investigation of current English law
… (and arguably for their parents) both in the healthcare environment and in society in general. It might have been thought that when the Equality Act 2010 was passed such discrimination would cease as, according to the summary of the Act, its two main purposes are to harmonise discrimination …
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Corporate Social Responsibility, Path Dependency and Cultural Influence: An Analysis of Equitable Health Insurance Schemes for Niger
… tend to encounter challenges in accessing good healthcare which could however be improved with health insurance. This thesis investigates the reasons for the low health coverage in Niger, in the perspective of proposing equitable schemes for attaining universal coverage. The study sheds light on …
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The Ethical Right to Healthcare in the Affordable Care Act
… Act, It has been questioned whether the right to healthcare in it can be ethically justified. The objection to a right to healthcare in general has been prominent over many decades in the U.S. The concern over higher personal taxes, quality care, and national debt steered the opposition. …
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Pursuing Medical Sanctuary in Philadelphia: An Ethnography of Care on the Immigration-Status Spectrum
… social and financial consequences when accessing healthcare in the US. Facing these risks head-on, they do the work necessary to ensure their friends, families, and communities receive medical care. Research at the intersection of linguistic and medical anthropology understands that work to be …
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Continuing professional development (CPD) for pharmacists: implications for professional practice
… practice. CPD is now mandatory for all UK healthcare professionals, including pharmacists. Pharmacists are required to undertake self-directed, unstructured learning, and can choose what they learn and how they learn it. However, some authors have recommended using a more structured …