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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Healthcare policy"”.
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Cultural Competency in Healthcare Policy: Pursuing Elder, African-American Diabetics as Stakeholders in Successful Treatment
Healthcare agencies and researchers identify several areas in which healthcare disparity affects elder, African-American diabetics including higher rates of diagnosis, higher limb amputation, increased kidney failure, and stroke. While the disparities have been documented, elder, African-American …
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
… States repeatedly failed to achieve universal healthcare reform and infamously maintains its hybrid public-private system to this day. Scholars of comparative politics have produced numerous competing accounts of the conditions under which health care policy change occurs and explanations for …
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Using the health policy triangle framework to describe local, regional and national healthcare policy changes within Ireland's diverse healthcare settings
… thesis was inspired by Walt and Gilson’s health policy triangle (HPT). The HPT model is a policy analysis framework universally used and applied in the literature to analyse various health-related issues, mainly at national or international level. Robust research is required to seek a greater …
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Computer, MD
Clinical decision support is an emerging type of healthcare information technology that aims to actively guide doctors' decision-making processes. In its various forms, it can help physicians design treatment regimens, regulate dosage, avoid potentially harmful drug interactions and allergies, …
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UNDERSTANDING THE GENDERED EXPECTATIONS AND EXEMPTIONS EXPERIENCED BY MALE DOUBLE DUTY CAREGIVERS: A QUALITATIVE SECONDARY ANALYSIS
… The study findings have direct implications for healthcare policy and practice, research, and theory development.
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Understanding The Positive Correlates Of Veteran Suicide: A Review And Call For Research
… B.C., especially when it comes to making federal healthcare policy decisions. The Veterans Administration is facing an epidemic amongst its veteran population and is looking for novel ways to ensure “no solider is left behind” despite a complex data structure that makes it hard to extrapolate …
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User-perceived effectiveness and safety of paediatric complementary and alternative medicines: perspectives from international, British and local Scottish outcomes studies.
… light of the current patient-centred approach to healthcare delivery, this research investigated the effectiveness and safety of paediatric complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs) from the users' perspective in order to generate suitable data to inform healthcare policy and planning. The …
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Mapping healthcare information technology
In this thesis I have developed a map of Healthcare Information Technology applications used in the United States for care delivery, healthcare enterprise management, clinical support, research and patient engagement. No attempt has previously been made to develop such a taxonomy for use by …
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Intersecting Inequities: Latinx Access To Mental Health Services
… factors simultaneously. Implications for healthcare policy and service delivery are discussed, emphasizing the need for culturally responsive and linguistically appropriate mental health services.</p>
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Beyond nature and health: do the benefits of nature extend from health to healthcare spending and opioid-related mortality?
… are in large part determined by health status: healthcare spending levels and opioid-related mortality rates. These studies employed an ecological and cross-sectional study design with counties in the United States with data from federal agencies in a series of geospatial regression models. The …
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Optimizing drug formulary decisions for the antiretroviral treatment of HIV-1 infection : a treatment outcomes maximization approach based on stakeholder objectives and preferences
… facilitate formulary decision making and guide healthcare policy in satisfying multiple therapeutic objectives representing an acceptable level of healthcare outcomes to be achieved with respect to the values and preferences of stakeholders. Multiattribute decomposition measurement and …
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Is Conflict a Factor in a Population's Quality of Life? A Comparative Study of University Students in the Palestinian Territories and Jordan
… particularly in their ability to contribute to healthcare policy recommendations in war-affected areas, and to bolster our understanding of the health status and needs of those living in these areas.
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Developmental outcomes of small infants at a South African high-risk follow-up clinic : a short-term longitudinal study
… contributes valuable insights for caregivers, healthcare policy developers, and early intervention practices, underlining the critical need for ongoing support for small infants from an early age.
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The Construction of Care in Computed Tomography. Exploring Care from the Perspective of Patients and Radiographers
… the ‘patient voice’ are core components of UK healthcare policy and practice guidance. This study explores how care is perceived and experienced within the high technology environment of CT. Methods and Materials: A two-phase approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and adapted Grounded …
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Standardizing Injustice in Transition-related Medicine?: An Institutional Ethnography of How Assessment Protocols Coordinate Inequitable Access to Hormones and Surgeries in Canada
… and analyzing pertinent assessment protocols and healthcare policy texts. My dissertation makes three substantive contributions to the areas of public health, trans studies, and health professions education research. First, I show that standardized readiness assessments previously understood as …
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Accuracy In Reporting Of Kentucky Certified Nurse-Midwives As Attendants In Birth Registration Data
… certificate data is used nationally to determine healthcare policy, allocation of funds, and to demonstrate the legitimacy and value of Certified Nurse-Midwives (CNMs) in maternal and neonatal outcomes. However, the validity of birth certificate data is questionable, in part because of the data …
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Narratives of brain injury and self-management after hospital discharge
… as prioritised in contemporary Western healthcare policy, generally focus on biomedical aspects of managing a condition that is constructed as a separate entity from the rest of a person’s life. However, uncertainties in supporting self-management for long term conditions like traumatic …
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Facilitation of the Gold Standards Framework Programme for End-of-Life Care in Care Homes : A Mixed Methods Study.
… care interventions is promoted within English healthcare policy to improve care delivery within different settings. How these interventions are best implemented is less clearly promoted. The role of facilitation in the implementation of one end-of-life care initiative, recommended by the …
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A study of the social causes of over-medication in China
… of over-medication (over-prescription) in the healthcare system and seeking to explore how the interacting powers of government, the pharmaceutical industry and the medical profession relate to the phenomenon of prescription drug over-use. The study has mainly used documentary and interview …
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Gay men and suicidality : an exploration of the significant biographical experiences fore-grounded during childhood, adolescence and early adulthood of some gay men who have engaged in suicidality
… among the homosexual population. Whilst current healthcare policy in England is concerned with suicides among young people, the importance of research findings relating to gay people and their mental health needs are often not acknowledged. Additionally, addressing the problem through a public …
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