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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Healthcare provision"”.
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ESSAYS ON HOSPITAL REIMBURSEMENT AND QUALITY OF HEALTHCARE PROVISION
… provided to patients when providers compete for healthcare labor that is limited in supply. Cost payment systems fully reimburse a provider’s the total cost of healthcare provided, fixed reimbursements are predetermined at a fixed amount and mixed reimbursements have a cost and fixed component. …
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Healthcare provision in the Gambia : the role of health informatics
… revolutionising the way many organisations work, healthcare systems in The Gambia are very much lagging behind. No proper patient records or filing systems are in place. Delivery of effective healthcare depends on availability of routinely collected, good quality health data to provide useful …
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Adaptability, Creativity and Ingenuity in Disaster Education : Curriculum Challenges in Healthcare Provision
… on the education, training and preparedness of healthcare professionals for deployment to some of the most demanding and potentially dangerous areas of the world. Education action research forms the conceptual framework that underpins the articulation of this PhD by portfolio. This thesis …
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Dissecting the marketplace: The development of healthcare provision in nineteenth-century Portsmouth
A tri-partite system of healthcare provision prevailed in nineteenth-century England, with treatment available from a range of private, state and charitable providers. Each of these sectors has been studied in depth, but the relationship between them is poorly documented. Current thinking generally …
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Three Essays in Health Economics: Policy and Natural Shocks in Healthcare Provision and Patient Outcomes
… recent natural and policy shocks in health care provision on different patient outcomes. The first chapter studies the effect of the 2014 Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa on maternal health care utilization and infant health in Sierra Leone. The Epidemic resulted in the diversion of the …
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Designing and testing an experimental framework of affective intelligent agents in healthcare training simulations
… how emotionally enabled virtual agents (VAs) in healthcare provision training simulations allow for a more effective level of understanding on how an emotionally enhanced scenario can affect different aspects of learning. This is achieved by developing virtual agents that respond to the user’s …
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A symbiotic model for transforming public healthcare in New Zealand
Given the poor state of public healthcare in New Zealand, this study challenges researchers and practitioners to expand their conceptual repertoire beyond mere cost-cutting and piecemeal improvements to consider potentially transformative business models. It invites stakeholders to consider how …
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Healthcare Systems in Brazil and the United States: A Comparative Analysis
… proper building and administration of a strong healthcare system have been reasoned as a current challenge for professionals in charge of handling the variety of constraints existing worldwide. An array of issues related to ideology, cultural expectations, social values, and economic facets, to …
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The relationship between healthcare services and financial burden among families of children with autism spectrum disorders: A US perspective
… burden and coordination of care, quality of healthcare interactions, adequacy of insurance, and adequacy of medical insurance coverage</p> <p>RESULTS: Families of children diagnosed as having ASD reported higher financial burden as compared to other developmental disorders. The financial …
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Exploiting novel antibodies for the early detection of cardiac disease
… worldwide and is of huge economic importance in healthcare provision. The cardiac troponins are definitive indicators of cardiovascular disease and elevated levels of cardiac troponin I (cTnI) are highly-specific for cardiovascular damage. Using a specific targeting strategy, a panel of novel …
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Utilising Routine Population Healthcare Data for Epidemiological Research and Quality Improvement in Care: Application of a National Acute Kidney Alerting System as a Proof of Concept
… therefore considered an important goal for the healthcare sector. While improvement science states that without measurement, improvement is not possible, at the outset of this research, the epidemiology of AKI was also not fully understood. Whereas numerous studies had described AKI that is …
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Who Cares? the Role of Nursing Assistants in the Labor Process of Hospital Nursing
… professional status, and the reconfiguration of healthcare provision in the United States. The removal of LPNs from hospital nursing creates a clear division of labor between RNs and auxiliaries since, unlike LPNs, CNAs are unable to substitute for RNs. CNAs have been cross-trained to replace …
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Ageism in healthcare
… emotional and mental well-being. Ageism in healthcare can influence older adults’ access to screening opportunities, information sharing and treatment availability. With an increasing aging population, requiring access to a wide range of healthcare services, it is crucial to identify and …
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Loadshedding-related challenges experienced by nurses regarding the provision of health care services at selected Primary Health Care facilities in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… consumption, presents substantial obstacles to healthcare provision in South Africa, specifically in Primary health care facilities. The health sector in South Africa is heavily dependent on electricity to power medical equipment. When electricity is suddenly cut off during loadshedding, …
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A mixed-method exploration of the level of respect provided to women during childbirth at healthcare facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
… experienced by women during childbirth in Saudi healthcare settings. In the first qualitative phase, an overarching theme pertaining to women’s secure autonomy emerged. The Mother On Respect index (MORi) was culturally adapted, translated into Arabic and tested for validity and reliability in the …
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Digitale Geschäftsmodelle im Schweizer Gesundheitswesen: theoretische und empirische Analyse ihrer Wirkung auf integrierte Versorgung
… models as enablers of regional, cross-sectoral healthcare provision in Switzerland. The focus is justified by the digital transformation and the role of inpatient providers within multi-sided markets subject to high levels of regulation. This constellation has so far received only limited …
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Allocating healthcare resources on the basis of personal responsibility for ill-health: what role (if any) should public opinion play? A socio-ethical analysis
… responsibility for ill-health, and consequent healthcare need, should be a factor in healthcare priority-setting is increasingly debated. The adoption of such a principle within UK healthcare distribution policy would be both socially and ethically contentious. This study examines the concept …
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Strategies to facilitate the provision of quality healthcare services in public healthcare facilities in Limpopo Province South Africa
Introduction: Quality healthcare provision is a fundamental need in the life of a person since it helps develop a positive self-image. Healthcare has always been an important issue for society, both economically and culturally. Contrary, dissatisfactions and litigations laid by clients/patients and …
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Challenges in medical visualization: An interactive approach to explore the effect of 3-D technology on the visualization of pain
… and troublesome effort. In retrospect, the healthcare field is currently trying to enhance the available medical methods with alternatives that would be more efficient in providing accurate pain assessment. Most efforts revolve around traditional methods of measuring pain characteristics, …
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Healthcare Provider and Community Adult Knowledge and Beliefs about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
… (SGM) youth face discrimination and health/healthcare disparities in American society (Mustanski, Birkett, Greene, Hatzenbuehler, & Newcomb, 2014a). Researchers have demonstrated connections between discriminatory beliefs (e.g., homophobia), beliefs about environmental etiology of SGM, and …
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