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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Rural health care"”.
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Job Satisfaction of Nurse Practitioners in Rural Health Care Settings
… have become an important part of the primary health care system. They provide quality health care in a productive and economical manner. These NPs have become a great asset to underserved areas including rural communities. However, attracting and retaining these health care professionals …
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Cardiology Implications of ED COVID-19 Patients in an Underserved Rural Health Care Environment
… 19 is an emerging, complex, and costly public health challenge globally with potential lifelong cardiovascular sequelae. Currently, there is a paucity of data on the incidence and treatment of cardiac implications related to COVID-19. The purpose of this study is to <strong>i</strong>dentify …
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Assessing and improving rational antimicrobial use in urban and rural health care facilities in Vietnam
… controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate a point of care (POC) C-reactive protein (CRP, a biomarker of inflammation) test in reducing unnecessary antimicrobial prescribing for patients with non-severe acute respiratory infections (ARI) and analysis of the economic impact and acceptance of this …
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The making of rural health care in colonial Zimbabwe : a history of the Ndanga Medical Unit, Fort Victoria, 1930-1960s
… surrounding a specific attempt to develop a rural healthcare system in south-eastern colonial Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) from the 1930s to the 1960s. Influenced by a combination of healthcare discourses and models, in 1930, the colony’s new medical director formulated the first …
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Rural Primary Health Care Providers' Response to Intimate Partner Violence and Survivors' Perceptions of Helpfulness
Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the health and mental health of many women in the United States, with some estimates projecting that one in three women will experience physical, sexual, and/or psychological abuse from a current or former partner during their lifetimes (National Intimate …
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Constructing colonialism: medicine, technology, and the frontier nursing service
… story of the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a rural health care delivery system established in Hyden, Kentucky in 1925. It is particularly concerned with examining the colonial construction of the organization created by the founder, Mary Breckinridge. This construction created a conceptual …
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Rural Based Multisector Health Care Alliances: Exogenous and Endogenous Factors Influencing Operational Components
… the commonly shared operational components of rural based multisector health care alliances that have been in operation for more than five years. The aim of the study was to design an evidence-based solution or tool to help rural based multisector health care alliances (MHCA) improve …
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Rethinking health care financing models: the case of Zimbabwe's health sector
… Zimbabwean context. It outlines the evolution of health systems thinking and health funding models over time to show the history and changing landscape of health care financing and their actors. General consensus is there is need to focus on results of health care investments against a background …
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The challenges in the capture and storage of digital information by rural clinics in Hammarsdale, KwaZulu-Natal Province
… capture and storage of patient information by rural health care clinics in Hammarsdale in KwaZulu-Natal. The study was supported by the Digital Curation Centre Life Cycle model and the primary aim of the study was to identify the nature and scale of the challenges faced in the capture and …
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Relocation of ORC to OR2
… project was to maintain safety and quality of care of obstetric (OB) patients undergoing Cesarean Sections (C/S) after operating room for cesarean sections (ORC) is relocated from obstetric unit to the main operating room (OR). The microsystem will accomplish this through effective teamwork, …
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Learning Needs and Barriers to Continuing Education Among Rural Montana Nurses
… and patient outcomes (Beatty, 2001). The rural population consists of residents who suffer from more chronic illness and seek health care services later. Health care provider shortages have plagued the rural health care system for over 30 years and are predicted to worsen with the national …
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Medical Underservice and Cancer Mortality Among Farmers in Illinois
A dominant theme in rural health care delivery has been the relative unavailability of physician services in rural areas. Although a nearly five-fold difference in physician to population ratio exists between urban and rural areas, little is known regarding the impact of this difference on health …
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Factors governing household access to key socio-economic facilities and their influence on education performance and healthcare seeking behaviour in rural communities of Malawi
… in the development of appropriate social and health policy interventions. Moreover, the current literature acknowledges that the lack of accessibility to basic goods and services deepens the isolation of rural households, undermining their opportunities to access socio - economic and basic …
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Rural Health Network Effectiveness: An Analysis at the Network Level
Residents of rural communities have poorer health status than people living in more populated areas. For example, The Urban and Rural Health Chartbook notes that the age-adjusted death rate among younger (1-24 years of age) persons who live in the most rural counties is 31 percent higher than those …
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Molecular characterization of human sapoviruses circulation in the rural communities of Limpopo Province, South Africa
… epidemiological studies of SVs from the rural based regions within SA, especially from outpatients reporting in rural health care centers. Objective: To determine the genotypes, characterize, and analyze a capsid protein of the detected human Sapovirus strains associated with diarrhoea in …
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Design of a prototype mobile application interface for efficient accessing of electronic laboratory results by health clinicians
… of the laboratory testing process. The National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) currently delivers lab results in three ways: via a physical paper report, and electronically through a web application. The third alternative is for short and high-priority test results, like human immunodeficiency …