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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"chronic conditions"”.
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Essays on the Long-term Effects of Childhood Chronic Conditions
… the long-term implications of childhood chronic conditions (e.g., physical, mental/developmental) on health and socioeconomic outcomes in young adulthood. Across three studies, I address issues pertaining to underlying mechanisms, sources of heterogeneity, and comparatively examine the …
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Telemonitoring for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions in Nurse-led Integrated Care
Patients with complex chronic conditions (CCC) represent a significant challenge to the Canadian health care system. The heterogeneity of patients with complex and multi-morbid conditions does not align with current models of care delivery. The system of health care delivery in Canada is built on a …
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Insurance Choice And The Demand For Prescription Drugs Among Individuals With Chronic Conditions
<p>This study explores insurance choice of the chronically ill non-elderly adults and their utilization and expenditures on prescription drugs. Discrete factor model is used to estimate an individual's probability of any drug use and the conditional level of utilization and associated out-of-pocket …
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EXERCISE AND NON-PHARMACOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE METABOLIC HEALTH AND WELL-BEING IN CHRONIC CONDITIONS
… and in individuals affected by various chronic conditions. Type, timing, intensity and frequency of exercise are important to warrant adherence and to optimize results in subjects affected by metabolic and other chronic diseases. Cryostimulation is currently seen as a potential adjuvant …
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Creating a Patient-Generated Health Data Visualization System for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions
Many patients collect health data at home, which supports their engagement in managing their health. The patient-generated health data (PGHD) can provide physicians with a clear view of a patient's condition between appointments, but limited appointment time makes summarized information necessary. …
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Socioeconomic Status and the Management of Chronic Conditions: Implications for the Socioeconomic Gradient in Health
The second chapter of my dissertation reveals large and statistically significant income and race disparities in patient adherence to various components of the diabetes treatment regimen. The mechanisms largely responsible for these disparities are differences in patients' education levels and gaps …
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Examining the Role Dietary Habits Play with Food Access, Stress, and Chronic Conditions Among African-Americans
African-Americans experience higher rates of chronic conditions, are more likely to live in low food access communities and not adhere to dietary recommendations. Limited research analyzes African-American adults’ diet and food access by specific neighborhood. This thesis, a secondary data …
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Assessment of health literacy as a part of a university medication therapy management program for patients with chronic conditions
… than ever, pharmacists are helping patients with chronic conditions manage their diseases through the use of medication therapy management programs. As a part of these programs, it is important that pharmacists are aware of what affect their patients' health literacy level may have on health …
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Distress or eustress – understanding the role of self-regulation in the context of leisure among older adults with chronic conditions
The student, Jaesung An, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-20 at 07:44.
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Egészségügyi technológiák gazdasági elemzése krónikus betegségekben: lehetőségek és kihívások Magyarország számára = Economic evaluation of health technologies in chronic conditions: Challenges and opportunities for Hungary
A disszertáció három önálló, de egymással összefüggő kutatási kérdést dolgoz fel az egészség-gazdaságtan szakterületén belül. (...)
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Evaluation of Differences Between Pediatric and General Emergency Departments in Rate of Admission and Resource Utilization for Visits by Children and Young Adults with Complex Chronic Conditions
… visits by children and young adults with complex chronic conditions Design: Cross-sectional study using data from the 2008 Nationwide Emergency Department SampleSetting: Stratified sample of U.S. hospital-based ED visitsParticipants: Visits by pediatric-aged patients aged 0-17 years of age and …
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Living with a Chronic Condition: Perspectives of College Students at a Public Institution of Higher Education
<p>Chronic conditions are ongoing, have a pattern of recurrence or deterioration, and produce consequences impacting an individual’s quality of life. An estimated 164 million Americans are expected to be affected by chronic conditions by the year 2025 (Partnership to Fight Chronic Disease, 2016). …
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Obesity and Health Status among Urban vs. Suburban Elderly in Philadelphia and Surrounding Counties
… that there is an association between obesity and chronic conditions such as cardiovascular disease, arthritis, cancers, and type-2 diabetes. According to the Centers for Disease Control, chronic health conditions affect 80% of all elderly persons, many times limiting function and decreasing …
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Patient perspectives on health care system navigation : the chronic illness multi-morbidity experience
Meeting the health care needs of people with chronic conditions presents one of the greatest challenges for 21st century health care system renewal. Appropriate redesign of health care delivery with this complex patient population in mind requires information from many sources. Although much is …
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HEALTHY IMMIGRANTS? EXPLORING COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, PRE-IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCES, AND ACCULTURATION IN RELATIONSHIP TO U.S. IMMIGRANTS’ HEALTH
… I examine the odds of three health outcomes, chronic conditions, depressive symptoms, and fair or poor self-rated health using a series of logistic regression analyses. I draw on segmented assimilation and the cumulative inequality theories to understand and explicate the extent to which …
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Medication Nonadherence, Health Care Utilization, and SafeMed Care Transitions Model Impact in Super-Utilizers
… department (ED) use, and mostly have multiple chronic conditions and use multiple concurrent medications. They place a substantial burden on the U.S. healthcare system and have become the focus of policy initiatives aimed at reducing their disproportionate inpatient and ED use. Medication …
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A qualitative study on the experiences and perspectives of public sector patients in Cape Town in managing the workload of demands of HIV and type 2 diabetes co-morbidity
… more South Africans presenting these co-morbid conditions, the complexity of managing these chronic conditions has increased. The reorganisation of primary health services to better cater for patients with multiple chronic conditions has become an imperative in South Africa but still in its …
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Using the Andersen Behavioral Model of Health Services Use to Examine Adult Uninsured Patient Health Services Use at a Community Health Center
… are essential to the treatment and management of chronic conditions (Smith et al., 2005). Lack of access can result in pain, worsening of the condition and increased risk of additional health problems. Health care expenditures in the United States were reportedly 1.7 trillion in 2003 …
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Patterns, predictors and outcomes of patient transfer in public sector chronic primary care services
… To maintain long-term care, patients with chronic conditions may require transfers between health facilities, jeopardising continuity of care. High levels of geographic mobility in low-and middle-income countries mean that patients may require transfers between primary health care (PHC) …
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The Experiences of Occupational Therapists Working on Interprofessional Primary Health Care Teams: A Case Study.
… and skill set to address the most common chronic conditions that primary care providers treat by entry level educational preparation. OT services are based upon a holistic view of individuals creating an affective skill set to participate in and coordinate health care delivery for the …
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