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Justice in Health Care Access Measuring Attitudes of Health Care Professionals
To measure attitudes toward justice in access to health care services in managed care plans in a convenience sample of medical professionals at Clark Memorial Hospital in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Methods. A sixteen item, self-administered instrument based on Morreim's four concepts of justice in …
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Structural Transformation in Health Care: Disruptive Collaboration Through Health Care Utilities
Modern-day health care has remarkable capabilities in producing novel scientific innovations that extend and improve life. However, many of these innovations remain prohibitively expensive even decades later—long after their novelty or patent protections have ended. Thus, while many new innovations …
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Marketing health care services for a preventive health care agency : a categorical study
The purpose of the study was to determine the needs of one marketing segment of clients seen in a contraceptive clinic in the Midwest. The marketing segment targeted for study was women with positive Pap smears. A comparison group of women with negative Pap smears was sampled from the same clinic …
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HEALTH CARE RESOURCE USE, HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES AND ABSENTEEISM COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH OSTEOARTHRITIS
… Jyothi, Ph.D., Purdue University, December 2015. Health Care Resource Use, Health Care Expenditures and Absenteeism Costs Associated with Osteoarthritis. Major Professor: Joseph Thomas III.
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Barriers to Lesbian Health Care
… lesbian women regarding the barriers to lesbian health-care. From this information several interpretive findings regarding lesbian health-care are made. Data were gathered via indepth interviews with each individual lesbian. The data suggest that most lesbian women do not reveal their sexual …
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Essays on Health Care Accessibility
… dissertation comprises three empirical papers on health policy issues related to the accessibility of health care. The first two papers focus on regulatory issues that influence the delivery of health care by nurse practitioners. The third paper studies the effect of improved public transportation …
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Primary Health Care in Afghanistan
… remote rural and mountainous areas. The primary health care system has similar problems to other civil sectors of the country due to the last three decades of war. Consequently, most people in the provinces of Afghanistan do not have access to primary health care due to lack of professional …
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Primary Health Care in Afghanistan
… remote rural and mountainous areas. The primary health care system has similar problems to other civil sectors of the country due to the last three decades of war. Consequently, most people in the provinces of Afghanistan do not have access to primary health care due to lack of professional …
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Three Essays on Health Care
… of how countries should optimally structure health care. Especially, there are two important economic and policy questions asked that extend beyond the area of health economics. The first is how the expansion of health insurance coverage affects the utilization and health of its beneficiaries …
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Neighborhood health care in Cambridge.
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Health care system in China
The Chinese health care system is presented in this thesis. In the past ten years, the Chinese health care system has drawn the attention of interested people. However, most studies explored the system in limited aspects. They do not take into account the Chinese health care system as a whole. This …
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Experiences of mental health care providers regarding integration of mental health care into primary health care at the Ilembe health district in KwaZulu- Natal
Institutionalisation of mental health care users was a prevalent treatment approach in the apartheid era in South Africa. The introduction of community based mental health care is aimed at improving mental health care services, and this integration into primary health care improves access to mental …
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Improving access to maternal health care beyond health care policy: pregnant women's experience of maternal public health care services in Cape Town, South Africa
Unequal access to maternal health care continues to be a concern in South Africa despite the efforts of government and health practitioners to make the system more inclusive and accessible to all women, especially for women who have been previously disadvantaged prior to and during Apartheid. …
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South African health care practitioners’ experiences of the current health care delivery system in Uthungulu District
Health is a human need and considered to be a human right across all societies. Access to health care services is not a problem for those who can afford it, but, for those who cannot provide for themselves, legislation needs to protect their rights. Although there is legislation in place to protect …
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Applying economics analysis to the U.S. health care system: evidence from nutrition and home health care
… 1: Adequate nutrition plays an important role in healthy aging. Although poor diet is a strong predictor of chronic diseases, the causal impacts of diet quality on health care utilization have rarely been explored. This study fills the gap by applying an instrumental variables (IV) approach, …
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Ethiopian Refugees' Perspectives on Health Care
… for their perspective on experiences with the healthcare services received previous to immigration to America.<br> 2. To interview the identified individual Ethiopian refugees for their perspectives on experiences with the American healthcare services.<br> 3. To analyze interview data …
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American Health Care: Justice, Policy, Reform
The American health care system is seriously flawed and in need of reform. American health care is expensive and rationed by the ability to pay. More than forty-five million Americans lack regular access to health care because they have no health insurance and cannot afford to pay for care on their …
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Essays on Markets and Health Care
The second topic is an analysis of managed care, particularly its role in Medicare and Medicaid hospitalizations. Much prior research indicates that HMO patients typically experience shorter lengths of stay in the hospital than those covered by other forms of health insurance, all else equal. Much …
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Technological change and health care delivery
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1996.
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Health Care Reform and the Autistic Population
Healthcare officials are faced with the daunting task of reforming the current healthcare system in the United States. President Barack Obama and his administration are attempting to restructure the system so that healthcare services are available to every citizen in the U.S. The new political …
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