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Showing 1 to 20 of 112 for “"health care systems"”.
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Interfacing Traditional and Western Health Care Systems in the Fight Against Coronavirus
… the interfacing traditional and western health care systems in the fight against Coronavirus COVID-19. Experts contend that government agencies and health officials should collaborate with traditional healers rather than oppose them to successfully tackle COVID-19. Various stakeholders …
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SIMT: A holistic framework for embedding simulation into the health care systems.
… have been proven as very valuable tools in the health care sector. In recent years, the sector has experienced a rapid increase in applications. However, it appears that health care organisations have failed to sustain the use of these powerful techniques. In this research, an extensive …
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Change and Integration in Senior Health Care Systems: The Case of Sault Ste. Marie
… of a context sensitive integrated senior healthcare system model. The senior healthcare system within Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario is used as a case study. Institutional Ethnography is used to collect data guided by a change management model adapted from the literature. Data sources were …
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Problems of tort litigation as a means of patient and consumer protection in health care systems
The U.S. health care system relies on tort litigation as a means of protecting patients and consumers from medical malpractice. The system of tort litigation has contributed to the U.S. having the highest health care spending per capita of any nation, but it has not resulted in superior quality of …
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The folk healers and their patients: Continuing viability of folk health care systems in the multiethnic settings in North Sumatra, Indonesia
… is to examine the ways by which folk health care systems survive in a medically pluralistic setting in a developing country such as Indonesia. Interest in the anthropological studies of health care systems in developing countries has been growing and many studies have been undertaken …
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The Medical pluralism paradigm: examining patterns of use across conventional, complementary and public health care systems among Canadians aged 50 and older.
This dissertation examined health care utilization patterns across conventional health care (CHC), complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and public health care (PHC) systems among Canadians aged fifty and older. I argued that utilization research is currently limited by a primary focus on …
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Development of a process to support stakeholder engaged children's nursing workforce planning for high-need, lower-resourced Primary Health Care systems in Malawi
… contextual basis for defining roles within their health service or system. There is a scarcity of rigorously developed role descriptions worldwide, especially role descriptions accurately reflecting the work of advanced and specialist nurses in Africa. Aim: Malawi is one of many African countries …
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Noneconomic Barriers to Health Care Utilization by African-Americans
… have been made to maximize the utilization of health cue system. As a result the utilization of health care system by African Americans has increased, improving the health status (Blendon, Aiken, Freeman, & Corey, 1989). While some improvements have been made, recent reports show disparities …
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International Reflections for United States Health Care Improvements
In 2000, the World Health Organization ranked 151 countries based on the quality of their health care systems. Those rankings found the United States of America to be ranked thirty-seventh on the list of countries. The top three ranked countries include France, Italy, and San Marino, respectively. …
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Just Health Care in Nigeria – The Foundations for an African Ethical Framework
… of disease and a low financial commitment to health care. This thesis asks questions of justice about health care systems in Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular Nigeria. The questions are about access to the available health resources and services within African health care systems. While the …
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Implication of European-derived adiposity loci in African Americans
Obesity is a major public health problem, resulting in increased morbidity and mortality and heavy economic burdens on health-care systems. In the United States, the financial consequence is considerable. A great deal of effort has been dedicated to research with the goal of understanding factors …
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Tendency of patients towards medical treatment and traditional healing in Sudan
… be threatened due to the existence of only one health-care system. Along with the general goals in psychiatric medicine it has been developed to provide health and a good life for all health seekers. But its adoption is not widespread enough in Sudan. Many patients have abandoned this …
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The utilization of health care services by children with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in the Western Cape, South Africa
Foetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a serious public health concern in the Western Cape. However, the burden that this condition places on the health care systems in this region is poorly understood. The research proposed here will evaluate the utilization of health care services by children with FAS …
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A comparative study of the diffusion of antihypertensive and antidepressant medications in Germany in Japan
… analysis includes discussions on the general health care systems, health care polices, and country-specific hypertension- and depression-related cultural backgrounds. Econometric tools (descriptive statistics and linear regression models) are used as means of quantitative analysis. The …
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Essays on Health Economics
This dissertation explores the behavior of health care providers and consumers, with a focus on understanding how changes in health policies affect the efficiency and quality of care of health care systems. Chapter 1 evaluates the impact of a change in Medicare reimbursements for nursing wages on …
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An analysis of expenditure on HIV/AIDS patients in Zambia
According to the 2000/2001 Zambia Demographic and Health Survey (ZDHS), HIV/AIDS prevalence is 16% and is expected to be higher in the next five years. The disease is quite pervasive across all sectors of economic activity, but the impact is especially acute on the Zambian health sector, which is …
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The impact of individual-, unit-, and enterprise-level factors on psychological health outcomes : a system dynamics study of the U.S. military
… stress disorder (PTSD) and other psychological health issues have emerged as a signature pathology of combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. However, the full continuum of care in the U.S. military for PTSD and related disorders is reported to be insufficient to meet the current and future …
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Lessons Learned from Cuba: Using Healthcare Systems and Stillbirth Rate Example
<p>Cuba and the U.S. have different health care systems but similar health outcomes. In 2015 U.S. and Cuba had the same stillbirth rate. Cuba is a prevention-based system that is free for all, while the U.S. is a treatment-based system that uses a fee for service system. Cuba has ratified …
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A public health conflict : traditional medicinal practise and the bio-medical health norms and values at a time of HIV and AIDS in Swaziland
… co-existence of a variety of different medical systems within a chosen context are common features in southern Africa as in the rest of the developing world. How do the different systems or practices interact? How does the dual systems of healing impact on the HIV and AIDS national mitigation …
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