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Showing 1 to 20 of 664 for “"health system"”.
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Data driven health system
… use of data is believed to be the key to address systemic inefficiencies in health innovation and delivery, and to significantly enhance value creation for patients and all stakeholders. However, there is no definition for health data. Rather, data in health is an assortment of observations and …
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Resource allocation in a mental health system
Thesis. 1976. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Medical negligence litigation as a mechanism for understanding gaps in health system responsiveness in the South African public health system
… in cases has particularly been felt by public health systems, who are having to dedicate considerable resources to defending the claims made against their workers and facilities, as well as make the pay-outs for damages awarded against them. The increase in medical negligence cases has been …
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Health systems in the news: The influence of media representations on health system functioning in the Western Cape health system
Health systems are complex systems characterised by constant change and a web of interwoven relationships, connections, and interactions. Health Policy and Systems Research has called for multidisciplinary approaches to understanding health systems. Like health systems, the media has also been …
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Tradespace Analysis of Workplace Health System Focusing on Diabetes
The health system is transitioning financial and outcome risk-bearing from the health insurance to the employers themselves. In the US, there are about 165 million people who are on health insurance with employers. A surprising statistic shows that 96% of companies larger than 5000 employees are …
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Understanding accountability in an ever-changing New Zealand health system
… and its practices in the New Zealand public health system. This study adopted a qualitative methodology and took a critical hermeneutics approach in order to explore the reasons for, and formats of, public health reform, and the experience of health policy implementers in dealing with …
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Analysis of breast cancer screening disparities in an academic health system
… have been recognized for decades yet persist. Health systems interested in implementing tailored interventions to improve breast cancer screening disparities must first understand local determinants. Econometrics methods can be employed to evaluate the contribution of factors to the mean …
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Impacts of Increased Home Care Investments on Health System Service Utilization
… the need for financially focused home care system indicators, refined indicators through a modified Delphi approach, and applied selected indicators within the Alberta context. Methods: We conducted a three-phase multistage, mixed-methods study. 1.) Through a scoping review, we identified …
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Exploring knowledge translation mechanisms in the Western Cape Provincial Health System
The persistent gap between health research, policy and practice has led to a burgeoning interest in the field of knowledge translation (KT). However, there remains little clarity on what KT mechanisms work in different contexts, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Using mixed …
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Constructing consent : the emergence of corporatism within the Vancouver mental health system
… nonprofit societies within Vancouver's mental health system. While helping to establish and support the growth of nonprofit societies, the state, during the 1970's, maintained a "hands off" relationship with the nonprofit sector. Throughout the 1980's and early 1990's, state intervention into …
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The contribution of public health medicine specialists to South Africa's health system
Background: While South Africa's Constitution, health legislation and policies value public health (PH) approaches, Public Health Medicine (PHM) specialists are largely invisible in the health services. Despite this, many undertake specialist training. The reasons for this mismatch, for doctors' …
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Shared Leadership in Six Sigma Teams From the North Shore-LIJ Health System
… of Six Sigma teams from the North Shore LIJ Health System. Furthermore, the research ascertained the relationships that these variables had with two performance metrics: a team's ability to complete project deliverables and satisfy customer's requirements. This research also sought to …
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Health systems and social values: the case of the South African health system
Health systems are complex social systems – driven by people and the relationships between them, characterised by feedback loops and path-dependency, and open to contextual influences. This entails that social values are an important determinant of health system change. In addition, health systems …
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Scoping review of health system software literature: How has the concept been used?
Understanding health systems as comprising interacting elements of hardware and software acknowledges health systems as dynamic, complex adaptive systems (CAS). The hardware represents the concrete components of systems, whereas the software represents the elements which influence actions and …
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Architecting the future telebehavioral health system of care in the United States Army
… access and timeliness of care to psychological health care services. Specifically, they utilized a systems approach to evaluate the current state of telehealth within the Military Health System. By utilizing the enterprise lenses of strategy, policy, organization, services, processes, …
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A Health System Analysis Approach to Health Outcomes in Medicare Clients With Chronic Illnesses
… measurement efforts have provided information to health care consumers, administrators, and policymakers in assessing concerns about access, quality and costs. With a growing population of older adults with chronic illnesses, cost-cutting strategies in health delivery systems, and federal …
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Civil society's role in health system monitoring and strengthening : evidence from Khayelitsha, South Africa
… civil society has played a key role within the health system, including advocating for equitable and quality health care services. The purpose of this research is to explore the implementation of a pilot health systems strengthening intervention in primary health facilities in Khayelitsha, South …
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Vitalistic information systems in the South African public health system : a transactional analysis perspective
Includes bibliographical references.
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The Pursuit of Transformation: How a Governmental Public Health System Characterizes and Operationalizes Transformational Change
<p dir="ltr">The U.S. governmental public health system is confronting an urgent and complex imperative: to transform itself in order to meaningfully address persistent and worsening health inequities rooted in racism and other structural determinants of health. Although there is increasing …
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