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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"healthcare spending"”.
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Health insurance in Saudi Arabia: funding options to manage the risk of government healthcare spending
… to ensure the sustainability of the Saudi public healthcare sector. This research started by investigating the major causes of the sharp increases in the Ministry of Health budgets, then explored the possible funding options existing in other economies to find the most suitable options that meet …
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Beyond nature and health: do the benefits of nature extend from health to healthcare spending and opioid-related mortality?
… are in large part determined by health status: healthcare spending levels and opioid-related mortality rates. These studies employed an ecological and cross-sectional study design with counties in the United States with data from federal agencies in a series of geospatial regression models. The …
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Impacts of Household Credit on the Poor in Peri-urban Areas of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
… participation impacts the poor’s education and healthcare spending and benefits their children’s schooling. Chapter 2 employs five large datasets of Vietnam Household Living Standard Surveys (VHLSS) conducted in 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 by Vietnam General Statistics Office (GSO) to …
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Implementation Of A Medication Adherence Protocol In A Large Urban Safety Net Hospital
… to poorer health outcomes and increased healthcare spending. This Doctor of Nursing Practice project sought to improve medication adherence in at-risk patients by enhancing patient-provider communication and improving health literacy in a large, urban, safety net hospital. Utilizing a …
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Community-Based Asthma Intervention Programs and their Impact on Childhood Health Outcomes and Burdens on the Healthcare System
… emergency department visit rates, and an overall healthcare spending of 50 billion dollars. However, this increase in prevalence is disproportionately impacting children. Asthma is the third leading cause for hospitalization in children, have higher proportions of children being hospitalized with …
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Geographic Differences in the Risk of Surgery in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
… In the Western world, a large proportion of healthcare spending related to IBD management has been on biologic agents.These biologic agents are very costly and are thought to decrease the risk of surgery. The risks of surgery among patients with IBD in the Western world is well described. …
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Wearable Heart Sound and EKG Recorder
… hospitalization, improves outcomes, and reduces healthcare spending. A subcutaneous implantable monitoring device that detects impending acute congestive heart failure by using heart sounds may provide a valuable tool that can be used to titrate heart failure medications to prevent acute heart …
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Key supply chain integration factors for success of medical device startups
Healthcare cost are on the rise and becoming a major concern in the US economy. In fact, healthcare spending is the largest individual contributor to US gross domestic product. Various stakeholders such as government, insurance and payors are now looking at the healthcare providers and …
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Learning to Improve Clinical Decisions and AI Safety by Leveraging Structure
… availability of large collections of digitized healthcare data along with the increasing power of computation has allowed machine learning (ML) for healthcare to become one of the key applied research domains in ML. ML for health has great potential in providing clinical decision-making support …
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Essays In Health Economics
… the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare spending. The results indicate significant housing and financial wealth effects and relatively large housing wealth effects for the pooled sample. Results for each survey years of the Survey of Consumer Finances further suggest that …
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Access to Care: The Experience of Community-Dwelling Older Adults Receiving Medicare and Medicaid
… leading health indicator for meeting the complex healthcare and social needs of an exploding population of older adults living in the United States. This qualitative study was undertaken to discover the essence of access to care by community-dwelling older adults with Medicare and Medicaid. …
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Causal Pattern Mining in Highly Heterogeneous and Temporal EHRs Data
… Organization (WHO) estimates that the total healthcare spending in the U.S. is around 18\% of its GDP for the year 2011. Even with such a high per-capita expenditure, the quality of healthcare in U.S. lags behind as compared to the healthcare in other industrialized countries. This …
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Essays in Health Economics and Applied Econometrics
Healthcare expenditures account for roughly 20 percent of the US economy, and this number is likely to remain high in the near future as baby boomers age into Medicare. Yet, in spite of high healthcare spending, quality of care varies widely across providers. Reasons for these discrepancies have …
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Pursuing Medical Sanctuary in Philadelphia: An Ethnography of Care on the Immigration-Status Spectrum
… social and financial consequences when accessing healthcare in the US. Facing these risks head-on, they do the work necessary to ensure their friends, families, and communities receive medical care. Research at the intersection of linguistic and medical anthropology understands that work to be …
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Examining the Effect of Hydroxyurea Treatment on Acute Care Spending and Utilization among Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
… of guidelines. This paper aims to quantify how healthcare utilization, spending, and pain crises in SCD patients change before and after prescription of hydroxyurea, as well as estimate the potential averted burden if those not prescribed hydroxyurea were to be placed on the treatment regimen. …
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Dying in the margins : understanding the needs and capacities of a lower socioeconomic population for end of life care
… Economic margins reflected income loss, healthcare spending on co-payments and economic disparity in aged care facility access. Care network margins were defined by limited informal and formal care support. Patients from the disadvantaged area had fewer home deaths and greater home care …
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The effect of changes in drug benefit design among individuals with diabetes in large employer-sponsored insurance plans
… <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy </p> <p> With spending for prescription drugs rising so rapidly, employers and insurers are seeking different cost-cutting strategies to stem this tide. Given that prescription drugs have become an indispensable means to treat and manage chronic illnesses, the …
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Impact of the Implementation of Accountable Care Organizational Structure on Pediatric Emergency Department Visits
In 2010, the United States was spending more per capita on healthcare than other similar countries but did not have better outcomes and spending was increasing at an unsustainable rate. That same year, the Patient Protection and Accountable Care Act (PPACA) was passed in an effort to reform …
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VAT on medical supplies in South Africa: A critical analysis of whether the VATCOM's argument to standard rate medical supplies in 1991 still holds true
… these services from VAT. However, the private healthcare system has increased significantly since the adoption of VAT in 1991. In today's economy, the private sector accounts for over 50% of healthcare spending in South Africa (Department of Health, 2017:42). The majority of this, however, is …
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A mixed-methods evaluation of novel services for vulnerable patient groups in Ireland
Introduction: Rising healthcare costs present a challenge to healthcare systems around the world. In Ireland, healthcare spending accounts for greater than a quarter of government expenditure. Cancer patients and older persons are two patient population groups that account for a large portion of …
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