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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"model of health care"”.
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Health care utilization among those with depressive disorder
This is a secondary data analysis of the 2011 Behavior Risk Factor Surveillance Survey to examine predictors for health service utilization among those with depressive disorder using the Andersen Model of Health Care Utilization. The results provide some indication that predisposing, enabling, and …
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An analysis of factors affecting the increased usage of emergency rooms for primary care
This paper explains the increased use of hospital-based emergency facilities for primary care. The analysis identifies socio-demographic characteristics, individual resources and selected access variables which influence use of physician services or emergency rooms. The selection of variables is …
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Utilization of abortion services: a local level analysis
Utilization rates of an abortion provider located in Roanoke, Virginia were compared with the national abortion rates. This study also examined the barriers that women must overcome in order to obtain abortion services. Green's PRECEDE model of health care behavior was used as a framework for the …
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An Incremental Approach to Development at Gesundheit! Institute
… and proposal for development for an alternative health care center in West Virginia. The Gesundheit Institute is based on the work of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams and his desire to create an alternative to the current model of health care. The Institute would not charge for services and will offer …
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Modes of governance and public service efficiency
… and empirical relationship between modes of governance and public service efficiency. We argue that different modes of governance yield different levels of efficiency depending on the nature and scale of the transactions upon which they are deployed. The experience of OECD countries is …
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Tiered Provider Networks in Health insurance
Health insurers are increasingly using plan designs that incentivize consumers to shop for health care based on price. This dissertation studies the effects of one such plan design on demand and equilibrium prices. Tiered hospital networks group hospitals by price ranking and vary consumers' …
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Attitudes towards Development of Innovative Pharmaceutical Products in Bulgaria /// Нагласи за развитие на иновативни фармацевтични продукти в България
… and medicine are major advances in the field of healthcare. They are the latest kind of generations, offering a new, modern and conforming European standard of treatment, consisting of creating specialized, innovative products, state-of-the-art medical equipment, and introducing new models of …
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Integrated Behavioral Health at UTMB: A Cost/Benefit Study
In the United States, behavioral health issues such as depression are highly prevalent and come at a major economic cost. However, the systems in place to care for behavioral health are often inefficient and fragmented between primary care providers and psychiatrists as well as other behavioral …
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Dallas Area Health Care Use: Study of Insured, Uninsured, and Medicaid Enrolled Children
… emergency room use among representative samples of children in the Dallas metropolitan area (N = 1606) and among patients who used Children's Medical Center of Dallas' First Care services (N = 612). Through telephone interviewing, caregivers to children under fifteen years of age were asked about …
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Modelling health care utilization: an applied Geographical Information Systems approach
… by organisational change in the British National Health Service (NHS), namely the ongoing debate relating to health and health care inequalities. This thesis develops a flexible, portable and predictive model of health care utilization capable of assisting improved health care planning and …
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Predictors Of Psychosocial Adaptation To Pregnancy Among Urban African-American Primiparas
… women has not been well-researched. The purpose of this study was to examine predictors of psychosocial adaptation to pregnancy and to explore relationships among socioeconomic status, experiences and frequency of discrimination, personal control beliefs, social support, planned pregnancy, and …
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Pediatrician Perceptions of the Patient-Centered Medical Home Model
… Medical Home (PCMH) is an emerging model of health care designed to provide a simpler, more effective health care experience. The model places heavy emphasis on the concept of every patient having a "personal physician" who is the point of access for all health care needs and …
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Leukemia and bone marrow transplantation : personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience
… from the bone marrow transplant (BMT) directory of a North American transplant center to describe the personal meanings and perceptions of the illness experience of individuals who had been diagnosed with leukemia, and undergone BMT, and to explore and describe how the individuals' explanatory …
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WOMEN WITH IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME. Aspects of quality of life and health.
… disorder affecting a significant number of people, predominantly women. Etiology and pathophysiology is insufficiently understood, but the research over the past decade has led to progress in the understanding of IBS, and it is generally accepted that the symptoms of IBS are …
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Identity construction in nurse practitioner-patient interactions
… and outpatient visits. Through an analysis of interactional data coupled with ethnographic observations and interviews, I focus on the ways that both patients and providers construct particular identities, that is, how they inhabit the institutional role of patient or provider through …