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THE HEALTH CARE BURDEN OF UNSTABLE ANGINA
Cardiology Clinics, 1999Worldwide, UA represents a significant allocation of resources. UA represents a syndrome where not only do many therapies exist, but considerable clinical trial evidence has accumulated. Universal application of effective practice patterns is warranted if we are to successfully reduce the burden of UA.
D F, Kong, M A, Blazing, C M, O'Connor
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Journal of Vietnamese Studies
Recent scholarship on the treatment of chronic diseases in neoliberalizing contexts frame patients as individuated selves enacting biopolitical imperatives toward self-care. However, in public psychiatric and oncology hospitals in contemporary southern Vietnam, it is instead the family unit, rather than the individual patient, that is “responsibilized”
Allen L. Tran, Maria E. Stalford
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Recent scholarship on the treatment of chronic diseases in neoliberalizing contexts frame patients as individuated selves enacting biopolitical imperatives toward self-care. However, in public psychiatric and oncology hospitals in contemporary southern Vietnam, it is instead the family unit, rather than the individual patient, that is “responsibilized”
Allen L. Tran, Maria E. Stalford
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The Health Care Burden of Hepatic Encephalopathy
Clinics in Liver Disease, 2020Hepatic encephalopathy is a major neuropsychiatric complication of liver disease that affects 30% to 40% of cirrhotic patients. Hepatic encephalopathy is characterized by a brain dysfunction that is associated with neurologic complications. Those complications are associated with cognitive impairments, which negatively impacts patients' physical and ...
Mohamed I, Elsaid +4 more
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Burden of Care in Families of Patients with Schizophrenia
Quality of Life Research, 2006Family caregivers of persons with schizophrenia and other disorders experience high levels of burden. Most studies of family burden in schizophrenia have taken place in developed countries. The current study examined family burden and its correlates in a medium income country in South America.Forty-one relatives of patients with schizophrenia who were ...
Alejandra, Caqueo-Urízar +1 more
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Burden of care in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Palliative Medicine, 2003Objectives: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal disease with unique demands on patients and carers. Patients and methods: The total burden of care and burden components in 37 ALS carers were measured using validated questionnaires. Furthermore, influencing factors (functional impairment of the patient, additional carers, participation in ...
Martin J, Hecht +7 more
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Care as Resistance, Care as Agency, Care as a Burden
Abstract This chapter discusses the multidimensionality and multidirectionality of care and its impact upon refugees’ pathways toward inclusion. Drawing on qualitative data collected during workshops and interviews with 55 recently recognized refugees in Scotland, the chapter explores how care in multiple forms is experienced, given ...Helen Baillot, Marcia Vera Espinoza
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The medical‐care cost burden of obesity
Obesity Reviews, 2001SummaryRecent years have seen a dramatic rise in the prevalence of obesity in many countries, stimulating interest in the health and economic consequences of this phenomenon. In this article, we provide a systematic review of the literature on the medical‐care cost burden of obesity.
D, Thompson, A M, Wolf
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2017
This chapter describes the institutional and historical contours of the tension between the obligation to care and prisoners' deservingness of care. These contours determine the existence of the San Francisco jail clinic, people's desire to use its services, and the flourishing of its daily intimacies of care. The context this chapter provides involves
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This chapter describes the institutional and historical contours of the tension between the obligation to care and prisoners' deservingness of care. These contours determine the existence of the San Francisco jail clinic, people's desire to use its services, and the flourishing of its daily intimacies of care. The context this chapter provides involves
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Managed Care: The Burden of a Great Potential
Frontiers of Health Services Management, 1993One of the major difficulties in evaluating the performance of managed care Organizations (MCOs) is the growing scarcity of pure model types amidst the current explosion of delivery arrangements. The managed care movement had its origins in group-and staff-model HMOs; they were presented as options to traditional indemnity insurance plans.
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British Journal of Psychiatry, 1987
This paper reviews the literature on the effect of severe mental illness on other members of the patient's family. The burdens of caring for a patient at home are considerable. They often affect the caring relative's social and leisure activities, and financial problems arise frequently.
G, Fadden, P, Bebbington, L, Kuipers
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This paper reviews the literature on the effect of severe mental illness on other members of the patient's family. The burdens of caring for a patient at home are considerable. They often affect the caring relative's social and leisure activities, and financial problems arise frequently.
G, Fadden, P, Bebbington, L, Kuipers
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