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Kun etter behov? Mottak av pleie- og omsorgstjenester og sammenheng med sosioøkonomisk status

Tidsskrift for Omsorgsforskning, 2022
Mottak av pleie- og omsorgstjenester skal prinsipielt styres av behov alene og ikke sosioøkonomisk posisjon. I denne studien bruker vi registerdata (Gerica, Norsk pasientregister, KUHR og inntekts- og populasjonsregistre fra SSB) til å undersøke ...
Øystein Hernæs, Snorre Kverndokk, Simen Markussen, Henning Øien   +3 more
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The perspectives of nurse-midwives and doctors on clinical challenges of prolonged labor: A qualitative study from Tanzania

European Journal of Midwifery, 2022
Introduction Globally, evidence suggests that one-third of nulliparous women experience delay in the first stage of labor with an increased risk of poor maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Aase I. Høifødt ⁺, Johanne M. E. Huurnink ⁺, Signe Egenberg, Deodatus A. Massay, Bariki Mchome, Tine S. Eri   +5 more
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Developing Self-Management Application of Fall Prevention Among Older Adults: A Content and Usability Evaluation

Frontiers in Digital Health, 2020
This paper presents a research and development project for studying aging and technology in fall prevention. Falls are an important global health problem in an aging global population. Up to 50% of serious falls may be fatal.
Keren Mazuz, Seema Biswas, Uri Lindner
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Local Government Expenditures on Care Services vs. Demographic Changes in Poland

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2020
Local governments as the smallest units of territorial self‑government in Poland are responsible for providing care services. The growing number of the elderly can influence the expenditures level connected with ensuring proper care for them, and it may ...
Agnieszka Monika Bobrowska
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Exploring governance tensions of disruptive technologies: the case of care robots in Australia and New Zealand

Policy & Society, 2021
Robots are increasingly appearing as a potential answer to the ‘care crisis’ facing a number of countries. Although it is anticipated that many positives will flow from the application of these technologies, they are also likely to generate unexpected ...
Helen Dickinson, Catherine Smith, Nicole Carey, Gemma Carey   +3 more
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Costs of provision for in-home care services for dependent persons in selected Polish cities 2015–2017 – challenges for local governments

Medycyna Ogólna i Nauki o Zdrowiu, 2020
Introduction and objective The provision of safety and professional care for dependent persons, including the elderly and the disabled at home, is one of the biggest challenges for health policy and social assistance.
Marta Giezek, Paulina Zabielska, Beata Karakiewicz   +2 more
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Elektromobilitätsnutzung in Taxiunternehmen und Pflegediensten. Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der Stakeholderprofile

Raumforschung und Raumordnung, 2020
Im gewerblichen Bereich ist der Einsatz von Elektrofahrzeugen ökologisch und ökonomisch vielversprechend. Die gezielte Förderung der Nutzung erfordert jedoch eine gute Kenntnis der Nutzergruppen und ihren Anforderungen.
Niebuhr Lorena, Jakobs Eva-Maria
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Assessment of a serum calcification propensity test for the prediction of all-cause mortality among hemodialysis patients

BMC Nephrology, 2023
Background Vascular calcification is a major contributor to the high cardiac burden among hemodialysis patients. A novel in vitro T50-test, which determines calcification propensity of human serum, may identify patients at high risk for cardiovascular ...
Adam M Zawada, Melanie Wolf, Abraham Rincon Bello, Rosa Ramos-Sanchez, Sara Hurtado Munoz, Laura Ribera Tello, Josep Mora-Macia, M. Amparo Fernández-Robres, Jordi Soler-Garcia, Josep Aguilera Jover, Francesc Moreso, Stefano Stuard, Manuela Stauss-Grabo, Anke Winter, Bernard Canaud   +14 more
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Prehospital characteristics of COVID-19 patients in Helsinki – experience of the first wave of the pandemic

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background There is a lack of knowledge how patients with COVID-19 disease differ from patients with similar signs or symptoms (but who will have a diagnosis other than COVID-19) in the prehospital setting.
Markku Kuisma, Heini Harve-Rytsälä, Jussi Pirneskoski, James Boyd, Mitja Lääperi, Ari Salo, Tuukka Puolakka   +6 more
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Innovation on home-based care services

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Home is associated with well-being especially during aging, reinforcing aspects such as control and security perception. In that sense more than 80% of the Spanish elderly population prefers to get support at home than outside.
Begoña Fernandez Ruanova, Jofre Tenorio-Laranga, Alfredo Alday Jurado, Josu Xabier Llano Hernaiz, Raquel Justo, María Inés Torres Barañano   +5 more
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