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Measurement and Explanation of Inequality in Health and Health Care in Low-Income Settings [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper describes approaches to the measurement and explanation of income-related inequality and inequity in health care financing, health care utilization and health and considers the applicability and the feasibility of these methods in low-income ...
O'Donnell, Owen, van Doorslaer, Eddy
core  

Measuring Catastrophic Health Expenditure: Innovation and Validation

open access: yes, 2019
This research attempts to provide an innovative approach to measuring Catastrophic Health Expenditure (CHE) that captures the dynamics of household assets globally. CHE is a major cause that pushes households into poverty or forces households already in poverty into even deeper poverty.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Many Faces of Talent Management: Organizational Perspectives on Talent and Talent Management Practices in Jordan

open access: yesHuman Resource Development Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Talent management involves the systematic planning, acquisition, development, performance management, engagement, and retention of employees identified as “talent.” Little is known about the relationship between organizations' talent perspectives and talent management practices.
Amro Aljbour, Erica French, Muhammad Ali
wiley   +1 more source

Inequality in the Distribution of Health Expenditures in 22 Districts of Tehran

open access: yesJournal of Community Health Research, 2014
Background and purpose: In 2000 World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the fairness of financial contribution to health care costs, as one of the three goals of health systems.
Mohammad Hossein Ghafoori   +5 more
doaj  

Reinsurance in State Health Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Based on the experiences of three states, formal modeling, quantitative estimates, and qualitative assessments, explores the impact of and issues involved in publicly funding reinsurance for insurers as a way to expand or maintain private ...
Bowen Garrett   +3 more
core  

Avoiding Chaos in Wonderland

open access: yes, 2006
Wonderland, a compact, integrated economic, demographic and environmental model is investigated using methods developed for studying critical phenomena.
Bankes   +18 more
core   +2 more sources

Respiratory Syncytial Virus Under the Lens of Structure: From Prefusion Stabilization to Next‐Generation Immunotherapies

open access: yesiNew Medicine, EarlyView.
This illustration integrates key concepts covered in the review, including high‐risk populations, viral structure, host entry factors, the replication cycle, and licensed antibody‐based prevention strategies. ABSTRACT Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a negative‐sense RNA virus belonging to the genus Orthopneumovirus within the family Pneumoviridae.
Zekai Cheng   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can insurance increase financial risk ? The curious case of health insurance in China [PDF]

open access: yes
The most basic argument for insurance is that it reduces financial risk. But since insurance opens up new opportunities for consuming expensive high-technology care which permits health improvements that are valued by the insured, and because in many ...
Lindelow, Magnus, Wagstaff, Adam
core  

The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

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