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Determining health-care facility catchment areas in Uganda using data on malaria-related visits
Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2014 Objective To illustrate the use of a new method for defining the catchment areas of health-care facilities based on their utilization. Methods The catchment areas of six health-care facilities in Uganda were determined using the cumulative case ratio ...
Kate Zinszer +5 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2016 BackgroundThe diversity of mental health and substance abuse services (MHS) available to service users is seen as an indicator of the quality of the service system. In most countries MHS are provided by a mix of public, private and third sector providers.
Taina Ala-Nikkola +8 more
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Modelling of Radiological Health Risks from Gold Mine Tailings in Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment Area, South Africa [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016 Mining is one of the major causes of elevation of naturally-occurring radionuclide material (NORM) concentrations on the Earth’s surface. The aim of this study was to evaluate the human risk associated with exposure to NORMs in soils from mine tailings ...
M. Mathuthu, C. Kamunda, M. Madhuku
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Addressing Public Health Aspects of Cancer Center Catchment Areas [PDF]
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 2022 Abstract Serving the catchment area has become an integral mission of cancer centers, and examining the geographic extent of cancer coverage is an important component aimed at efficiently maximizing care and reducing the cancer burden.
Wil Lieberman-Cribbin, Emanuela Taioli
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The vulnerability analysis of catchment areas using rapid assessment method (case study in Universitas Indonesia, Depok) [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018 Catchment area of aquatic system in Universitas Indonesia (UI) campus has a function as groundwater recharge for Depok area, which is the buffer zone of Jakarta.
Rolia Eva +2 more
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Mental Health Services Use: Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow-Up [PDF]
The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2009 To examine the patterns of previous and current mental health services use among older adults in the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Follow-up. Examination of a recent cohort of older adults is important because patterns of utilization may have changed due to treatment advances, changes in mental healthcare services, and greater mental health ...
Hillary R, Bogner +3 more
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Archives of Public Health, 2022 Background The recent Austrian Primary Care Act established new primary health care units (PHCUs) and obliged them to draw up a “care strategy” specifying their focal care tasks and objectives and emphasizing the health care needs of the population in ...
Stefan Mathis-Edenhofer +5 more
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The case for catchment areas for mental health services [PDF]
Psychiatric Bulletin, 1995 The establishment of mental health teams which take responsibility for small geographical catchment areas has been a fundamental element in the planning of community services in most Western European countries over the last decade. This idea is challenged in the companion paper in this issue of Psychiatric Bulletin which refers to catchment areas as a “
Graham Thornicroft +2 more
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Predictive Assessment of Cancer Center Catchment Area from Electronic Health Records [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2017 Healthcare facilities (HF) may identify catchment areas (CA) by selecting criteria that depend on various factors. These refer to hospital activities, geographical definition, patient covariates, and more. The analyses that were traditionally pursued have a limiting factor in the consideration of only static conditions.
Luca Salmasi, Enrico Capobianco
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Population Health Metrics, 2022 Background Data that capture implementation strength can be combined in multiple ways across content and health system levels to create a summary measure that can help us to explore and compare program implementation across facility catchment areas ...
Anooj Pattnaik +5 more
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