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Defining and Implementing Value-Based Health Care: A Strategic Framework

open access: yesAcademic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 2019
Value in health care is the measured improvement in a person’s health outcomes for the cost of achieving that improvement. While some descriptions conflate value-based health care and cost reduction, quality improvement, or patient satisfaction, those ...
E. Teisberg, S. Wallace, S. O'Hara
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Family medicine training in Sub-Saharan Africa : South-South cooperation in the Primafamed project as strategy for development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
BACKGROUND. Health-care systems based on primary health care (PHC) are more equitable and cost effective. Family medicine trains medical doctors in comprehensive PHC with knowledge and skills that are needed to increase quality of care.
Ayankogbe, Olayinka   +4 more
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Factors Associated With Osteoporosis Care of Men Hospitalized for Hip Fracture: A Retrospective Cohort Study

open access: yesJBMR Plus, 2019
Rates of postfracture DXA and pharmacotherapy appear to be declining despite their known benefits in fracture reduction. We sought to identify factors associated with osteoporosis care among male veterans aged 50 years and older after hip fracture and to
Samantha L Solimeo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrality and comprehensiveness of service provision in Primary Health Care in Brazil (2012-2018)

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021
Objectives: to analyze comprehensiveness elements in Primary Care in Brazil, between 2012 and 2018, considering preventive and assistance aspects, pointing out advances and obstacles to its improvement in different contexts.
Allan Nuno Alves de Sousa   +1 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Building Medical Homes in State Medicaid and CHIP Programs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Presents strategies, best practices, and lessons learned from ten states' efforts to advance the medical home model of comprehensive and coordinated care in Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Programs in order to improve quality and contain ...
Mary Takach, Neva Kaye
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What is the role of informal healthcare providers in developing countries? A systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Informal health care providers (IPs) comprise a significant component of health systems in developing nations. Yet little is known about the most basic characteristics of performance, cost, quality, utilization, and size of this sector.
Ingram, Matthew   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

The effect of lifestyle on the mortality associated with respiratory diseases in the general population

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2023
Lifestyle factors, including smoking habit, diet, and physical activity, affect the prognosis of various diseases. We elucidated the effect of lifestyle factors and health status on deaths from respiratory diseases in the general Japanese population ...
Hiroaki Murano   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

Essential to increase the use of generics in Europe to maintain comprehensive health care

open access: yes, 2012
INTRODUCTION: Reforms have been introduced across Europe to increase prescribing efficiency with existing drugs. These include measures to lower prices of generics as well as increase their prescribing versus originators and patented products in a class ...
B. Godman   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Child Care Feeding Programs Support Young Children's Healthy Development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
New research by Children's HealthWatch shows that toddlers from low-income families who receive meals from their child care provider - those likely to be receiving CACFP - are in better health, have decreased risk for hospitalization, and are at ...
Annie Gayman   +5 more
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Comprehensiveness of cardiac rehabilitation program in Korea: a nation-wide survey result

open access: yesBMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2023
Background Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an essential component in secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases. Current guidelines recommend that the program should be comprehensive including multidisciplinary behavioral intervention, not only ...
Jidong Sung   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

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