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The fallacy of the equity-efficiency trade off: Rethinking the efficient health system [PDF]
, 2012 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Olafsdottir, AE +11 more
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Ethical Foreground and Background in Adult Educator Work
New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Adult educators work in a complex ethical environment. The very act of contributing to the learning of another is fraught with moral overtones. In this paper we consider the ethical dimensions of adult educator practice by distinguishing the ethical features of the context or ‘background’ of practice from the ethical capabilities and decision ...
Steven Hodge, Sonal Nakar
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background Community health workers (CHWs) are uniquely placed to link communities with the health system, playing a role in improving the reach of health systems and bringing health services closer to hard-to-reach and marginalised groups.
Rosalind McCollum +3 more
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Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, 2022 Pharmacist minor ailment services (PMAS) are formalised services which remunerate pharmacists for delivering care and providing medicines used to treat minor ailments such as hayfever, musculoskeletal pain, head lice and constipation.
Joanna Hikaka, Robert Haua
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Predictive Ability of Plasma p‐tau217 for β‐Amyloid Status: A Prospective Multicenter Study
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Plasma tau phosphorylated at threonine 217 (p‐tau217) measured with fully automated platforms has shown high accuracy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, but real‐world multicenter data remain limited. We aimed to validate the diagnostic performance of p‐tau217 for identifying AD pathology in a real‐world multicenter cohort ...
Miquel Massons +33 more
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Geographic distribution of need and access to health care in rural population: an ecological study in Iran [PDF]
Introduction: Equity in access to and utilization of health services is a common goal of policy-makers in most countries. The current study aimed to evaluate the distribution of need and access to health care services among Iran’s rural population ...
Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli +16 more
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Equity policies in health plans: accessibility and something more?
Revista de Saúde Pública, 2021 OBJECTIVE: To examine the approach adopted by the health plans of the autonomous communities of Spain, verifying the weight given to the concept of equity; to detect referenced communities or situations, as well as to distinguish the perspective of ...
Bran Barral Buceta +3 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Building on our prior Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System analysis identifying adults aged 18–39 as the primary driver of the national increase in self‐reported cognitive disability, we examined factors associated with this rise using 2013–2024 U.S. BRFSS data. Methods We analyzed U.S.
Adam de Havenon +9 more
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To compare the incidence of diabetes mellitus and its associations with hospitalisation and mortality in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS) and matched controls. Methods Using English primary care data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink, linked to hospital and mortality records, we matched adults with MS with up to 10 ...
Yolanda Lau +8 more
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The contribution of micro-health insurance to equity and sustainability in Rwanda [PDF]
Many countries are looking to health insurance to improve access to medical care for low- income groups and to raise additional revenues for a depleted health sector.
Schneider, Pia Helene
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