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The Impact of Financial Incentive on the Performance of Urban Health Centers in Iran [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2005
In the last decade, main health financing reforms in Iran’s integrated health care delivery system, have provided some degree of financial incentive both to the providers of secondary and tertiary care in supply side, and the consumers of these services ...
S Rouhani, M James, R Beech   +2 more
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Women's preferences for alternative financial incentive schemes for breastfeeding: A discrete choice experiment. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
Increasing breastfeeding rates have been associated with reductions in disease in babies and mothers as well as in related costs. 'Nourishing Start for Health (NoSH)', a financial incentive scheme has been proposed as a potentially effective way to ...
Frauke Becker, Nana Anokye, Esther W de Bekker-Grob, Ailish Higgins, Clare Relton, Mark Strong, Julia Fox-Rushby   +6 more
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Healthcare providers' views on the acceptability of financial incentives for breastfeeding:a qualitative study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Despite a gradual increase in breastfeeding rates, overall in the UK there are wide variations, with a trend towards breastfeeding rates at 6-8 weeks remaining below 40% in less affluent areas.
Thomas, Kate J., Strong, Mark, Whitford, H., Patrice Van Cleemput, Scott, Elaine, Barbara Whelan, Van Cleemput, P., Whelan, B., Heather Whitford, Whelan, Barbara, Cleemput, Patrice Van, Strong, M., Renfrew, Mary J., Kate J Thomas, Elaine Scott, Relton, Clare, Renfrew, M.J., Whitford, Heather, Thomas, K.J., Clare Relton, Mark Strong, Scott, E., Relton, C., Mary J Renfrew   +23 more
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Financial incentives [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 1999
Managed care has become the dominant delivery system in many areas of the United States. Nearly three fourths of privately insured Americans now receive network-based health care through health maintenance organizations (HMOs), preferred provider organizations (PPOs), and various point-of-service hybrid arrangements.1 Physicians receive over one third ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Using a randomized controlled trial to develop conservation strategies on rented farmlands

Conservation Letters, 2021
Addressing the environmental impacts of large‐scale agriculture requires innovative approaches to conservation program design and evaluation. We used a randomized controlled trial and a sample of 2225 landowners in the Mississippi River Basin to test a ...
Collin Weigel, Seth Harden, Yuta J. Masuda, Pranay Ranjan, Chloe B. Wardropper, Paul J. Ferraro, Linda Prokopy, Sheila Reddy   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives? [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among "comparable" households.
Laroque, Guy, Salanie, Bernard
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Retrospective Analysis of Donor Lymphocyte Infusions in Pediatric Patients With Mixed Chimerism After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is an essential therapy for several malignant and nonmalignant diseases, but relapse and graft loss remain the principal threats to its success. Routine monitoring of chimerism and minimal residual disease (MRD) enables early detection of imminent recurrence and guides ...
Carmen Junk, Sebastian Michaelis, Michaela Döring, Thomas Eichholz, Ursula Holzer, Martin Ebinger, Tim Flaadt, Rupert Handgretinger, Peter Lang, Jan Frederic Weller, Markus Mezger   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto, Daniel da Costa Torres, Ian Setubal Reis Chaves, Jonas do Carmo Paschoalin, Braúlio Lima Nascimento, Luciana Dias Chiavegato   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

"It Makes You Feel Like Someone Cares" acceptability of a financial incentive intervention for HIV viral suppression in the HPTN 065 (TLC-Plus) study. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
BACKGROUND:HPTN 065 (TLC-Plus) evaluated the feasibility and effectiveness of providing quarterly $70 gift card financial incentives to HIV-infected patients on antiretroviral therapy (ART) to encourage ART adherence and viral suppression, and represents
Elizabeth Greene, Allison Pack, Jill Stanton, Victoria Shelus, Elizabeth E Tolley, Jamilah Taylor, Wafaa M El Sadr, Bernard M Branson, Jason Leider, Natella Rakhmanina, Theresa Gamble   +10 more
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The Effect of Changing Financial Incentives on Repartnering [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
AbstractThis article examines how a reduction in the financial resources available to lone parents affects repartnering. We exploit an Australian natural experiment that reduced the financial resources available to a subset of separating parents. Using biweekly administrative data capturing separations occurring among low- and middle- income couples ...
Fisher, Hayley, Zhu, Anna
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