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Due to the increase in life expectancy and therefore the prevalence of chronic pathologies, health services have required a change, as well as healthcare. One of these chronic pathologies is obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which is a disorder characterized by an occlusion of the upper airway, an issue that causes an interruption of breathing ...
Sagrario Gomez-Cantarino +6 more
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Due to the increase in life expectancy and therefore the prevalence of chronic pathologies, health services have required a change, as well as healthcare. One of these chronic pathologies is obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS), which is a disorder characterized by an occlusion of the upper airway, an issue that causes an interruption of breathing ...
Sagrario Gomez-Cantarino +6 more
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Self-Care in Relation to Informal and Formal Care
Ageing and Society, 1990ABSTRACTThis paper examines the prevalence, inter-relationships and correlates of various forms of self, informal and formal care. Analyses of data drawn from a random sample of 743 non-institutionalised elderly individuals living in Winnipeg, Manitoba reveal similarities as well as differences among the three types of care.
Margaret J. Penning, Neena L. Chappell
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Formalized Decision Support for Cardiovascular Intensive Care
Computers and Biomedical Research, 1993The massive volume of hemodynamic data routinely available within the Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CVICU) can adversely affect the quality, relevance, and timing of hemodynamic management decisions on patients after cardiac surgery. Yet, at the same time, the lack of appropriate treatment-outcome data and access to prior CV case histories ...
F, Lau, D, Vincent
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Informal and Formal Care for the Elderly
Health Marketing Quarterly, 1997In this article, a model is developed of the determinants of elderly health care choice between the options of informal care (i.e., provided by family and friends) and formal care (i.e., care provided via the market). These determinants are: Expertise Capacity, Resource Capacity, Time Capacity, Economic Rewards, Psychic Rewards, Trust, and Control ...
J, Mundt, R F, Lusch
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Formal care for elderly people in Poland
Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 1989This paper starts by giving some brief information about the institutional care system for the elderly in Poland. The supportive network for old people is identified as being firmly based on that of the family. Social services are particularly directed to those without children and close relatives. There are many economic and socio-cultural reasons for
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Formal and Informal Care: Discontinuities in a Continuum
Social Service Review, 1980Informal caregiving by family, friends, neighbors, and self-help groups is being given greater attention as human-service policy seeks to establish a continuum of care knitting together professional efforts and informal helping. However, there are many contradictions in assumptions and perspectives about who should handle problems and in what way ...
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Formal and informal care work *
2021Care work is an umbrella term for many services and activities, both formal and informal, that provide help and advice, healing and nursing, education and training. Such work on and with people, the productivity of which cannot readily be increased, could in future be a significant core area for all human work in post-growth societies.
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Formal and Informal Sources of Care
1989Britain, like most other industrial societies, has a pluralistic system of welfare provision. Indeed the term ‘welfare pluralism’ means nothing more than a diversity of sources of welfare provision and service delivery (Gladstone, 1979; Rea Price et al. 1987; N. Johnson, 1987).
Hazel Qureshi, Alan Walker
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Informal and formal care of older people in Iceland
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 2014BackgroundEven if older people in the Nordic countries living in their homes usually have good access to formal help, the family plays an important role. Few studies have looked at the distribution of informal and formal care and the interplay between these spheres.
Sigurveig H, Sigurdardottir +1 more
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Towards a Formalization of Quality in Health Care Contracts
Health Services Management Research, 1993The paper explores ways of how measurable indicators of quality of health care might be specified in health care contracts of NHS providers. The paper assesses the likelihood of defining formal outcome-related indicators. If outcome-related indicators are not measurable, then process or input-related quality indicators should be used as a second best ...
M, Marchment, U, Hoffmeyer
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