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Reproductive justice & preventable deaths: State funding, family planning, abortion, and infant mortality, US 1980–2010

SSM: Population Health, 2016
Introduction: Little current research examines associations between infant mortality and US states’ funding for family planning services and for abortion, despite growing efforts to restrict reproductive rights and services and documented associations ...
Nancy Krieger, Sofia Gruskin, Nakul Singh, Mathew V. Kiang, Jarvis T. Chen, Pamela D. Waterman, Jason Beckfield, Brent A. Coull   +7 more
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Local government funding and life expectancy in England: a longitudinal ecological study

The Lancet Public Health, 2021
Summary: Background: Since 2010, large reductions in funding for local government services have been introduced in England. These reductions in funding have potentially led to reduced provision of health-promoting public services.
Alexandros Alexiou, PhD, Katie Fahy, MMath, Kate Mason, PhD, Davara Bennett, MSc, Heather Brown, PhD, Clare Bambra, ProfPhD, David Taylor-Robinson, ProfPhD, Benjamin Barr, ProfPhD   +7 more
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Health information and health-seeking behaviour in Yemen: perspectives of health leaders, midwives and mothers in two rural areas of Yemen

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background Humanitarian crises can lead to the rapid change in the health needs of women and newborns, which may give rise to a complex situation that would require various interventions as solutions.
Dalia Hyzam, Mingyang Zou, Michael Boah, Abeer Saeed, Chenrui Li, Shixu Pan, Jinhe Zhai, Li-Jie Wu   +7 more
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Understanding the crisis in harm reduction funding in Central and Eastern Europe

Harm Reduction Journal, 2020
Background The harm reduction (HR) approach to injecting drug use was rapidly adopted in Central Europe following the fall of the Iron Curtain. The associated social and economic transformation had significant consequences for drug policies in the region.
Michal Miovský, Silvia Miklíková, Viktor Mravčík, Jean-Paul Grund, Tereza Černíková   +4 more
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COVID-19 and gender-based violence service provision in the United States.

PLoS ONE, 2022
IntroductionGender-based violence (GBV) policies and services in the United States (U.S.) have historically been underfunded and siloed from other health services. Soon after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, reports emerged noting increases in GBV and
Rachel Sapire, Jennifer Ostrowski, Malia Maier, Goleen Samari, Clarisa Bencomo, Terry McGovern   +5 more
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Development of the Kisiizi hospital health insurance scheme: lessons learned and implications for universal health coverage

BMC Health Services Research, 2018
Background Kisiizi Hospital Health Insurance scheme started in 1996 to; improve access to health services, and provide a stable source of funding and reduce bad debts to Kisiizi hospital. Objectives of this study were; to describe Kisiizi Hospital Health
Sebastian Olikira Baine, Alex Kakama, Moses Mugume   +2 more
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Eye care services and benefits paid by medical schemes in South Africa

African Vision and Eye Health, 2023
Background: Vision impairment (VI) affects people worldwide, and demographic factors like age are significantly linked to VI. Routine eye exams and other eye care treatments can detect and prevent common eye illnesses.
Michael M. Willie
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The HIT Network for Children and Adolescents With CNS Tumors Facilitates Improvements of Diagnostic Assessments, Multimodal Treatments, Individual Counseling, and Research in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The HIT network was established in 2000 to create a population‐based structure aiming to improve survival rates and reduce late effects for children with central nervous system (CNS) tumors by conducting comprehensive clinical trials.
Stefan Rutkowski, Michael C. Frühwald, Gudrun Fleischhack, Stephan Tippelt, Pablo Hernáiz‐Driever, Olaf Witt, Astrid Gnekow, Christof Kramm, Matthias Eyrich, Johannes E. A. Wolf, Hermann Müller, Carsten Friedrich, Uwe R. Kordes, Denise Obrecht‐Sturm, Petra Ketteler, Barbara von Zezschwitz, Pascal Johann, Dominik Sturm, Karoline Nemes, Stefan Schönberger, Till Milde, Brigitte Bison, Monika Warmuth‐Metz, Torsten Pietsch, Ulrich Schüller, Arend Koch, David Capper, Martin Hasselblatt, Christian Thomas, Christian Hagel, Stefan M. Pfister, Felix Sahm, David T. W. Jones, Martin U. Schuhmann, Jürgen Krauss, Pedram Emami, Ahmed El Damaty, Rolf D. Kortmann, Rudolf Schwarz, Jürgen Debus, Mechthild Krause, Fabian Pohl, Holger Ottensmeier, Lisa Bußenius, Katja Baust, Andreas Faldum, Cecile Ronckers, Desiree Grabow, Martin Benesch, Thomas Perwein, Karin Dieckmann, Irene Slavc, Johannes Gojo, Nicolas U. Gerber, André O. von Bueren, Katrin Scheinemann, Gabriele Calaminus, Beate Timmermann, Ulrich‐Wilhelm Thomale, Martin Mynarek   +59 more
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Examining the Sustainability of Core Capacity and Evidence-Based Interventions for FIT-Based CRC Screening: California Colorectal Cancer Control Program

Cancer Control
Objectives We examined the extent to which funded satellite clinics could sustain the California Colon Cancer Control Program (C4P) strategies implemented in health systems to increase uptake of the fecal immunochemical test (FIT) or immunochemical fecal
Ndukaku Omelu PhD, MsCLRA, Marilyn Kempster MPH, LeeAnn Velasquez HS, Jessica Nunez de Ybarra MD, MPH, Renato Littaua DVM, Shauntay Davis-Patterson MPH, Marco Coelho BA, Brendan Darsie MPH, June Hunter MPH, Celena Donahue BA, Socorro Carrillo BA, Raquel Arias MPH, Sonia Pinal MPH   +12 more
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Contributions and challenges of healthcare financing towards universal health coverage in Ethiopia: a narrative evidence synthesis

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background High burden of healthcare expenditure precludes the poor from access to quality healthcare services. In Ethiopia, a significant proportion of the population has faced financial catastrophe associated with the costs of healthcare services.
Ayal Debie, Resham B. Khatri, Yibeltal Assefa   +2 more
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