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UNH Monitoring Activities that Support the National Coastal Assessment in 2007 [PDF]

, 2008
The National Coastal Assessment is an Environmental Protection Agency program to monitor the health of the nation’s estuaries using nationally standardized methods and a probabilistic sampling design.
Trowbridge, Philip
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
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Unlocking value: a comprehensive costing study of primary health care service delivery in Tanzania

BMC Primary Care
Background Tanzania has long prioritized primary health care (PHC) as the pathway to achieving universal health coverage. However, greater, and more effective investments are needed to expand access to quality PHC services and further improve population ...
Federica Margini, Wilson Charles Mahera, Ntuli Kapologwe, James Tumaini Kengia, Dastan Mshana, Raymond Kiwesa, Gabrielle Appleford, Wendy Erasmus, Carl Schutte   +8 more
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Respite Partnership Collaborative (RPC) Innovation Project Evaluation: Final Report [PDF]

, 2016
The Mental Health Services Act (MHSA)—funded by Proposition 63—supports five unique components: (1) Community Services and Supports, (2) Prevention and Early Intervention, (3) Workforce Education and Training, (4) Capital Facilities and Technology, and ...
Anita Poon, Dierdre Gilmore, Elena Lumby, Grace Wang, Laurel Koester   +4 more
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NRASQ61R Expression in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Enlarged Vessels, Hemorrhagic Chylous Effusions, and High Mortality in a Mouse Model of Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel, Patricia Pastura, Joshua P. Scallan, Timothy D. Le Cras   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How should we fund integrated primary care for children in Australia? A resource allocation study

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health
Objectives: Integrated primary care provides health and social care services to intervene early and support children and families. Funding of integrated care is a barrier to care provision, but evidence is limited for which funding models are most ...
Cate Bailey, Suzy Honisett, Jacinta Dermentzis, Janelle Devereux, Jo-Anne Manski-Nankervis, Kim Dalziel, Harriet Hiscock   +6 more
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Use of record-linkage to handle non-response and improve alcohol consumption estimates in health survey data: a study protocol [PDF]

, 2013
<p>Introduction: Reliable estimates of health-related behaviours, such as levels of alcohol consumption in the population, are required to formulate and evaluate policies.
Gorman, E., Gorman, E., Gray, L., Gray, L., Katikireddi, S. V., Katikireddi, S. V., Leyland, A. H., Leyland, A. H., McCartney, G., McCartney, G., Rutherford, L., Rutherford, L., White, I. R., White, I. R.   +13 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of decentralized financing and funding levels on the breadth of services and structural quality to provide those services in primary health facilities in Nigeria

BMC Health Services Research
Background To improve service delivery of Nigeria’s primary health care (PHC) system, the government tested two approaches for facility-level financing: performance-based financing (PBF) and decentralized facility financing (DFF).
Brittany Hagedorn, Jeremy Cooper, Benjamin Loevinsohn, Valentina Martufi   +3 more
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On-site health service delivery models at syringe services programs in the United States: Results of a national cross-sectional survey

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have many needs for health services, but frequently lack access to and/or do not utilize those services. Syringe services programs (SSPs) are low-stigma environments where health services can be provided, but ...
Czarina N. Behrends, Don C. Des Jarlais, Winston Luhur, Xinlin Lu, Grace J. Corry, Sara N. Glick, Shashi N. Kapadia, David C. Perlman, Bruce R. Schackman   +8 more
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