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Digital Healthy Aging in China: Current Landscape and the Way Forward

open access: yesHealth Care Science, EarlyView.
This review illustrates China's journey toward digital healthy aging, navigating the challenges of population aging through national strategies and innovative digital technologies to enable integrated, personalized care for older adults. ABSTRACT China is experiencing rapid population aging, which poses increasing challenges for healthcare and social ...
Yingpeng Qiu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health and Economic Impacts of an Early Labor Induction Policy for High‐BMI Mothers

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We expand the literature on marginal returns to birth interventions by studying a common intervention: early induction of labor for a growing share of pregnancies, high‐Body Mass Index (BMI) women. We exploit Danish guidelines which recommend routine induction at 7 days after the expected due date instead of 10–13 days after for mothers with a
Louis Freget, Maria Koch Gregersen
wiley   +1 more source

What Can Providers' Motivations Tell Us About Healthcare Quality?

open access: yesHealth Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agency theory suggests that variation in providers' quality of care may be explained by their heterogeneous motivations. We provide novel empirical evidence on the links between different sources of provider motivation and quality of care by combining a unique 4‐year survey dataset on Danish general practitioners' motivations with quality ...
Lucy Margaret Poole   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health System Factors in Head and Neck Cancer Diagnosis: A HEADSpAcE Consortium Qualitative Study in Glasgow and Montevideo

open access: yesHead &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Head and neck cancer (HNC) is a devastating diagnosis, with advanced‐stage disease leading to poorer outcomes. This qualitative study aimed to identify health system factors associated with stage of HNC diagnosis. Methods Qualitative semistructured interviews with HNC patients and clinicians were undertaken in two purposively ...
Grant Creaney   +196 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Multi‐Objective Periodic Vehicle Routing Model for Sustainable Healthcare Waste Collection

open access: yesThe International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The collection of infectious waste from healthcare facilities (HCF) constitutes a recurring operational challenge. Indeed, despite the inherent health risks posed by the storage and the transportation of infectious materials, most of the existing waste collection systems tends to prioritise cost optimization and to underaddress the safety ...
Hajer Ben‐Romdhane
wiley   +1 more source

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