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Patients, Primary Care, and Policy: Simulation Modeling for Health Care Decision Support [PDF]

Health Care Management Science 2021, 2019
Demand for health care is constantly increasing due to the ongoing demographic change, while at the same time health service providers face difficulties in finding skilled personnel. This creates pressure on health care systems around the world, such that the efficient, nationwide provision of primary health care has become one of society's greatest ...
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Robotics Technology in Mental Health Care [PDF]

Artificial Intelligence in Behavioral Health and Mental Health Care (2015) 185-203;, 2015
This chapter discusses the existing and future use of robotics and intelligent sensing technology in mental health care. While the use of this technology is nascent in mental health care, it represents a potentially useful tool in the practitioner's toolbox. The goal of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of the field, discuss the recent use of
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Machine Learning for Deferral of Care Prediction [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Care deferral is the phenomenon where patients defer or are unable to receive healthcare services, such as seeing doctors, medications or planned surgery. Care deferral can be the result of patient decisions, service availability, service limitations, or restrictions due to cost.
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Fair Regression for Health Care Spending [PDF]

Biometrics (2020), 2019
The distribution of health care payments to insurance plans has substantial consequences for social policy. Risk adjustment formulas predict spending in health insurance markets in order to provide fair benefits and health care coverage for all enrollees, regardless of their health status.
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Bandit-supported care planning for older people with complex health and care needs [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Long-term care service for old people is in great demand in most of the aging societies. The number of nursing homes residents is increasing while the number of care providers is limited. Due to the care worker shortage, care to vulnerable older residents cannot be fully tailored to the unique needs and preference of each individual.
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Social and Child Care Provision in Kinship Networks: an Agent-Based Model [PDF]

, 2020
Providing for the needs of the vulnerable is a critical component of social and health policy-making. In particular, caring for children and for vulnerable older people is vital to the wellbeing of millions of families throughout the world. In most developed countries, this care is provided through both formal and informal means, and is therefore ...
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Immigrant assimilation in health care utilisation in Spain [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Abundant evidence has tracked the labour market and health assimilation of immigrants, including static analyses of differences in how foreign-born and native-born residents consume health care services. However, we know much less about how migrants' patterns of health care usage evolve with time of residence, especially in countries providing ...
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Formal Verification of Access Control Model for My Health Record System [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
My Health Record system is the Australian Government's digital health record system that holds My Health Record. My Health Record is a secure online health record containing consumers' health information. The system aims to provide health care professionals with access to key health information, e.g.
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Optimally Designing Cybersecurity Insurance Contracts to Encourage the Sharing of Medical Data [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
Though the sharing of medical data has the potential to lead to breakthroughs in health care, the sharing process itself exposes patients and health care providers to various risks. Patients face risks due to the possible loss in privacy or livelihood that can occur when medical data is stolen or used in non-permitted ways, whereas health care ...
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Enhancing Health Care Accessibility and Equity Through a Geoprocessing Toolbox for Spatial Accessibility Analysis: Development and Case Study [PDF]

JMIR Form Res JMIR Formative Research. 2024 Feb 21:8:e51727
Access to health care services is a critical determinant of population health and well-being. Measuring spatial accessibility to health services is essential for understanding health care distribution and addressing potential inequities. In this study, we developed a geoprocessing toolbox including Python script tools for the ArcGIS Pro environment to ...
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