Household coverage, quality and costs of care provided by community health worker teams and the determining factors : findings from a mixed methods study in South Africa [PDF]
, 2020 Objective: Community health workers (CHWs) are undertaking more complex tasks as part of the move towards universal health coverage in South Africa. CHW programmes can improve access to care for vulnerable communities, but many such programmes struggle ...
Babalola, Olukemi +12 more
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Unified mobile public health care system (UMPHCS) for underdeveloped countries [PDF]
Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Informatics,
Electronics & Vision-2014, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Published in IEEExplore, 2014 In this paper, we have proposed a new smartphone based system for health care, monitoring and diagnosis, which is specially designed to efficiently increase the public health care system in the distant, rural, unreached areas of the underdeveloped and developing countries.
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Perspectives On Health Care Cost-Consciousness among Medical Students and Physicians
National Journal of Community Medicine, 2022 Introduction: Health care costs consciousness refers to care that aims to assess the benefits, harms and costs of interventions by the physicians. Rising health care costs have created an urgent need to improve physicians’ knowledge on health care costs
Balaji Arumugam +2 more
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Direct health care costs of treating seasonal affective disorder: a comparison of light therapy and fluoxetine. [PDF]
, 2012 Objective. To compare the direct mental health care costs between individuals with Seasonal Affective Disorder randomized to either fluoxetine or light therapy. Methods. Data from the CANSAD study was used.
Browne, Gina +8 more
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Health Care Costs: A Primer [PDF]
, 2007 Summarizes available data on healthcare costs and the impact of spending growth on society, and explores why healthcare costs have grown over ...
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Social context prevents heat hormetic effects against mutagens during fish development
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This study shows that sublethal heat stress protects fish embryos against ultraviolet radiation, a concept known as ‘hormesis’. However, chemical stress transmission between fish embryos negates this protective effect. By providing evidence for the mechanistic molecular basis of heat stress hormesis and interindividual stress communication, this study ...
Lauric Feugere +5 more
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Costs of health care across primary care models in Ontario
BMC Health Services Research, 2017 Background The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between newly introduced primary care models in Ontario, Canada, and patients’ primary care and total health care costs.
Maude Laberge +3 more
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Cost of Care Conversations: Perspectives from Rural Health Care Providers and Older Adult Patients
Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2023 Older adults often struggle with health care costs. Cost of care (CoC) conversations are conversations between health care providers and patients to discuss direct and indirect costs associated with health care.
Karen L. Franck +4 more
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Health Care Costs: A Primer 2012: Key Information on Health Care Costs and Their Impact [PDF]
, 2012 Examines changes in U.S. healthcare spending, compared with other countries and per capita; what it pays for; who pays; and how healthcare costs affect families and employers.
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Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Urine is a rich source of biomarkers for cancer detection. Tumor‐derived material is released into the bloodstream and transported to the urine. Urine can easily be collected from individuals, allowing non‐invasive cancer detection. This review discusses the rationale behind urine‐based cancer detection and its potential for cancer diagnostics ...
Birgit M. M. Wever +1 more
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