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End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing [PDF]

, 2007
End-stage renal disease (ESRD), or kidney failure, is a debilitating, costly, and increasingly common medical condition. Little is known about how different financing approaches affect ESRD outcomes and delivery of care. This paper presents results from a comparative review of 12 countries with alternative models of incentives and benefits, collected ...
Doraszelski, Avi, Pauly, Mark V, Eichleay, Margaret A, Held, Philip J   +3 more
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Legal problems of the corruption prevention in state and municipal health care institutions

Aktualʹnì Pitannâ Farmacevtičnoï ì Medičnoï Nauki ta Praktiki, 2018
The purpose of the research: to investigate the problems of legal regulation of the corruption prevention in health care institutions, outline ways of their solution.
M. A. Anishchenko
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The Contribution of Primary Care Systems to Health Outcomes within Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Countries, 1970–1998 [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2003
Objective.To assess the contribution of primary care systems to a variety of health outcomes in 18 wealthy Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries over three decades.Data Sources/Study Setting.Data were primarily derived from OECDHealth Data 2001and from published literature.
James, Macinko, Barbara, Starfield, Leiyu, Shi   +2 more
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Loneliness among elderly people as a public health threat

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2023
Each day, primary care physicians see many lonely elderly people with multiple complaints, who sometimes can be labelled “over-demanding” or even “abusing health services”; in fact, this phenomenon results from general deficiencies and insufficiency in ...
Anna Susło, Sylwia Mizia, Ewa Pochybełko, Ewa Horoch-Łyszczarek   +3 more
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Multifunctional Bio‐Based Packaging for Perishable Foods: Structural Design, Scalable Fabrication, and Versatile Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
An overview of design principles and scalable fabrication strategies for multifunctional bio‐based packaging. Radiative cooling films, modified‐atmosphere films/membranes, active antimicrobial/antioxidant platforms, intelligent optical/electrochemical labels, and superhydrophobic surfaces are co‐engineered from material chemistry to mesoscale structure
Lei Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, Mei Cui, Wei Qi, Renliang Huang, Rongxin Su, Kai Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catastrophic health expenditures incurred by families in 2003, 2009 and 2018 in the Federal District, Brazil: evolution and composition [PDF]

Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objective To investigate the evolution of prevalence of catastrophic health expenditure in the Brazilian Federal District at three different times (2003, 2009 and 2018), as well, to identify the composition of outof- pocket expenditure in the respective ...
Pedro Henrique Alves Santos, Theo da Fonseca Torres, Letícia Xander Russo, Everton Nunes da Silva   +3 more
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The battle for mental well-being in Ukraine: mental health crisis and economic aspects of mental health services in wartime

International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 2023
The ongoing war in Ukraine is having profound impacts on both the local and global economy, as well as the infrastructure and overall well-being of the people.
Violetta Seleznova, Irina Pinchuk, Inna Feldman, Volodymyr Virchenko, Bo Wang, Norbert Skokauskas   +5 more
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Futures Thinking: Strategy Used by Health Care Organization to Survive Economic Collapse During the Great Recession of 2008 [PDF]

American Journal of Management Science and Engineering, 2020
This case tells how a leader of a health care institution used systems thinking as a foresight tool to help survive the Great Recession of 2008. The original study on which this case is based sought to understand the essence of leaders’ interior response to the Great Recession of 2008 with regard to sustainability and leadership.
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Fabric‐Based Wearable Robotic Exoskeleton Gloves: Advancements and Challenges

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights interdisciplinary technological advances in fabric‐based robotic gloves, focusing on progress in design, fabrication, actuation, sensing, control, and power and energy requirements. It also addresses performance testing and validation, including biomechanical, strength, functional, user experience, and durability assessments, to ...
Ayse Feyza Yilmaz, Gökhan Ince, Ozgur Atalay   +2 more
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