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Reforming Health Care or Reforming Health?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2009
The author expresses his opinion that the U.S. system of health will need to be reformed to make major improvements in health. He comments on upcoming health care reform during the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama. He discusses the limits of medical care, noting the need to focus on behaviors and environments that make people sick.
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Building a People-Centred Integrated Care Model in Urban China: A Qualitative Study of the Health Reform in Luohu

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2020
Introduction: China has adopted a people-centred integrated care model to reform its severely hospitalcentric and fragmented delivery system. As a template of this model in urban China, the Luohu Hospital Group has generated considerable public and ...
Di Liang   +5 more
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Approaches to population health care: The emerging context! [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Copyright © 2005 Australian Institute for Primary Care and School of Public HealthPeter ...
Harvey, P., Harvey, Peter William
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Psychology can be indispensable to health care reform and the patient-centered medical home

open access: yes, 2019
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed into legislation in March 2010, making health care reform a reality. Perhaps the most well-developed model of primary care that aligns with the PPACA's agenda is the patient-centered ...
Runyan, Christine N.
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Universal Health Coverage in Marginalized Populations: A Qualitative Evaluation of a Health Reform Implementation in Rural Ecuador

open access: yesInquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2019
In 2008, Ecuador underwent a major health reform with the aim of universal coverage. Little is known about the implementation of the reform and its perceived effects in rural parts of the country.
Martin Eckhardt MD, PhD   +5 more
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Tinkering at the margins: evaluating the pace and direction of primary care reform in Ontario, Canada

open access: yesBMC Family Practice, 2019
Background Primary care reform has been on the political agenda in Canada and many industrialized countries for several decades; it is widely seen as the foundation for broader health system transformation.
Monica Aggarwal, A. Paul Williams
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The reform of the essential medicines system in China: a comprehensive approach to universal coverage [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Global Health, 2013
To achieve universal health care coverage, the Government of China invested in large–scale health care reform. One of the major reform components focuses on improving access to essential medicines to reduce high out–of–pocket medicines spending.
Sarah L. Barber   +5 more
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The interface between health sector reform and human resources in health [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The relationship between health sector reform and the human resources issues raised in that\ud process has been highlighted in several studies. These studies have focused on how the new\ud processes have modified the ways in which health workers interact
Felix Rigoli   +5 more
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Health Reform in Post Conflict Kosovo [PDF]

open access: yes
The international community undertakes complex interventions in states emerging from war. These interventions include broad efforts to reform the political and institutional structures of the state.
Percival, Valerie
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Integration of care systems in Portugal: anatomy of recent reforms

open access: yesInternational Journal of Integrated Care, 2014
Background: Integrated care is increasingly present in the agenda of policy-makers, health professionals and researchers as a way to improve care services in relation to access, quality, user satisfaction and efficiency.
Silvina Santana   +2 more
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