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Acoustic Measures Capture Speech Dysfunction in Spinocerebellar Ataxia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCA) are hereditary cerebellar degenerative disorders with a common feature of dysarthria, involving impaired phonatory and articulatory control of speech, thereby affecting social communication. In this study, we investigated whether acoustic measures could objectively measure speech dysfunction and identify
Zena Fadel, Charlotte Hennessey, Hannah Lee, Pia Parekh, Sheng‐Han Kuo, Ami Kumar   +5 more
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Health worker remuneration in WHO Member States

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2013
Objective To present the available data on the money spent by Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) on remunerating health workers in the public and private sectors.
P Hernandez-Pena, JP Poullier, CJM Van Mosseveld, N Van de Maele, V Cherilova, C Indikadahena, G Lie, T Tan-Torres, David B Evans   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health Expenditure and Its Human Capital Determinants in Iran

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2020
Background: Human capital is an effective variable on the health condition of a society and its changing changes health expenditure as the proxy of health.
Ahmad MOAYEDFARD, Salar GHORBANI, Sara EMAMGHOLIPOUR SEFIDDASHTI   +2 more
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Do the age profiles of health care expenditure really steepen over time? New evidence from Swiss cantons [PDF]

The red herring hypothesis contends that the high health care expenditure in old age is caused by proximity to death rather than calendar age. Dissenters point to longitudinal data and claim that health care expenditure age profiles tend to steepen over ...
Felder, Stefan, Werblow, Andreas
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Functional Connectivity Linked to Cognitive Recovery After Minor Stroke

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Patients with minor stroke exhibit slowed processing speed and generalized alterations in functional connectivity involving frontoparietal cortex (FPC). The pattern of connectivity evolves over time. In this study, we examine the relationship of functional connectivity patterns to cognitive performance, to determine ...
Vrishab Commuri, Isabella Dallasta, Ciaran Stone, Sophia Girgenti, Neda Gould, Rafael H. Llinas, Jonathan Z. Simon, Elisabeth Breese Marsh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Catastrophic health-care expenditure and willingness to pay for health insurance in a metropolitan city: A cross-sectional study

Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2018
Background: Health insurance can be a very useful strategy to mitigate the disabling effects of catastrophic health expenditure in India. Objectives: The aim of the study is to estimate catastrophic health expenditure incurred and the willingness to pay ...
Rujuta Sachin Hadaye, Jerome Gnanasigamony Thampi   +1 more
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Lessons Learned From a Delayed‐Start Trial of Modafinil for Freezing of Gait in Parkinson's Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Freezing of gait (FOG) in people with Parkinson's disease (PwPD) is debilitating and has limited treatments. Modafinil modulates beta/gamma band activity in the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN), like PPN deep brain stimulation. We therefore tested the hypothesis that Modafinil would improve FOG in PwPD.
Tuhin Virmani, Lakshmi Pillai, Reid D. Landes, Aliyah Glover, Shannon Doerhoff, Jennifer Kleiner, Mitesh Lotia, Rohit Dhall, Edgar Garcia‐Rill   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The temporal and spatial interpretation of China’s health financing: what do Chinese’ government ‘do’ in new healthcare reform?

Health Economics Review
Objective The analysis of health expenditure and its structure takes on a critical significance in national health policy research, and the public welfare of national health undertakings can be manifested by the government’s investment in health. In this
Na Wang
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Population Ageing and Government Health Expenditures in New Zealand, 1951-2051 [PDF]

The paper uses a simulation model to assess the effects of population ageing on government health expenditures in New Zealand. Population ageing is defined to include disability trends and “distance to death”; government health expenditures are defined ...
Audrey Teasdale, Jit Cheung, John Bryant, Martin Tobias, Mhairi McHugh   +4 more
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Cutaneous Phosphorylated Alpha‐Synuclein in Lewy Body Dementia

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To determine the test performance of cutaneous phosphorylated alpha‐synuclein (P‐SYN) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), individuals with reduced Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) and healthy controls. Methods This is the first subgroup analysis of the Synuclein‐One study, a prospective, blinded study evaluating P‐SYN detection ...
Christopher H. Gibbons, Todd Levine, Charles H. Adler, Bailey Bellaire, Ningshan Wang, Pinky Agarwal, Georgina M. Aldridge, Alexandru Barboi, Daniel Claassen, Virgilio G. H. Evidente, Douglas Galasko, Alejandra Gonzalez‐Duarte, Ramon Gil, Mark Gudesblatt, Stuart H. Isaacson, Horacio Kaufmann, Pravin Khemani, Rajeev Kumar, Guillaume Lamotte, Andy J. Liu, Nikolaus R. McFarland, Mitchell G. Miglis, Adam Reynolds, Gregory A. Sahagian, Marie‐Helene Saint‐Hilaire, Julie B. Schwartzbard, Wolfgang Singer, Michael J. Soileau, Steven Vernino, Patricio Millar Vernetti, Oleg Yerstein, Roy Freeman   +31 more
wiley   +1 more source