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Improving health outcomes

open access: yes, 2006
Bokhari, Farasat   +2 more
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Interpreting health outcomes

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 1997
Interest in outcomes is universal. To patients, good outcomes represent their highest hopes for therapy; to health care professionals, good outcomes are the desired end‐point of a complex web of care. More recently, politicians and health care managers too have shifted their emphasis away from health service activity and towards what is termed ‘health ...
H T, Davies, I K, Crombie
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Government Health Expenditures and Health Outcomes

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006
AbstractThis paper provides econometric evidence linking a country's per capita government health expenditures and per capita income to two health outcomes: under‐five mortality and maternal mortality. Using instrumental variables techniques (GMM‐H2SL), we estimate the elasticity of these outcomes with respect to government health expenditures and ...
Bokhari, Farasat   +2 more
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Health outcomes of bereavement

The Lancet, 2007
In this Review, we look at the relation between bereavement and physical and mental health. Although grief is not a disease and most people adjust without professional psychological intervention, bereavement is associated with excess risk of mortality, particularly in the early weeks and months after loss. It is related to decrements in physical health,
Margaret, Stroebe   +2 more
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Health Outcomes

2014
Health outcomes refer to the health consequences brought about by the treatment of a health condition or as a result of an interaction with the healthcare system. It is a multidimensional concept that can be studied on multiple levels. Description Conceptual and Measurement Issues Health is a broad concept, defined by the World Health Organization as ...
Leung, SSK, Lee, AM
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Home Health Outcome Patterns

Home Health Care Services Quarterly, 2004
Using OASIS data collected by all Medicare-certified home health agencies, this article first presents descriptive statistics on patient outcomes for a national agency sample in 2001, soon after Medicare prospective payment implementation. Ratios of actual to predicted outcome rates, aggregated for groups of outcomes, are considered as potential ...
Robert E, Schlenker   +2 more
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Politics and health outcomes

The Lancet, 2006
The aim of this study was to examine the complex interactions between political traditions, policies, and public health outcomes, and to find out whether different political traditions have been associated with systematic patterns in population health over time.
Vicente, Navarro   +7 more
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Government and health outcomes. [PDF]

open access: possibleThe American economic review, 1981
In this paper, I summarize the results of empirical studies in the areas of schooling and health, public programs and infant mortality, and government regulation of teenage smoking. My review is selective and is based on my own research. It is neutral with respect to the question of whether the government should pursue policies to improve the health of
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Relating health policy to women's health outcomes

Social Science & Medicine, 2005
Individuals' social and economic circumstances, including socioeconomic status and medical care availability, are central to health outcomes, particularly for women. These factors are often mediated by governmental policies. This exploratory study found associations between women's health outcomes and state-level policies related to women's health ...
Jennifer P, Wisdom   +2 more
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