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The Changing Locus of Health Data Production and Use: Patient-Generated Health Data, Observations of Daily Living, and Personal Health Information Management [PDF]

arXiv, 2016
Despite the growing attention of researcher, healthcare managers and policy makers, data gathering and information management practices are largely untheorized areas. In this work are presented and discussed some early-stage conceptualizations: Patient-Generated Health Data (PGHD), Observations of Daily Living (ODLs) and Personal Health Information ...
arxiv  

Framing and the health policy process: a scoping review

Health Policy and Planning, 2016
Framing research seeks to understand the forces that shape human behaviour in the policy process. It assumes that policy is a social construct and can be cast in a variety of ways to imply multiple legitimate value considerations.
A. Koon, B. Hawkins, S. Mayhew
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Proposing the “Value- and Evidence-Based decision making and Practice” (VEDMAP) framework for Priority-Setting and knowledge translation in low and Middle-Income Countries: A novel framework for Decision-Making in Low-and middle income countries like Malawi

Health Policy Open, 2023
The existence and availability of evidence on its own does not guarantee that the evidence will be demanded and used by decision and policy makers. Decision and policy-makers, especially in low-income settings, often confront ethical dilemmas about ...
Joseph Mfutso-Bengo, Nthanda Nkungula, Emmanuel Mnjowe, Wingston Ng'ambi, Faless Jeremiah, Florence Kasende- Chinguwo, Fanuel Meckson Bickton, Dominic Nkhoma, Jobiba Chinkhumba, Sebastian Mboma, Lucky Ngwira, Mercy Juma, Isabel Kazanga-Chiumia, Pakwanja Twea, Gerald Manthalu   +14 more
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Burden of disease attributable to tobacco use and impact of different taxation schemes in Latin America

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable deaths worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease attributable to tobacco use and to evaluate the potential impact of increasing cigarette´s price through taxes
Ariel Bardach, Alfredo Palacios, María Belen Rodríguez, Andrea Alcaraz, Agustín Ciapponi, Sacha Virgilio, Federico Augustovski, Andrés Pichón-Riviere   +7 more
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Burden of Disease of Gonorrhoea in Latin America: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Infectious Diseases and Therapy, 2023
Introduction Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes gonorrhoea, a globally neglected but increasing disease. This systematic review and meta-analysis reviewed the epidemiology and economic burden of gonorrhoea in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Ariel Bardach, Tomás Alconada, Carolina Palermo, Carlos Rojas-Roque, María Macarena Sandoval, Jorge Gomez, Thatiana Pinto, Agustin Ciapponi   +7 more
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Mental Health and Abortions among Young Women: Time-varying Unobserved Heterogeneity, Health Behaviors, and Risky Decisions [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
In this paper, we provide causal evidence on abortions and risky health behaviors as determinants of mental health development among young women. Using administrative in- and outpatient records from Sweden, we apply a novel grouped fixed-effects estimator proposed by Bonhomme and Manresa (2015) to allow for time-varying unobserved heterogeneity.
arxiv  

Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE, 2020
Objective To study the U.S. public’s health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20–23, 2020).
S. Gadarian, S. Goodman, Thomas B. Pepinsky   +2 more
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Optimal Trade-Off Between Economic Activity and Health During an Epidemic [PDF]

arXiv, 2020
This paper considers a simple model where a social planner can influence the spread-intensity of an infection wave, and, consequently, also the economic activity and population health, through a single parameter. Population health is assumed to only be negatively affected when the number of simultaneously infected exceeds health care capacity. The main
arxiv  

Predictors of healthy ageing: public health policy targets

BMC Health Services Research, 2016
BackgroundThe public health policy agenda oriented towards healthy ageing becomes the highest priority for the European countries. The article discusses the healthy ageing concept and its possible determinants with an aim to identify behavioral patterns ...
A. Sowa, B. Tobiasz–Adamczyk, R. Topor-Madry, A. Poscia, D. L. La Milia   +4 more
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No Strings Attached: The Impact of an Unconditional Prenatal Income Supplement on First Nations Birth and Early Childhood Outcomes

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction In Manitoba, low-income pregnant women are eligible for the Healthy Baby Prenatal Benefit (HBPB), an unconditional income supplement provided during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. HBPB is associated with improved birth outcomes
Marni Brownell, Mariette Chartier, Nathan Nickel, Rhonda Campbell, Jennifer Enns, Wanda Phillips-Beck, Dan Chateau, Elaine Burland, Joykrishna Sarkar, Janelle Boram Lee   +9 more
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