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Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health Policy Assessment: A Tutorial

PharmacoEconomics (Auckland), 2016
Health policy instruments such as the public financing of health technologies (e.g., new drugs, vaccines) entail consequences in multiple domains. Fundamentally, public health policies aim at increasing the uptake of effective and efficient interventions
S. Verguet, Jane J. Kim, D. Jamison
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Growth Differentiation Factor 15 Elevation in the Central Nervous System Is Associated With Failure to Thrive in Alexander Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Alexander disease (AxD) is a severe neurodegenerative disorder caused by gain‐of‐function mutations in the gene for GFAP, which lead to protein aggregation and a primary astrocytopathy. Symptoms vary, but failure to thrive (FTT) and frequent emesis are common and cause significant morbidity. Here we investigate GDF15, a member of the
Tracy L. Hagemann, Michelle M. Sonsalla, Cora Luzinski, Fernando Zacahua, David A. Harris, Dudley W. Lamming, Albee Messing   +6 more
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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Prevalence Projection in 2040: A Less Rare Disease

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To project ALS prevalence across multiple countries through 2040, accounting for both population aging and increased survival. Methods Data from the Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta ALS register (PARALS) was used to estimate the trends in incidence and prevalence from 2005 to 2019. Survival trends over this period were also assessed.
Rosario Vasta, Stefano Callegaro, Antonio Canosa, Umberto Manera, Maurizio Grassano, Francesca Palumbo, Sara Cabras, Enrico Matteoni, Francesca Di Pede, Filippo De Mattei, Salvatore Tafaro, Neil M. Thakur, Ryan Grosenick, Fabiola De Marchi, Letizia Mazzini, Cristina Moglia, Andrea Calvo, Kuldip D. Dave, Adriano Chiò   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using media to impact health policy-making: an integrative systematic review

Implementation Science, 2017
IntroductionMedia interventions can potentially play a major role in influencing health policies. This integrative systematic review aimed to assess the effects of planned media interventions—including social media—on the health policy-making process ...
Lama Bou-Karroum, F. El-Jardali, N. Hemadi, Yasmine Faraj, Utkarsh Ojha, M. Shahrour, A. Darzi, Maha Ali, Carine Doumit, Etienne V. Langlois, Jad Melki, Gladys Honein AbouHaidar, E. Akl   +12 more
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Da heterogeneidade à harmonização? : tendências recentes na política de saúde européia [PDF]

, 2007
In the European Union (EU), health policy and the institutional reform of health systems have been treated primarily as national affairs, and health care systems within the EU thus differ considerably.
Gerlinger, Thomas, Urban, Hans-Jürgen
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Screening for Social Determinants of Health in Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: A Point‐of‐Care Feasibility Study

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDoH) can impact outcomes but are not routinely screened for in US outpatient rheumatology clinics. This study determined the feasibility of routine point‐of‐care SDoH screening among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and associated barriers and facilitators at the physician, care team, and ...
S. Sam Lim, Vijay R. Nadipelli, Michelle Bruno, Daphne Lew, Bernard Rubin, Charmayne M. Dunlop‐Thomas, Kelsey Hulcher, Kristi R. Mitchell, Lydia Demetriou, Jeff Berko, Jason Bao, Alfred H. J. Kim   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering decision makers in Latin America: potential impact of three interventions for tobacco control

Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018
Background The burden of disease attributable to tobacco use in Latin America is very high. The objective of this study was to evaluate the potential impact of implementing cigarette plain packaging (PP), 100% smoke-free environments (SFE) and complete ...
Andrea Alcaraz, María Belén Rodríguez, Akram Hernández Vásquez, Natalie Soto, Sebastián García Martí, Ariel Bardach, Alfredo Palacios, Andrés Pichón-Riviere   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A third wave not a third way? New Labour human rights and mental health in historical context [PDF]

, 2009
This historically situated, UK-based review of New Labour’s human rights and mental health policy following the 1998 Human Rights Act (HRA) and 2007 Mental Health Act (MHA), draws on Klug’s identification of three waves of human rights.
Appleby, Bhaskar, Butler, Crossley, Dawson, Foucault, Fraser, Hoffman, Hunt, Ishay, Jones, Klug, Lifton, McCrudden, Mick Carpenter, Scull, Thornicroft, Weiner   +17 more
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Agreement of Administrative Pharmacy Dispensing With Self‐Reported Use of Oral Prednisone in US Veterans With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Administrative claims are used to evaluate oral glucocorticoid use in rheumatoid arthritis (RA), despite limited evidence to support accuracy. We aimed to evaluate the performance of claims‐based algorithms for glucocorticoid use compared to self‐report in an RA population.
Beth I. Wallace, Bryant R. England, Joshua F. Baker, Michael D. George, Brian C. Sauer, Jorge Rojas, Punyasha Roul, Katherine D. Wysham, Hannah Brubeck, Isaac Smith, Liron Caplan, Paul A. Monach, Gail S. Kerr, Gary Kunkel, Tawnie Braaten, Ted R. Mikuls, Grant W. Cannon   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source