The public's priorities in health services [PDF]
AbstractBackgroundRationing in health services cannot be solved only by cost‐effective analysis because social values play a central role in the difficult trade‐off dilemma of prioritizing some service over others.ObjectiveTo examine the relative importance ascribed by the public to selected components of health services, in the national allocation of ...
Orna Baron-Epel, Giora Kaplan
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Population and species neighbor identity impact trait–trait relationships and plant performance
We evaluated how populations and species identity influence plant performance and trait outcomes in mixtures, and assessed trait variation among populations of two forb species native to the western United States (Dieteria canescens and Heterotheca villosa) following three interaction treatments (single‐population monoculture, two‐population mixture ...
Alicia J. Foxx+2 more
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Self-management support for chronic disease in primary care: frequency of patient self-management problems and patient reported priorities, and alignment with ultimate behavior goal selection. [PDF]
BackgroundTo enable delivery of high quality patient-centered care, as well as to allow primary care health systems to allocate appropriate resources that align with patients' identified self-management problems (SM-Problems) and priorities (SM ...
Bowyer, Vicky+8 more
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Decentralization and Public Delivery of Health Care Services in India [PDF]
This paper examines delivery of public health care services in India, in the broader context of decentralization. It provides an overview of the basic features and recent developments in intergovernmental fiscal relations and accountability mechanisms ...
Singh, Nirvikar
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This study examines the demographic dynamics of two seabird populations on Tromelin Island, 15 years after the eradication of brown rats. The results indicate that these populations are in good health and are expected to continue growing until breeding sites are saturated in about a century.
Merlène Saunier+6 more
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Setting health research priorities using the CHNRI method: II. Involving researchers [PDF]
Large groups of researchers who agree to offer their research ideas and then score them against pre–defined criteria are at the heart of each CHNRI priority–setting exercise.
Sachiyo Yoshida+3 more
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Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on Congressional Priorities [PDF]
Presents survey results on healthcare experts' support for implementing the 2010 health reform, including the individual mandate, health insurance exchanges, and Medicaid expansion; incentivizing care coordination; and expanding cost-containment ...
Karen Davis+2 more
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The unpredictably eruptive dynamics of spruce budworm populations in eastern Canada
We examine historical population data for spruce budworm from several locations through the period 1930–1997, and use density‐dependent recruitment curves to test whether the pattern of population growth over time is more consistent with Royama's (1984; Ecological Monographs 54:429–462) linear R(t) model of harmonic oscillation at Green River New ...
Barry J. Cooke, Jacques Régnière
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An Integrated Approach to the delivery of Child Mental Health Services [PDF]
While these documents contain very welcome recommendations for the well being of children, they touch upon the issues of child mental health only indirectly.
Kapur, Malavika
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Research priorities in mental health
Objective: Over the last decade, Australia has seen an increase in investment in mental health services, primarily through the funding of headspace and Better Access to Mental Health Outcomes programs. Concurrently there has been a policy focus on prevention and early intervention, suicide reduction and ‘hard-to-target’ groups such as Indigenous groups.
Christensen, Helen+4 more
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