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Risk Governance and Deliberative Democracy in Health Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
I argue in this article that the concept of risk-centered governance is the best theoretical paradigm for understanding health law and the health care system. Over the past 20 years, an insurance-inflected discourse has migrated from the purely financial
Hunter, Nan D.
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Emotional abuse of girls in Swaziland: prevalence, perpetrators, risk and protective factors and health outcomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Background: Research on emotional child abuse in sub–Saharan Africa is scarce. Few studies thus far have examined prevalence, risk and protective factors for emotional child abuse or the associations between emotional abuse and girls’ health. Methods:
Dunne, Michael P.   +7 more
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Radiotherapy Delivery in Deep Inspiration for Pediatric Patients—Final Results of the Phase II Feasibility Study TEDDI

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction The TEDDI trial tested the feasibility and reproducibility of deep‐inspiration breath‐hold (DIBH) in pediatric patients referred for radiotherapy. This report presents final results, including patient‐reported outcomes (PRO) and dosimetric comparison of DIBH and free‐breathing (FB).
Daniella Elisabet Østergaard   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of motivation camp towards academic performance and time management among first year biomedical science students

open access: yesLife Sciences, Medicine and Biomedicine, 2020
Background: Time management is one of the factors that may influence students’ academic performance in university. A cross-sectional study was carried out to evaluate the role of motivation camp programme towards time management among first-year ...
Siti Fathiah Masre   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health-Status Insurance: How Markets Can Provide Health Security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
None of us has health insurance, really. If you develop a long-term condition such as heart disease or cancer, and if you then lose your job or are divorced, you can lose your health insurance.
John H. Cochrane
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Methyl mercury concentrations in seafood collected from Zhoushan Islands, Zhejiang, China, and their potential health risk for the fishing community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Seafood is an important exposure route for mercury, especially methyl mercury (MeHg). Therefore, we quantified MeHg concentrations in 69 species of seafood including fish, crustaceans and mollusks collected from Zhoushan Islands, China.
Khan, Anwarzeb   +7 more
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Valuation of Health Risks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Many public policies and individual actions have consequences for population health. To understand whether a (costly) policy undertaken to improve population health is a wise use of resources, analysts can use economic evaluation methods to assess the costs and benefits.
Andersson, H., Hole, A.R., Svensson, M.
openaire   +3 more sources

Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk adjustment in the Netherlands; an analysis of insurers' health care expenditures [PDF]

open access: yes
As of 2006, the Dutch healthcare system will be run by regulated competition. An important part of regulated competition is a system of risk adjustment.
Rudy Douven
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Adolescent smoking: behavioural risk factors and health beliefs [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The study extends previous research on adults by assessing the role of cognitive factors of smoking behaviour in 885 ...
Griffiths, MD, Umeh, K
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