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The Employer-based Health-Insurance System (EBI) Is At Risk: What We Must Do About It [PDF]

, 2007
This report presents the first two parts of CED's research and covers the scope of the crisis in health care and the options for fixing the system. A third part offering CED's recommendations, Quality, Affordable Health Care for All: Moving Beyond the ...

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Addressing inequity in health and health care in Mexico.

, 2002
Despite the fact that life expectancy at birth in Mexico has improved from forty-two years in 1940 to seventy-three in 2000, major inequalities persist in health and access to health care.
Barraza-Lloréns, Mariana, Bertozzi, Stefano, González-Pier, Eduardo, Gutiérrez, Juan Pablo   +3 more
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A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd, Melissa Taylor, Helen Fulbright, Bob Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Consensus from the Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) Conference 2017

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
On March 24 and 25, 2017 researchers and clinicians from around the world met at Temple University in Philadelphia to discuss the current knowledge of Mycobacterium avium ssp. paratuberculosis (MAP) and its relationship to human disease.
J. Todd Kuenstner, Saleh Naser, William Chamberlin, Thomas Borody, David Y. Graham, Adrienne McNees, John Hermon-Taylor, Amy Hermon-Taylor, C. Thomas Dow, Walter Thayer, James Biesecker, Michael T. Collins, Leonardo A. Sechi, Shoor Vir Singh, Peilin Zhang, Ira Shafran, Stuart Weg, Grzegorz Telega, Robert Rothstein, Harry Oken, Stephen Schimpff, Horacio Bach, Tim Bull, Irene Grant, Jay Ellingson, Heinrich Dahmen, Judith Lipton, Saurabh Gupta, Kundan Chaubey, Manju Singh, Prabhat Agarwal, Ashok Kumar, Jyoti Misri, Jagdip Sohal, Kuldeep Dhama, Zahra Hemati, William Davis, Michael Hier, John Aitken, Ellen Pierce, Nicole Parrish, Neil Goldberg, Maher Kali, Sachin Bendre, Gaurav Agrawal, Robert Baldassano, Preston Linn, Raymond W. Sweeney, Marie Fecteau, Casey Hofstaedter, Raghava Potula, Olga Timofeeva, Steven Geier, Kuruvilla John, Najah Zayanni, Hoda M. Malaty, Christopher Kahlenborn, Amanda Kravitz, Adriano Bulfon, George Daskalopoulos, Hazel Mitchell, Brett Neilan, Verlaine Timms, Davide Cossu, Giuseppe Mameli, Paul Angermeier, Tomislav Jelic, Ralph Goethe, Ramon A. Juste, Lauren Kuenstner   +69 more
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Securing Health or Just Health Care? The Effect of the Health Care System on the Health of America [PDF]

, 1994
The author first analyzes why the prevention of illness and promotion of health provide the leading justification for the government to act for the welfare of the population.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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Prognostic Impact of Treatment Modalities, Including Targeted Compartmental Radio‐Immunotherapy, in a Cohort of Neuroblastoma Patients With CNS Metastases at Relapse

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neuroblastoma (NB) with central nervous system (CNS) metastases is rare at diagnosis, but occurs more often during relapse/progression. Patients with CNS metastases face a dismal prognosis, with no standardized curative treatment available.
Vicente Santa‐Maria Lopez, Anna Felip‐Badia, Marina Caballero‐Bellon, Nazaret Sanchez‐Sierra, Alicia Castañeda, Moira Garraus, Maite Gorostegui, Margarida Simão‐Rafael, Juan Pablo Muñoz, Marta Perez‐Somarriba, Salvador Mañe, Mariana Cecilia Planells, Sara Perez‐Jaume, Jaume Mora   +13 more
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There may be more than meets the eye with Clostridium perfringens bacteremia

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2017
We present the case of an 89-year-old man with a 1 month history of fevers and fatigue. Blood cultures were positive for Clostridium perfringens. The patient had worsening abdominal distension in which an abdominal computed tomography scan uncovered a ...
Stephen Melnick, Salik Nazir, Brian Chwiecko, Benjamin Lloyd   +3 more
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Efficiency of Health Care Sector at Sub-State Level in India: A Case of Punjab [PDF]

, 2009
In recent years, WHO and other individual researchers have advocated estimation of health system performance through stochastic frontier models. It provides an idealized yardstick to evaluate economic performance of health system.
Purohit, BC
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Improved Outcomes for Older Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults With Neuroblastoma in the Post‐Immunotherapy Era: An Updated Report From the International Neuroblastoma Risk Group

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We describe clinical and biologic characteristics of neuroblastoma in older children, adolescents, and young adults (OCAYA); describe survival outcomes in the post‐immunotherapy era; and identify if there is an age cut‐off that best discriminates outcomes.
Rebecca J. Deyell, Kavitha Srivatsa, Paola Angelini, Pei‐Chi Kao, Brady Payne, Arlene Naranjo, Sveva Castelli, Miho Kato, Miki Ohira, Ulriche Pöetschger, Yaël Mossé, Lucas Moreno, Meredith S. Irwin, Ramya Ramanujachar, Wendy B. London   +14 more
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The Brazilian health system at crossroads: progress, crisis and resilience

BMJ Global Health, 2018
The Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS)) has enabled substantial progress towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC) in Brazil. However, structural weakness, economic and political crises and austerity policies that have capped public ...
Adriano Massuda, T. Hone, Fernando Antônio Gomes Leles, Marcia C de Castro, R. Atun   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source