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Informal Caregiving: Implications for Healthcare Expenditures
International Journal of Integrated Care, 2021 Introduction: Informal caregivers are family, friends, and neighbors who provide assistance to people in need of care without pay. Caregivers play a critical role in patients’ care. Care provided by informal caregivers is often seen as a lower cost substitute to formal care and their contributions are assumed to take strain off the care system ...
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A transparent, deformable stevia–PVA hydrogel triboelectric nanogenerator delivers significantly enhanced mechanical strength and electrical output through biomimetic hydrogen‐bonded networks. Coupled with machine learning–assisted signal recognition, the self‐powered hydrogel enables accurate human‐motion sensing for intelligent wearable and IoT ...
Thien Trung Luu +5 more
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Dynamic Health Care Decisions and Child Health in South Africa [PDF]
A large number of child deaths in developing countries could be averted if ill children received care sooner rather than later. This paper analyses the healthcare treatment pathway that is followed for children under the age of six. The majority of these
Olufunke Alaba, Steven Koch
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Health Economics Review, 2019 BackgroundPoor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person’s ability to work and imparting costs associated with receiving medical treatment. Universal health care is a means of protecting against the impoverishing impact
E. Callander, Haylee Fox, D. Lindsay
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review explores advances in wearable and lab‐on‐chip technologies for breast cancer detection. Covering tactile, thermal, ultrasound, microwave, electrical impedance tomography, electrochemical, microelectromechanical, and optical systems, it highlights innovations in flexible electronics, nanomaterials, and machine learning.
Neshika Wijewardhane +4 more
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Apples and oranges? A comparison of the public expenditure of the Visegrád countries [PDF]
In this article, the average expenditure of Hungary is compared to that of the other three Visegrád countries. In Hungary, this expenditure is higher by 10 % of GDP, but one-quarter of this is attributable to higher interest expenses, and one-third to ...
Gábor P. Kiss, Róbert Szemere
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Does organic agriculture lead to better health among poor farmers? An investigation of health expenditure among organic and conventional farmers in Thailand [PDF]
, 2008 Poverty and health are inextricably linked as the poor are always the first to suffer from degraded soil, water, and environment. For poor farmers in developing countries, inappropriate use of pesticides is known to be a serious problem.
Lavado, Rouselle F. +1 more
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Smart Closed‐Loop Systems in Personalized Healthcare: Advances and Outlook
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A smart closed‐loop e‐textile integrates multimodal sensing, onboard processing, wireless communication, and wearable power to enable real‐time physiological/biochemical monitoring and feedback‐controlled therapy. ABSTRACT Smart textiles represent a revolutionary frontier in healthcare, seamlessly blending fabric and advanced technologies to create ...
Safoora Khosravi +12 more
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DANCING WITH THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY – MEDICAL PRACTICE BETWEEN ETHICS AND BUSINESS [PDF]
The paper deals with the Romanian consumer’s profile, analyzed in terms of household expenditure structure, by main destinations for food,non-food, services and taxes components, and household’s consumption, in terms of size and structure of food ...
CRĂCIUNAŞ, Diana, CRĂCIUNAŞ, Sorin
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Factors associated with patterns of plural healthcare utilization among patients taking antiretroviral therapy in rural and urban South Africa: a cross-sectional study [PDF]
, 2012 BACKGROUND: In low-resource settings, patients' use of multiple healthcare sources may complicate chronic care and clinical outcomes as antiretroviral therapy (ART) continues to expand.
Cleary, Susan +3 more
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