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The policy of free healthcare for children under the age of 6 years in Vietnam: assessment of the uptake for children hospitalised with acute diarrhoea in Ho Chi Minh City. [PDF]

, 2013
OBJECTIVE: To assess the proportion of, and reasons for, households not utilising the policy of free healthcare for children under 6 years of age (FCCU6) for hospitalisation with diarrhoea, and assess the risk of catastrophic expenditure for households ...
Ho, Lu Viet, Baker, S, Shieh, Mae, Tediosi, F, Ho, LV, Pham, Thi Ngoc Tuyet, Thompson, C, Farrar, Jeremy J, Phan, Vu Tra My, Farrar, Jeremy, Ha, Manh Tuan, Farrar, Jeremy J., Thompson, Corinne, Merson, Laura, Farrar, JJ, Pham, TN, Van, Thi Thuy Linh, Tediosi, Fabrizio, Shieh, M, Van, TT, Phan, VT, Ha, MT, Baker, Stephen   +22 more
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Forecasting healthcare expenditure using ConvLSTM

, 2023
There have been multiple methods proposed both neural and statistical, in literature, to help predict healthcare expenditure. The main goal of this work was to evaluate the neural techniques and use them to predict the average weekly expenditure by ...
Lawande, Saurabh Nitin
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Assessment of Universal Healthcare Coverage in a District of North India: A Rapid Cross-Sectional Survey Using Tablet Computers.

PLoS ONE, 2016
ObjectiveA rapid survey was carried out in Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar District of Punjab state in India to ascertain health seeking behavior and out-of-pocket health expenditures.MethodsUsing multistage cluster sampling design, 1,008 households (28 ...
Tarundeep Singh, Pritam Roy, Limalemla Jamir, Saurav Gupta, Navpreet Kaur, D K Jain, Rajesh Kumar   +6 more
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A Survey of the Impact of Death-Related Costs on Health-Care Expenditure and Demographics and Health Costs in Italy. ENEPRI Policy Briefs No. 5, 19 December 2007 [PDF]

, 2007
This Policy Brief summarises two papers prepared for the AHEAD project (WP7) focusing on the impact of death costs on health-care spending. The papers reviewed the empirical literature on health economics, presenting the main results obtained by studies ...
Raitano, M., Gabriele, S.
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
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The Challenge of Additionality: The Impact of Central Grants for Primary Healthcare on State-Level Spending on Primary Healthcare in India [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2019
Background In planning for universal health coverage, many countries have been examining their fiscal decentralization policies with the goal of increasing efficiency and equity via “additionalities.” The concept of “additionality,” when the government ...
Diana M. Bowser, Rajesh Jha, Manjiri Bhawalkar, Peter Berman   +3 more
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Infection Control Practices for Vascular Access Management in Hemodialysis: Results From a Nationwide Survey of Japanese National University Hospitals

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Bloodstream infections due to repeated vascular access (VA) puncture and circuit connections remain major concerns in hemodialysis. Therefore, we examined current practices for glove, disinfectant, and personal protective equipment (PPE) use according to VA type in national university hospitals in Japan.
Aiko Yamada, Makoto Harada, Tadahiko Kikugawa, Takeshi Nakata, Koji Hashimoto, Tsuneo Konta, Yuji Kamijo   +6 more
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An Empirical Assessment of Public Healthcare Expenditure in the North-East India: A Panel Data Study

Online Journal of Health & Allied Sciences, 2023
Background: Healthcare expenditure plays a crucial role in determining the quality and accessibility of healthcare services within a country. The Indian government has made efforts to improve healthcare infrastructure and services for which, they need ...
Banalata Saikia, Manuj Baruah, Nilutpal Neog   +2 more
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Health-care utilization and expenditure patterns in the rural areas of Punjab, India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2018
Objective: To determine pattern of health care utilization and extent of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in rural areas of Punjab in India. Methods: Using multi stage sampling procedure, 660 participants were selected from 110 villages, out of all ...
Tarundeep Singh, Nidhi Bhatnagar, Gopal Singh, Manmeet Kaur, Sukhvinder Kaur, Preeti Thaware, Rajesh Kumar   +6 more
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