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Health Care Opinion Leaders' Views on the Future of Long-Term Care [PDF]

, 2008
Presents findings from a survey of experts on the challenges for long-term care -- securing adequate financing, developing the required healthcare workforce, and improving the quality of long-term care -- and strategies for addressing ...
Karen Davis, Mary Jane Koren, Michelle M. Doty   +2 more
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A Comprehensive Analysis on the Healthcare Systems in Latin America [PDF]

, 2019
This comprehensive report summarizes and analyzes the current state of healthcare in Latin America, specifically in the countries of Mexico, Brazil, the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras), the Andean Region (Ecuador, Peru, and ...
Calderon, Melinda, Gallagher, Matt, Haque, Sarah, Jackson, Kelly, Khatry, Melissa, Solimano, Elena   +5 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis for Intravenous Methylprednisolone‐Refractory Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder: Clinical and Radiological Outcomes in a Single‐Center Case Series

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is a relapsing autoimmune disease of the central nervous system. High‐dose intravenous methylprednisolone (IVMP) is the standard first‐line therapy for acute attacks, although some patients remain refractory.
Wataru Horiguchi, Daisuke Katagiri, Takeyuki Watadani, Shunichi Matsuda, Hiroshi Kaneko, Noritoshi Arai   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hardship financing of healthcare among rural poor in Orissa, India

BMC Health Services Research, 2012
Background This study examines health-related "hardship financing" in order to get better insights on how poor households finance their out-of-pocket healthcare costs. We define hardship financing as having to borrow money with interest or to sell assets
Binnendijk Erika, Koren Ruth, Dror David M   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Comprehensive Congressional Health Reform Bills of 2009: A Look at Health Insurance, Delivery System, and Financing Provisions [PDF]

, 2009
Provides an overview of the key provisions of the House and Senate healthcare reform bills that are essential to a high-performance health system.
Jennifer L. Nicholson, Karen Davis, Rachel Nuzum, Sara R. Collins, Sheila D. Rustgi, Stephanie Mika   +5 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
wiley   +1 more source

A mixed methods study examining the impact of primary health care financing transitions on facility functioning and service delivery in Kenya: a study protocol [version 1; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

Wellcome Open Research
Background Kenya has experienced several health financing changes that have implications for financing primary healthcare (PHC). These include transitions from funding by two key donors (the World Bank and the Danish International Development Agency ...
Jacinta Nzinga, Anita Musiega, Rose Nabi Deborah Karimi Muthuri, Ethan Wong, Peter Mugo, Wangari Ng’ang’a, Caitlin Mazzilli, Gillian Turner, Brittany Hagedorn, Nirmala Ravishankar, Anne Musuva, Felix Munene Murira, Edwine Barasa, Benjamin Tsofa   +13 more
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Preferences on Policy Options for Ensuring the Financial Sustainability of Healthcare Services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Risk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2023
Najwa Ali Huraysi,1,2 Waleed M Kattan,1 Mohamed A Alqurashi,1 Bodour Ayman Fadel,1 Mohammed Khaled Al-Hanawi1,3 1Department of Health Services and Hospital Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administration, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi ...
Huraysi NA, Kattan WM, Alqurashi MA, Fadel BA, Al-Hanawi MK   +4 more
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Sources of health care financing in Poland and Germany

Prawo Budżetowe Państwa i Samorządu, 2018
This paper focuses on public sources of a healthcare financing in Poland and in Germany. These systems are based primarily on the health insurance contributions. In Poland and in Germany a healthcare is also financed from state budgets. Author identified
Paweł Lenio
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Accelerated Reforms in Healthcare Financing: The Need to Scale up Private Sector Participation in Nigeria [PDF]

International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014
The health sector, a foremost service sector in Nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the Nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system
Ufuoma John Ejughemre
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