Developing Innovative Payment Approaches: Finding the Path to High Performance [PDF]
, 2010 Discusses issues in facilitating, under the 2010 health reform law, initiatives to identify, develop, implement, and monitor payment and delivery system reforms to improve quality and control costs while supporting the fiscal integrity of public ...
Heather Drake, Stuart Guterman
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Understanding the paradox of primary teacher shortage in low‐income countries: Insights from Malawi
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Malawi faces a persistent and chronic teacher shortage, particularly at the primary school level, with much of the challenge attributed to teacher supply constraints. While the causes of teacher shortages are known to be complex and context‐dependent, there remains a lack of in‐depth, country‐specific research to guide effective policies ...
Peter Mtika, Edward M. Sosu
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BMC Health Services ResearchBackground As part of China’s medical insurance-related grouping payment reform, public hospitals, which are the primary providers of medical insurance services, face remarkable pressure to control costs.
Mengying Li +4 more
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Emergent hospital reform in response to outbreak of COVID-19. [PDF]
Brain Behav Immun, 2020 Li J +6 more
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The determinants of hospital costs : an analysis of Ethiopia [PDF]
The problem of financing health care in poor countries has become increasingly acute. In the context of health financing, hospitals are viewed with skepticism as facilities are not cost-effective in the provision of primary health care services.
Bitran-Dicowsky, Ricardo +1 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract School is an important setting for supporting young people's healthy development and positive mental wellbeing. Recent curriculum changes in Scotland and Wales reflect this, adopting a whole‐school approach to health and wellbeing as a central pedagogical focus and responsibility of all working in the sector. Alongside education system reform,
Mary Wilson +8 more
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Physician Payment Mechanisms, Hospital Length of Stay and Risk of Readmission: a Natural Experiment [PDF]
We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients’ length of stay and risk of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1999. The Quebec Government introduced an optional
Bernard Fortin, Damien Échevin
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First, Treat the System: The Atlantic Philanthropies' Effort to Promote Health and Equity in Viet Nam by Investing in a Healthier, More Equitable System of Policy, Practice, and Care [PDF]
, 2012 Describes Atlantic's investments and early outcomes in helping develop a more complete and equitable primary care system as well as a culture of public health policy and practice in partnership with the East Meets West Foundation and local ...
Tony Proscio
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New opportunities for bioscaffold‐enabled spinal cord injury repair
BMEMat, EarlyView.Schematic illustration of bioscaffolds for spinal cord injury repair. We summarize the effects of bioscaffold properties on SCI repair, highlight different types of bioscaffolds, various fabrication strategies, and in vivo transformations for the clinical development of SCI‐repairing bioscaffolds.
Xiaoqing Qi +11 more
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The Effects of County Public Hospital Reform on the Consumption and Costs of Antibiotics: Evidence from a Quasinatural Experiment in Jiangsu, China. [PDF]
Biomed Res Int, 2020 Wang Y +5 more
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