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Integrated local health systems in Central America

Social Science & Medicine, 1996
This paper describes a few Central American experiences related to the development of integrated, participatory health care systems. Theory and analytic method center on the tensions inherent in the dichotomies of professional/popular, center/periphery and biomedical/traditional. Using a framework rooted in the World Health Organization's 1978 call for
Bruce Barrett
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Local Public Health System Performance and Community Health Outcomes

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2012
Public health systems are charged with protecting the health and well-being of the communities they serve. Higher-performing public health systems should be associated with improved community health status. Currently, little research examines the impact of variations in public health system performance on community health outcomes.The current study ...
Richard C, Ingram, F Douglas, Scutchfield, Richard, Charnigo, Martha C, Riddell   +3 more
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Descriptive Epidemiology of Local Public Health Systems

American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 1995
This article, presented at the Research and Measurement of Public Health Core Functions Science Symposium sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in June 1994, provides selected data from the 1992-1993 National Profile of Local Health Departments.
M, Mullet, N, Rawding, C K, Brown, D, Custer, J, Suen   +4 more
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Innovation networks in the advanced medical equipment industry: supporting regional digital health systems from a local–national perspective

Frontiers in Public Health
This study investigates the spatial structure and influencing factors of the innovation network in the advanced medical equipment and device manufacturing industry in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD).
Feng Hu, Huijie Yang, Liping Qiu, Xiaoping Wang, Zhimin Ren, Shaobin Wei, Haiyan Zhou, Yufeng Chen, Hao Hu   +8 more
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Efficient Local-State-Federal Public Health Systems

Journal of Public Health Policy, 1982
It is not only inevitable, but desirable. Reflection brings M _ .V. L 3 one to similar conclusions about public health in this great country. Major changes come regularly. Probably &se? most are desirable, providing welcome opportunities. A few are catastrophic, however.
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Developing National Performance Standards for Local Public Health Systems

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 2005
Since the beginning of the 1990s, public health has struggled to measure its performance and capacity to carry out the core functions of public health practice, while facing increasing challenges within the ever-changing landscape of healthcare delivery, bioterrorism response, emerging infections, and other threats to the public's health.
Rosemary, Bakes-Martin, Liza C, Corso, Laura B, Landrum, V Scott, Fisher, Paul K, Halverson   +4 more
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The Yugoslav Health System: Public Ownership and Local Control

Journal of Public Health Policy, 1984
s em Europe, similar in size and population to the State of Y \ jr g California, with a long Adriatic coast which has made it one of Europe's most popular vacation spots. The area of present day Yugoslavia has for centuries been a focus ZAe% of contention between east and west.
D U, Himmelstein, S, Lang, S, Woolhandler   +2 more
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Impact Of Purchasing Strategies On Local Health Care Systems

Health Affairs, 1996
Efforts to control health care costs increasingly rely on purchasers to seek the best value for their investment. In this examination of purchasing strategies in fifteen communities, most purchasers employed traditional strategies to reduce their direct costs, such as shifting costs to employees and switching from indemnity to managed care plans. Fewer
D J, Lipson, J M, De Sa
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System Health in Locally Autonomic Radio-Telescopes

Third International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (ICAS'07), 2007
The extreme sensitivity and flexibility of the LOFAR radio telescope is achieved through a large reception area (10,000-1,000,000 m2), wideband (0.2-4 GHz) signal processing and digital beam forming. The trend towards more local autonomy and resource sharing in the infrastructure and on-line real-time distributed calibration provides conditions for ...
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