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Behavioral Health and the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) Initiative: findings from the 2014 CPC behavioral health survey

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Incorporating behavioral health care into patient centered medical homes is critical for improving patient health and care quality while reducing costs.
Kara Zivin   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Higher Medicare Spending On Imaging And Lab Services After Primary Care Physician Group Vertical Integration.

open access: yesHealth Affairs, 2021
In recent years direct ownership of physician practices by hospitals and health systems (that is, vertical integration) has become a prominent feature of the US health care system.
C. Whaley   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

National travel distances for emergency care

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background Most emergency department (ED) patients arrive by their own transport and, for various reasons, may not choose the nearest ED. How far patients travel for ED treatment may reflect both patients’ access to care and severity of illness.
Anagha Tolpadi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Efficiency of Medicare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Technological advances in health care have been shown to yield large average health benefits for the U.S. elderly population. However, less is known about the marginal or incremental benefits of health care spending. We use geographical variations in health care spending to measure the marginal value of greater health care intensity among the elderly ...
Jonathan Skinner   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE PREVALENCE OF MALARIA AMONG CHILDREN UNDER FIVE YEARS ATTENDING HEALTH CARE AT ST ELIZABETH MAGALE HEALTH CENTER IV, NAMISINDWA DISTRICT. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.

open access: yesStudent's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023
Introduction:  Malaria remains a major public health problem associated with slow economic development and it accounts for 27.7% of deaths among children under the age of five in Uganda (MOH, NMCP 2014 - 2020). The study, therefore, seeks to determine
Jude Moya, Lydia Anywar
doaj   +1 more source

The Response to Medicare [PDF]

open access: yesPublic Health Reports (1896-1970), 1968
I MPLEMENTATION of title XVIII of Public Law 89-97 (Medicare) presented a unique opportunity to study several facets of social cha,nge because Medicare is a large-scale innovation in the philosophy and method olf payment for health and medical care services for the aged.
Jack Sigler   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Spectrum of histomorphological diagnosis in cystoscopic bladder biopsies

open access: yesJournal of Pathology of Nepal, 2017
Background:  Urinary bladder lesions are the main source of significant clinical symptoms which are more disabling than lethal. Bladder tumors constitute one of the most common urological pathology.
R Thapa, M Lakhey, AD Bhatta
doaj   +1 more source

A Medicare primer [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Vascular Surgery, 2009
Medicare is a massive and essential safety healthcare net for the elderly in the United States. It covers 45 million people in 2009 (almost one-sixth of the population) and projected to cover an increasing number of aged beneficiaries with a decreasing number of workers paying into the system.
openaire   +3 more sources

KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES TOWARDS MANAGEMENT OF SICKLE CELL DISEASE AMONG CARETAKERS OF SICKLERS AT PAEDIATRIC WARD IN MBALE RRH. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.

open access: yesStudent's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023
Introduction: Purpose of the study: The study aims at assessing the knowledge, attitude, and practices towards the management of sickle cell disease among caretakers of sicklers at the pediatric ward in Mbale Regional Referral Hospital. Methods: A cross-
Deborah Namajja , Henry Kasujja
doaj   +1 more source

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