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Aproximación a un servicio de atención domiciliaria (SAD) municipal Approach to a local home care service

Gerokomos, 2006
Introducción: El envejecimiento progresivo de la población española y la importancia demográfica de las personas mayores se concreta en que 17 de cada 100 españoles tiene 65 años o más. El descenso de la tasa de mortalidad y aumento de la esperanza de vida hace que exista un crecimiento considerable de la dependencia, fragilidad y necesidad de cuidados
Esperanza Ballesteros Pérez, Pablo David Sánchez, Pilar Torres Egea, Montserrat Palma Ferrando   +3 more
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Safety climate and participatory safety activities in municipal home care services

, 2010
Godkänd; 2011; 20110218 (andbra)
Larsson, Agneta, Karlqvist, Lena, Gard, Gunvor   +2 more
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Investigating user satisfaction with the services provided by the care program "Helping Elderly at Home" and assessing their self-evaluation health level: The case of the program "Helping Elderly at Home" in the municipality of Kilkis

, 2019
ABSTRACT Introduction: The recent socioeconomic crisis created an imperative need to empower the non-hospital structures that provide care services to the elderly. In Greece, the programs “Helping Elderly at Home” and “Social Care” are the most widespread kind of non-institutional care services.
Frengidou, Elissavet, Frengidou, Elisavet, Nikolentzos, Athanasios, Galanis, Petros, Papadopoulou, Antonia   +4 more
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Far out or alone in the crowd: Classification of selfevaluators in DEA [PDF]

The units found strongly efficient in DEA studies on efficiency can be divided into self-evaluators and active peers, depending on whether the peers are referencing any inefficient units or not.
Edvardsen, Dag Fjeld, Føsund, Finn R., Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.   +2 more
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Analysis of Research on the Effects of Improved Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene on the Health of People Living with HIV and AIDS and Programmatic Implications [PDF]

, 2007
This paper reviews the existing scientific and programmatic evidence, raises WASH issues in the HIV and AIDS context that need further study to build the evidence base, assesses current WASH guidance through a review of national HIV/AIDS guidelines from ...

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No. 22: South African Government and Civil Society Responses to Zimbabwean Migration [PDF]

, 2008
This policy brief discusses a key paradox in relation to Zimbabwean migration into South Africa. While Zimbabwean migration since 2000 has been the largest concentrated flow in South African history, South Africa’s reaction to this movement has been ...
Poizer, Tara
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Information Management and E-services Development : The Follow-up Process of Residential Care Homes for Children and Young People in Two Swedish Municipalities

, 2021
This article presents preliminary results of a study that explores the management of information critical to the follow-up process of the placement of children and young people in residential care homes in two municipalities in Sweden. The placement of children and young people is regulated by a stringent legal framework to protect their integrity ...
Svärd, Proscovia, Zimic, Sheila
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Efficiency in the provision of municipal nursing- and home-care services: The Norwegian experience [PDF]

, 1999
The municipalities in Norway are responsible for providing care for their inhabitants in need. The care takes two main forms: institutionalised care in nursing homes and home-based care.
Erlandsen, Espen, Førsund, Finn R.
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Assessing the effectiveness of a longitudinal knowledge dissemination intervention: Sharing research findings in rural South Africa [PDF]

, 2017
Knowledge dissemination interventions (KDIs) are integral to knowledge brokerage activities in research as part of the ethics of practice, but are seldom evaluated. In this case study, we critically reflect on an annual KDI as part of knowledge brokerage
Kahn, Kathleen, Lewando Hundt, Gillian, Twine, Rhian   +2 more
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Potential interactions of community-based acute care teams on the frequency of acute contacts with health-care systems: an interrupted time series analysis

The Lancet. Healthy Longevity
Summary: Background: Ageing populations necessitate innovative approaches to health-care services. In 2018, Denmark introduced statutory municipal acute nursing care as part of community-based health care to improve care for adults with complex health ...
Stine Emilie Junker Udesen, MScPH, ProfMD Annmarie Touborg Lassen, MScPH, ProfMD Jens Søndergaard, MScPH, Nina Andersen, RN, ProfMD Søren Mikkelsen, RN, Søren Bie Bogh, PhD   +5 more
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