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Engineered molecular diagnostic strategies for hepatocellular carcinoma: Integrating flexible photonic barcodes, liquid biopsies, and AI‐enhanced sensing platforms

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Abstract Early diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains challenging because conventional serum biomarkers, especially alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP), show limited sensitivity for early‐stage disease. Recent progress in engineered molecular diagnostics provides new opportunities to improve HCC detection through integrated material, molecular, and ...
Jingzhi Xue, Wanqi Yang, Xiaoyu Liu, Xuehui Chu, Wei Li, Jinglin Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible organic electrodes for batteries: A mini‐review

FlexMat, EarlyView.
This review surveys progress and challenges in flexible organic electrodes (FOEs) for batteries. We discuss their fabrication methods, electrochemical performance, and mechanical tolerance, covering both planar and fibrous architectures, and compare them with flexible inorganic and rigid organic electrodes.
Yang Liu, Haowen Chen, Jingwen Wang, Jiena Weng, Zong‐Qiong Lin   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pursuing Affordability, Fairness, and Efficiency in the U.S. Commercial Health Insurance Market

Health Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The high cost of health insurance and health care services in the US is affecting not only the uninsured and lower income households, but is beginning to reach into the middle class. Current health insurance benefit designs often fail to address two forms of market failure: poor consumer information and distorted prices.
Minjeong Kang, Bryan E. Dowd
wiley   +1 more source

The Utilization of Outpatient Health Services among the Elderlies in Yazd in 2018

Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat, 2019
Background: Aging population is one of the most important demographic phenomena associated with increasing costs and demand for health services. Hence, planning and utilizing health services is a very important concern for the elderly as well as the ...
Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad, Mohsen Pakdaman, Parisa Emadi   +2 more
doaj  

The Impact of Domestic Public Health Spending on Health Outcomes in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Evidence From Disability‐Adjusted Life Years

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) continues to experience a high and uneven disease burden, mainly from HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. As external funding declines, the strategic allocation of domestic public health spending (DPHS) becomes crucial.
Wa Ntita Serge Kabongo, Josue Mbonigaba
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Out-of-pocket Payment, Catastrophic Health Expenditure and the Related Socioeconomic Inequality in Peru: A Comparison Between 2008 and 2017. [PDF]

J Prev Med Public Health, 2020
Hernández-Vásquez A, Rojas-Roque C, Vargas-Fernández R, Rosselli D.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Inclusion of Refugees Into National Health Systems: Enablers, Barriers and Lessons From Six Country Case Studies

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The global refugee population has nearly doubled in the last decade, and many of these populations face chronic displacement, often in neighbouring countries with limited resources. Emergency, short‐term responses are being transitioned to longer term approaches, including a focus on inclusion through coverage in national health systems ...
Sophie Witter, Alastair Ager, Karin Diaconu, Zahid Ali Memon, Ben Ngoye, Natasha Palmer, Marcia Vera‐Espinoza, Amina Olabi, Hussam Rekani, Hassan Ould Moctar, Ricardo Chuquimia, Chitalu Miriam Chama‐Chiliba, Ibrahim Bou‐Orm, Maria Paola Bertone   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health System Resilience and Afghan Refugee Health in Pakistan: An Exploratory Study of Challenges and Pathways to Inclusion

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pakistan has hosted Afghan refugees for more than four decades, in one of the world's most protracted displacements of people. Afghan refugees receive health services through United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and non‐governmental organisation (NGO) supported programmes alongside public sector facilities at every tier.
Zahid Ali Memon, Asma Ummad, Amina Olabi, Natasha Palmer, Sophie Witter   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the policy Effect of Medicine Subsidy Plan (Daruyar) on Patients\' Out-Of-Pocket Payments :A Case Study of the General Health Insurance Administration of Isfahan Province [PDF]

Rāhburdhā-yi Mudīriyyat dar Niẓām-i Salāmat
Background: The policy of removing the preferred drug currency (Daruyar plan) has been with the approach of increasing the coverage ratio and insurance obligations and paying attention to patients' out of pockets, especially incurable, chronic and low ...
Farshid Aslani, Hassan Dehghani, Hamed Tasdighi   +2 more
doaj  

Reimbursement Design and Procedure‐Level Gross Profit of Robot‐Assisted Gastrectomy in a Publicly Financed Health System: Evidence From Japan

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Publicly financed healthcare systems must balance technological innovation with fiscal constraints. Reimbursement mechanisms influence institutional decisions regarding the adoption of high‐cost surgical technologies. This study evaluated whether current reimbursement designs adequately reflect procedure‐level gross surgical profit of robot ...
Yoshimasa Akashi, Koichi Ogawa, Yohei Owada, Tsuyoshi Enomoto, Kinji Furuya, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Osamu Shimomura, Yoshihiro Miyazaki, Tatsuya Oda   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source