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AFYA Crossroads: Balancing Public Expectations With Fiscal Responsibility in Kuwait's Health Insurance for Retirees

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 491-495, September 2025.
ABSTRACT The AFYA health insurance scheme, introduced in 2014, aimed to supplement state healthcare services for retirees through private coverage. Initially celebrated as a progressive reform to alleviate pressure on public healthcare services, AFYA expanded to include widows and housewives, reaching nearly 200,000 beneficiaries by 2024. Consequently,
Abdullah Alibrahim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between fetishism and survival : is the scientific article an academic commodity? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This article discusses the possible meanings of the intense prevailing concern in academic circles over the notion of research productivity, as reflected in an excess number of articles published in various scientific journals.
Castiel, Luis D., Sanz-Valero, Javier
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Political Partisanship Correlates With Attitudes of South Dakota Nurses Toward Flu and COVID‐19 Vaccination Mandates for Healthcare Workers

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 538-545, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Mandatory vaccination for healthcare workers (HCWs) became a contested issue during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We examined the attitudes of South Dakota nurses toward mandatory flu and COVID‐19 vaccination for HCWs in the post‐pandemic period. Using contact information from the state regulatory body, we emailed nurses in South Dakota to complete ...
Filip Viskupič   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Las campañas de vacunación contra la poliomielitis en España en 1963

open access: yesAsclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 2009
En 1963 coexistieron en el tiempo dos campañas de vacunación antipoliomielítica: la llevada a cabo con vacuna Salk por el Seguro Obligatorio de Enfermedad y la experiencia piloto con vacuna oral Sabin que promovió la Dirección General de Sanidad.
Juan Antonio Rodríguez Sánchez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

La medicina asistencial, sanitaria y social peronista : discurso, acciones y logros : el caso de San Rafael, Mendoza : (1949-1952) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
El cuidado y la preservación de la salud física y moral de la población fue una de las principales metas del gobierno de Juan Domingo Perón, siendo las disposiciones del Primer Plan Quinquenal y las propuestas de Ramón Carrillo, la reestructuración ...
Hirschegger, Ivana
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Policy Effectiveness in Managing Drug Shortages: Evidence From South Korea (2015–2024)

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, Volume 17, Issue 3, Page 561-572, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Drug shortages represent a growing policy challenge for healthcare systems worldwide. This study investigates actual drug shortage events in South Korea from 2015 to 2024, using a “Shortage Occurred vs. Shortage Non‐Occurred” framework to distinguish real‐world disruptions from administrative classifications.
Seung‐Rae Yu
wiley   +1 more source

Las sombras de la política sanitaria durante el peronismo: Los brotes epidémicos en Buenos Aires

open access: yesAsclepio: Revista de Historia de la Medicina y de la Ciencia, 2006
Este artículo revisará las consecuencias sociales y políticas que trajo el surgimiento de la peste bubónica, la viruela y la poliomielitis en la ciudad de Buenos Aires durante la década peronista.
Karina Inés Ramacciotti
doaj   +1 more source

Role of the health literacy assessment in healthcare: Content validation of “Health Literacy Behaviour” nursing outcome

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nursing Knowledge, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 264-274, July 2025.
Abstract Purpose To validate the content of the “Health Literacy Behaviour” nursing outcome (NO). Methods A content validation study was conducted during 2022. Each indicator was included in the NO, and its response levels were operationally defined. The initial version of each indicator and its response levels were refined and validated through the ...
Alba Correro‐Bermejo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lecciones desatendidas entorno a la epidemia de dengue en Argentina, 2009

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública, 2011
Este articulo es una reflexión acerca del impacto de la epidemia 2009 en Argentina, con 26.000 afectados y seis muertes, y como las consecuencias pudieron haber sido mucho menores si hubiese existido dialogo y entendimiento entre epidemiología y política
Diego A Bernardini Zambrini
doaj  

IJMPR Didactic Paper: Weighting for Causal Inference in Mental Health Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research, Volume 34, Issue 2, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Objective Inverse probability weighting is a fundamental and general methodology for estimating the causal effects of exposures and interventions, but standard approaches to constructing such weights are often suboptimal. Methods In this paper, we describe a recent approach for constructing such weights that directly balances covariates while ...
Eric R. Cohn, José R. Zubizarreta
wiley   +1 more source

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