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The impact of COVID-19 on primary health care and antibiotic prescribing in rural China: qualitative study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background In China, the primary health care (PHC) system has been designated responsible for control and prevention of COVID-19, but not treatment. Suspected COVID-19 cases presenting to PHC facilities must be transferred to specialist fever clinics ...
Tingting Zhang, Xingrong Shen, Rong Liu, Linhai Zhao, Debin Wang, Helen Lambert, Christie Cabral   +6 more
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Cardiometabolic disorder reduces survival prospects more than suboptimal body mass index irrespective of age or gender: a longitudinal study of 377,929 adults in Taiwan

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background The effect of cardio-metabolic profile on the relationship of body mass index (BMI) with mortality is unclear. The aim of this study was to explore association between BMI and mortality at all ages, taking account of cardio-metabolic disorders.
Chih-Cheng Hsu, Mark L. Wahlqvist, I-Chien Wu, Yu-Hung Chang, I-Shou Chang, Yi-Fen Tsai, Ting-Ting Liu, Chwen Keng Tsao, Chao A. Hsiung   +8 more
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Trading-Off Machine Learning Algorithms towards Data-Driven Administrative-Socio-Economic Population Health Management

Computers, 2020
Together with population ageing, the number of people suffering from multimorbidity is increasing, up to more than half of the population by 2035. This part of the population is composed by the highest-risk patients, who are, at the same time, the major ...
Silvia Panicacci, Massimiliano Donati, Francesco Profili, Paolo Francesconi, Luca Fanucci   +4 more
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Patients in insulin analogues use via judicial litigation: do they use the Brazilian Public Health System (SUS)? [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Coletiva, 2023
Background Studies show that among the drugs most commonly used in judicial litigation in Brazil, are those used to treat diabetes mellitus, especially insulin analogues.
Thays Santos Mendonça, Eduardo Sérgio Silva, Mariana Linhares Pereira, Paulo Roque Obreli-Neto, Vinícius Silva Belo, Gustavo Costa Ferreira, Paula Resende Daher Chaves, Silvana Nair Leite, André Oliveira Baldoni   +8 more
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Implementing population health management: an international comparative study [PDF]

Journal of Health Organization and Management, 2020
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to gain insight into how population health management (PHM) strategies can successfully integrate and reorganize public health, health care, social care and community services to improve population health and quality of care while reducing costs growth, this study compared four large-scale transformation programs ...
Steenkamer, Betty, de Weger, Esther, Drewes, Hanneke, Putters, Kim, van Oers, Hans, Baan, Caroline   +5 more
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A Descriptive Analysis of a Health Management Work Integrated Learning Course: moving from Health Services Management learning to employment readiness [PDF]

, 2019
Health Management Work Integrated Learning is a 40 credit point penultimate course of experiential learning in the Master of Advanced Health Services Management M(Adv)HSM now offered by the School of Medicine Health at Griffith University.
Avery, Mark, Linwood, Russell, Day, Gary, McConnell, Duncan   +3 more
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Health in the 'hidden population' of people with low literacy. A systematic review of the literature [PDF]

, 2010
Background: Much of the evidence of an association between low functional or health literacy and poor health comes from studies that include people who have various cognitive difficulties or who do not speak the dominant language of their society.
Brian Williams, Entwistle, V.A, Williams Brian, Easton Phyllis, Williams, B, Entwistle Vikki A, Easton, P., Easton, P, Phyllis Easton, Williams, Brian, Easton, Phyllis, Entwistle, V.A., Williams, B., Entwistle, Vikki A., Entwistle, Vikki, Vikki A Entwistle, Entwistle, Vikki A   +16 more
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A population ecology perspective on the functioning and future of health information organizations [PDF]

, 2017
Background: Increasingly, health care providers need to exchange information to meet policy expectations and business needs. A variety of health information organizations (HIOs) provide services to facilitate health information exchange (HIE). However,
Joshua R. Vest, Vest, Joshua R., Nir Menachemi, Menachemi, Nir   +3 more
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Association of socio-economic, gender and health factors with common mental disorders in women: a population-based study of 5703 married rural women in India. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: There are few population-based studies from low- and middle-income countries that have described the association of socio-economic, gender and health factors with common mental disorders (CMDs) in rural women.
R. Shidhaye, V. Patel, Patel, Vikram, Shidhaye, Rahul   +3 more
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A Population Health Management Approach to Oral Health

Journal of the California Dental Association, 2016
Clinical outcomes have been shown to be better, and total costs lower, when patients with chronic illness such as diabetes are managed using a population health strategy in a primary care setting that includes structured coordination of care with specialty services.
Jeff, Hummel, Kathryn E, Phillips
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