Credibility of subgroup analyses by socioeconomic status in public health intervention evaluations:An underappreciated problem? [PDF]
, 2018 There is increasing interest amongst researchers and policy makers in identifying the effect of public health interventions on health inequalities by socioeconomic status (SES).
Archibald, Daryll +8 more
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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 Language and cultural barriers among migrant workers hamper access to health risk information. This study aims to explore health risk communication structure and processes and identify the communication network of migrant workers during the COVID-19 ...
Hathairat Kosiyaporn +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Defining the Benefit Package of Thailand Universal Coverage Scheme: From Pragmatism to Sophistication [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2020 Benefit package is crucial for implementing universal health coverage (UHC). This editorial analyses how the benefit package of the Thai Universal Coverage Scheme (UC Scheme) evolved from an implicit comprehensive package which covered all conditions and
Viroj Tangcharoensathien +6 more
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Accounting for health in climate change policies: a case study of Fiji [PDF]
, 2016 BACKGROUND Climate change is expected to affect the health of most populations in the coming decades, having the greatest impact on the poorest and most disadvantaged people in the world.
Bowen, Kathryn, Morrow, Georgina
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Policy Choices for Progressive Realization of Universal Health Coverage; Comment on “Ethical Perspective: Five Unacceptable Trade-offs on the Path to Universal Health Coverage” [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017 In responses to Norheim’s editorial, this commentary offers reflections from Thailand, how the five unacceptable trade-offs were applied to the universal health coverage (UHC) reforms between 1975 and 2002 when the whole 64 million people were covered by
Viroj Tangcharoensathien +3 more
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Divergence or convergence? Health inequalities and policy in a devolved Britain [PDF]
, 2009 Since the advent of political devolution in the UK, it has been widely reported that markedly different health policies have emerged. However, most of these analyses are based on a comparison of health care policies and, as such, only tell part of a ...
Blackman, Tim +8 more
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Definition, Practice, Regulations, and Effects of Balance Billing: A Scoping Review
Health Services Insights, 2023 Background: Additional billing is commonly and legally practiced in some countries for patients covered by health insurance. However, knowledge and understanding of the additional billings are limited.
Shaheda Viriyathorn +6 more
doaj +1 more source
Evidence use in the UK’s COVID-19 free school meals policy: a thematic content analysis
Policy Design and Practice, 2023 Free school meals (FSM) are a well-recognized intervention for tackling food insecurity among school children. National school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic meant that there was a need to rapidly adapt the delivery of FSM.
Jennie C. Parnham +3 more
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Policy, politics and public health [PDF]
European Journal of Public Health, 2017 If public health is the field that diagnoses and strives to cure social ills, then understanding political causes and cures for health problems should be an intrinsic part of the field. In this article, we argue that there is no support for the simple and common, implicit model of politics in which scientific evidence plus political will produces ...
Greer, Scott L. +6 more
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A Data-informed Public Health Policy-Makers Platform [PDF]
, 2020 Hearing loss is a disease exhibiting a growing trend due to the number of factors, including but not limited to the mundane exposure to the noise and ever-increasing amount of older population.
Basdekis, I. +8 more
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