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Research note changes in the number of outpatient visits in Japan during the COVID-19 pandemic
BMC Research Notes, 2023 Objective This study aimed to determine the change in the number of outpatient visits in Japan since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, using data on the outpatient claims submitted by medical institutions to insurers in 2019 and 2020, from the ...
Munehito Machida +3 more
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Congenital toxoplasmosis: public health policy concerns [PDF]
Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2008 Received on 5 December 2007; revised 4 April 2008.Address for correspondence: Dr. Tazio Vanni. Departamento de MedicinaSocial, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande doSul. Rua Ramiro Barcelos, 2400, 2 andar. Zip code: 90035-003 – PortoAlegre, RS, Brazil. E-mail: tazio_vanni@yahoo.com.br.
Vanni, Tazio +5 more
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Book Review: Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy [PDF]
, 2007 This essay is a review of Social Justice: The Moral Foundations of Public Health and Health Policy by Madison Powers & Ruth Faden (2006). In this pathbreaking book, senior bioethicists Powers and Faden confront foundational issues about health and ...
West, Robin
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BMC Geriatrics, 2019 Background To estimate the potential gains in health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) after hypothetical elimination of four non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among Chinese elderly from 1990 to 2016, including cardiovascular diseases (CVD), cancers ...
Xiaoqian Hu +8 more
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Multilevel modelling and public health policy [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health, 2003 Background: Multilevel modelling is a statistical technique that extends ordinary regression analysis to the situation where the data are hierarchical. Such data form an increasingly common evidence base for public health policy, and as such it is important that policy makers should be aware of this methodology.
Leyland, A.H., Groenewegen, P.P.
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Isolationist Policies Threaten Public Health
American Journal of Public Health, 2017 An editorial is presented which argues that U.S. President Donald Trump's isolationist policies are a threat to public health in places such as America, and it mentions Trump's views about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, the construction of a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, and restrictions on the entry of immigrants and refugees into
Christine Nero, Coughlin +1 more
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N.C. Medicaid Reform: A Bipartisan Path Forward [PDF]
, 2017 The North Carolina Medicaid program currently constitutes 32% of the state budget and provides insurance coverage to 18% of the state’s population. At the same time, 13% of North Carolinians remain uninsured, and even among the insured, significant ...
Rice, Allison, Richman, Barak D.
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Light me up: power and expertise in risk communication and policy-making in the e-cigarette health debates [PDF]
, 2018 This paper presents a detailed account of policy-making in a contemporary risk communication arena, where strong power dynamics are at play that have hitherto lacked theoretical analysis and empirical validation.
Adekola, Josephine +2 more
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Abstract Chapter 6 considers public health, a domain where the EU has very little competence and where one should not expect theoretically the EU to engage in capacity building. However, this did not preclude the EU from stepping in. The EU created HERA (European Health Emergency Response Authority) and EHU (European Health Union) whilst
Zbigniew Truchlewski +3 more
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A comparative study of catastrophic health expenditure in Zhejiang and Qinghai province, China
BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background China has made great achievements in health insurance coverage and healthcare financing; however, the rate of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) was 13.0% in China in 2008, which is higher than that in some other countries.
Xuemei Zhen +9 more
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