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Detecting and preventing financial abuse of older adults: Examining decision making by health, social care and banking professionals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Financial elder abuse is gaining increasing attention from researchers and policy makers.
Davies, Miranda Louise
core   +7 more sources

Systems for the management of respiratory disease in primary care - an international series: United Kingdom [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
INTRODUCTION: The UK National Health Service (NHS) is essentially publicly funded through general taxation. Challenges facing the NHS include the rise in prevalence of long-term conditions and financial pressures.
Allison Worth   +14 more
core   +1 more source

A cluster randomized trial of a comprehensive intervention nesting family and clinic into school centered implementation to reduce myopia and obesity among children and adolescents in Beijing, China: study protocol

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Myopia and obesity in children and adolescents have become serious public health problems that endanger public health, especially in China. Unhealthy lifestyle behaviors are environmental drivers of both myopia and obesity.
Xinxin Wang   +26 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health care for immigrants in Europe: Is there still consensus among country experts about principles of good practice? A Delphi study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background European Member States are facing a challenge to provide accessible and effective health care services for immigrants. It remains unclear how best to achieve this and what characterises good practice in increasingly multicultural societies ...
Mertaniemi Ritva   +112 more
core   +3 more sources

Health care utilisation for treatment of injuries among immigrants in Norway: a nationwide register linkage study

open access: yesInjury Epidemiology, 2020
Background Previous research has generally found lower rates of injury incidence in immigrant populations than in native-born populations. Most of this literature relies on mortality statistics or hospital data, and we know less about injuries treated in
Eyvind Ohm   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Risk of Secondary Household Transmission of COVID-19 from Health Care Workers in a Hospital in Spain

open access: yesEpidemiologia, 2021
Background: Hospital health care workers are at high risk of developing COVID-19 and transmitting the disease to their family upon returning home; the aim here is to estimate the secondary attack rate of COVID-19 in household contacts of health care ...
Miren Remón-Berrade   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Provision of dental prostheses in the oral health care network: a mixed methods study, Goiânia, Brazil, 2019 [PDF]

open access: yesEpidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde
Objective To analyze the provision of dental prostheses by the oral health care network (OHCN) of Goiânia, capital city of Goiás state, Brazil. Methods This was a convergent mixed methods study, with semi-structured interviews, thematic analysis and ...
Jéssica Karla Maia Zago   +4 more
doaj   +4 more sources

Environmental factors influencing the prevention of secondary health conditions among people with spinal cord injury, South Africa.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2021
BackgroundThe environment where people live, work or play can influence health and disability outcomes. People with spinal cord injury are at risk for secondary health conditions, with this increasing readmission rates and decreasing quality of life ...
Sonti Pilusa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ovarian Sex Cord Stromal Tumors in Children and Adolescents—The European Standard Clinical Practice Recommendations

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As part of the European Cooperative Study Group for Paediatric Rare Tumours initiative, we developed standard clinical practice guidelines for ovarian sex cord stromal tumors, based on comprehensive national and international cohort analyses, literature review, and a final expert consensus conference.
Dominik T. Schneider   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

INFORMATIZATION OF HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS AS A BASIS FOR EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

open access: yesMedična Informatika ta Inženerìâ, 2015
A low level of computerization of primary and secondary health care and a higher level in tertiary health care is shown. At the same time a low level of Internet access in primary health care institutions and much higher - in institutions of secondary ...
M. A. Znamenska, G. O. Slabkiy
doaj   +1 more source

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