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Health reform in China: Developments and future prospects
The Chinese health reform did make some significant achievements since 2009. However, affordability and accessibility to primary care and public health remain to be serious concerns. Health governance reforms are necessary to address affordability and accessibility issues in the next stage of health reform. Abstract In 2009, China initiated a new round
Jiwei Qian
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The Telehealth Chain: a protocol for secure and transparent telemedicine transactions on the blockchain [PDF]
Blockchain technology provides a secure and decentralized platform for storing and transferring sensitive medical data, which can be utilized to enable remote medical consultations. This paper proposes a theoretical framework for creating a blockchain-based digital entity to facilitate telemedicine services.
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian+3 more
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Optimization of magnetic resonance imaging of the hand [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance imaging is one of the leading imaging modalities of the musculoskeletal system. However, when imaging the hand, major problems in magnetic resonance imaging include the lack of specialized coils and reliable fixation ...
Yuriy A. Vasilev+6 more
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Automatic White Blood Cell Measuring Aid for Medical Diagnosis [PDF]
Blood related invasive pathological investigations play a major role in diagnosis of diseases. But in India and other third world countries there are no enough pathological infrastructures for medical diagnosis. Moreover, most of the remote places of those countries have neither pathologists nor physicians.
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Abstract Introduction The COVID‐19 pandemic has negatively impacted health services, especially in low‐and‐middle‐income countries, where care for chronic conditions such as diabetes was disrupted. Our study aims to describe the challenges faced by people living with Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) to access care during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Peru ...
Jessica Hanae Zafra‐Tanaka+9 more
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Effect of X-ray scan quality on the collective effective dose in patients in telemedicine [PDF]
BACKGROUND: The key objective of a healthcare provider is to ensure the quality and increase the efficiency of X-ray diagnostics in both municipal and private medical facilities. A poor-quality radiologic image requires repeated procedures, which results
Zoya A. Lantukh+8 more
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Abstract: Caring for health and well-being is very important for a person, which is clearly seen today. The medicine is the key to providing specialized advice to this patient. Individual attention is important in diagnosis because the same symptom may manifest differently in each person.
Matchanov Akmal, Samatova Barno
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Clinical Phenotyping of Long COVID Patients Evaluated in a Specialized Neuro‐COVID Clinic
ABSTRACT Objective To report Long COVID characteristics and longitudinal courses of patients evaluated between 4/14/21–4/14/22 at the University of Pennsylvania Neurological COVID Clinic (PNCC), including clinical symptoms, neurological examination findings, and neurocognitive screening tests from a standardized PNCC neurological evaluation approach ...
Luana D. Yamashita+7 more
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Abstract By drawing on macro‐categories of key human resource (HR) management interventions recommended by the Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD) during the Covid‐19 pandemic, this study aimed to explore whether and how Intensive Care Units (ICU) have strengthened their HRs during the first year of Covid‐19 emergency. A rapid
Aizhan Tursunbayeva, Stefano Di Lauro
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