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Regional health information exchange outside of the centralized national services for public health care in Finland: A national survey

Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare, 2022
Health information exchange (HIE) is the mobilization of health care information electronically across organizations within a region, community, or hospital system.
Niina Keränen, Timo Tuovinen, Jari Haverinen, Ronja Ruotanen, Jarmo Reponen   +4 more
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Socio-economic inequality and inequity in use of health care services in Kenya: evidence from the fourth Kenya household health expenditure and utilization survey

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2019
BackgroundKenya is experiencing persistently high levels of inequity in health and access to care services. In 2018, decades of sustained policy efforts to promote equitable, affordable and quality health services have culminated in the launch of a ...
Stefania Ilinca, L. Di Giorgio, P. Salari, J. Chuma   +3 more
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Patient experiences of primary care quality amongst different types of health care facilities in central Vietnam

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background Patient experience with primary health care services can vary markedly between different types of health care facilities, even within the same country setting.
Nguyen Thi Hoa, Nguyen Minh Tam, Anselme Derese, Jeffrey F. Markuns, Wim Peersman   +4 more
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On-site health service delivery models at syringe services programs in the United States: Results of a national cross-sectional survey

Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports
Background: People who inject drugs (PWID) have many needs for health services, but frequently lack access to and/or do not utilize those services. Syringe services programs (SSPs) are low-stigma environments where health services can be provided, but ...
Czarina N. Behrends, Don C. Des Jarlais, Winston Luhur, Xinlin Lu, Grace J. Corry, Sara N. Glick, Shashi N. Kapadia, David C. Perlman, Bruce R. Schackman   +8 more
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Reviewing the Nature, Necessity, Types, and Problems of Utilization Studies in Health Services to Assess and Control the Consumption of Healthcare Services in Health Insurance Organizations

مدیریت اطلاعات سلامت, 2018
Consuming medical services is labeled as utilization. Utilization studies are used by insurance companies to study the behavior of medical service consumers.
Masoud Ferdosi, Mohammad Reza Rezayatmand, Abbas Feizbakhsh, Hamid Reza Dehghani, Golnoosh Aghili-Dehkordi   +4 more
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Rural–urban disparities in the utilization of mental health inpatient services in China: the role of health insurance

International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 2018
Reducing rural–urban disparities in health and health care has been a key policy goal for the Chinese government. With mental health becoming an increasingly significant public health issue in China, empirical evidence of disparities in the use of mental
Junfang Xu, Jian Wang, Madeleine King, Ruiyun Liu, F. Yu, J. Xing, Lei Su, M. Lu   +7 more
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A comparison of patient-reported quality between inpatient services for mental and physical health: A tertiary-hospital-based survey in China

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023
BackgroundIt is widely acknowledged that quality of mental health services is routinely worse than physical health services across countries. However, studies separately investigating mental health services often report high-level satisfaction, even ...
Wei Zhou, Shuiyuan Xiao, Guanqing Xie, Feiyun Ouyang, Bihua Luo, Bihua Luo   +5 more
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Delivery of public health services by community health workers (CHWs) in primary health care settings in China: a systematic review (1996–2016)

Global Health Research and Policy, 2018
BackgroundCommunity Health Workers (CHWs) have been widely used in response to the shortage of skilled health workers especially in resource limited areas. China has a long history of involving CHWs in public health intervention project.
Wenting Huang, Hongfei Long, Jiang Li, Sha Tao, P. Zheng, Shenglan Tang, A. Abdullah   +6 more
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Impacts of the type of social health insurance on health service utilisation and expenditures: implications for a unified system in China [PDF]

Health Economics, Policy and Law, 2018
AbstractWhile moving towards unified social health insurance (SHI) is often a politically popular policy reform in countries where rapid expansion in health insurance coverage has given rise to the segmentation of SHI systems as different SHI schemes were rolled out to serve different populations, the potential impacts of reform on service utilisation ...
Tan, Siying, Wu, Xun, Yang, Wei
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Who serves the urban poor? A geospatial and descriptive analysis of health services in slum settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Health Policy and Planning, 2015
In Bangladesh, the health risks of unplanned urbanization are disproportionately shouldered by the urban poor. At the same time, affordable formal primary care services are scarce, and what exists is almost exclusively provided by non-government ...
A. Adams, R. Islam, Tanvir Ahmed
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