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Harm reduction workforce, behavioral health, and service delivery in the USA: a cross-sectional study

Harm Reduction Journal
Background Despite recent financial and policy support for harm reduction in the USA, information on the types of workers within organizations who design, implement, and actualize harm reduction services remains nascent.
Lisa de Saxe Zerden, Orrin D. Ware, Brooke N. Lombardi, Brianna M. Lombardi   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Health care needs and service use among male prison inmates in the United States: A multi-level behavioral model of prison health service utilization

Health & Justice, 2017
Background The purpose of this study is to apply Andersen’s Behavioral Model of Health Service Use to men’s prisons to assess the direct and indirect effects of inmate predisposing characteristics through multiple types of need.
Kathryn M. Nowotny
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of health insurance on healthcare utilisation patterns in Vietnam: a survey-based analysis with propensity score matching method

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives The study aims to evaluate the impact of the Revised Health Insurance Law 2014 on the utilisation of outpatient and inpatient care services, healthcare services utilisation at different levels of providers, types of providers and types of ...
Nguyen Thi Thu Thuong
doaj   +1 more source

The Philippine Health Institutions: Some Problems, Approaches and Policy Issues [PDF]

This paper presents a brief analysis of the current situation of Philippine health institutions using secondary data. It locates the different types of health institutions, describes its major problems, discusses recent approaches these institutions have
Chiong-Javier, Maria Elena, Ramos-Jimenez, Pilar   +1 more
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Pharmaceutical Industry\u27s Effect on Socioeconomic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa in Relation to Family Planning Accessibility [PDF]

, 2019
There is a large unmet need for family planning services in sub-Saharan Africa (Goodkind et al, 2018). Pharmaceutical companies contribute to the accessibility of medications in developing countries (Cottingham & Berer, 2011).
Demarest, Tessa
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Adaptaquin is selectively toxic to glioma stem cells through disruption of iron and cholesterol metabolism

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Adaptaquin selectively kills glioma stem cells while sparing differentiated brain cells. Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses show Adaptaquin disrupts iron and cholesterol homeostasis, with iron chelation amplifying cytotoxicity via cholesterol depletion, mitochondrial dysfunction, and elevated reactive oxygen species.
Adrien M. Vaquié, Davod R. Shah, Eliane E. S. Brechbühl, Michael McNicholas, Zhaoyang Xu, John H. Stockley, Laura Morcom, Diana Gold Diaz, Gemma C. Girdler, Rachel V. Seear, Gabriel Balmus, Rajiv R. Ratan, Harry Bulstrode, James A. Nathan, Manav Pathania, Kevin M. Brindle, David H. Rowitch   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Preventive Care, Care for Children and National Health Insurance [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to examine issues related to the coverage of preventive care under national health insurance. Four specific kinds of medical care services are included under the rubric of preventive care: prenatal care; pediatric care ...
Gilbert R. Ghez, Michael Grossman
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The neural crest‐associated gene ERRFI1 is involved in melanoma progression and resistance toward targeted therapy

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
ERRFI1, a neural crest (NC)‐associated gene, was upregulated in melanoma and negatively correlated with the expression of melanocytic differentiation markers and the susceptibility of melanoma cells toward BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi). Knocking down ERRFI1 significantly increased the sensitivity of melanoma cells to BRAFi.
Nina Wang, Qian Sun, Daniel Novak, Lei Zhu, Juliane Poelchen, Tamara Steinfass, Yiman Wang, Viktor Umansky, Jochen Utikal   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilisation of community healthcare services among older adults with disabilities in Luohu district, Shenzhen: a community-based survey

BMJ Open
Objective China faces the challenge of an ageing population with disabilities. Community healthcare centres (CHCs) serve as frontline community healthcare providers for older adults with and without disabilities.
Gang Liu, Wei Zhang, Lu Shi, Willie Leung, Tiantian Pang, Qingming Zheng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Substitution of Formal and Informal Home Care Service Use and Nursing Home Service Use: Health Outcomes, Decision-Making Preferences, and Implications for a Public Health Policy

Frontiers in Public Health, 2017
ObjectivesThe purposes of this study are: (1) to empirically identify decision-making preferences of long-term health-care use, especially informal and formal home care (FHC) service use; (2) to evaluate outcomes vs.
Chia-Ching Chen, Tetsuji Yamada, Taeko Nakashima, I-Ming Chiu   +3 more
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