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The utilization and perceived usefulness of health care and other support services by people exposed to traumatic events related to the war in the Balkans [PDF]

Acta Medica Academica, 2013
Objective. To explore which health care and other support services people exposed to traumatic events related to the war use, how helpful they perceive them in the course of their post-war adaptation and whether utilization and perceived usefulness ...
Tanja Frančišković, Zoran Šuković, Zdravko Tovilović, Dean Ajduković, Marija Bogić, Abdulah Kučukalić, Dušica Lečić-Tosevski, Nexhmedin Morina, Mihajlo Popovski, Stefan Priebe   +9 more
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Patterns of Service Use in Two Types of Managed Behavioral Health Care Plans [PDF]

Psychiatric Services, 2010
The study examined service use patterns by level of care in two managed care plans offered by a national managed behavioral health care organization (MBHO): an employee assistance program (EAP) combined with a standard behavioral health plan (integrated plan) and a standard behavioral health plan.The cross-sectional analysis used 2004 administrative ...
Elizabeth L, Merrick, Dominic, Hodgkin, Deirdre, Hiatt, Constance M, Horgan, Vanessa, Azzone, Bernard, McCann, Grant, Ritter, Galima, Zolotusky, Thomas G, McGuire, Sharon, Reif   +9 more
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The impact of neighborhood deprivation on patients' unscheduled out-of-hours healthcare seeking behavior: a cross-sectional study [PDF]

, 2013
Background: The use of unscheduled out of hours medical care is related to the social status of the patient. However, the social variance in the patient's preference for a hospital based versus a primary care based facility, and the impact of specific ...
Buylaert, Walter, De Maeseneer, Jan, De Maeyer, Philippe, De Paepe, Peter, Peersman, Wim, Willems, Sara   +5 more
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Review of Smart Hospital Services in Real Healthcare Environments [PDF]

Healthcare Informatics Research, 2022
Objectives Smart hospitals involve the application of recent information and communications technology (ICT) innovations to medical services; however, the concept of a smart hospital has not been rigorously defined.
Hyuktae Kwon, Sunhee An, Ho-Young Lee, Won Chul Cha, Sungwan Kim, Minwoo Cho, Hyoun-Joong Kong   +6 more
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Patient Characteristics, Financing Type, Accreditation Status, and Quality of Health Services at Community Health Center, Surakarta [PDF]

Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2017
Background: An indicator of quality health service is the extent of patient expectation fulfilment. Perceived quality of health services may be influenced by various factors such as patient socio-demographic factors, financing type, and accreditation status.
Yeni Tri Utami, Didik Tamtomo, Endang Sutisna Sulaeman   +2 more
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Who Serves the Poor? An Equity Analysis of Public and Private Providers of Family Planning and Child Health Services in Kenya

Frontiers in Public Health, 2019
Understanding differences in the wealth status of patients can inform planning decisions aimed at providing affordable access to high quality care to all. This study assesses differences in the wealth status of clients of family planning and child health
Nirali M. Chakraborty, Dominic Montagu, Dominic Montagu, Joyce Wanderi, Christine Oduor   +4 more
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Types of health care facilities and the quality of primary care: a study of characteristics and experiences of Chinese patients in Guangdong Province, China

BMC Health Services Research, 2016
BackgroundIn China, most people tend to use hospitals rather than health centers for their primary care generally due to the perception that quality of care provided in the hospital setting is superior to that provided at the health centers.
Ruwei Hu, Y. Liao, Zhicheng Du, Y. Hao, Hailun Liang, Leiyu Shi   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THERACOM: a systematic review of the evidence base for interventions to improve Therapeutic Communications between black and minority ethnic populations and staff in specialist mental health services. [PDF]

, 2013
PMCID: PMC3599664This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided ...
Bhui, K, Johnson, M, McCabe, R, Singh, S, Szczepura, A, Weich, S   +5 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source