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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

open access: yesDrug 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   +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

open access: yesمدیریت 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   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rural–urban disparities in the utilization of mental health inpatient services in China: the role of health insurance

open access: yesInternational 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   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A comparison of patient-reported quality between inpatient services for mental and physical health: A tertiary-hospital-based survey in China

open access: yesFrontiers 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   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predator Island: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Internship [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
STEP Category: InternshipsIn the summer of 2019, I completed an internship with the State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services. This internship was designed to attract students from a wide variety of backgrounds to work and explore the ...
Thieken, Sarah
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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)

open access: yesGlobal 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   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Client Acceptability for Integrating Antiretroviral Therapy in Methadone Maintenance Therapy Clinics in Sichuan, China. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
BackgroundUsing methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) clinics to deliver antiretroviral therapy (ART) has proven to be effective for promoting treatment initiation and adherence in drug users living with HIV.ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to ...
Cao, Xiaobin, Li, Li, Lin, Chunqing
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Who serves the urban poor? A geospatial and descriptive analysis of health services in slum settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh

open access: yesHealth 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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Type of Insurance and Use of Preventive Health Services Among Older Adults in Mexico [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Aging and Health, 2015
Objective: The main purpose of this article was to assess the differences between Seguro Popular ( SP) and employer-based health insurance in the use of preventive services, including screening tests for diabetes, cholesterol, hypertension, cervical cancer, and prostate cancer among older adults at more than a decade of health care reform in Mexico ...
Maricruz, Rivera-Hernandez   +1 more
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Women's Health Coverage Since the ACA: Improvements for Most, But Insurer Exclusions Put Many at Risk [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Since enactment of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), many more women have health insurance than before the law, in part because it prohibits insurer practices that discriminate against women. However, gaps in women's health coverage persist.
Dania Palanker, Karen Davenport
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