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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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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
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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
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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
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Predator Island: Washington State Department of Social and Health Services Internship [PDF]
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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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
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Client Acceptability for Integrating Antiretroviral Therapy in Methadone Maintenance Therapy Clinics in Sichuan, China. [PDF]
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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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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Type of Insurance and Use of Preventive Health Services Among Older Adults in Mexico [PDF]
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]
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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