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From:Community Living (Vol. 27, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedCare and Health Law specialist Belinda Schwehr reports on a rare second Ombudsman's report into a council's maladministration which shows that legal literacy among senior management, social work staff and Council...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 24, Issue 52) Peer-ReviewedProposals to improve the prevention of cardiovascular disease in Wales have been published by the Welsh assembly government. The development of a national plan on prevention has been proposed to ensure services and...
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From:European Social PolicyPeer-ReviewedThe European Union is expected to set up in the coming months a procedure for the grouped purchase of vaccines and antiviral drugs to cope with a flu pandemic, and will also draw up a new European-level preparedness...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 326, Issue 7399) Peer-ReviewedSummary points International efforts to improve health and welfare often overlook Arab countries. Arab peoples aspire to make progress in these areas but are not empowered to bring about change. The Arab Human...
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From:Journal of Healthcare Management (Vol. 43, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedI recently had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing Elizabeth Dole, president of the American Red Cross, at the American Hospital Association annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Dole has been an influential...
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From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 14, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThis article demonstrates a method for evaluating the predictive validity of nursing home pre-admission screens (PAS) by using measures of predictive validity adapted from the field of epidemiology. Our approach...
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From:The Hastings Center Report (Vol. 26, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWe want now to specify what we take to be appropriate contemporary goals for medicine and, at the same time, to justify those goals and to take account of the problems of meaning and interpretation that they pose. A...
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From:Health Management Technology (Vol. 38, Issue 6)Many of the medical professionals I work with report spending too much time searching for people or equipment. Whether it's for patients, family members, colleagues, or assets, that lost time is not only highly...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To estimate the effect of minimum nurse staffing ratios on California acute care hospitals' financial performance. Data Sources/Study Setting. Secondary data from Medicare cost reports, the American...
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From:Health Services Research (Vol. 34, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedObjective. To investigate the effect of employer contribution policy and adverse selection on employees' health plan choices. Study Design. Microsimulation methods to predict employees' choices between two health plan...
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From:JAAPA-Journal of the American Academy of Physicians Assistants (Vol. 24, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Objective: This study identifies baseline demographic and descriptive statistics for physician assistants (PAs) in Indiana from 1978 to 2010. Methods: Data were obtained from Indiana Professional...
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From:African Vision and Eye Health (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Available evidence is that eye health care receives less attention compared to other allied health professions in public health services across South Africa, yet vision impairment is known to have...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedContext In response to political and social factors over the last sixty years mental health systems internationally have endeavoured to transfer the delivery of care from hospitals into community settings. As a...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 12, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Nigeria which constitutes just one percent of the world population, accounts for 13% of the world maternal and under-five mortality. Utilization of health care services has been an important determinant...
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From:African Vision and Eye Health (Vol. 77, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTo improve access to comprehensive eye health services within the community, an intervention study that sought to integrate primary eye care (PEC) into existing primary health care (PHC) services, namely Community-based...
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From:Management Science (Vol. 58, Issue 9) Peer-Reviewed
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From:Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing (Vol. 46, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI always thought that market competition, for health care and for other goods and services, was a good thing, and I always thought that encouraging meaningful competition in markets dominated by a few large sellers was...
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From:Mayo Clinic Proceedings (Vol. 83, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedOn completion of this article, you should be able to: (1) create an effective and efficient written asthma action plan, (2) describe the options for monitoring asthma using a written asthma action plan, and (3) review...
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From:Adultspan Journal (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe authors argue that there is a clear link between mental and physical health issues. A wellness-based approach to integrated health care, such as the one described in this article, may allow older clients to be...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 83, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedThe Millennium Development Goals for Health: rising to the challenges Publisher: World Bank, Washington, DC; 2004 ISBN: 0-8213-5767-0; softcover: 202 pages; price US$ 25.00 Health is central to the achievement of the...