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High out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for chronic disease care often contribute directly to household poverty. Although previous studies have explored the determinants of impoverishment in China, few published studies have compared levels of impoverishme...

In 2009, China launched a new health care reform as it endeavoured to develop a tiered system of disease diagnosis and treatment to promote the integration of medical resources. This was important for improving service capacity and building medical a...

At the end of March 2009, the Chinese government put forward the new health-care reform with its long-term goal to achieve universal access to basic medical and health services. Primary health-care institutions and adequate health human resources are...

Objectives: In 2009, the Chinese government launched a national healthcare reform programme aiming to control healthcare expenditure and increase the quality of care. As part of this programme, a new drug pricing reform was initiated on 1 June 2015....

Primary health care (PHC) systems are compromised by under-resourcing and inadequate governance, and fail to provide high-quality health care services in most low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). As a response to solve the problems of underfundi...

The publication of the National Health Service (NHS) Long Term Plan sees the creation of Primary Care Networks as the most appropriate solution to help improve overall health and address health inequalities. A key segment of society that suffers from...

Introduction: The organization of mental health care is undergoing a transformation from an institutionalized model to a community-centered model. Due to the critical specialist workforce shortage, insufficient funding, and the large number of childr...

Long-term care insurance (LTCI) is a significant approach in the effort to actively manage aging and the currently unmet need for aged care in China. Based on data from the 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2018 phases of the China Health and Retirement Longitud...

Organizational Health Literacy (OHL) is described as a new concept to remote health organizations to implement practices, policies, and systems that make it easier for patients to use, understand, and navigate health information to take care their ow...

Total health expenditure in China has grown considerably since a new round of health system reform was enacted in 2009. Researchers have shown that strengthening primary healthcare may be an option for countries to solve the rapid expansion of their...

Neglecting preventive healthcare policies has contributed to the global surge in chronic diseases, increased hospitalizations, declining quality of care, and escalating costs. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs)—notably cardiovascular conditions,...

This study aimed to estimate the efficiency and its influencing factors of Primary Health Care Institutions (PHCIs) in counties in Hunan Province, China, and put forward feasible suggestions for improving the efficiency of PHCIs in Hunan Province. We...

China’s rural older are the threat from chronic diseases, making it important to evaluate the effect of public health insurance on the health care utilization and expenditures with chronic diseases. In 2003, China initiated a public health insu...

In order to meet the expectations to act as an expert in the health care profession, it is of utmost importance that pharmacy education creates knowledge and skills needed in today’s working life. Thus, the planning of the curriculum should be based...

People with innate variations of sex characteristics (also known as intersex traits or disorders or differences of sex development) have any of a wide range of innate physical traits that differ from medical and social norms for female and male bodie...

This overview reflects the extensive changes in the health care system which had significant effects on the apothecary’s profession and education. In the 18^th century Maria Theresia assigned Gerard van Swieten to modernize the medical curriculum and...

Background: Many regard empathy as a critical component of comprehensive health care. Much interest has been generated in the field of medical empathy, in particular as it relates to education. Many desirable outcomes correlate with perceived empathy...

Large and increasing numbers of rural-to-urban migrants provided new challenges for tuberculosis control in large cities in China and increased the need for high quality tuberculosis care delivered by clinics in urban migrant communities. Based on a...

Study Design: Retrospective, quasi-experimental difference-in-differences investigation. Objective: Pediatric craniofacial fractures are often associated with substantial morbidity and consumption of healthcare resources. Maryland’s All Payer Model (...

This paper examines the role that framing and visual communications played in the mobilising of contentious politics, with particular reference to the Repeal the 8th referendum in Ireland in 2018. We analyse how framing an unpopular argument through...

System-involvement resulting from anti-trafficking interventions and the criminalization of sex work and migration results in negative health impacts on sex workers, migrants, and people with trafficking experiences. Due to their stigmatized status,...

The development of medical care, technological advances, and the ageing of society have led to rising medical costs. As a result, there is a demand to improve the efficiency of healthcare delivery systems, including public healthcare institutions, in...

E-healthcare has been envisaged as a major component of the infrastructure of modern healthcare, and has been developing rapidly in China. For healthcare, news media can play an important role in raising public interest and utilization of a particula...

Bipolar disorder (BD) is a serious mental health condition that is clinically complex to monitor and manage. While best practice guidelines exist, they vary internationally lacking consensus. Indigenous peoples, including Māori in New Zealand, e...

The current significant human resource and workforce shortages of registered nurses (RNs) are impacting urban, suburban, and rural hospitals and healthcare facilities all over the globe, regardless of the entities’ economic and financial backgrounds....

Rising recognition of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in adults and children is reshaping how Australian health systems organise diagnosis, prescribing and long-term management. This has coincided with sharp increases in ADHD medicine...

The public profile of the Roman Catholic bishops of the United States results not simply from their own interventions in political life, but from the broad array of actions and actors within “public Catholicism” broadly conceived. This article assess...

Background and objective: The objective of the study was to analyze mortality from stroke in Lithuania the context of health care reform with particular interest in urban/rural and regional inequalities. Based on the analysis of trends in mortality,...

The integration of systems for Adaptive Business Intelligence (ABI) in the healthcare industry has the potential to revolutionize and reform the way organizations approach data analysis and decision-making. By providing real-time actionable insights...

Background: Not much is currently known about United States (US) physicians’ opinions about healthcare financing, specifically subsequent to the creation and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Objectives: A four state survey of pr...

It is a consensus that Fee-for-Service (FFS) is a traditional medical insurance payment scheme with significant disadvantages, namely the waste of health care resources. However, the majority of the prior works that draw such conclusions from the per...

This study is a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (October 2013–April 2017) involving 150 People Who Inject Drugs (PWIDs) with hepatitis C virus (HCV) seen in opioid agonist treatment programs in the Bronx, New York, and investi...

Many universal health care systems have increased the share of the price of medicines paid by the patient to reduce the cost pressure faced after the Great Recession. This paper assesses the impact of cost-sharing changes on the propensity to consume...

Pharmaceutical expenditures in ambulatory care rose rapidly in Europe in the 1990s and early 2000s. This was typically faster than other components of healthcare spending, leading to reforms to moderate future growth. A number of these centered on ge...

The new generation’s health and wellbeing is of paramount importance: it constitutes United Nations’ priority, complies with Children’s Rights and responds to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. In this perspect...

Antimicrobial resistance continues to escalate worldwide, threatening effective medical care, patient safety, and global health security. Traditional antibiotics are increasingly unreliable against multidrug-resistant pathogens, resulting in delayed...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how perceptions of digital health transformation play a role in Saudi Arabia’s customer engagement in healthcare, according to Vision 2030. Saudi Vision 2030, a national reform agenda, has priori...

Recent reforms of Long-Term Care policy across the world have expanded services into the home and community, creating new service provision sectors with lower cost and better flexibility than institutional settings. This study investigates the percen...

First Nations children remain dramatically over-represented in Australia’s Out-of-Home Care (OOHC) system, particularly in New South Wales (NSW), which continues to report the highest numbers nationally. This narrative review, grounded in a rel...