Linking managed care with poor quality sometimes goes hand in hand. This particularly raises the question of how MCOs may act in extreme situations when a patient is seriously ill. However, what people pay less attention to is how MCOs act in the large amount of normal cases. This once ...
This paper examines the labour supply effects of the Health Care Fund for the Poor (HCFP) in Vietnam in terms of the monthly number of work hours and the probability of employment. Employing Difference-in- Differences Matching methods on the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey 2002-2006,...
provider of disease management, coordinated care, or quality improvement services; NA, not available due to use of proprietary case-finding software (Washington University), poor data-recording (Quality Oncology), or restriction of intervention to home telemonitoring (University of Maryland); RC, reti...
outline the need to conduct research and implement effective policies that address a range of tobacco products1,2. While less ubiquitous than cigarettes, chewing tobacco use persists as a global public health challenge despite being incorporated in the FCTC statutes of 138 countries...
Research into the quality of health care has produced evidence of widespread deficits, even in countries with extensive resources for healthcare delivery[1–4]. One intervention to support quality improvement is to directly relate a proportion of the remuneration of providers to the achieved result ...
Prevalence and factors associated with poor mental health among healthcare professionals in low- and lower-middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol Article Open access 29 November 2019 Evidence for implementation of interventions to promote mental health in the workplace: a systematic sco...
Vitamin D and calcium supplementation can cure nutritional rickets and can modestly decrease the risk of major fractures in older adults with poor vitamin D status or calcium intake. Large supplementation trials recruiting vitamin D-replete adults (serum 25OHD concentration >50 nmol/l) have demonstra...
Consuming sugar, especially close to bedtime, can cause a surge in energy when your body should be winding down. This can make it harder to fall asleep. Additionally, the blood sugar fluctuations caused by excess sugar can lead to nighttime awakenings. Poor sleep, in turn, can affect your ...
In addition, childhood maltreatment has consistently been shown to be associated with poor treatment outcome after psycho- or pharmaco-therapy in depression68. Trauma-informed care can be one of the important approaches to be implemented for tertiary prevention. Limitations This study has several ...
Burning of firecrackers during Diwali, a major festival in India, was suggested by some (Arora et al., 2018) as the cause of poor winter air in India. For example, in 2019, Delhi, Noida, Gurugaram, and Ghaziabad reached the hazardous AQI levels during the Diwali festival. Diwali is, ho...