Towards a Theory of Comprehensive and Community-Based Care : Health Care Policy in the Early 21st Century in Japan The aim of this article is to provide a rough sketch of how the coming health care system looks like from the perspective of the theory of the hospital cen... Shuhei IKAI ...
Self-assessment for health and social care needs has been used over a considerable period of time and for purposes as diverse as case finding for depression to assessment of housing options. Self-assessment has usually involved the use of short scales and questionnaires, but it can involve the ...
Interrupted Time Series: Overall Changes in Health, Utilization, and Costs for Adults Aged 65 to 68 Years With Income Up to 400% FPL Before and After the Affordable Care Act, Excluding Early Expansion States (n = 3745 Person-Years) eTable 2. Difference-in-Difference An...
The purpose of this review is to summarize the current knowledge around sexual desire, fantasies, and related biopsychosocial factors that may facilitate o
Spending on the 6 types of personal health care was then disaggregated across 155 mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive conditions and 38 age and sex groups. Each sex was divided into 19 5-year age groups, with the exception of the group aged 0 to 4 years, which was split into 2...
Toward a Framework for Improving Health Care Financing for an Aging Population: The Case of Israel The conventional wisdom is that because at any time the aged cost more than the young, there is a positive relationship between aging and health care spend... D Chernichovsky,S Markowitz - 《...
Family members are often required to act as substitute decision-makers when health care or research participation decisions must be made for an incapacitated relative. Yet most families are unable to accurately predict older adult preferences regarding future health care and willingness to engage in res...
Design and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted with LGB older adults, aged 50 and older (N = 2,439). Logistic regressions were conducted to examine the contributions of key health indicators (access to health care and health behaviors), risk factors (lifetime victimization, ...
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The effects of Medicare on health care utilization and outcomes. In: Garber AM, ed. Frontiers in Health Policy Research. Vol 5. Cambridge, London: MIT Press; 2002 14. Rice T, Matsuoka KY. The impact of cost-sharing on appropriate utilization and health status: a review of the literature ...