Ali NewhardJacqui FrankSara Silverstein
A survey of more than 4,200 people paints a picture of the typical consumer of healthcare in Latin America, including their tendency to defer care and desire for more convenient settings of care.
Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory regarding the burnout and resignation crisis in the healthcare community, underlining the severity of the problem. Overworked doctors and nurses who risked their lives to battle the pandemic are now dealing with a public that is inc...
In terms of its cost, obesity is perhaps the largest medical problem in America. Finklestein et al. estimate that medical expenditures for treatment of patients who are either overweight or obese accounted for almost 10 percent of all medical expenditures in 1998, at a cost of 92 billion d...
Globalization and Health (2020) 16:34 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12992-020-00557-4 RESEARCH Open Access Connecting healthcare professionals in Central America through management and leadership development: a social network analysis Andrea M. Prado1, Andy A. Pearson1, Nathan S. Bertelsen2 and ...
The overall problem for rural hospitals right now is sustainability. We have many hospitals that are at a critical crossroads in deciding what they will be in the coming 10 to 20 years. They serve a decreasing population that still desires to have an acute inpatient facility. What will the ...
But with one problem. Canada's healthcare system is regulated by the government. Doctors have fixed wages and can only earn so much. In America our doctors are greedy and they can charge whatever they want. In other words, our doctors have a GOD complex. They have the power to save peo...
Little is known about the quality, quantity and disease areas analysed by health economic research that inform healthcare decision-making in Central America. This study aimed to review the existing health economic evaluations (HEEs) and budget impact analyses (BIAs) evidence in Central America based...
LOS ANGELES, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has changed American life dramatically, and has certainly highlighted the gaps in U.S. healthcare and public health infrastructure, said a recent report of the Brookings Institution. ...
“They are heartbreaking and they are bothersome and they are the kind of thing a mature system should not have,” he says. “Crowdfunding at this level is not an adequate solution to a systemic institutional problem for 320 million Americans. It’s a Band-Aid — and a very weak, small...