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This requires a step back, to think about American healthcare as a whole.To begin, we need to describe the arrangement of financing, delivering, organizing, and overseeing healthcare in the United States, what some people ambiguously call the healthcare system.Theodore Marmor...
There has been intense activity concerned with developing health services research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through national, regional, bilateral, and other programs. In the past, there was a huge gap between desirability, capability, and achievement. The question is “Have these...
Often, health disparities result from more than one factor, which may include poverty, environmental threats, inadequate access to health care, behavioral factors, and educational inequities. Disparities can occur based on one’s race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, geographical location, gender...
Pinpointing periods of increased pupil diameter and blink rate suppression can help to identify exertions of high cognitive load and delineate opportunities for improvement with a healthcare system or medical device. Progressively decreased pupil dilation, increased blink rate, increased blink duration, ...
This chapter introduces and broadly explores some of the changes and continuities in practice and perception of mental health care across the long twentieth century. It considers the changing role of health care professionals and the broadening and diver
A report from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) [3] concludes that there is a need for a system to identify patients with a high perioperative risk, and for improved postoperative care for these patients. A report by the Royal College of Surgeons in co...
The US health care system should commit to actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from medical care and reduce air pollution and associated health impacts. The new JAMA series on climate change will inform readers about the associations between climate change and health. It is intended to ...
While the available research indicates KPs willingness to take PrEP in Ghana, little is known about the position of policymakers and healthcare providers on the introduction of PrEP for KPs. Methods Qualitative data were collected from September to October 2017 in the Greater Accra (GA) and Brong...
The future of physical medicine and rehabilitation is earlier physiatrist interventions in the acute care setting to prepare patients with neurologic injury for the next level of care to achieve a maximal patient outcome. Patients benefit from the physia