The desirability of limiting policies is ambiguous. On the one hand, they can help to mitigate the physicians' tendency to over-provide services. But, at the same time, they increase the cost for the health authority of inducing an accurate diagnosis on the part of the physician. Health ...
Centre for Molecular, Environmental, Genetic and Analytic Epidemiology, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia John L Hopper, Graham G Giles, Carmel Apicella, Gianluca Severi & Laura Baglietto Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Annika Li...
Given the increasing use of ART worldwide and the growing body of evidence38,42 indicating that subsidized fertility treatment (either through public or private insurance) encourages safe embryo transfer practices, economic studies such as this should be used to inform funding policies and clinical ...
There is little regulation on the terms of employer-provided health access provisions, and insurance policies often exclude coverage for pre-existing conditions. Limited access to vocational advice and rehabilitation is available within the public system....
Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University, Penrith, New South Wales, Australia Peter B. Reich Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands Jasper van Ruijven Department of Biology, Algoma University, Sault Sainte Marie, Ontario,...
“We do not have any policies on diabetes self-management. It is the main barrier. We give emphasis on communicable diseases.”–(Medical doctor, male) Economic factors Economic circumstances were cited only as a barrier to diabetes self-management by all participants. However, physical exercise ...
This chapter provides an overview of the international human rights standards as they apply to older people articulated at the United Nations. It also explores specific human rights issues that have been heard by United Nations human rights bodies. It fu
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Moreover, policies and management procedures that prevent and mitigate eutrophication are needed to safeguard the positive effects of biodiversity on stability at multiple scales. Methods Study sites and experimental design The study sites are part of the NutNet experiment (Supplementary Data 1; http:...
At the time of writing, Daliah Heller, PhD, MPH was Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau, which has primary responsibility to develop and implement programs and policies to prevent the adverse health consequences of alcohol and drug use in New York City. The Bureau achieves its mission through ...