Qin, Xuezheng Hsieh, Chee-Ruey
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Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
A common challenge faced by the healthcare systems in many low- and middle-income countries is the substantial unmet mental healthcare needs, or the large gap between the need for and the provision of mental healthcare treatment. This paper investigates the potential causes of this treatment gap from the perspective of economics. Specifically, we h...
He, Shan Song, Duo Jian, Wei-yan
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Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
Urbanization has been and will continue to be the mainstream trend of global population movement, including China. Depression is the most common mental disorders and the leading factor of disabilities. However, the impacts of urbanization on the depression occurrence are still unclear. This paper analyzed the data from 3 waves of the China Health a...
Linjawi, Amal I. Abushal, Amal M.
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Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
To evaluate the preference of young adult patients and their willingness to pay for the different approaches accessible to accelerate orthodontic tooth movement. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from September to December 2019. Young adult orthodontic patients from 18 to 45 years old were interviewed via online survey ...
Brown, Clare C. Moore, Jennifer E. Felix, Holly C. Stewart, Mary K. Tilford, John M.
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This study evaluated persistency in county-level rates of low birthweight outcomes to identify “hotspot counties” and their associated area-level characteristics. Administrative data from the National Center for Health Statistics Birth Data Files, years 2011 to 2016 were used to calculate annual county-level rates of low birthweight. Counties ranki...
Cotrin, Paula Moura, Wilana Gambardela-Tkacz, Caroline Martins Pelloso, Fernando Castilho dos Santos, Lander Carvalho, Maria Dalva de Barros Pelloso, Sandra Marisa Freitas, Karina Maria Salvatore
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Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
Brazil is in a critical situation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare workers that are in the front line face challenges with a shortage of personal protective equipment, high risk of contamination, low adherence to the social distancing measures by the population, low coronavirus testing with underestimation of cases, and also financial conce...
Carnut, Leonardo Narvai, Paulo Capel
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Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
Due to the replacement of the issue of performance measurement in health policies worldwide this study identifies and analyzes the models for evaluating health systems performance. For this purpose, a systematic review of the literature on the topic “health systems performance evaluation” is done, making it compatible with a qualitative meta-synthe...
Alonazi, Wadi B.
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Inquiry: A Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
In the insurance industry, the majority of fraud and abuse cases fall into a limited number of patterns, yet false claims normally lead to negative national, local, and organizational effects. Through monitoring the exploitative and abusive behavior commonly found in healthcare services, this paper aims to analyze initiatives implemented by governm...
Li, Ying Chiu, Yung-ho Liu, Yabin Lin, Tai-Yu Chang, Tzu-Han
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China’s pursuit of economic growth, rapid industrialization, and urbanization over the past few decades has resulted in high energy consumption, which in turn has caused serious environmental pollution problems, such as CO2 and PM2.5 emissions, the long-term exposure to which can seriously affect resident health. To resolve these air pollution prob...
Sun, Zesheng Wang, Shuhong Zhao, Hongjun Yu, Haiming
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Patient satisfaction and choice of care providers have been the core concerns of China’s descending resources reform launched in 2013. This health care reform attempts to improve low-level hospitals’ capability and patient satisfaction through compulsory descending of doctors from high-level hospitals, thereby reshaping patients’ behavior (loyalty)...
Xiong, Huan Yi, Shuanglian Lin, Yufen
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A novel coronavirus pneumonia broke out and gradually developed into a global public health problem. Health care workers, especially nurses, suffered from great occupational pressure and psychological distress during the outbreak of infectious diseases. We performed a cross-sectional survey to investigate the psychological status and self-efficacy ...
