Greenspan, Jesse A. Chebet, Joy J. Mpembeni, Rose Mosha, Idda Mpunga, Maurus Winch, Peter J. Killewo, Japhet Baqui, Abdullah H. McMahon, Shannon A.
Published in
BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
BackgroundIncreasing the utilization of facility-based care for women and newborns in low-resource settings can reduce maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality. Men influence whether women and newborns receive care because they often control financial resources and household decisions. This influence can have negative effects if men misjudge or...
Sturmberg, Joachim P. Bircher, Johannes
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F1000Research
Rising healthcare costs are major concerns in most high-income countries. Yet, political measures to reduce costs have so far remained futile and have damaged the best interests of patients and citizen. We therefore explored the possibilities to analyze healthcare systems as a socially constructed complex adaptive system (CAS) and found that by the...
Ziloochi, Mohammad Hossein Akbari Sari, Ali Takian, Amirhossein Arab, Mohammad
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Archives of Iranian medicine
There is limited evidence about charitable contribution and donation in Iranian healthcare. The main objective of this study was to investigate the factors that influence and encourage Iranian donors to donate money for healthcare facilities. Data was gathered through semi-structured face-to-face interviews with 36 donors, fund-raisers, and manager...
Babcock, Paul
Published in
The Linacre Quarterly
This article examines the structure of pricing within health care. The price mechanism within health care does not function as it does in other sectors of the economy. The author examines the price theories of capitalism, socialism, and solidarism to illuminate the purpose of prices relevant to health care. Drawing points from each system, the auth...
Docrat, Sumaiyah Lund, Crick Chisholm, Dan
Published in
International Journal of Mental Health Systems
BackgroundWith the implicit neglect for the integration of mental health services into general health service development in South Africa, there is an urgent need for an understanding of the ways in which existing reforms may be leveraged to incorporate the objectives of the National Mental Health Policy Framework and Strategic Plan (MHPF) and the ...
Douglass, Caitlin H. Pedrana, Alisa Lazarus, Jeffrey V. ‘t Hoen, Ellen F. M. Hammad, Radi Leite, Ricardo Baptista Hill, Andrew Hellard, Margaret
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BMC Medicine
Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) have dramatically changed the landscape of hepatitis C treatment and prevention. The World Health Organization has called for the elimination of hepatitis C as a public health threat by 2030. However, the discrepancy in DAA prices across low-, middle- and high-income countries is considerable, ranging from less than ...
Feick, Günter Zacharias, Jens-Peter
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Forum
Die Bedeutung der Ökonomie für die Qualität des Gesundheitswesens in Deutschland wird heterogen bewertet. Manche lehnen die Ökonomie pauschal ab, andere werten die Ziele der Medizin und der Ökonomie als nicht grundsätzlich gegenläufig oder sie verstehen Priorisierungen im Leistungskatalog der gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung als Ergebnis von Ökonom...
Carlo, Andrew D. Unützer, Jürgen Ratzliff, Anna D. H. Cerimele, Joseph M.
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Current Treatment Options in Psychiatry
Purpose of reviewCollaborative care (CoCM) is an evidence-based model for the treatment of common mental health conditions in the primary care setting. Its workflow encourages systematic communication among clinicians outside of face-to-face patient encounters, which has posed financial challenges in traditional fee-for-service reimbursement enviro...
Ceyrac, T Corny, J Raybaut, C Degrassat-Théas, A Paubel, P
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Annales pharmaceutiques francaises
Over the last few years, many therapeutic innovations have been approved and marketed in France, within a strained financial setting. Legal dispositions allowed manufacturers (LEEM - les enterprises du medicament) and the economic committee for health products (CEPS) to contract various confidential market access agreements to contain health produc...
Willging, Cathleen E. Sommerfeld, David H. Jaramillo, Elise Trott Lujan, Erik Bly, Roxane Spruce Debenport, Erin K. Verney, Steven P. Lujan, Ron
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BMC Health Services Research
BackgroundPublic insurance reforms of the past two decades have failed to substantively address the healthcare needs of American Indians in general, let alone the particular needs of American Indian elders, ages 55 years and older. Historically, this population is more likely to be uninsured and to suffer from greater morbidities, poorer health out...
