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Designing and Evaluating Health Promotion Programs: Simple Rules for a Complex Issue

Pronk, Nicolaas P. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 3, pp. 149-157

Health improvement planning models exist to support strategic management of health improvement efforts and to guide program administrators in taking a comprehensive approach to health promotion planning from problem identification to program evaluation and diffusion. This article outlines a...

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Specialist Nurse Management Programmes: Economic Benefits in the Management of Heart Failure

Stewart, Simon; Horowitz, John D. - In: PharmacoEconomics 21 (2003) 4, pp. 225-240

treatments. It is within this context that there has been an increasing interest in specific CHF-management programmes designed … and premature death. This paper examines the evidence to suggest that CHF programmes involving individualised … optimal treatment, are clinically and economically effective in reducing the typical burden imposed by CHF. These programmes …

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Using Gross National Product to Calculate Acceptable Immunisation Costs: Deploying Cost-Effectiveness Calculations in Reverse

Tyagi, Vineet; Singh, Saroj K.; Sawhney, Ashu; Taneja, Vikas - In: PharmacoEconomics 21 (2003) 7, pp. 497-499

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Supporting decentralised urban governance : training women municipal councillors in Mumbai, India

HOLZNER, B.M.; WIT, J. de - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2003

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Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Disease Management to Improve Health Outcomes

Andrulis, Dennis P. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 12, pp. 789-800

The heightened awareness of substantial racial and ethnic disparities in health outcomes has major implications for how healthcare providers effectively manage health conditions among diverse populations. This report identifies five dimensions that address the major causes of disparities that...

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The MELD System for Liver Allocation: Implications for Patients and Payors

Freeman, Richard B. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 9, pp. 551-556

The recent implementation of the Model for End-stage Liver Disease (MELD)/Pediatric End-stage Liver Disease (PELD) system for the allocation of cadaveric liver organs in the US represents a dramatic change in organ allocation policy. Previous allocation algorithms used a categorical...

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Disease Management Update

Adis International Limited - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 4, pp. 271-276

The rapid expansion of disease management continues. A multitude of stakeholders and marketplaces are now involved in providing cost-effective quality healthcare for individuals and populations. To help you keep up-to-date with the very latest developments in disease management, this section of...

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Provider Training and Education in Disease Management: Current and Innovative Technology

Muramoto, Myra L.; Campbell, Jean; Salazar, Zenen - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 10, pp. 633-645

Disease management has emerged as an important tool to increase quality of care, improve patient outcomes and control costs. Reducing provider practice variation is a key aspect of successful disease management. Clinical practice guidelines are a useful tool to reduce practice variation but are...

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Active Management of Patients with Chronic Renal Insufficiency: The Effect on Hospital Days During the Initial Hemodialysis Period

Zawadzki, Ilan; Fridman, Moshe; Chan, Wing; Ryu, Seonyoung - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 4, pp. 249-258

Introduction: Suboptimal management of patients with chronic renal insufficiency (CRI) is thought to contribute to the high morbidity and early mortality seen after the onset of end-stage renal disease (ESRD), and may therefore impact on healthcare costs associated with patients with ESRD. The...

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Results of a Men's Urological Health Screening Program at Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems

Thomas, Pamella; Goetzel, Ron Z.; Ozminkowski, Ronald J.; … - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 11 (2003) 3, pp. 181-189

Introduction: Men are less likely to use preventive services than women, perhaps because of a perceived lack of timely access to healthcare. This paper reports the results of the Men's Health Screening Program offered by Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Systems in Marietta, Georgia, USA. Methods:...

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