This is a copy of an article published in the Population Health Management © 2011 Copyright Mary Ann Liebert, Inc ….; Population Health Management is available online at: http://www.liebertonline.com. DOI: 10.1089/pop.2010.0021. …, lower cost health care. According to the literature on disruption, local hospitals and physicians (incumbent providers) may …

The extension of privacy laws to cover private sector providers and the proposal of a National Health Privacy Code … highlight the importance of examining privacy issues in aged care policy and practice. Although privacy in health and aged care …

Community Health Centers (CHCs), designed to provide accessible and affordable health care services to low … health centers found that the explanatory power of the predictors is much greater for cost efficiency than for technical …

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this … study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage … rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to the banking industry as a benchmark, on the basis that the banking …

Although theories in both evolutionary biology and economics predict that an individual’s health should be associated … collecting detailed measures of health, time preference, and expected longevity on a sample of individuals in townships around … preference and health, in an area of the world with high mortality and morbidity. Interestingly, we find that both physical …

health services. Significant investments are made for the purchase, maintenance and repair of medical equipment. Inadequate …

systemic, topical and sub-conjunctival steroids. (Afr J Reprod Health 2003; 7[2]: 106-108) RÉSUMÉPerte totale bilatérale de la …

Most of solutions proposed to control the expenses of health -as the price regulation, capitation and the … fixed costs and variables have important implications to control the expenses of the care of health. The relatives low …

an important cornerstone of sustainable health systems in the 21st century. Various checklists and tools for consumers to … assess the quality of health information on the Internet have been proposed, but most fail to take into account the unique … evaluation is a “fact” (i.e. a health claim), rather than a webpage or website. Results: Formative evalua-tions and user testing …