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Agarwal, Siddharth - 2016

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Empirical Data Analysis of HIV/AIDS in Sudan with Reference to Khartoum State

Mohamed, Issam A.W - 2011

The present paper introduces results of an analysis conducted on data collected from Khartoum state for the year 2009. It aims to apply statistical models for the HIV/AIDS data in Khartoum state centers of testing blood and counseling. AIDS is recognized as an emerging disease only in the early...

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Why We Should Care About Health Care Fragmentation and How to Fix it

Elhauge, Einer - 2010

This chapter summarizes all the other chapters and links them to a general theory of team production in health care. The chapter defines what fragmentation means, the four levels at which it operates, and shows that it worsens health outcomes and costs. The chapter explains why economic theories...

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Private Health Insurance in Brazil : Features and Impact on Access and Utilization

Couttolenc, Bernard; Nicolella, Alexandre - 2007

health insurance and evalutate its impact on access to and utilization of health care. Methodology: The study uses national … increases access and utilization of health services. However, given the overall satisfactory utilization rates in the public … system, part of this higher utilization may be deemed unnecessary or excess demand, a common effect of health insurance. On …

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Transferring Know-How from the U.S. to the Central Mediterranean Basin in Search of a New Public-Private Healthcare Business Model

Snaiderbaur, Salvatore - 2010

Public-private partnerships can have a particular impact on sectors where a public service needs to be sustained by the best available professional and technological knowledge in a condition of scarce resources. The growing trend of international-patient mobility suggests, the opportunity to...

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Promoting Good Pain Management in California

Tucker, J. D., Kathryn L. - 2008

In recent years, a tremendous amount of attention has been focused on the need to improve pain management, particularly in the context of treating pain at the end of life. One significant catalyst for this heightened focus on pain management was litigation to legalize the choice for...

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Intellectual Property and Public Health – A White Paper

Vacca, Ryan G.; Chen, James Ming; Dratler, Jay; Folsom, … - 2014

On October 26, 2012, the University of Akron School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property and Technology hosted its Sixth Annual IP Scholars Forum. In attendance were thirteen legal scholars with expertise and an interest in IP and public health who met to discuss problems and potential...

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Don’t Let Go of the Rope : Reducing Readmissions by Recognizing Hospitals’ Fiduciary Duties to Their Discharged Patients

Hafemeister, Thomas L.; Porter, Joshua - 2013

In the early years of the Twenty-First Century, it was widely speculated that massive, multi-purpose hospitals were becoming the 'dinosaurs' of health care, to be largely replaced by community-based clinics providing specialty services on an outpatient basis. Hospitals, however, have roared back...

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Finding Vredo (Pat. Pending) : The Dutch Supreme Court Decision on Escitalopram

Tsoutsanis, Alexander - 2014

This article is about the pharma patent litigation sparked by Lundbeck’s blockbuster drug for 'escitalopram', a drug used for treating depression and generalized anxiety disorder. The article focuses on the trials and tribulations before the Dutch Patent Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court,...

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Analiza Principalelor Probleme Cu Care Se Confruntă Asistentele Medicale Din Unitățile Publice De Sănătate (The Analysis of Nurses Main Problems From Public Healthcare Units)

Rotilă, Viorel - 2017

Romanian Abstract: Cercetarea are ca obiectiv analiza situației asistentelor medicale din unitățile sanitare publice centrată pe câțiva indicatori esențiali ai calității vieții profesionale: timpul de muncă, salarizarea, evoluția în carieră. În subsidiar, cercetarea sociologică a...

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