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Over the past several years, "obesity activists," as well as many disability rights and critical legal theorists, have … increasingly argued for the inclusion of obesity as a "disability" under anti-discrimination law, particularly the Americans with … active interventions to combat the growing prevalence of obesity in America, which they see as a major health problem. These …
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health expenditures are rising, outcomes remain average. The co-existence of social and private health insurance leads to …
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After identifying the economic benefits that increased medical tourism from Canada to the United States may confer on the U.S. healthcare market and local economies, this essay analyzes applicable U.S. legal impediments that certain medical tourism arrangements — to wit, those involving a...
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Purpose: Breast cancer is one of the major causes of death incurring highest morbidity and mortality amongst women of Pakistan. The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the role of two public sector tertiary care hospitals' management in reducing out of pocket (OOP) expenses on direct...
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The right to health has been repeatedly recognized as one of the core human rights, essential for human functioning, human dignity, economic well-being, and development. But the right to health continues to elude hundreds of millions and with Covid-19, perhaps billions of people. Poverty remains...
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This paper examines the impact of universal, free, and easily accessible primary healthcare on population health as measured by age-specific birth and mortality rates, focusing on a nationwide socialized medicine program implemented in Turkey. The Family Medicine Program (FMP), launched in 2005,...
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ACA by facilitating a new public insurance product, a “public option," and reveals that only one bill actually calls for … one comprehensive, single-payer, government-provided public insurance program. The paper then exposes the distance between …
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Towards a sustainable health system: A call to action' speaks to the challenge that the climate crisis poses for health systems. The scale of the accelerating crisis will require that health systems adapt in response, but also that they become visible champions for change, mitigating the...
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The utilization of healthcare services serves as a barometer for current and future health outcomes. Even in countries with modern healthcare IT infrastructure, however, fragmentation and interoperability issues hinder the (short-term) monitoring of utilization, forcing policymakers to rely on...
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Scholars of public health typically focus on societal equity for explaining public health outcomes. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a spate of studies showing a tight connection between inequitable access to health, welfare services, and adverse outcomes from the pandemic. Others have...
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