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How confidence in health care systems affects mobility and compliance during the COVID-19 pandemic
Chan, Ho Fai; Brumpton, Martin; Macintyre, Alison; … - 2020
Trust in the health care system requires being confident that sufficient and appropriate treatments will be provided if needed. The COVID-19 public health crisis is a significant, global, and (mostly) simultaneous test of the behavioral implications arising from this trust. We explore whether...
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Measuring access and inequality of access to health care : a policy-oriented decomposition
Abatemarco, Antonio; Aria, Massimo; Beraldo, Sergio; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014227504
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Are patients and relatives the better innovators? : the case of medical smartphone applications
Goeldner, Moritz; Herstatt, Cornelius - 2016
innovative contributions of intermediate and end users that have been sold and evaluated within the healthcare sector. Several … studies in the healthcare sector have shown that healthcare professionals are an important source of innovation. Yet, to date … ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in …
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Universalizing health care in Brazil : opportunities and challenges
Avila Viana, Ana L. d'; Silva, Hudson Pacífico da; I, … - 2015
In 1988, the Brazilian Constitution established the Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde, or SUS), based on universal access to health services, with health defined as a citizenś right, and access to health services as an obligation of the state. Since then, Brazil has adopted a...
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Universal health coverage : the case of China
Hsiao, William C.; Li, Mingqiang; Zhang, Shufang - 2015
In less than a decade, China transformed its inadequate, unjust health care system in order to provide basic universal health coverage (UHC) for its people. What forces made it possible for China to achieve this? What kind of transformation took place? What are the impacts of these policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483999
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The impacts of universalization : a case study on Thailand's social protection and universal health coverage
Tivayanond, Prapaporn; Hanvoravongchai, Piya - 2014
outcomes" and social protection categories. The second part of the research focuses on social protection and health-care access …
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Reproductive health and access to services among rural-to-urban migrants in China
Zheng, Zhenzhen; Lu, Ciyong; Lu, Liming - 2013
Reproductive health, including maternal health, is an important issue for Chinaś migrant population. This paper briefly reviews the reproductive health situation, including reproductive health knowledge and status, health service use, and interventions among rural-to-urban migrants. By...
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Constraints on universal health care in the Russian Federation : inequality, informality and the failures of mandatory health insurance reforms
Cook, Linda - 2015
Healthcare in Russia has gone through many transformative stages, from a Soviet-era model of public provision to an … now a mix of both public and private healthcare provision operates across Russia. Throughout all these periods … access, and substantial inequalities in healthcare access and quality exist across different regions and income groups, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485111
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Aging and the governance of the healthcare system in Japan
Matsuyama, Yukihiro - 2014
of the pension system, healthcare system and other programmes, has been working well. The population is shrinking because … reconstruction, reform of the healthcare system is the most important issue. The biggest problem in the healthcare system is that … healthcare system based on the principle of integration. Other advanced economies could learn from the Japanese experience. …
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Prenatal care and socioeconomic status : effect on cesarean delivery
Milcent, Carine - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995445