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Analysis of Neonatal Health in South Asia

Haider, Muhiuddin; Mukherjee, Avinandan - 2012

Purpose- Neonatal healthcare is a critical issue in public health management. The purpose of this paper is to analyze neonatal health in South Asia. This paper specifically examines the neonatal period of an infant’s development, the time from birth to the first 28 days, and the importance of...

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Primary health care coverage in Brazil: assessment of the Family Health Program impacts on mortality at municipality level

Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya; Teixeira, Adriano Dutra; … - 2019

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The financial health of select Philippine hospitals and the role of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation as the national strategic purchaser of health services

Uy, Jhanna; Nuevo, Christian Edward L.; Casas, Lyle; … - 2021

Health care providers such as hospitals and primary health care facilities form an integral part of any health system. Providers must have both financial sustainability, such that they are able to continuously deliver health care services without bankruptcy, and sufficient profits to maintain...

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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico

Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024

Prolonged hospital stays, or hospital stays that are longer than medically necessary, are a major concern for patients … hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … that leads to more complex admissions; (ii) hospital inefficiency; and (iii) lack of rehabilitation, social, and long …

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The effects of resigning GPs on patient healthcare utilization and some implications for health

Monsees, Daniel; Westphal, Matthias - In: Health economics 34 (2025) 5, pp. 932-955

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Private Safety-Net Clinics : Effects of Financial Pressures and Community Characteristics on Closures

Li, Suhui - 2015

In order to better understand what threatens vulnerable populations' access to primary care, it is important to understand the factors associated with closing safety-net clinics. This paper examines how a clinic's financial position, productivity, and community characteristics are associated...

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Deal with the Devil : The Successes and Limitations of Bureaucratic Reform in India

Dhaliwal, Iqbal - 2014

Employing a technological solution to monitor the attendance of public-sector health care workers in India resulted in a 15 percent increase in the attendance of the medical staff. Health outcomes improved, with a 16 percent increase in the delivery of infants by a doctor and a 26 percent...

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Paying for the Hospital Waiting List Cull at the Gp's Surgery : The Changing Locus of Financial Risk-Bearing in New Zealand's Primary Health Care Sector

Howell, Bronwyn E. - 2010

illustrates these 'perverse' effects using two recent demand shocks - a strike by hospital doctors and the culling and referral … back to general practitioners of substantial numbers of patients on hospital waiting lists - showing how these exogenous …

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The Use of Community-Based Primary Care Clinics for the Prevention of Skin Cancers : A Model Proposal

Mangum, Brian P. - 2017

Given the global, national, and local impact of skin cancer in terms of morbidity/mortality as well as direct economic cost to treat, and the fact that skin cancer development in adulthood is mediated by exposure to ultraviolet radiation in youth and adolescence, the development of a skin cancer...

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Quality and Accountability in Healthcare Delivery : Audit Evidence from Primary Care Providers in India

Das, Jishnu; Holla, Alaka; Mohpal, Aakash; … - 2015

This paper presents direct evidence on the quality of health care in low-income settings using a unique and original set of audit studies, where standardized patients were presented to a nearly representative sample of rural public and private primary care providers in the Indian state of Madhya...

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