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With increased possibility that public healthcare services in the UK will be out-sourced to the private sector, this study investigates how clinicians working in Independent Sector Treatment Centres perceive the differences between public and private sectors.
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Despite an extensive tiered public healthcare system, India has one of the most privatized healthcare systems in world. There is no evidence suggesting that this privatization at anytime has been deliberate. So what has contributed to the private healthcare sector becoming so dominant in the...
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To provide insights into health promotion outcomes that are not captured by conventional measures of health outcome used in economic evaluation studies, such as EQ5D based QALYs.
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Acute hospital reconfiguration is often presented as a problem to be solved by calculations of optimal design, a rational process amenable to influence by open and responsive consultation. We aimed to analyse factors in the process and ‘results’ of hospital reconfiguration in three case...
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This qualitative study aims to identify the key dimensions of the political argumentation in the debate leading up to the deregulation of nicotine replacement therapy products (NRT) in Finland in 2006. The deregulation was introduced by the Amendment of larger package of changes in medical...
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In Sweden, a mass vaccination campaign against the influenza A(H1N1) 2009 resulted in 60% vaccination coverage. However, many countries had difficulty in motivating citizens to be vaccinated. To be prepared for future vaccination campaigns, it is important to understand people's reasons for not...
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Transparency in health care resource allocation decisions is a criterion of a fair process. We used qualitative methods to explore transparency across 11 Canadian drug advisory committees.
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To examine the issues that influenced the implementation of programmes designed to identify and support frail older people in the community in the Netherlands.
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