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Cesarean deliveries are widely used in many high- and middle-income countries. This overuse both increases costs and lowers quality of care and is thus a major concern in the healthcare industry. The study first examines the impact of prenatal care utilization on cesarean delivery rates. It then...
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Background: To enable people to live in old age in their own homes often requires specialised home care services. Despite the high importance of these services, the finance of home nursing care (HNC) is still under-investigated in many countries. The aim of this paper was to describe the finance...
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Background/objective: Nursing homes in Switzerland are under pressure to efficiently coordinate staff activities to cover their personnel costs under the care financing system. In this study, the use of a mobility monitoring system accompanied with case conferences was investigated in order to...
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Background: Health economic evaluation of digital nursing technologies (DNT) is important to provide information that helps avoid undesirable developments and implementations as well as increase the chances of success of developed applications. At the same time, studies and evidence on...
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for the pursuit of policies that encourage adequate use of prenatal care by expectant mothers such as ensuring … mothers have to cover when seeking prenatal care services, intensifying education of females as a way of empowering them to be …
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important ways of ensuring child health. Unfortunately, owing to modernization, most nursing mothers fail to adhere to such … findings imply that efforts should be made on encouraging appropriate breastfeeding practices among nursing mothers to ensure …
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care use. Antenatal care serves as the initial point of contact of expectant mothers to maternal health care providers … this improves their use of maternal health services. Policy should also target mothers who have had the experience of child … birth on the need to use adequate Antenatal care for each pregnancy, since these mothers tend to use less antenatal care for …
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Background: There is considerable interest in exploring the potential of social health insurance in Africa where a number of countries are currently experimenting with different approaches. Since these schemes have been introduced recently and are continuously evolving, it is important to...
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Background: Malnutrition is a prevalent public health concern in Ghana. While studies have identified factors that influence child malnutrition and related inequalities in Ghana, very little efforts have been made to decompose these inequalities across various household characteristics. This...
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Background: Morbidity and mortality due to pregnancy and childbearing are high in developing countries. This study aims to estimate patient and health system costs of managing pregnancy and birth-related complications in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods: A systematic review of the literature was...
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