premature mortality. In India, 66 percent of all deaths are premature. The burden of premature mortality has shifted from child …-à-vis the former level. Nevertheless, primary health systems continue to focus almost exclusively on child mortality. They need … to make a health system transition and get engaged in the prevention of risk factors, morbidity and mortality related to …

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 …. In this framework, hospitals are part of a wider system. This system involves both pre-admission and post …

ultimately of other patients' therapy. We analyze innovations of producers, healthcare professionals, patients, and relatives in … ratings and found that apps designed by patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals are rated significantly better by … innovative contributions of intermediate and end users that have been sold and evaluated within the healthcare sector. Several …

hospitals over a 13 year period, enabling the separate identification of doctor effects from hospital effects or observable patient … potential mortality reductions from reallocating doctors across patients. I find that mortality could be reduced by 8% by … reassigning doctors within-hospital to patients on the basis of their comparative ability to treat each patient type. These …

household per capita income increased, and poverty and social inequality significantly declined. In the health sector, the … outcomes, such as life expectancy and infant mortality, have improved significantly. What steps did Brazil take to achieve …