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This analysis provides important insights about patient’s attitudes and understanding of benefits of breast cancer prevention and highlights the importance of the availability of an organised screening programme for screening differences across European countries. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag...
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Caution must be taken when trying to transfer conclusions of pharmacoeconomics studies on migraines even in neighbouring countries. This cross-country variability is a concern for decision-makers and also for the elaboration of international recommendations and clinical practice guidelines. </AbstractSection>...
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The past 23 years of post-socialist restructuring of health system funding and management patterns has brought many … paper presents the results of a systematic review of the following evidence: published reports on health system reforms in … the region commissioned by WHO, IMF, World Bank, OECD, European Commission; all available published evidence on health …
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The per-patient cost of epilepsy is substantial. Thus, even though the prevalence of the illness is relatively small, the aggregated cost that epilepsy incurs on society is significant. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer-Verlag 2012
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Previous research on male subjects has conjectured that subjective self-reports of health status may lead to an upward … bias in the estimated effect of health on labor force participation because subjects who are out of the labor force may be … more likely to understate their health status so as to justify their lack of employment. In the descriptive analysis …
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The EORTC-C30 and EORTC-LC13 are the most frequently used health-related quality of life measurement instruments in …
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, education, health status, etc. are associated with screening uptake within countries but cannot statistically explain cross …
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En este artículo se utiliza la ampliación de la red pública hospitalaria de Barranquilla, como un cuasi-experimento que evalúa los avances en la accesibilidad geográfica y la equidad en la prestación del servicio de salud. En particular, se emplean medidas de gravedad para calcular la...
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This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. The search covered Econlit, Jstor Science Direct and Springer Link since 1985. The results are classified in three topics: Risk aversion in the frameworks of Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Expected Utility...
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Globalization is a key challenge facing health policy-makers. A significant dimension of this is trade in health … services. Traditionally, the flow of health services exports went from North to South, with patients travelling in the opposite … direction. This situation is changing and a number of papers have discussed the growth of health services exports from Southern …
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