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Samoa currently faces two important public policy challenges in the health sector. One is to stem, and then reverse, the rapid rise of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The second challenge is to put the country on a health-financing path that is effective, efficient, and financially affordable...
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Peru reduced its HIV/AIDS burden by 43 percent from 2000 to 2010 due to the introduction of free antiretroviral drug therapy in 2004, and the successful execution of the 2007-2011 HIV/AIDS Strategy and budgeting for results since 2011. The national HIV program received significant external...
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Paying health facilities incentives based on their performance is one form of results-based financing (RBF). Verification of the performance of the providers is a vital part of RBF program implementation. Burundi was one of the first African countries to introduce performance-based financing...
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Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality diagnosis and inadequate disease surveillance. Laboratory professionals are predominantly male with relatively limited female labor participation, with potential gender based...
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US hospitals are investing in pharmacy information systems to meet accompanying technological and workload demands as … quality. Our research shows that US hospitals are actively involved in acquiring pharmacy information systems. One thousand … six hundred seventy one US hospitals or 32% have operational pharmacy information systems and 732 of them currently have …
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record (EHR) systems among 3,331 non-federal hospitals in the USA. The results indicated that hospital's overall resource … capacity and resource use efficiency are important organisational factors for hospitals with basic and comprehensive EHR … systems. Moreover, hospitals affiliated with moderately centralised systems were more likely to adopt a higher level EHR …
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This paper states that traditional facilities (i.e., hospitals, remote physician offices or referral care) may not be … growing numbers in the USA who require such care suggests that a disease management organisation (DMO) approach can best … diagnose, treat and use health informatics to create treatment protocols for that specific population. Chronic viral hepatitis …
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While universal health coverage (UHC) offers a powerful goal for a nation, all countries-irrespective of income are struggling with achieving or sustaining UHC. France is a high-income country where HC is in effect universal. Health-related costs are covered by a mix of mandatory social health...
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, pronatalist norms. Yet some studies suggest that being personally diagnosed and/or undergoing treatment differentially shapes … reactions. We focused on differences in women's experiences with diagnosis and treatment, conceptualized as the medicalized …
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