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number of prescription and non‐prescription drugs mentioned (ordered or provided) per physician visit in the USA. Design … National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey – outpatient departments, and the … National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey – emergency departments. For this study, the data collected in 2003 and 2004 …
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Purpose – This paper sets out to examine how private health insurance (PHI) supports the private interests of consumers of healthcare services. The focus is on how insurance companies promote PHI to consumers. Design/methodology/approach – Using interviews with insurance company marketing...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the adverse selection in participation in the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme (NRCMS), as well as in outpatient and inpatient service utilization, in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. Design/methodology/approach – Probit model is established to...
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data from 473 mothers of children aged four to 11 years from Punjab (India). Data were analysed using exploratory factor … exist in the responses of mothers for feeding practices followed with children across age and gender of child, mother’s …Purpose The undesirable effects of TV advertisements and general parenting responsibility propel mothers to monitor and …
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food, entertainment and technology for entertainment and learning) that are most loved by mothers and/or children. Next, a …) are used by these brands loved by mothers and children. Findings – The results of this study indicate that functional cues …
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were conducted with 11 mothers who regularly prepare lunchboxes for their children aged between 9 and 11 years. Findings … beyond concerns focusing solely on health and nutrition, this article unpacks how mothers seek to provide lunchtime food that … – Mothers intend the food they provide to act as a leisure experience and a break from the pressures of school. Mothers …
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for Medicare recipients. The cost indicator includes Medicare charges; the quality of care indicators include hospital … location, number of discharges, readmissions, mortality rate, age, percentages of uninsured population and population aged 65 … patients in higher-priced facilities do not necessarily receive better quality of care. Moreover, there are regional cost …
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children. It measured the children′s income, savings, expenditures, frequency of store visits for purchasing, and determined … the objects of their spending. These data were compared with similar data for US children in order to provide global … marketers with a relative measure of Taiwanese children′s consumer maturity. Overall, the study showed that children of Taiwan …
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groups concerned with women. It suggests that women living alone with their children bear a disproportionate share of the … getting worse for women and children, even as it improves for the general population? If it is, why is it happening? And … maintenance levels, significantly raising the level of public support programmes for children, making available reasonable …
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challenges to emergency department (ED) is the control of the urgent patients and the non-urgent patients. The urgent patient … occur frequently and can incur significant delays for the non-urgent patients. Therefore, a non-urgent patient needs to …
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