Conventionele economische gezondheidsevaluaties richten zich voornamelijk op het rendement van de gezondheidszorg-service-begroting en richten zich zelden op de bredere gevolgen. Het laatste betreft een variatie aan externe, de impact van ziektes op kennis en prestaties op school en ook...

In the past 10 years, a wide spectrum of chronic care improvement interventions has been tried and evaluated to improve health outcomes and reduce costs for chronically ill individuals. On one end of the spectrum are disease-management interventions—often organized by commercial vendors—that...

This report presents the result of the qualitative evaluation to understand the implementation of five adherence interventions from the provider perspective in four South African provinces. The research is part of the evaluation of the new Adherence Guidelines for HIV, TB and other chronic...

Purpose: Identifying chronic conditions at earlier stages could produce dramatic savings to the health care system. This study sought to determine whether patients with chronic conditions experienced higher medical costs and imaging costs than patients with nonchronic conditions before the onset...