To reduce extended appointment times at a heart failure clinic, three Lean healthcare-based changes were planned, implemented one at a time, over four months. Findings based on 1,267 appointments showed that appointment times decreased with proper implementation. While staffing challenges and...

I review the key issues that arise in financing health care delivery. I begin by documenting the key features of health care markets that make financing so central in this sector, such as the skewed and unpredictable nature of health care spending and market failures in health care delivery. I...

To effectively improve the health of rural residents, it is critical to not only focus on the financial accessibility associated with medical insurance but also on the spatial accessibility of healthcare services (SAH). We investigated the mechanism of SAH affecting rural residents’ health and...

Political views are increasingly associated with greater hostility and unfavorable feelings toward political rivals. Exploiting turnover Presidential elections changing US counties’ political alignment with the party of the President, this paper documents that the lack of alignment has a...

This study determines to highlight that geography is a valuable resource in evolving our consideration of the important relationships between time, health, place, and their characteristics. Research into health problems and disease outbreaks, therefore, has a geographic context. This study also...

This abstract and concept is in accordance with the healthcare domain in New Zealand, during and after the Covid-19 chunk. New Zealand has implemented and has shown astonishing results in handling this pandemic. The numbers, always to the ground over a large timeframe, support this argument.This...

This paper describes the historical emergence of an accountable quality in public policies and reforms of the UK National Health Service: that is a notion of quality which is expressed through accounting and other formal measurement and management devices. It also specifies the idealized subject...

The academic public health and biomedical communities have a long history of researching and documenting the adverse impacts of pollution on human health. However, the healthcare industry itself is a major contributor to pollution as well as the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions responsible for...

The present teaching case study is about SaludAbierta, a newly created e-pharmacy venture of the Salud Group, a private healthcare provider based in Peru. SaludAbierta was launched in Perú in February 2021 as a strategic building block of the Salud Group’s vision and ecosystem to access...

Medicaid is increasingly provided by private managed care plans. I investigate the staggered rollout of mandates across counties in New York, which required Medicaid beneficiaries to enroll in a private managed care plan. I find improvements following the mandate, as evidenced by increased...