Effects of decreasing the out-of-pocket expenses for outpatient care on health-seeking behaviors, health outcomes and medical expenses of people with diabetes …

W Du, P Liu, W Xu - International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 - Springer
Background: To improve access to outpatient services and provide financial support in
outpatient expenses for the insured, China has been establishing its scheme of decreasing …

Trends in disparities in healthcare utilisation between and within health insurances in China between 2008 and 2018: a repeated cross-sectional study

X Yan, Y Liu, M Cai, Q Liu, X Xie, K Rao - International Journal for Equity in …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Fragmentation in China's social health insurance schemes and income
gap have been recognised as important factors for the inequitable use of healthcare. This …

Understanding patients heterogeneity in healthcare travel and hospital choice-A latent class analysis with covariates

Y Gao, H Pan, Z Xie, KN Habib - Journal of Transport Geography, 2023 - Elsevier
Access to health care is key to well-being, and it is increasingly clear that aggregated
accessibility analysis is hard to reflect people's actual healthcare behaviour. This paper …

Uncrewed aircraft systems versus motorcycles to deliver laboratory samples in west Africa: a comparative economic study

WO Ochieng, T Ye, C Scheel, A Lor… - The Lancet Global …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Transportation of laboratory samples in low-income and middle-income
countries is often constrained by poor road conditions, difficult geographical terrain, and …

The acoustic environment in typical hospital wards in China

Z Deng, H Xie, J Kang - Applied Acoustics, 2023 - Elsevier
Excessive noise has become a significant problem in hospitals around the world, as
revealed by a number of studies. This study aimed to investigate the acoustic conditions in …

Trends and outcomes in primary health care expenditures in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–2017

MT Schneider, AY Chang, SW Crosby, S Gloyd… - BMJ global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
Introduction As the world responds to COVID-19 and aims for the Sustainable Development
Goals, the potential for primary healthcare (PHC) is substantial, although the trends and …

Incidence of healthcare-associated infections in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China: results from a real-time surveillance system

Y Zhang, M Du, JM Johnston, EB Andres, J Suo… - … Resistance & Infection …, 2019 - Springer
Background To quantify the five year incidence trend of all healthcare-associated infections
(HAI) using a real-time HAI electronic surveillance system in a tertiary hospital in Beijing …

Is South Africa closing the health gaps between districts? Monitoring progress towards universal health service coverage with routine facility data

C Day, A Gray, A Cois, N Ndlovu, N Massyn… - BMC Health Services …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Background South Africa is committed to advancing universal health coverage
(UHC). The usefulness and potential of using routine health facility data for monitoring …

Challenges and achievements in the utilization of the health system among adolescents in a region of Burkina Faso particularly affected by poverty

J Krohn, M Bountogo, L Ouermi, A Sie… - BMC Health Services …, 2023 - Springer
Objective Healthcare for adolescents receives little attention in low-income countries
globally despite their large population share in these settings, the importance of disease …

Association between primary care utilization and emergency room or hospital inpatient services utilization among the middle-aged and elderly in a self-referral system …

S Yang, M Zhou, J Liao, X Ding, N Hu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
With rapid economic growth and aging, hospital inpatient and emergency services utilization
has grown rapidly, and has emphasized an urgent requirement to adjust and optimize the …