Purpose People with physical disabilities often require lifetime support and experience
challenges to maintain or (re) define their level of independence. Assistive living …

Abstract Background and Aims The United States of America and Sweden both contain a
public and private component to their healthcare systems. While both countries spend a …

This study examines the association between mobile money, medical cost anxiety, and the
welfare of households in Malaysia. The study made use of the data sourced from the Global …

Background Medical service prices play a crucial role in cost containment in China. This
study aimed to assess the change in medical service price levels at the macro level and the …

Purpose To compare health care unaffordability in rural versus urban contexts while also
examining the impact of sociodemographic/socioeconomic variables on this relationship …

Background The growing presence of digital technologies in health care requires the health
workforce to have proficiency in subjects such as informatics. This has implications in the …

Background Healthcare systems worldwide face escalating pharmaceutical expenditures
despite interventions targeting pricing and generic substitution. Existing studies often …

Population aging and multimorbidity challenge health system sustainability, but the role of
assistance-related variables rather than individual pathophysiological factors in determining …

The extraordinary growth of healthcare spending in the United States necessitates an
incremental model of institutional change. Efforts to reduce social spending in the 1980s …

Background and aims Smoking is a risk factor for low back pain (LBP) and rheumatoid
arthritis (RA). We aimed to estimate the global health and economic burden of LBP and RA …