The road to achieving epidemic-ready primary health care

TR Frieden, CT Lee, M Lamorde, M Nielsen… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Millions of avoidable deaths arising from the COVID-19 pandemic emphasise the need for
epidemic-ready primary health care aligned with public health to identify and stop outbreaks …

Inequality and private health insurance in Zimbabwe: history, politics and performance

AT Mhazo, CC Maponga, E Mossialos - International Journal for Equity in …, 2023 - Springer
Introduction Zimbabwe has one of the highest rates of private health insurance (PHI)
expenditures as a share of total health expenditures in the world. The perfomamce of PHI …

Canadian health emergency management professionals' perspectives on the prevalence and effectiveness of disaster preparedness activities in response to COVID …

JG Richmond, J Tochkin, AJ Hertelendy - International Journal of Disaster …, 2021 - Elsevier
Emergency management (EM) professionals play an integral role in preparing healthcare
organizations for disasters but evidence of their pervasiveness in Canadian healthcare is …

The impact of centralized coronary stent procurement program on acute myocardial infarction treatments: evidence from China

W Jian, W Zhou, L Zhang - Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background The advent of coronary stents has resulted in many more many lives being
saved from acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the high price associated with this …

Autonomous vehicles will spur moving budget from railroads to roads

Y Wiseman - International Journal of Intelligent Unmanned Systems, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Nowadays, transportation authorities in various countries are in tension as to
whether to invest in railroads or roads. There are arguments for each side, and in the end …

Strengths and weaknesses of strategic health purchasing for universal health coverage in Rwanda

SM Umuhoza, SF Musange, A Nyandwi… - Health Systems & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In the context of scarce resources and increasing health care costs, strategic purchasing is
viewed as a key mechanism to spur countries' progress toward universal health coverage …

An Assessment of Provider Payment Mechanisms (PPMs) in Ethiopia: Implications for Redesign of PPMs and Progress Toward Universal Health Coverage

M Koricho, T Zerayacob, F Abebe, M Argaw… - Health Systems & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Ethiopia has made great strides in improving population health but sustaining health system
and population health improvements in the current fiscal environment is challenging …

Unique patterns of healthcare utilization following the opening of the Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital

N Dror Lavy, R Barnea, E Rotlevi, T Simon-Tuval - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Our aim was to examine the influence of the market entry of Samson Assuta Ashdod
University Hospital on community and hospital-based healthcare utilization (HCU). A …

Effect of no eyeglasses sales on the quality of eye care: an experimental evidence from China

N Wang, Y Li, S Wu, Y Liu, J Nie, J Wu, Z Reheman… - BMC Public Health, 2024 - Springer
Background Eye examinations and eyeglasses acquisition are typically integrated into a
cohesive procedure in China. We conducted a randomized controlled trial using incognito …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical Strategies in Gene Screening Counseling for the Healthy General Population

HY Kang, EK Choe - Korean Journal of Family Medicine, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The burgeoning interest in precision medicine has propelled an increase in the use of
genome tests for screening purposes within the healthy population. Gene screening tests …