Seven Recent Books on Health Care in the Americas by Silvia Borzutzky

“…A Right to Health: Medicine, Marginality, and Health Care Reform in Northeastern Brazil. By Jessica Scott Jerome. …”
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Saudi association for the study of liver diseases and transplantation position statement on the hepatology workforce in Saudi Arabia by Bandar Al-Judaibi, M Katherine Dokus, Waleed Al-hamoudi, Dieter Broering, Mohammad Mawardi, Nasser AlMasri, Mohammed Aljawad, Ibrahim H Altraif, Faisal Abaalkhail, Saleh A Alqahtani

“…In addition, SA is going through a health care reform to enhance health care delivery which may affect the financial compensation polices of various specialties including gastroenterology and hepatology. …”
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A novel ensemble approach for heterogeneous data with active learning by Mohamed Salama, Hatem Abdelkader, Amira Abdelwahab

“…Secondly, we evaluate the proposed model during the experiments; five heterogeneous datasets from various domains were used, such as a Health Care Reform dataset, Sander Frandsen dataset, Financial Phrase Bank dataset, SMS Spam Collection dataset, and Textbook sales dataset. …”
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Income-Related Inequality in Health Care Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Payments in China: Evidence from a Longitudinal Household Survey from 2000 to 2015 by Miaoqing Yang, Guido Erreygers

“…The government has introduced a nationwide health care reform aimed at achieving affordable and equitable basic health care for all. …”
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Accountability by Design: Moving Primary Care Reform Ahead in Alberta by Shannon M. Spenceley, Cheryl Andres, Janet Lapins, Robert Wedel, Tobias Gelber, Lisa Halma

“…Health-care reform is perennially popular in Alberta, but reality doesn’t match the rhetoric. …”
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Accountability by Design: Moving Primary Care Reform Ahead in Alberta by Shannon M. Spenceley, Cheryl Andres, Janet Lapins, Robert Wedel, Tobias Gelber, Lisa Halma

“…Health-care reform is perennially popular in Alberta, but reality doesn’t match the rhetoric. …”
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Remission of symptoms among schizophrenia patients receiving assertive community treatment (ACT) in Malaysia: one year follow-up by Rahima Dahlan, Marhani Midin, Hatta Sidi

“…Assertive community treatment (ACT) is one of the most important elements of mental health care reform in Malaysia. Many studies worldwide have reliably found that ACT has positive impact on several outcome domains such as reduced hospitalization rate, improvement of symptoms and quality of life. …”
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HEALTH SYSTEM REFORM IN UKRAINE AND FOREIGN EXPERIENCE OF FINANCING MODELS by M. Yu. Yusiuk, A. M. Yusiuk, L. A. Yusiuk

“…The main achievements of the first stage of the health care reform and plans for further changes are described. …”
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Substantial Increase in Accessibility to Essential Anticancer Medicines in Anhui, China: A Longitudinal Study by Rixiang Xu MD, Shuting Li MSc, Tingyu Mu MD, Xuefeng Xie PhD, Caiming Xu PhD, Xiongwen Lv PhD

“…The study aimed to evaluate the change in accessibility of essential anticancer medicines, from 2015 to 2018 in a pilot province for health care reform in China. Data on access to 23 essential anticancer medicines was obtained from 6 provincial tertiary hospitals. …”
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Strengths, Opportunities and Challenges of Health Transformation Plan as a Policy of Universal Health Coverage: A Qualitative Study in Kurdistan by Ahmad Pourmoradi, Peigham Heidarpoor

“…Research data was collected through semi-structured interviews with 18 participants and two focus group discussions associated with health-care reform issues with policy-makers, and health system managers of the province. …”
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Estimating the efficiency of primary health care services and its determinants: evidence from provincial panel data in China by Zhe Zhao, Silai Dong, Jiahe Wang, Qingzhi Jiang

“…BackgroundThe efficiency of primary health care services is drawing increased attention worldwide, especially in developing countries. Health care reform in China has moved into the ‘deep water zone’ phase and is facing the dilemma of inefficiency in primary health care services, which is a critical challenge for universal health coverage.MethodsIn this study, we estimate the efficiency of primary health care services in China and its determinants. …”
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A systematic review on healthcare financing in Singapore by R., Mohammad Farhan, U. Z., Hussaini, J., Saifulsyahira, A. M., Rosliza

“…Studies that were conducted from 1981 to 2015, written in English and used either a quantitative or qualitative design that focus on health care reform in Singapore were included in this study. …”
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Service utilization in community health centers in China: a comparison analysis with local hospitals by Wang Xiaohang, Dib Hassan H, Pan Xilong, Zhang Hong

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Being an important part of China's Urban Health Care Reform System, Community Health Centers (CHCs) have been established throughout the entire country and are presently undergoing substantial reconstruction. …”
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The modern view on the epiglottitis treatment by O.Ye. Kononov, M.A. Trishchynska

“…Approximately 20 to 40 % of adult general practice consultations are related to otolaryngological complaints. The Ukrainian health care reform makes significant adjustments in approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of most diseases. …”
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Congestive Heart Failure Clinics: How to Make Them Work in a Community-Based Hospital System by Joshua Larned, Mohamad Kabach, Leonardo Tamariz, Kristine Raimondo

“…Introduction: Congestive heart failure (CHF) accounts for over $32 billion in health care costs per year and is at the epicenter of health care reform. CHF remains a major cause of hospitalizations. …”
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Health sector reform processes in Nigeria: A review of factors that have enabled or constrained policy implementation in Enugu and Anambra States of Nigeria by B S C Uzochukwu, O E Onwujekwe, O P Ezeoke, N P Uguru, U Ezeoke, M N Ajuba

“…Introduction: In most countries health care reform is aimed at improving the efficiency, equity and effectiveness of the health sector. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF THE OPINION OF INTERNS ON PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REFORM by O. Ye. Sichkoriz

“…The aim of the study is to form recommendations for improving the system of postgraduate medical education in the context of general health care reform. The study is aimed at examining aspects of the activities of interns who have completed their internship training. …”
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The Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative : perceived costs and return on investment influencing participation by Morin, Melinda J

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The impact of health insurance on financial risk protection in Ningxia, China by Hafez, R, Yip, W

“…<p>In 2009 China launched an ambitious health care reform to ensure equal and affordable access to basic health care for all by 2020. …”

Healthcare information technology innovation and sustainability : frontiers and adoption / by Tan, Joseph K. H.