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Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions doc

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Mental and Substance-Use Conditions doc

... OVERALL HEALTH CARE The inadequacy of M/SU health care is a dimension of the poor quality of all health care. The quality problems of overall health care received substantial attention among the health ... for M/SU health care. M/SU health care also lags behind general health care in its use of information technology. To realize the potential of the NHII for consumers of M/SU health care, the commit- tee ... secure the services of eminent members of appropriate professions in the examination of policy matters pertaining to the health of the public. The Institute acts under the responsibility given to the...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 16:21

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Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care pptx

Medical Technology and the Production of Health Care pptx

... moment of the distribution. Although the inputs do h ave an impact on the dependent variable, this result, in light of the law of diminishing marginal productivity, supports the hypothesis of a ... including various measures of health status, health care 1 Total health expenditure is de…ned by the OECD as t he sum of spending on activi ties that has the goals of promoting health and preventing ... has also studied the mechanisms of diÔusion of these procedures in the OECD countries, showing 3 For each time period the Moran statistic has been standardized by u sing the moments of the empirical distribution...

Ngày tải lên: 01/04/2014, 00:20

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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary docx

Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary docx

... MEDICINE of the national domestic agenda, the choice of EBM by the IOM Council as the theme of the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting underscores its centrality and importance to healthcare improvement and offers ... Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001). In the face of the growing awareness generated about the nature and implications of the gap between healthcare practice and the evidence base, the IOM Roundtable ... Hayward, associate professor of the Departments of Medicine and Public Health Sciences and director of the Centre for Health Evidence (CHE) at the University of Alberta, noted that in the messy informational...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 09:20

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The effect of health education intervention on the home management of malaria among the caregivers of children aged under 5 years in Ogun State, Nigeria pptx

The effect of health education intervention on the home management of malaria among the caregivers of children aged under 5 years in Ogun State, Nigeria pptx

... were in the southern axis of the local government. Each of the polit- ical wards served as a cluster. The first step was to choose whether the northern part or the southern part became the experimental ... the commonest antimalarial drug given in the study area [14-16]. Others reported the use of paracetamol as the commonest drug [3,8,17]. This may signify the success of the implementation of the ... improve their own health [9]. The more African people value health the more they will be willing to make the appropriate allocation of resources to promote and safeguard their own health. The com- munity...

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 21:20

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Quality of Life and Technology Assessment: Monograph of the Council on Health Care Technology potx

Quality of Life and Technology Assessment: Monograph of the Council on Health Care Technology potx

... implications. The sum of these varied interests is the field of health care technology assessment. The Council on Health Care Technology was created to promote the development and application of technology ... in health care and the review of health care technologies for their appropriate use. The council was established as a public-private enterprise at the Institute of Medicine, a component of the ... on the continuum, and the more global the concepts (ultimately including quality of life), the more to the right. Concepts to the right encompass all the domains lying to the left. Others see these...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

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Women on the Front Lines of Health Care: State of the World''''s Mothers 2010 pdf

Women on the Front Lines of Health Care: State of the World''''s Mothers 2010 pdf

... year, our State of the World’s Mothers report reminds us of the inextricable link between the well-being of mothers and their children. More than  years of experi- ence on the ground have ... preventive measures, the promotion of normal birth, the detection of complications in mother and child, the carrying out of emergency measures and the accessing of medical care or other appropriate ... say in their own health care needs –  percent say their husbands alone make the decisions regarding their health care.  Much of Bangladesh’s progress is attributed to increased use of modern...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 15:20

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Child Health And The Quality Of Medical Care by Sarah L. Barber University of California, Berkeley ppt

Child Health And The Quality Of Medical Care by Sarah L. Barber University of California, Berkeley ppt

... children. Furthermore, these analyses imply different relationships among the two types of care, the methods of measuring quality, and the three aspects of growth. Even though the two types of care ... distinguish the pathways through which quality of care affects health. However, the reduced form equation captures the combined direct and indirect benefits of quality care rather than solely their ... choices. The direct effects are the consequences of actual care use; the indirect effects are the ways in which quality influences the decision where and when to seek care. Indeed, poor quality care...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 06:20

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báo cáo hóa học:" Preferences of diabetes patients and physicians: A feasibility study to identify the key indicators for appraisal of health care values" doc

báo cáo hóa học:" Preferences of diabetes patients and physicians: A feasibility study to identify the key indicators for appraisal of health care values" doc

... developed the concept of the publication and wrote the draft of the manuscript. JC initiated the study and developed the details of the study together with HJH. MD and HJH completed the study. ... to the effects of treatment, i.e., the main treatment effect and the effect of treat- ment on body weight. Two other factors were related to the mode of application and the type of product. These factors ... consultant of Lilly Deutschland GmbH, initiator of the Wilsede Workshop for Outcomes Research and member of the jury of the Quality of Life Award. The Wilsede Workshop as well as the Quality of Life Award...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

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Báo cáo y học: "The epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia in medical-surgical intensive care unit"

Báo cáo y học: "The epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia in medical-surgical intensive care unit"

... value that deviated the fur- thest from the median of the reference range was taken. Where there was no difference between the minimum and maximum value from the median, the maximum value was taken. ... level of care (full care, full care without cardiopulmo- nary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) . Severity of illness at inception (within the first day of ICU admission) was assessed using the ... Because of their incapacitation, lack of free access to water and the usually serious nature of their underlying diseases, patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) are at high risk of developing...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:31

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The translation of health insuracne terms of non-equivalence group

The translation of health insuracne terms of non-equivalence group

... importance of the readership to the choice of lexical word is undeniable, 22 TABLE OF CONTENTS PART A: INTRODUCTION 1 1. Rationale 1 2. Scope of the study 2 3. Aims of the study 2 4. Methods of the ... of OF 26 II.4. Concluding remark 26 CHAPTER III: THE TRANSLATION OF HEALTH INSURANCE TERMS OF NON-EQUIVALENCE GROUP 28 III.1. The source of non-equivalence problem in the translation of health ... many Epithet This item, usually in the form of an adjective, indicates some quality of the subset. This can be (i) an objective property of the thing itself; or (ii) it may be an expression of the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:44

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