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CDC identified the first case of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza on April 15, 2009. During the first 3 months of the outbreak, approximately 43,000 cases were reported to CDC. In June 2009, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak an influenza pandemic. Because no existing influenza surveill...
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PMID: 21248680
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This study explores income inequalities in the utilization of medical care by cancer patients in South Korea, according to type of medical facilities and survival duration. The five-year retrospective cohort study used data drawn from the Korean Cancer Registry, the National Health I...
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PMID: 21319720
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We used a mathematical model to describe a regional outbreak and extrapolate the underlying health-service resource needs. This model was designed to (i) estimate resource gaps and quantities of resources needed, (ii) show the effect of resource gaps, and (iii) highlight which particular resources s...
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PMID: 20920381
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Integrating family planning services with other health services may be an effective way to reduce unmet need. However, greater understanding of the evidence on integration is needed.
Studies that evaluated the integration of family planning with any other type of heal...
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PMID: 21245025
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Persons who inject drugs should use a new, sterile needle and syringe for each injection. Syringe exchange programs (SEPs) provide free sterile syringes and collect used syringes from injection-drug users (IDUs) to reduce transmission of bloodborne pathogens, including human immunodeficiency virus (...
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PMID: 21085091
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The increasing number of persons in the United States with no health insurance has implications both for individual health and societal costs. Because of cost concerns, millions of uninsured persons forgo some needed health care, which can lead to poorer health and potentially to greater medical exp...
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PMID: 21063276
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This study examined health insurance disparities among recent immigrants. The authors analyzed all working-age adult immigrants between the ages of 18 and 64 using the New Immigrant Survey data collected in 2003.This survey is a cross-sectional interview of recent legal permanent residents on their...
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PMID: 21171534
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To document diabetes health services use and indices of glycaemic management of young people with type 1 diabetes from the time of their first contact with adult services, for those living in regional areas compared with those using city and state capital services, and compared with clinical guidel...
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PMID: 20955120
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We analysed data on patients enrolled in the treatment programme across 36 facilities between May 2004 and December 2007, and assessed percentage initiating ART and percentage dead at 1 year after enrolment. Multivariable logistic regression was used to estimate associations of facility-level and pa...
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PMID: 21080999
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A follow-up study was conducted on a sample of 120 ethnically diverse HIV-positive men and women first interviewed in 2000. Participant survival and death rates were ascertained from death records and analyses were performed to identify demographic and psychosocial predictors of survival from the or...
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PMID: 20938875
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To identify patterns of public health care utilization by Latin American immigrants in Spain as compared to the local population.
This analysis is based on information provided by the 2006 National Health Survey on the frequency of visits to general practitioners, specialists and emergency rooms, as...
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PMID: 20657965
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The association between religiosity and decreased likelihood of a substance use disorder does not appear to be substantively mediated by either social support or mental health status....
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PMID: 19714282
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This study examined a developmental, cascade model that includes childhood risks of conduct problems and family adversity at age 10-12; conduct problems, risk taking, and internalizing during adolescence; and adult outcomes of conduct problems, poor health, health risks, depression, and service use...
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PMID: 20576185
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Emergency care serves a key function within health care systems by providing an entry point to health care and by decreasing morbidity and mortality. Although primarily focused on evaluation and treatment for acute conditions, emergency care also serves as an important locus of provision for prevent...
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PMID: 20138398
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Increasing numbers of families arriving through Australia's humanitarian settlement scheme are coming into contact with Australian child protection systems. A large number of these families come from African and Middle Eastern countries and have common experiences of trauma, dislocation, loss and ma...
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PMID: 19552958
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This study investigated child, caregiver, and caseworker factors associated with greater use of family support services by immigrant families in the U.S. child welfare system. Among child factors, higher levels of internalizing behavior problems (Odds Ratio (O.R.)=3.60), externalizing behavior probl...
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PMID: 19651442
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The 4RIF regimen was significantly cheaper per patient completing treatment because of better completion and fewer adverse events....
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PMID: 20627913
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Asthma comorbidity places a significant burden on individuals and the healthcare system and should be considered in the management of asthma. Further research should focus on which types of asthma comorbidity are responsible for the greatest burden and how such comorbidity should be prevented and ma...
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PMID: 20627918
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Fifty-eight SPC patients achieved BP targets compared with 47 control patients (P = 0.119). The absolute reduction in BP was significantly greater in the SPC group (-22.8 +/- 6.9/-19.3 +/- 5.2 mmHg) than in the control group (-20.6 +/- 6.4/-17.8 +/- 5.6 mmHg) (P < 0.03). Significantly fewer patients...
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PMID: 20672530
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Surviving critical illness can be life-changing and presents new healthcare challenges for patients after hospital discharge. This feasibility study aimed to examine healthcare service utilisation for patients discharged from hospital after intensive care unit stay. Following Ethics Committee approv...
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PMID: 20715739
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Although people with panic attacks are high utilizers of health care, the role of symptom assessment in care-seeking is unclear. Previous studies suggest that symptom perceptions are linearly related to utilization but panic appraisal is not. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the re...
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PMID: 20604822
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Our hypothesis is that the services organization offer of primary care (PC) from the Federal District (DF) and its surroundings overloads the medium-complexity services (MC), contributing to less equity in terms of communities access. Our objective is to analyze the demand for MC (medium-complexity)...
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PMID: 20640257
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We discuss advantages and disadvantages of different approaches to confounder control in healthcare databases. In settings where considerable uncertainty surrounds the data or the causal mechanisms underlying the treatment assignment and outcome process, we suggest that researchers report a panel of...
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PMID: 20473199
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We report descriptive, self-report data on health care utilization and insurance coverage. Although 85% of the petitioners had private or public health insurance, 39% reported delayed medical care, and 14% had not obtained medical care of any kind. The response to address interpersonal violence vict...
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PMID: 20445078
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Results provide useful information about unit cost based on four categories: (1) unit cost per admission of each department, (2) unit cost per patient day of each department, (3) unit cost per admission with annual capital cost of each department and (4) unit cost per patient day with annual capital...
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PMID: 20509350
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A E Rudolph,
K Standish,
S Amesty,
N D Crawford,
R J Stern,
W E Badillo,
A Boyer,
D Brown,
N Ranger,
J M Garcia Orduna,
L Lasenburg,
Sarah Lippek and
Crystal M Fuller
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Studies suggest that community-based approaches could help pharmacies expand their public health role, particularly pertaining to HIV prevention. Thirteen pharmacies participating in New York's Expanded Syringe Access Program, which permits nonprescription syringe sales to reduce syringe-sharing amo...
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PMID: 20528131
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In this population, the proportion of patients with uncontrolled asthma, particularly as indicated by high SABA fills, decreased over a 5-year period. Several individual- and neighborhood-level characteristics were associated with uncontrolled asthma events. Clinicians and health plans can identify...
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PMID: 20560831
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Diabetic retinopathy (DR), glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) are major causes of vision loss and blindness. Women have been found to have a higher prevalence of vision loss than men. Early detection and timely treatment by eye-care providers are necessary to delay disease progres...
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PMID: 20489682
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There was no evidence that IPS was of significant benefit in achieving competitive employment for individuals in South London at 1-year follow-up, which may reflect suboptimal implementation. Implementation of IPS can be challenging in the UK context where IPS is not structurally integrated with men...
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PMID: 20435968
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We concluded that the ethical problems identified in professional practice need to be understood beyond the dental dimension, towards a human approach. It is therefore necessary to incorporate health care management technologies into health practices which imply recognizing the different dimensions...
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PMID: 20464200
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We will discuss the importance of correlating the "horizon of rationality" in the health services with the problematic of effectiveness and efficiency of treatments on the area of drugs dependency....
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PMID: 20464181
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A Dutch-supported foundation is 'exporting' private health insurance to Nigeria, selling a US$ 30 health-care package for US$ 3. Gary Humphreys reports.
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PMID: 20461211
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In contrast to other published studies on PA for atypical antipsychotics, patient outcomes improved after the initiation of the policy. To the extent that medical utilization reflects patient health outcomes and health status, the results of this study indicate that the PA program has potentially im...
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PMID: 20388858
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To evaluate healthcare utilization and costs following a cardiovascular disease (CVD) screening and educational special intervention (SI) compared with a control intervention (CIN) at 1 year in the Family-Based Intervention Trial for Heart Health.
Participants randomized to SI for screening and peri...
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PMID: 20469954
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HDC appears to supplement existing services with little effect on the other community and hospital services....
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PMID: 19669169
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