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High-quality health systems: time for a revolution in research and research funding
(Elsevier, 2019)
The launch of two landmark publications on the quality of care in the world's poorest populations, including The Lancet Global Health Commission on high-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era ...
Atención farmacéutica como proceso pedagógico: Relato de un caso
(2012-11-12)
The autonomy pedagogy allows the integration among theory, practice and reflection in the learning process. Applied to pharmaceutical care, the patient-centered process to achieve desired goals of therapy enables to build, ...
Motivating provision of high quality care: it is not all about the money.
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2019)
Mylène Lagarde, Luis Huicho, and Irene Papanicolas discuss different strategies policy makers can use to motivate health providers in order to improve quality of care. The inclusion of universal health coverage as a target ...
New guidelines on mental health in Peru
(Elsevier, 2019)
In October, 2018, the Ministry of Health of Peru approved the sectoral policy guidelines on mental health, which update those published 14 years ago. The five guidelines highlight the transitional framework of public mental ...
Transition for young adults with special health care needs: Recommendations of the committee on NANEAS of pediatric Chilean society
(2011)
Medicine in the world has changed, and Chile hasn't been left out of this reality. Advances in therapies for chronic diseases, neonatal intensive care, and critical care, have made children survive and improve infant ...
Health Care Reform or More Affordable Health Care?
(Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia, 2016-06-17)
This article investigates the impact on the U.S. economy of making health care more affordable. We compare health care cost reductions with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) using a rich life cycle ...
Process and outcome of prenatal care according to the primary care models: a cohort study
(Univ Sao Paulo, Escola De Enfermagem De Ribeirao Preto, 2019-01-01)
Objective: to evaluate the process and outcome indicators of the prenatal care developed in primary care, comparing traditional care models and the Family Health Strategy. Method: this is a cohort study, conducted with an ...
Estimating Need, Demand and Supply in Primary Health Care Services: A Local Application in Argentina
(Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, 2018-07)
To provide equal access, health care provision should be distributed across geodemographic space based on need. In Argentina, the social security, publicly funded health care and private health care subsectors are responsible ...
Point-of-care tests to strengthen health systems and save newborn lives: The case of syphilis
(Public Library of Science, 2012)
Poor rural populations in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) do not have access to diagnostic laboratories. Until recently, this has meant that they could not be screened for asymptomatic infections such as HIV or ...
Pre-Natal Monitoring in the Primary Attention of the Brazilian Unified Health System
(Assoc Apoio Pesquisa & Saude Bucal-apesb, 2019-01-01)
Objective: To analyze prenatal care in the primary care of the Brazilian Unified Health System. Material and Methods: This is a survey cross sectional research with inquiry-type quantitative-qualitative approach. Data ...