Does performance-based financing increase value for money in low- and middle- income countries? A systematic review [0.03%]
基于绩效的医疗融资会提高低收入和中等收入国家的福利水平吗？系统性综述分析
Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay,Jessica Spagnolo,Manuela De Allegri et al.
Anne-Marie Turcotte-Tremblay et al.
Governments of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are widely implementing performance-based financing (PBF) to improve healthcare services. However, it is unclear whether PBF provides good value for money compared to status quo or oth...
The abolition of user charges and the demand for ambulatory visits: evidence from the Czech Republic [0.03%]
来自捷克共和国的证据：废除用户费用和门诊需求的关系
Jana Votapkova,Pavlina Zilova
Jana Votapkova
This paper estimates the effect of the abolition of user charges for children's outpatient care (30 CZK/1.2 EUR) in 2009 on the demand for ambulatory doctor visits in the Czech Republic. Because the reform applied only to children, we can e...
Health system support and health system strengthening: two key facilitators to the implementation of ambulatory tuberculosis treatment in Uzbekistan [0.03%]
结核病门诊治疗在乌兹别克斯坦实施的两大促进因素：卫生系统支持与加强措施
Stefan Kohler,Damin Abdurakhimovich Asadov,Andreas Bründer et al.
Stefan Kohler et al.
Uzbekistan inherited a hospital-based health system from the Soviet Union. We explore the health system-related challenges faced during the scale-up of ambulatory (outpatient) treatment for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis (...
Quality of life and costs of spasticity treatment in German stroke patients [0.03%]
德国中风患者的肌张力异常治疗效果及成本
Reinhard Rychlik,Fabian Kreimendahl,Nicole Schnur et al.
Reinhard Rychlik et al.
Objective: To gather data about the medical and non-medical health service in patients suffering from post-stroke spasticity of the upper limb and evaluate treatment effectiveness and tolerability as well as costs over th...
Comparison of charges and resource use associated with saxagliptin and sitagliptin [0.03%]
沙格列汀与西格列汀相关费用及资源利用比较分析
Varun Vaidya,Keyuri Adhikari,Jack Sheehan et al.
Varun Vaidya et al.
Objectives: Saxagliptin and sitagliptin are two commonly used dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4) inhibitors. Little is known about their comparative effectiveness in the real world, particularly their impact on cost and resou...
Marta Pascual-Saez,David Cantarero-Prieto,Noelia González-Prieto
Marta Pascual-Saez
The most famous modern definition of health was created during a Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization in 1946: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of dise...
Health insurance subscription among women in reproductive age in Ghana: do socio-demographics matter? [0.03%]
Ghana妇女的生育年龄与健康保险的关系：社会人口统计学特征的影响
Hubert Amu,Kwamena Sekyi Dickson
Hubert Amu
Background: Premised that health insurance schemes in Africa have only been introduced recently and continue evolving, various concerns have been raised regarding their effectiveness in improving utilisation of orthodox h...
Regional inequalities in child malnutrition in Egypt, Jordan, and Yemen: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis [0.03%]
埃及、约旦和也门儿童营养不良的地区差异：Blinder-Oaxaca分解分析方法
Mesbah Fathy Sharaf,Ahmed Shoukry Rashad
Mesbah Fathy Sharaf
There is substantial evidence that on average, urban children have better health outcomes than rural children. This paper investigates the underlying factors that account for the regional disparities in child malnutrition in three Arab coun...
Efficiency of Ontario primary care physicians across payment models: a stochastic frontier analysis [0.03%]
安大略省不同支付模式下的家庭医生效率分析：随机前沿分析方法
Maude Laberge,Walter P Wodchis,Jan Barnsley et al.
Maude Laberge et al.
Objective: The study examines the relationship between the primary care model that a physician belongs to and the efficiency of the primary care physician in Ontario, Canada. ...
Regional differences of standardised mortality rates for ischemic heart diseases in the Slovak Republic for the period 1996-2013 in the context of income inequality [0.03%]
收入不平等背景下1996-2013年斯洛伐克共和国居民缺血性心脏病标化死亡率的地区差异
Beáta Gavurová,Tatiana Vagašová
Beáta Gavurová
Background: The aim of paper is to analyse the development of standardised mortality rates for ischemic heart diseases in relation to the income inequality in the regions of Slovakia. This paper assesses different types o...