Air Pollution Removal and Temperature Reduction by Gainesville's Urban Forest by Francisco Escobedo, Jennifer A. Seitz, Wayne Zipperer

“…Seitz, and Wayne Zipperer, discusses how Gainesville's urban forest helps remove air pollutants and estimates the value, in reduced health care costs of that reduction, and provides information on the reduction in temperature the trees provide. …”
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DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES OF PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE HEALTHCARE NEEDS IN RUSSIA by V. Makhalin, P. Kostromin

“…In the article current state of the Russian pharmaceutical industry, the pharmaceutical market and import of medicines to Russia regarding their compliance to the purposes and tasks set in industry strategic documents of development, and also to requirements of health care of the country is analysed. Extent of saturation of the market by the Russian medicines and consequences of the external economic sanctions for provision of medicines of the population of the country is defined. …”
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The Burden of Hepatitis C Virus Infection Is Growing: A Canadian Population-Based Study of Hospitalizations from 1994 to 2004 by Robert P Myers, MingFu Liu, Abdel Aziz M Shaheen

“…Simulation analyses have suggested that HCV will place an increasing burden on the health care system as the infected population ages, but supportive clinical data are limited.…”
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The doctor-patient relationship by Héctor Rodriguez Silva

“…Current situation in capitalist countries with neoliberal systems where health care is managed by private enterprises and insurances, and medical services are just another commercial activity is discussed. …”
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Wait Time for Endoscopic Evaluation at a Canadian Tertiary Care Centre: Comparison with Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Targets by Derek Yu, Wilma M Hopman, William G Paterson

“…BACKGROUND: In recent years, there has been considerable concern regarding wait times for Canadian health care, which led the Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG) to develop specific wait time targets.…”
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A specific information-based multi-modal network (SIM-Net) for accurate diagnosis of breast lesions in multiparametric MRI: A multi-center study by Yunsong Peng, Yu Zheng, Lulu Han, Liangquan Sun

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The Challenges Confronting Public Hospitals in India, Their Origins, and Possible Solutions by Vikas Bajpai

“…In the context of plans for rolling out “Universal Health Care” in the country, this paper analyzes the social, economic, and political origins of the major challenges facing public hospitals in India. …”
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The Ethics of Rationing of Critical Care Services: Should Technology Assessment Play a Role? by Eric L. Bloomfield

“…The costs of health care continue to increase rapidly and steeply in the United States. …”
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The Relationship Between Hepatopulmonary Syndrome and Altitude by Morgan A Valley, James F Trotter, Deborah Thomas, Adit A Ginde, Steven R Lowenstein, Benjamin Honigman

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Air Pollution Removal and Temperature Reduction by Gainesville's Urban Forest by Francisco Escobedo, Jennifer A. Seitz, Wayne Zipperer

“…Seitz, and Wayne Zipperer, discusses how Gainesville's urban forest helps remove air pollutants and estimates the value, in reduced health care costs of that reduction, and provides information on the reduction in temperature the trees provide. …”
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Aspects de météopathologie des conjonctivites en phase hiverno-printanière à Sfax (Centre-Est de la Tunisie) by Mounir Jarraya

“…In fact, the frequency of consultations for conjunctivitis - recorded by Primary Health Care Centers-, during the winter-spring period, correlates with the evolution of the thermal situation. …”
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MD Voldemar Sumberg and the Folk Medicine Collection of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene from the 1920s and 1930s by Ave Tupits

“…Based on the documents preserved in several museums and archives in Tartu and Tallinn (the Estonian Health Care Museum, the Estonian State Archives, the Estonian Historical Archives, the Estonian Folklore Archives and the Estonian National Museum), the article will give an overview of the views of the director of the Estonian Museum of Hygiene, Voldemar Sumberg, on the relationship between folk medicine and modern medicine; the data on folk medicine collecting campaigns with Sumberg's involvement in the 1920s; and the fate of the folk medicine records and items collected by the Museum of Hygiene during the 1920s and 1930s, according to the documentation and archival material found so far.…”
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Postpartum Visit Attendance Increases the Use of Modern Contraceptives by Saba W. Masho, Susan Cha, RaShel Charles, Elizabeth McGee, Nicole Karjane, Linda Hines, Susan G. Kornstein

“…These findings highlight the importance of PPCV in improving modern contraceptive use and guide health care policy in the effort of reducing unintended pregnancy rates.…”
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The Association of Health Literacy with High-Quality Home Blood Pressure Monitoring for Hypertensive Patients in Outpatient Settings by Sau Nga Fu, Man Chi Dao, Carlos King Ho Wong, Bernard Man Yung Cheung

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Estimating the Burden of Illness Related to Genital Warts in Russia: A Cross-Sectional Study by Vera N. Prilepskaya, Mikhail Gomberg, Smita Kothari, Karen Yee, Amit Kulkarni, Suzanne M. Garland, Anna R. Giuliano

“…Given the lack of Russian data, our study estimated GW prevalence in physician practices and GW-related health care resource use in Russia among male and female patients aged 18–60 years. …”
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Economic impact of cholera in households in rural southern Malawi: a prospective study by Florian Marks, Wilm Quentin, Vittal Mogasale, Amber Hsiao, Enusa Ramani, Hye-Jin Seo, GiDeok Pak, Dan Vuntade, Maurice M’bang’ombe, Bagrey Ngwira

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Outcome of Chair-Side Dental Fear Treatment: Long-Term Follow-Up in Public Health Setting by T. Kankaala, T. Määttä, M. Tolvanen, S. Lahti, V. Anttonen

“…Purpose of this practice and data-based study was to evaluate the outcome of dental fear treatment of patients referred to the Clinic for Fearful Dental Patients (CFDP) in the primary oral health care, City of Oulu, Finland, during period 2000–2005. …”
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Optimising transitions of care for acute kidney injury survivors: protocol for a mixed-methods study of nephrologist and primary care provider recommendations by Rozalina Grubina McCoy, Kianoush B Kashani, Joan M Griffin, Heather Personett May, Abby K Krauter, Dawn M Finnie, Erin F Barreto

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The development process of a type 2 diabetes health-promoting CBPR intervention by Cecilia Lindsjö, Katarina Sjögren Forss, Christine Kumlien, Anders Kottorp, Margareta Rämgård

“…This approach, that is, developing a community-based participatory research intervention, offers a possibility for the primary health care to engage with the community members and for other stakeholders to work in a health-promotive way.…”
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Fall risk-increasing drugs and associated health outcomes among community-dwelling older patients: A cross-sectional study in Croatian cohort of the EuroAgeism H2020 project by Paar Elizabeta, De Lai Eleonora, Držaić Margita, Kummer Ingrid, Bužančić Iva, Hadžiabdić Maja Ortner, Brkic Jovana, Fialová Daniela

“…Exposition to FRIDs was identified as the significant risk factor associated with falls (OR = 1.24 (1.04–1.50); p = 0.020) and higher health-care utilization (OR = 1.29 (1.10–1.51); p = 0.001). …”
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