Does Therapeutic Zinc Level of Supplementation for Diminutions of Acute Diarrheal Morbidity Varied in Public and Private Health Institutions in Ethiopia, Data from EDHS 2016? by Fassikaw Kebede, Merkineh Markos

“…The prescribed therapeutic zinc was influenced for utilization through maternal educational status (AOR=2.55; 95% CI: 1.95, 3.47; P=0.001), availability of health insurance (AOR=10.7; 95% CI: 7.2, 16; P=0.001), media exposure status (AOR=2.1; 95% CI: 1.7, 3.6; P=0.001). …”
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Trends and determinants of maternal health services utilization in India from 2015 to 2021 by Wapangjungla Longchar, Prakash Babu Kodali, Sibasis Hense

“…Odds of completing CoC were higher among women aged 25–34 (AOR:1.18; 95% CI: 1.09–1.27), with higher education (AOR:1.74; 95% CI: 1.58–1.92), urban women (AOR:1.09; 95% CI:1.01–1.19), in richer household (AOR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.29–1.56), and with health insurance (AOR: 1.24; 95% CI: 1.15–1.35). Strengthening the public health system and addressing bottlenecks of government maternal health schemes remains an important consideration for improving the continuum of maternal care in India. …”
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Improving 1-year liver allograft survival hazard ratios by Resham­ Ramkissoon, Ashley Rosier, Savitha Iyengar, Timucin Taner, William Sanchez

“…The outcomes are publicly available and used by insurance payers and patients to assess the performance of a programme. …”
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Evolving trends in the prevalence and treatment of ankylosing spondylitis in Korea from 2010 to 2023: a population-based study by Yu-Seon Jung, Soo-Kyung Cho, Se Rim Choi, Sun-Young Jung, Yoon-Kyoung Sung

“…This population-based study utilized data from the National Health Insurance Database covering 2010 to 2023. AS cases were identified using at least two ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision) codes and rare intractable disease registration codes, excluding diagnoses of rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus erythematosus. …”
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A scoping review of the residual barriers to skilled birth attendance in Ghana: A conceptual framework and a fish bone analysis. by Juliet Abredu, Catherine K Dwumfour, Boo Alipitio, Mawusi Alordey, Veronica Millicent Dzomeku, Sophie Witter

“…Also, indirect costs are associated with the utilization of skilled delivery care even with the existence of 'free' delivery care policy under the national health insurance (policy factor). For Ghana to achieve the SDGs above and improve SBA, it is essential to enhance the quality of skilled delivery care by addressing the attitude and competencies of skilled birth professionals, while plans are put in place to expand and develop the Community-based Health Planning and Services (CHPS) strategy to help address the access barriers to SBA. …”
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Life expectancy and health care spending in South Asia: An econometric analysis. by Bharat Ram Dhungana, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Samrat Dhungana

“…Lack of adequate public funding for health services, difficulty in obtaining health insurance, and high out-of-pocket costs can result in indebtedness, reductions in actual consumption, and decreased access to health care services. …”
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Cost-Effectiveness of Bariatric Surgery in Patients Living with Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes by Gábor Kovács, Elemér Mohos, János Tibor Kis, Ádám Tabák, Péter Gerendy, Judit Pettkó, Dávid Nagy, Dávid Győrbíró, Zoltán Kaló

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Exploring barriers to accessing health care services by young women in rural settings: a qualitative study in Australia, Canada, and Sweden by Reyhaneh Golestani, Farideh Khalajabadi Farahani, Paul Peters

“…Structural barriers further compound these issues through socio-cultural and gender norms, insufficient coverage of universal health insurance, low budget allocations for health facilities in rural and small urban areas, and the geographic distance to healthcare providers. …”
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MobileNet-HeX: Heterogeneous Ensemble of MobileNet eXperts for Efficient and Scalable Vision Model Optimization by Emmanuel Pintelas, Ioannis E. Livieris, Vasilis Tampakas, Panagiotis Pintelas

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Fracture toughness and failure mechanism of high performance concrete incorporating carbon nanotubes by A. Khitab, S. Ahmad, Rao A. Khushnood, Syed A. Rizwan, Giuseppe A. Ferro, L. Restuccia, M. Ali, I. Mehmood

“…., 0.05 and 0.10 wt% of cement to the concrete mixes after insuring there complete dispersion, unusually improve their properties like mechanical strengths and fracture behavior…”
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Enhancement of blood flow containing tri-nanoparticles between bent peristaltic conduit and endoscope via thermal radiation and magnetic resonance by Awatif J. Alqarni, Essam M. Elsaid, Mohamed R. Eid, Mohamed S. Abdel-wahed

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Health care providers' decision-making and early adoption of tenofovir alafenamide for HIV preexposure prophylaxis: An inductive qualitative study. by Elisabeth Merchant, Patricia Solleveld, Kevin Gibas, Douglas Krakower

“…Providers perceived similar efficacy of the two formulations, and their clinical decisions were influenced primarily by whether HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis users belonged to a population with an indication for each of the two drugs (e.g. gender-related restrictions for tenofovir alafenamide), the medications' differing side effect profiles, cost and insurance considerations, prior personal and collective experience with each of these medications, and personal preferences. …”
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Association between number of medications and indicators of potentially inappropriate polypharmacy: a population-based cohort of older adults in Quebec, Canada by Alexandre Campeau Calfat, Justin P. Turner, Marc Simard, Véronique Boiteau, Caroline Sirois

“…Methods: We included all individuals over 65 years insured by the public drug plan on April 1st, 2022. …”
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AUTOMATED DECISION-MAKING: IS THE EU CONSUMER LAW FIT FOR THE EMERGING TECHNOLOGY? by Monica CALU

“…AI is essential in financial services, such as credit worthiness assessment, automated investment advice (often called robo-advice) or insurance. The regulation of activities related to ADM is contained in various acts and regulations, including the Sale of Goods Directive 2019/771, the Digital Contracts Directives 2019/770 and the EU General Regulation on Data Protection. …”
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Perspectives of psychiatrists on Mental Health Care Act, 2017: An in-depth pilot survey by Astha, Shruti Srivastava, Indira Sharma

“…With respect to section 309 IPC, 31% were registering and managing suicide attempts as medico legal cases and 63.1% as non-MLC cases. 54.2% of the participants were not aware about medical insurance for mental health. The qualitative data suggest the act should be simplified including relaxation in provisions of minor, capacity assessment and ensure active functioning of various authorities. …”
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Causes and Risk Factors of Repeated Hospitalization among Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy by Yu Xiao, Yingying Liang, Zhanjie Lin, Huiqian Kong, Zijing Du, Yunyan Hu, Shuyi Ouyang

“…The results of ordinal logistic regression showed that younger patients with medical insurance and local residence have a higher risk of repeated hospitalization (p<0.05). …”
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Developing and validating a HEalthCare NAvigation Competency (HECNAC) Scale for refugees in the United States. by Sarah Yeo, Inseok Lee, John Ehiri, Priscilla Magrath, Kacey Ernst, Yu Ri Kim, Halimatou Alaofè

“…The finalized scale captures multifaceted aspects of healthcare navigation crucial for refugees, organized into domains such as health system knowledge, insurance, making an appointment, transportation, preparing for a visit, in the clinic, interpretation, medicine, medical bills, and preventive care. …”
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Misdiagnosis of Psychosis and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in a Young Patient with Autism Spectrum Disorder by Jiangbo Ying, Melvyn Weibin Zhang, Sreedharan Geetha Sajith, Giles Ming-Yee Tan, Ker-Chiah Wei

“…During his second visit, he was initially assessed to have first episode psychosis, due to his possible delusional beliefs related to the insurance payout, social withdrawal, and strange behaviors, and then later he was assessed to have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) instead of psychosis, because of his recurrent and intrusive thoughts. …”
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Incremental Healthcare Costs and Outpatient Antifungal Treatment of Patients with Aspergillosis in the United States by Emily Durden, Donna McMorrow, Paul Juneau, Robert Fowler, Paresh Chaudhari, David Horn

“…**Objectives:** To evaluate the total and outpatient economic burden of aspergillosis, and to describe the outpatient antifungal treatment of aspergillosis within a large, commercially-insured population in the United States. **Methods:** Adults with at least one medical claim with an aspergillosis diagnosis (International Classification of Disease 9th Revision Clinical Modification [ICD-9-CM] code 117.3 or 484.6) between 07/01/04-03/01/11 were identified from the MarketScan Research Databases. …”
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DEVELOPMENTAL PROGRAMMES AND POLICIES: A LOGIC MODEL APPROACH by Obuks Augustine EJOHWOMU, Morakinyo Kehinde ONIFADE, Babatunde ADEOYE

“…This approach provided a schematic play-out of the feasibility of the evaluated programmes, and weights were assigned to the proposed strategies and their respective expected outcomes by target respondents and Bayes’ theorem was applied to the respondents’ scores.The findings showed that the strategies for a modest growth in the agricultural sector are provision of incentives for cash crops farming, institutionalising of agricultural practices and re-introduction of agricultural insurance scheme. The current contribution of the agricultural sector to the total GDP is approximately 23.86%. …”
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