Local health security funds or Community Health Fund are an innovation introduced to achieve greater local government involvement in Thailand’s Universal Coverage and is outcome of decentralizing power administrations serves as a fund for people communities. The fund’s budget subsidized by the National Security Office which contributes with condition that provides matching funding, but it also ...

BACKGROUND Despite the existence of several chronic heart failure (CHF) guidelines the treatment of patients with CHF is suboptimal. The new general medical services (GMS) contract in primary care has only three specific performance indicators for patients with left ventricular dysfunction. The aim of this current questionnaire survey was to assess the views of general practitioners (GPs) on CH...

BACKGROUND Poor quality of health services and socio-cultural dynamics may severely limit utilization of health services. Facility health committees were established in several states in northern Nigeria to reduce these barriers. The committees were charged with mobilizing communities, improving quality of health services, and promoting utilization of maternal and child health services. This st...

OBJECTIVES to assess the functioning and well-being of older patients presenting with congestive heart failure (CHF) using established generic health status measures-the short form 36 health survey (SF-36) and Dartmouth COOP charts. METHODS patients aged 60 or older with CHF were asked if they would take part. They were requested to complete interviewer-administered questionnaires before angi...

CONTEXT The extent to which better spending produces higher-quality care and better patient outcomes in a universal health care system with selective access to medical technology is unknown. OBJECTIVE To assess whether acute care patients admitted to higher-spending hospitals have lower mortality and readmissions. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS The study population comprised adults (>18 year...

BackgroundWith increasing health care expenditures, knowledge about the benefit and costs of surgical interventions such as total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) becomes important for orthopedic surgeons, social insurance programs, policy decision makers. We examined impact TSA on quality life (QOL), direct medical costs, productivity losses evaluated cost-utility ratio compared with ongoing nonope...

BACKGROUND Since its founding in 2002, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria (Global Fund) has become the dominant multilateral health financier in low- and middle-income countries. The health impact of the Global Fund remains unknown because existing evaluations measure intermediate outcomes or do not account for preexisting and counterfactual trends. METHODS We conducted ...

BACKGROUND Patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) experience a number of debilitating symptoms, which impact on activities of daily living and result in poor quality of life. Prospective memory, which is defined as memory to carry out future intentions, has not been investigated in this group. However, emerging evidence suggests CHF patients have difficulties with cognitive processes related...

Health technology A comprehensive multidisciplinary care programme for patients hospitalised with congestive heart failure (CHF). The programme was designed according to the guidelines of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) and consisted of intensive patient and family education on diet, compliance and symptom recognition. The programme also included outpatient infusion of in...

The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between pneumoconiosis and congestive heart failure (CHF).We collected data from the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan. The study sample comprised 8923 patients with pneumoconiosis and 35,692 nonpneumoconiosis controls enrolled from 2000 to 2011. Patients were followed up until the end of 2011 to evaluate the inciden...