For more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. Decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. Jalal Mohammed, Nicola North, and Toni Ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...

Abstract Dashboards are powerful electronic tools that can provide actionable insights for healthcare professionals, especially in support of the increasing senior population. With advancements technology and IoT infrastructure, remote patient monitoring has become a feasible option professionals through dashboards. To best serve diverse needs dashboards should be tailored each user, considerin...

BACKGROUND Norwegian government white papers have stated that the Sami population is reluctant to seek help from healthcare services and has traditions of self-help and the use of local networks. OBJECTIVE In this article we explore healthcare professionals' discursive constructions of Sami persons with dementia and their families' reluctance to seek and accept help from healthcare services. ...

The present study aimed to investigate counseling content provided by healthcare professional for primary healthcare users, as well as users' difficulties in adhering to the counseling, through a cross-sectional study design. Interviews were conducted with 499 users at a primary healthcare unit and 59.3% of them said that counseling had been provided especially by physicians (93.6%), and it was...

The GM-MDS conjecture of Dau et al. (ISIT 2014) speculates that the MDS condition, which guarantees the existence of MDS matrices with a prescribed set of zeros over large fields, is in fact sufficient for existence of such matrices over small fields. We prove this conjecture.