BACKGROUND Changes in third party financing, whether public or private, are linked to a household's ability to access dental care. By removing costs at point of purchase, changes in financing influence the need to reach into one's pocket, thus facilitating or limiting access. This study asks: How have historical changes in dental care financing influenced household out-of-pocket expenditures fo...

Medicaid has been a major source of financing for early intervention services since the inception of the Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities Program in 1986. In this article, the authors analyze Medicaid financing of early intervention services in 39 States before and after the introduction of managed care. The association between level of Medicaid financing and program characteristics, prov...

There is a global challenge for health systems to ensure equity in both the delivery and financing of health care. However, many African countries still do not have equitable health systems. Traditionally, equity in the delivery and the financing of health care are assessed separately, in what may be termed 'partial' analyses. The current debate on countries moving toward universal health syste...

the effect of orem self-care program performance on the self- care ability in elderly     hashemlo l [1] , hemmati maslakpak m [2] *, khalkhali h [3]     received: 3 dec , 2012 accepted: 12 feb , 2013     abstract:   background & aims : increase in the rate of elderly population in developing countries can cause emotional, social and health problems. using nursing theories especially orem theor...

China urgently needs to grow the senior care business and raise standard of elderly services in response major problem population aging. Currently, government provides universal old depends on financial support. However, with revenue continuing decline, it is not possible for provide its own. The cutting-edge model government-social capital cooperation (Public-Private Partnership (PPP) short) w...

Nevertheless, it is clear that some initial steps that will change the institutional foundations of health care financing have been taken. The introduction of the federal fund and the (however limited and contested) convergence between SHI and PHI point to an evolutionary change from competitive corporatism to the marketisation of health care (financing), accompanied by a changing role for stat...

Collaborative models of mental health care, such as Improving Mood-Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment (IMPACT) and Primary Care Research in Substance Abuse and Mental Health for the Elderly (PRISM-E), have become a standard, evidence-based approach in providing care to older adults with depression. This article describes the development, evaluation, and sustainability plans for a new m...

There has been growing interest and public investment in registered nursing homes, apparently based on the assumption that these homes are the private equivalent of hospital long term care. We have tested this hypothesis in a survey comparing 400 patients in 18 registered nursing homes with 217 patients in 11 geriatric long term care wards in Edinburgh. The nursing home patients formed a distin...

OBJECTIVE To analyze variation in tonsillectomy procedure rates between health care system types around the world. STUDY DESIGN International database analysis. METHODS The 2015 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Health Statistics surgical procedures database was used to ascertain tonsillectomy procedure volumes for 31 countries. Each country's health system type ...