The health sector, a foremost service sector in Nigeria, faces a number of challenges; primarily, the persistent under-funding of the health sector by the Nigerian government as evidence reveals low allocations to the health sector and poor health system performance which are reflected in key health indices of the country.Notwithstanding, there is evidence that the private sector could be a key...

Healthcare Systems (HCSs) throughout the world undergo important changes driven by aging populations and advances in biomedical technologies. At the same time, in the current economic climate, many Western countries are struggling to reduce public spending on all kinds of services, including healthcare. With this tension between tightening budgets and skyrocketing costs, many countries are seek...

As the U.S. healthcare system transforms its care delivery model to increase healthcare accessibility and improve health outcomes, it is undergoing changes in the context of ever-increasing chronic disease burdens and healthcare costs. Many illnesses disproportionately affect certain populations, due to disparities in healthcare access and social determinants of health. These disparities repres...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to determine the prevalence of short message system (SMS) and internet usage in patients visiting the SingHealth Polyclinics and to measure patients' acceptance of using these technologies in healthcare delivery. MATERIALS AND METHODS A representative sample of patients visiting the 9 SingHealth Polyclinics were interviewed in-person by trained medical students. Col...

Purpose: The vision for transforming healthcare delivery in Singapore is to develop integrated Regional Health Services (RHS) to provide healthcare from prevention to palliation. Under the RHS concept, each region would be anchored by an acute-care hospital working in close partnership with other healthcare providers in the region, e.g. general physicians (GPs), polyclinics, community hospitals...

AIMS To analyse whether gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) was associated with increases in healthcare utilisation after delivery. METHODS A longitudinal case-control registry-based study of 579 women with GDM delivered in 1995-2001. Two controls for each case were selected from the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, matched for year of birth, year of delivery, and municipality of...

In the early 1990s, the nation's priorities shifted toward a universal healthcare system. This shift drew practitioners' attention to the need to control costs, reduce duplicative testing, transfer medical records easily, and provide quality patient care across a patient's entire life. Critical elements of a new information infrastructure would include an easily transferable medical record, sta...