For over four decades, Americans have enjoyed near universal access to treatment for ESRD irrespective of age, lack of qualifying disability, or their ability to pay. However, the health insurance benefits of the Medicare ESRD program do not extend to individuals in earlier stages of CKD, even to those for whom ESRD is imminent. Timely nephrology care before ESRD onset (predialysis nephrology c...

1Arizona Department of Health Services, Office of Border Health, Tucson, AZ, USA; 2University of Arizona, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, Tucson, AZ, USA; 3Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, AZ, USA; 4Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, Dengue Branch, San Juan, Puerto Rico; 5Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Divi...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is reaching epidemic proportions on the U.S.-Mexico Border, and culturally competent diabetes education is not available in many communities. CONTEXT People with diabetes often do not have access to regular medical care, cannot afford medication, and lack the community infrastructure that supports self-management practices. Self-management education and support have great ...

6. Ministry of Health Kenya. We shall also conduct a cross border meeting with Somalia & Ethiopia on #Chikungunya in order to effectively manage the situation [cited 2016 Jul 19]. 7. Ministry of Health Kenya. It is important to coordinate intervention efforts with Somalia & Ethiopia given that Somalia recently experienced a #Chikungunya outbreak [cited 2016 Jul 29].

This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol-related illnesses and work absenteeism in Sweden. This tax cut led to large differences in the prices of alcoholic beverages between these two countries and to a considerable increase in cross-border shopping. The effect is ...

This study investigates the effectiveness of two types of prebiotics-stachyose and raffinose-which are present in staple food crops that are widely consumed in regions where dietary Fe deficiency is a health concern. The hypothesis is that these prebiotics will improve Fe status, intestinal functionality, and increase health-promoting bacterial populations in vivo (Gallus gallus). By using the ...

There is considerable effort to cover the broad variety of types of risk including natural disaster risk, technical disaster risk, biological disaster risk, transport and energy, research and innovation, critical infrastructure protection, cross-border health threats, implications for the health service systems, environmental impact assessment, green infrastructure, integrated coastal managemen...

Introduction: The main purpose of this abstract is to raise awareness of the unsatisfactory legal situation with regard to integrated care. The abstract focuses on two major legal issues. First, I picture the actual legal situation regarding cross-border healthcare. Secondly, I describe the duties care providers and patients may face when entering into integrated care programs. Cross-border hea...