Biomarkers, disability and health care demand

Poverty and health care demand in Kenya

BACKGROUND There is a wide range of actions an individual could take when sick or injured such as self-care, consulting a traditional healer, or seeking treatment from a private or public health care facility. The specific action taken is influenced by individual characteristics, provider characteristics, societal factors, and geographical factors. A key individual characteristic is the ability...

Health care for people with intellectual disability.

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Demand for Public Health Care in Pakistan

A health care demand model is estimated for each province in Pakistan to explain the outpatient visits to government hospitals over the period 1989–2006. The explanatory variables include the number of government hospitals per capita, doctors’ fee per visit at a private clinic, income per capita, the average price of medicine and the number of outpatient visits per capita in the previous period...

Inequities in HIV Care Demand Remedies for U.S. Health Care

Disability and satisfaction with access to health care.

Data that estimate international prevalence of disability are sparse. In the United States, estimates of the prevalence of persons with disability range from 3% to 20% of the population. Although some national level data are collected on disability, surveillance data are not collected routinely by most American state health departments. The purpose of this study was to examine the association b...