Health Care Expenditure Burden of Cancer Care in the United States

CORRELATION OF BURDEN OF CARE AND SPIRITUAL HEALTH IN FAMILY CAREGIVERs OF CANCER PATIENTS

Background & Aim: Families of patients with cancer during the course of their care of patients suffer from various economic, physical, social, psychological and spiritual challenges that cause their burden of care. Understanding the correlation between care and hope in these families can be effective in establishing a support system to reduce this burden. The aim of this study was to explore th...

Health System Reform in the United States

In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Health Care Reform in the United States

Health Care Delivery in the United States

Lipsitt's own integration of the papers provides a clear focus often lacking in edited series of this sort. A final comment by Jerome Kagan reminds the developmental psychobiologist of a crucial principle, one that I believe was lacking in the present set of papers. The psychobiological predisposition of the organism affects development in interaction with environmental resources and experience...

Reforming health care in the United States.

influenced clinical practice or public health medicine, largely because of the low statistical power associated with their small sample sizes. Better, larger scale studies are widely acknowledged to be necessary, but how are these to be conducted? Potential researchers need to be aware of methodological difficulties, and their likely solutions, and if truly informative studies are to be underta...