Current evidence suggests improved rates of curative secondary treatment following identification of recurrence among patients who participate in a surveillance program after initial curative resection of colon or rectal cancer. The newer data show that surveillance CEA, chest and liver imaging,and colonoscopy can also improve survival through early diagnosis of recurrence; thus, these modaliti...

Adolescents account for almost one third of India's population. They are prone to suffer from reproductive and sexual health, nutritional, mental and behavioral problems. Health services which cater exclusively to the needs of adolescents are scanty and concentrated in urban areas. Adolescent Friendly Health Services (AFHS) which provide a broad range of preventive, promotive and curative servi...

This paper models individual medical care consumption over an insurance year, explicitly accounting for variations in the effective price of medical care due to several characteristics of the health insurance contract. We explain behavior during the health insurance year by solving and estimating a stochastic, discrete choice, dynamic optimization problem that characterizes an individual’s deci...

Health Centers appeared in the United States around 1910. They provided social assistance in conjunction with some type of medical care. Their original separation between preventive and curative medicine was superseded by the concept of whole health in the 1940s, when Health Center discourse became part of medical education. In the 1960s, the notion of community medicine arose out of the war on...

The implementation of the National Healthcare Insurance (NHI) Program has increased role Primary Center in Indonesia. This program is focused on health promotion, prevention disease, curative care, and rehabilitative services at an affordable cost through insurance system. In this program, cardiovascular disease (CVD) one main focuses, because its high prevalence mortality rates for was also hi...

BACKGROUND Preventive dental care use remains relatively low in Japan, especially among working-age adults. Universal health insurance in Japan covers curative dental care with an out-of-pocket payment limit, though its coverage of preventive dental care is limited. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that income inequality in dental care use is found in preventive, but not curativ...

ABSTRACT Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which stated as global pandemic by World Health Organization with its massive spread of the virus through oral cavity has affected dental treatments regulation. The treatment limited to emergency cases only, while non-emergency given careful consideration and avoiding aerosol during pandemic. limitation impacted health status in community. Furthermor...

the situation of people with disabilities in the developing countries should be a matter of great concern. there are today close to 250 million severely and moderately disabled persons in these countries; the annual increase is 10 million. most of them are poor, dependent neglected, excluded from education, training and jobs; they die early and have no power while alive. between 15 and 20% of a...