Has the Rajiv Aarogyasri Community Health Insurance Scheme of Andhra Pradesh Addressed the Educational Divide in Accessing Healthcare?
Equity of access to healthcare remains a major challenge. Families continue to face financial and non financial barriers to services. Lack of education has been shown to be a key risk factor for catastrophic health expenditure in many countries, including India. This …
Case Study: The Most Fragile Elderly Project
To meet the social care and healthcare demands of the aging population in Sweden, its government began to identify the care needs of the most fragile elderly in 2010. This is a case study of the Most Fragile Elderly project, launched in …
Case Study: The Mobile Emergency Team for the Elderly in Uppsala
This case study profiles the Mobile Emergency Team for the Elderly in Uppsala, Sweden. The Mobile Team offers urgent care in the home to people over the age of sixty five. This case study explains how teams of two physicians and two …
International Profiles Of Health Care Systems 2014, Singapore Chapter
This publication presents overviews of the health care systems of Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. Each overview covers health insurance, public and private financing, health system organization …
Opportunities for Investment in Health and Wellness
There is a growing need for healthcare products and services worldwide. The world population is projected to increase by at least another two to three billion by the end of the century. All will seek access to high quality, affordable healthcare. Incomes …
UCLA Global Lab for Health Project: Implementation Completion Report
This report discusses the challenges and opportunities associated with transferring fourteen innovations introduced by medical professionals from India across healthcare systems and markets to be adopted by partners in the United States. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) asked ACCESS Health …
Technology for the Elderly: Focus Group
ACCESS Health Sweden conducted a study of technology in elder care. In an effort to understand the needs of the elderly, the Swedish team of ACCESS Health conducted a series of focus groups with the elderly. This interview on technology is the …
Joint Learning Network Support Grant Narrative Report: January – December 2014
The Joint Learning Network (JLN) for Universal Health Coverage (UHC) brings together low and middle income countries in Africa and Asia to share experiences, challenges, and insights drawn from their efforts to achieve universal health coverage. In 2013, the Joint Learning Network …
Telegeriatrics
This case study examines the trial program for telegeriatrics at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital in Singapore. Telegeriatrics is the extension of telemedicine designed specifically to serve the elderly. The combination of limited mobility and chronic health problems often makes this group ideal …
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