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Zimmer, Zachary | Accounting for urban versus rural discrepancies in mortality and functional health among older adults in China | Broad differences exist in social and economic life between residents living in urban versus rural areas of China. To study the health implications of these differences, the current study employs data from a longitudinal study of older adults in the Beijing municipality, a region of China that has w... | Chinese; Elderly; Health care; Quality of life; Population | 2006-09-05 |
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Landesman, Bruce M. | Health care in a national health program: a fundamental right | Do or should Americans have a right to health care or some appropriate level of it? To explore this difficult and complex question, we must say something about rights and ways to justify them; about considerations which favor a right to health care; about what level and kind of care the right may in... | Health care; Rights; Americans | 1992 |
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Wen, Ming | Immigrant perceptions of discrimination in health care: the California Health Interview Survey 2003 | The 2002 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Unequal Treatment summarized research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care defined as "racial or ethnic differences in the quality of healthcare that are not due to access-related factors or clinical needs, preferences, and appropriateness of i... | Health care; California health interview survey; Health disparities; Healthcare disparities | 2006 |
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Flynn, John J. | Introduction (symposium on health care) | Health care markets and related sectors of the economy like insurance provide essential services in our society. They have heen undergoing rapid change for at least the past decade, yet some thirty-seven to thirty-nine million citizens lack health care insurance at one time or another each year; rap... | Health care; Health insurance; Health care, providers | 1995 |
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Lundahl, Brad Ward | Motivational interviewing in medical care settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials | Objective Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a method for encouraging people to make behavioral changes to improve health outcomes. We used systematic review and meta-analysis to investigate MI's efficacy in medical care settings. Methods Database searches located randomized clinical trials that comp... | Motivational interviewing; Systematic review; Meta-analysis; Health care; Medicine; Medical; Behaviour; Behavior; Counseling; Consultation | 2013-07-17 |
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Wen, Ming | Racial and ethnic differences in general health status and limiting health conditions among American children: parental reports in the 1999 National Survey of America's Families | Objectives: This research investigates the association between race/ethnicity and child health and examines the role of family structure, family SES, and healthcare factors in this association. Five major racial/ethnic groups in the United States are studied. Two child health outcomes including pare... | Socioeconomic status; Health care; Children; Race; Ethnicity | 2006-09-01 |