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  • Healthcare challenges in Ecuador : a narrative exploration

    Creator:
    Braun, Lindsay R.
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores a three month period that I spent abroad working in medical clinics and hospitals in Ecuador. My work was conducted in three distinct areas: the urban landscape of Quito, Ecuador’s capital; Puyo, a small town bordering the Amazonian rainforest; and a small community located in the heart...
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    Honors College Thesis

  • Understanding health care utilization : a theoretically-based analysis of the Ecuadorian health care system

    Creator:
    López-Cevallos, Daniel F.
    Abstract:
    One in four Ecuadorians do not have access to health services; while more than two-thirds have no health insurance and insufficient resources to pay for the health care services they might require. The following three studies examined utilization of health care services using Andersen’s Health Care Utilization Behavior Theory. Secondary...
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    Dissertation
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    relationship between emigrant remittances and health care utilization in Ecuador. Emigrant predictors were

  • Hybrid healthscapes : mothers' health care and food practices in the Ecuadorian Andes

    Creator:
    Hammer, Michaela
    Abstract:
    After decades of expert-based modernization efforts that have had profound negative impacts on human and environmental health, Ecuador is currently pursuing a rights-based, participatory development paradigm known as sumak kawsay or "the good life". Despite its promises of inclusion and interculturality, this approach continues to rely on highly trained specialists,...
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    Masters Thesis
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  • The body of a patient and rational treatment in the managed care era

    Creator:
    Sumii, Kensuke
    Abstract:
    This study aims to identify conceptions of the body, as well as "rational" treatment among primary care practitioners (PCPs) and emergency medicine practitioners (EMPs) dealing with managed care plans. I conducted ethnographic study throughout 1996, and interviewed six PCPs and four EMPs. In the course of my interviews, I discovered...
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    Masters Thesis
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    health care, technocrats developed objective criteria by using scientific evidence in medical judgment

  • The Politics of Health Reform and Coverage Expansion in Oregon: A Comparison with Other States

    Creator:
    Collins, Brian D.
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    Several states, including Oregon, Massachusetts and California, have been the focus of major health reform efforts in recent years. Oregon utilized a citizen-led commission to generate policy recommendations that led to the enactment of health reform legislation in 2009. This commission helped to create momentum and provide political cover for...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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  • The praxis of cultural competence in medical education : using environmental factors to develop protocols for action

    Creator:
    Stohs, Sheryl Magee
    Abstract:
    Cultural competence is a topic that concerns social scientists and medical anthropologists who pay attention to demographic changes and health disparities. This study demonstrates practical approaches to developing cultural competence in medical education by using factors from the social environment to develop protocols for action. With current concerns in domestic...
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    Dissertation
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    information that validates and/or standardizes assessments of medical students in a health care environment

  • An exploratory study of an intranet dashboard in a multi-state healthcare system

    Creator:
    Wolpin, Seth E.
    Abstract:
    Introduction: Management of complex systems is facilitated through effective information systems that provide real-time data to decision makers. For example, instrument panels in airplanes ensure that pilots have well-designed feedback concerning the status of mission-critical variables. Problem: While pilots have dashboards for feedback and communication, healthcare executives may be unaware...
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    Dissertation
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    medical records and found that on average the participants received only half the recommended care

  • Household Healthcare Expenditure in Bangladesh : Analyses of Progressivity and Impacts on Poverty

    Creator:
    Molla, Azaher Ali
    Abstract:
    Health systems financing aims at providing adequate services, ensuring sufficient providers’ incentives, and protecting individuals and families from financial catastrophe. Health services are financed through government funding, taxation, out-of-pocket payments, insurance, donations and voluntary aid. Low- income countries mostly rely on out-of-pocket payments. In South East Asia region, the latter...
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    Dissertation
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    reimburse medical care for employees in formal sectors, and some business entities. The contribution of

  • Use and Disclosure of Complementary Health Approaches Among Children with Developmental Disabilities

    Creator:
    Lindly, Olivia J.
    Abstract:
    Children with developmental disabilities (DD), particularly autism spectrum disorder (ASD), may use complementary health approaches (CHA), including some modalities that can be unsafe, inefficacious, and/or costly. Still, the prevalence of CHA use among US children with DD is not known and their reasons for use are not well understood. By...
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    Dissertation
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    household income, not living in the South, difficulty accessing conventional care, or comorbidity

  • An evaluation of community pharmacists applying the patient centered care approach to ambulatory Oregon Health Plan asthmatics in a Managed Care setting

    Creator:
    Crowder, Terry J.
    Abstract:
    Purpose: The Purpose of this research was to design, implement and evaluate a patient centered asthma intervention pilot program directed by physicians and administered by community pharmacists to a group of Managed Care contracted Oregon Health Plan asthmatics. The evaluation was to determine if the proposed intervention could improve the...
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    Dissertation
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    ofasthma related illness and death still continue to increase (Executive Summary, Medical Care, 1993