Browsing by Subject "Health care utilization"
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Antibiotic overuse for acute respiratory tract infections in Sri Lanka: a qualitative study of outpatients and their physicians.
(BMC Fam Pract, 2018-03-01)BACKGROUND: Acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) are a common reason for antibiotic overuse worldwide. We previously showed that over 80% of outpatients presenting to a tertiary care hospital in Sri Lanka ... -
Explorations of Black Health in America: The Effects of Trust on Health Care Utilization between U.S.-Born Black Americans and Black Foreign-Born African Immigrants
(2022-04)Historically, those that identify with the African diaspora have had a complicated and understudied relationship with the United States medical system. Available literature makes generalizations related to different populations ... -
Factors Affecting the Likely Use of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Young African American Men Who Have Sex with Men
(2018)African-American young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are seven and three times more likely than their White and Hispanic counterparts, respectively, to be infected with HIV. Once-daily oral co-formulated tenofovir disoproxil ... -
Health Care Transitions in Sickle Cell Disease
(2017)Over the past three decades, advances in the care for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) have increased their life expectancy and necessitated their transition to adult health care. However, there is a limited understating ... -
Patterns of inpatient care for prostate cancer in men with spina bifida.
(Disability and health journal, 2020-04)BACKGROUND:Advances in medical care have increased the long-term survival of patients with spina bifida. Despite this growing population, limited knowledge is available on age-related illnesses in adults with spina bifida, ...
