Journal articles: 'Commonwealth Fund'

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CORREA, FRANCES. "Commonwealth Fund Outlines ACO Targets." Family Practice News 41, no. 8 (May 2011): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0300-7073(11)70454-6.

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CORREA, FRANCES. "Commonwealth Fund Outlines ACO Targets." Skin & Allergy News 42, no. 5 (May 2011): 52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0037-6337(11)70296-0.

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Ferris, Lorraine E., Marilyn M. Falik, and Karen Scott Sollins. "Women's Health: The Commonwealth Fund Survey." Journal of Public Health Policy 18, no. 3 (1997): 359. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3343317.

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Woolhandler, Steffie. "Women's Health: The Commonwealth Fund Survey." JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 277, no. 7 (February 19, 1997): 599. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1997.03540310097044.

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Stubenrauch, James M. "Commonwealth Fund Tracks U.S. Health Care Trends." AJN, American Journal of Nursing 118, no. 8 (August 2018): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.naj.0000544148.83703.d1.

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STEINHAUER, BRUCE W. "The Commonwealth Fund Report on Academic Health Centers." Annals of Internal Medicine 105, no. 2 (August 1, 1986): 279. http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-105-2-279.

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Persaud, B. "The significance of establishing a commonwealth equity fund." Round Table 78, no. 312 (October 1989): 363–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00358538908453947.

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Pearse, Warren H. "The commonwealth fund 1998 survey of women’s health." Women's Health Issues 10, no. 1 (January 2000): 35–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1049-3867(99)00032-8.

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Smith, Susan, and Thomas H. Spurling. "The Science and Industry Endowment Fund: Supporting the Development of Australian Science." Historical Records of Australian Science 26, no. 1 (2015): 58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/hr14027.

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The Science and Industry Endowment Fund (SIEF) was established in 1926 by the passage in the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia of the Science and Industry Endowment Act at the same time as the Science and Industry Research Act established the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The SIEF played a major role in funding the training of Australian research workers from 1926 to 1950 and funded much of the research carried out in Australian universities in the pre-war period. This paper documents the activities of the SIEF from its inception in 1926 until inflation eroded the value of the Fund in the 1970s. The Fund was later reinvigorated by the injection of $150 million by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation between 2009 and 2010.

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Ernst, Daniel R. "Ernst Freund, Felix Frankfurter, and the American Rechtsstaat: A Transatlantic Shipwreck, 1894–1932." Studies in American Political Development 23, no. 2 (September 25, 2009): 171–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x09990058.

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From the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 through the New Deal, American legislators commonly endowed administrative agencies with broad discretionary power. They did so over the objections of an intellectual founder of the American administrative state. The American-born, German-educated lawyer and political scientist Ernst Freund developed an Americanized version of the Rechtsstaat—a government bound by fixed and definite rules—in an impressive body of scholarship between 1894 and 1915. In 1920 he eagerly took up an offer from the Commonwealth Fund to finance a comprehensive study of administration in the United States. Here was his chance to show that a Continental version of the Rule of Law had come to America. Unfortunately for Freund, the Commonwealth Fund yoked him to the Austrian-born, American-educated Felix Frankfurter, a celebrant of the enlightened discretion of administrators. Freund's major publication for the Commonwealth Fund, Administrative Powers over Persons and Property (1928), made little impression on scholars of administrative law, who took their lead from Frankfurter. Today the Rechtsstaat is largely the beau ideal of libertarian critics of the New Deal; few recognize that it is also part of the diverse legacy of Progressive reform.

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Miller, Edward Alan, and William G. Weissert. "The Commonwealth Fund Survey of Long-Term Care Specialists." Medical Care Research and Review 67, no. 4_suppl (May 24, 2010): 3S—15S. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077558710366864.

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CORREA, FRANCES. "Commonwealth Fund to CMS: Allow for Many ACO Models." Internal Medicine News 44, no. 8 (May 2011): 3. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1097-8690(11)70377-8.

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Davis, Karen. "Commonwealth Fund studies pertaining to universal access for children." Journal of Urban Health 75, no. 4 (December 1998): 636–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02344495.

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Lurie, Nicole, and Joshua M. Sharfstein. "The New US National Biodefense Strategy—Necessary but Not Sufficient." JAMA Health Forum 3, no. 12 (December 1, 2022): e225206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jamahealthforum.2022.5206.

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This JAMA Forum discusses the Biden administration’s recently released National Biodefense Strategy and recommends that the implementation of this national strategy be accompanied by recommendations from the Commonwealth Fund Commission.

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Ann O'Loughlin, Mary. "Conflicting interests in private hospital care." Australian Health Review 25, no. 5 (2002): 106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020106.

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This article looks at key changes impacting on private hospital care: the increasing corporate ownership of private hospitals; the Commonwealth Government's support for private health;the significant increase in health fund membership; and the contracting arrangements between health funds and private hospitals. The changes highlight the often conflicting interests of hospitals, doctors, Government, health funds and patients in the provision of private hospital care. These conflicts surfaced in the debate around allegations of 'cherry picking' by private hospitals of more profitable patients. This is also a good illustration of the increasing entanglement of the Government in the fortunes of the private health industry.

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Nickel, Nathan C., Janelle Boram Lee, Joanne Chateau, and Michael Paillé. "Income inequality, structural racism, and Canada’s low performance in health equity." Healthcare Management Forum 31, no. 6 (September 17, 2018): 245–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0840470418791868.

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In 2017, the Commonwealth Fund released a report evaluating 11 countries’ healthcare systems on a variety of domains; one of these domains was health equity. Canada’s score on health equity placed it among the bottom three countries. This article applies a conceptual framework for health equity developed by the World Health Organization’s Commission on the Social Determinants of Health to reflect upon and discuss mechanisms that may help to explain Canada’s low score. We discuss the role that two societal-level constructs—income inequality and structural racism—play in shaping population health and health equity. We use publically available data to examine whether income inequality correlates with the Commonwealth Fund report’s equity measures. We also comment on the role that Canada’s history of colonialism may play in its health equity ranking.

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Anonymous. "Commonwealth Fund: End the Nursing Shortage by Solving the Problems." Journal of Gerontological Nursing 15, no. 7 (July 1989): 40–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0098-9134-19890701-11.

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Anonymous. "Commonwealth Fund: End the Nursing Shortage by Solving the Problems." Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services 27, no. 7 (July 1989): 33–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3928/0279-3695-19890701-14.

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Pearse, Warren H. "The commonwealth fund women's health survey: Selected results and comments." Women's Health Issues 4, no. 1 (March 1994): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1049-3867(05)80108-2.

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Leiby, James, A. McGehee Harvey, and Susan L. Abrams. ""For the Welfare of Mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine." Journal of American History 73, no. 4 (March 1987): 1064. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1904135.

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Ettling, John, A. McGehee Harvey, and Susan L. Abrams. ""For the Welfare of Mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine." American Historical Review 96, no. 1 (February 1991): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2164241.

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Hayden, Jacqueline. "Available, Accessible, High Quality Child Care in Australia: Why we haven’t moved very far." Children Australia 17, no. 1 (1992): 10–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200030091.

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In a recent article in Children Australia (16:2, 1991) Moore points out how our system of social services and community work reinforces traditional concepts of family (especially mother) responsibility for the care of children with disabilities. This same attitude reflects a fundamental ambivalence in our society towards the provision of state assisted child care. Like care for the disabled, out-of-home care for young children is assumed to rest within the private sphere, so that state assistance in any form becomes gratefully accepted as a generous gift.Child care in Australia moved into the political realm with the enactment of the Child Care Act in 1972. This legislation described the conditions under which the Commonwealth Government would distribute funds for capital expenses, and provide some wage supplements to non-profit groups delivering child care services in formal centre settings. Since that time, promises of increased Commonwealth funding to meet increasing demand have become more and more ambitious – 20,000 spaces were promised in 1984; 30,000 in 1988; and by 1990, the promise had expanded to 78,000 new child care spaces to be funded by the Labor Party. As it turned out, many of the 78,000 spaces promised during the 1990 election campaign were not ‘new’ at all, but represented already existing private spaces, now made eligible for funding by a change in policy. The bulk of the spaces meanwhile were targeted for after-school care (much less expensive to fund), when research clearly indicated the dearth of spaces and critical need for infant care (very expensive to fund).

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McBride, Colleen M. "Women's Health: The Commonwealth Fund Survey, edited by M. Falik and K. Collins." Health Education & Behavior 24, no. 6 (December 1997): 829–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/109019819702400615.

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Albright, Lecia A. "Interview with a Quality Leader—Karen Davis, Executive Director of The Commonwealth Fund." Journal For Healthcare Quality 31, no. 2 (March 2009): 5–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1945-1474.2009.00013.x.

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Johns, Caroline, and Don Guttenplan. "American Exceptionalism? U.S. Working-Class Formation in an International Context: Commonwealth Fund Conference, 1995." International Labor and Working-Class History 48 (1995): 158–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547900005408.

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Waye, Vicki, and Michael Duffy. "The Fate of Class Action Common Fund Orders." University of Queensland Law Journal 40, no. 2 (June 29, 2021): 215–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.38127/uqlj.v40i2.5435.

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Common Fund Orders’ (CFOs) have had a significant effect on Australian third party-funded class actions by requiring all class members to make a contribution to the third-party litigation funder’s fee in the event of a successful outcome. This altered past practice whereby only class members who had contracted with the litigation funder would be liable for such a contribution. However in a 5:2 decision in BMW Australia Ltd v Brewster in 2019, the High Court cast some doubt on CFOs, determining that neither s 33ZF Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth) nor s 183 Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW) provided a legal basis for making CFOs at the outset of proceedings so as to secure litigation funding support. In late 2020, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Joint Committee (PJC) on Corporations and Financial Services recommended that legislation be enacted to ‘address uncertainty’ in Brewster in a manner that would enable CFOs to be made at settlement or judgment. The authors canvass normative arguments as to the merits of CFOs and compare the alternative practice of making Funding Equalisation Orders (FEOs). They also consider the related issue of courts setting overall funding commissions. Given the possibility of legislative intervention, they also review arguments as to the potential constitutional validity of CFOs, a matter that was raised, but received very limited treatment from the High Court in BMW.

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M. Garland, Suzanne. "HPV DNA detection: clinical applications." Microbiology Australia 28, no. 1 (2007): 16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ma07013.

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With the licensure and recent agreement by the Commonwealth Government to fund the prophylactic HPV vaccine [Gardasil], preventative against cervical cancer and for females aged 12 to 26 from 2007, as well as the recent NHMRC guidelines on management of abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smears recommending HPV DNA assays as a tool in the management post ablation for high-grade dysplasia, a good knowledge base by the medical profession, clinicians, scientists and the lay public will be critical to ensuring appropriate uptake of the vaccine and appropriate use of various diagnostic HPV DNA assays.

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Arley, Brian. "Island Watch: The New Front Line in Torres Strait Island Telecommunications." Media International Australia 88, no. 1 (August 1998): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x9808800109.

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This article explores a unique Networking the Nation Remote Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund $8 million funding application made by the Torres Strait Islanders Media Association Inc (TISMA). The purpose is to install and operate state-of-the-art telecommunication infrastructure on each inhabited Torres Strait Island to enhance the services and operations of the 27 Commonwealth and state government agencies operating in this region and to better meet the education, employment, training, socio-economic, cultural and linguistic needs of the region's inhabitants and to increase production, promotion and revenue-generation of their local cultural industries.

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Greenberg, William M. "Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey." Annals of Pharmacotherapy 34, no. 12 (December 2000): 1490–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1345/aph.10234.

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Bell, Carl C. "Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications From the Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey." Psychiatric Services 52, no. 5 (May 2001): 693–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.52.5.693.

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Greenberg, William M. "Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey." Annals of Pharmacotherapy 34 (December 2000): 1490–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1345/1542-6270(2000)34<1490b:mhiafa>2.0.co;2.

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Mobo, Ben Hur P. "Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from The Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey." Annals of Internal Medicine 134, no. 12 (June 19, 2001): 1158. http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-134-12-200106190-00034.

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Metea, Ileana-Gentilia. "Cyprus, an Unresolved Issue of the European Union." International conference KNOWLEDGE-BASED ORGANIZATION 24, no. 1 (June 1, 2018): 142–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/kbo-2018-0021.

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Abstract The Republic of Cyprus is an island from the extreme north of the Mediterranean Sea, is situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia and Africa, 75 km south of Turkey, 105 km west of Syria, 300 km north of Egypt and 800 km east of Greece. As a state form, it is a presidential republic, and is part of the European Union (since May 2004) the Euro Zone (2008), the World Trade Organization - WTO (1995), the International Monetary Fund (1962) 1962), the Council of Europe (1961), the Commonwealth (1961). Cyprus has an unresolved internal situation for a long time

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Blumenthal, David, and Samuel O. Thier. "Leveling the playing field: A report of the commonwealth fund task force on academic health centers." Journal of Urban Health 75, no. 2 (June 1998): 330–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02345101.

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Urbach, David R. "Improving access to health services in Canada." Healthcare Management Forum 31, no. 6 (September 20, 2018): 256–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0840470418776995.

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The Commonwealth Fund 2017 report ranked Canada’s healthcare system low in access to care and last among all 11 counties studied in terms of timeliness of care. While long wait times for certain elective surgical procedures appear to be emblematic of Canadian Medicare, they are not inevitable. Wait times could be improved by focusing on public awareness and measurement of wait times and improving the appropriateness, efficiency (eg, with implementation of single-entry models for surgical referrals and greater use of ambulatory surgery), and productivity of surgical care (eg, by activity-based funding for surgical procedures and by reducing the cost of perioperative care). Ideas on how physician leaders can build on recent accomplishments are provided.

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Brown, Theodore M. ""For the Welfare of Mankind": The Commonwealth Fund and American Medicine. A. McGehee Harvey , Susan L. Abrams." Isis 80, no. 1 (March 1989): 92–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/354930.

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Greenberg, William M. "Book Review: Minority Health in America: Findings and Policy Implications from the Commonwealth Fund Minority Health Survey." Annals of Pharmacotherapy 34, no. 12 (December 2000): 1490–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/106002800003401204.

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Greener, Ian. "Healthcare funding and its relationship to equity and outcomes: A QCA analysis of Commonwealth Fund and OECD data." Journal of European Social Policy 30, no. 4 (April 23, 2020): 480–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0958928720905290.

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This article examines Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Commonwealth Funding data to explore the relationship between the level and means of funding of 11 different healthcare systems, on the one hand, and overall equity and health outcome measures, on the other. It utilises qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) and the idea of ‘fitness landscapes’ for the clusters of funding combinations and outcomes they present. It finds that health systems with relatively high levels of voluntary health insurance tend to be associated with poor outcomes almost across the board, but healthcare systems with higher overall expenditures combined with low voluntary insurance levels offer combinatory possibilities for achieving both high equity and high outcomes. The article also explores how ‘contradictory cases’ can be used to explore how systems falling short of the outcomes of others with the same funding patterns, might find improvements.

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Griffith, Ivelaw L. "The Military and the Politics of Change in Guyana." Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 33, no. 2 (1991): 141–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/165833.

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The death of forbes burnham in August 1985 and the passing of power to Hugh Desmond Hoyte have produced dramatic changes in Guyana, South America's only English-speaking republic. Some of these have involved: (1) privatization of the public sector, (2) abolition of overseas voting, (3) negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), (4) rapprochement with the United States, plus (5) an agreement that observers — including former President Jimmy Carter and representatives from the London-based Commonwealth Secretariat—are being invited to oversee the upcoming elections scheduled for either August or September 1991.Precipitated by domestic and international pressures, these changes have taken place within the context of a change in regimes as well, in which one dominant leader, Forbes Burnham, has been succeeded by another equally dominant, Desmond Hoyte.

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Hertle, D., and S. Stock. "Commonwealth Fund Survey 2012: Befragung von Primärärzten in 11 Ländern zur Nutzung von Informationstechnologie und zu wichtigen Versorgungsaspekten." Das Gesundheitswesen 77, no. 08/09 (June 24, 2015): 542–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0035-1549941.

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Kerr, Frances, Israel Abebrese Sefah, Darius Obeng Essah, Alison Cockburn, Daniel Afriyie, Joyce Mahungu, Mariyam Mirfenderesky, et al. "Practical Pharmacist-Led Interventions to Improve Antimicrobial Stewardship in Ghana, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia." Pharmacy 9, no. 3 (July 8, 2021): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy9030124.

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) and others have identified, as a priority, the need to improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions as part of the effort to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). An international health partnership model, the Commonwealth Partnerships for Antimicrobial Stewardship (CwPAMS) programme, was established between selected countries in Africa (Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda) and the UK to support AMS. This was funded by UK aid under the Fleming Fund and managed by the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) and Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET). The primary aims were to develop local AMS teams and generate antimicrobial consumption surveillance data, quality improvement initiatives, infection prevention and control (IPC) and education/training to reduce AMR. Education and training were key components in achieving this, with pharmacists taking a lead role in developing and leading AMS interventions. Pharmacist-led interventions in Ghana improved access to national antimicrobial prescribing guidelines via the CwPAMS mobile app and improved compliance with policy from 18% to 70% initially for patients with pneumonia in one outpatient clinic. Capacity development on AMS and IPC were achieved in both Tanzania and Zambia, and a train-the-trainer model on the local production of alcohol hand rub in Uganda and Zambia. The model of pharmacy health partnerships has been identified as a model with great potential to be used in other low and middle income countries (LMICs) to support tackling AMR.

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Klein, Jonathan D., Karen M. Wilson, Molly McNulty, Cynthia Kapphahn, and Karen Scott Collins. "Access to medical care for adolescents: results from the 1997 Commonwealth Fund Survey of the Health of Adolescent Girls." Journal of Adolescent Health 25, no. 2 (August 1999): 120–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1054-139x(98)00146-3.

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Schoen, Cathy, and Michelle M. Doty. "Inequities in access to medical care in five countries: findings from the 2001 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey." Health Policy 67, no. 3 (March 2004): 309–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2003.09.006.

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Sovran, Vanessa, Alison Ytsma, Liudmila Husak, and Tracy Johnson. "Coordination of Care Could Improve: Canadian Results from the Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians." Healthcare Quarterly 23, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 6–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.12927/hcq.2020.26283.

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Beverley, Charles S., Janice Probst, Edith M. Williams, Patrick Rivers, and Saundra H. Glover. "Differences in Electronic Medical Record Implementation and Use According to Geographical Location and Organizational Characteristics of US Federally Qualified Health Centers." International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics 7, no. 3 (July 2012): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jhisi.2012070101.

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Electronic medical records (EMRs) are at the forefront of the national healthcare agenda and this paper examines EMR implementation and usage based on data from the 2009 Commonwealth Fund National Survey of Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC). Chi-square analysis was used to examine differences in EMR implementation and usage. Logistic regression analysis was used to understand the adjusted associations between EMR implementation and usage. A significant finding of this study was that simple EMRs were implemented in more than half of FQHCs in the Northeast, Southern, and Western regions of the United States and EMRs in more than half of the FQHCs in the Southern and Western regions are not even utilized. These findings indicate simple EMR usage and full EMR implementation need improvement to meet the requirements of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by 2014, or face reduction in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.

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Davis, Karen, Cathy Schoen, Katherine Shea, and Christine Haran. "Aiming High for the U.S. Health System: A Context for Health Reform." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 36, no. 4 (2008): 629–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.2008.00317.x.

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On the eve of the presidential inauguration, the U.S. health system faces rising costs of care, growing numbers of uninsured, wide variations in quality of care, and mounting public dissatisfaction. Despite spending more on health care than any other country, a recent Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health Care System National Scorecard reports that the United States is lagging far behind other major industrialized countries — all of which provide universal health insurance — in five key domains: healthy lives, access, quality, equity, and efficiency. U.S. national performance is well below benchmarks of top performance set by other countries or high performing states, hospitals, or health plans within the United States, with broad disparities in experience depending on geographic location, income, race/ethnicity, and insurance coverage. National leadership is required to manage the growing health care crisis in the United States and improve care for all Americans.

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Cormack, Mark. "Private health insurance: the problem child faces adulthood." Australian Health Review 25, no. 2 (2002): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah020038.

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Since its election to office in 1996, reform of Private Health Insurance (PHI) has been the most obvious health policy focus of the Howard Government. The reform process has focussed on price, product, promotion, legislation and regulation. It has resulted in one of thelargest new Commonwealth health outlays in recent memory. Health insurance funds have emerged as activepurchasers of care, not just passive reimbursers of costs. PHI fund reserves have moved from precarious liquidity tohealthy surplus. Private hospitals are busier than ever before, but margins are slim. Anecdotally, public hospitals report little benefit to date. Waiting lists have not been reduced, and their budgets are unchanged as a result of the $2 Bn allocated under the 30% Rebate scheme. The paper begins by describing the origins of the PHI reform. Its objectives, policy initiatives, results to date and criticisms are analysed. Criticisms include the actual and opportunity costs. Specific concerns remain as to its effectiveness to date in reducing pressure on public hospitals, and perceived lack of equity for certain client groups. Themost significant result is that much of the reform package is here to stay including the expensive and much criticised 30% rebate. Like Medicare before it, the PHI reforms have achieved bipartisan support. The paper concludes by describing future implications for Government, industry, consumers and the medical profession.

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Turvey, Carolyn L., Dawn M. Klein, Kim M. Nazi, Susan T. Haidary, Omar Bouhaddou, Nelson Hsing, and Margaret Donahue. "Racial differences in patient consent policy preferences for electronic health information exchange." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 27, no. 5 (March 9, 2020): 717–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocaa012.

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Abstract Objective This study aimed to explore the association between demographic variables, such as race and gender, and patient consent policy preferences for health information exchange as well as self-report by VHA enrollees of information continuity between Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and community non-VHA heath care providers. Materials and Methods Data were collected between March 25, 2016 and August 22, 2016 in an online survey of 19 567 veterans. Three questions from the 2016 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, which addressed care continuity, were included. The survey also included questions about consent policy preference regarding opt-out, opt-in, and “break the glass” consent policies. Results VHA enrollees had comparable proportions of unnecessary laboratory testing and conflicting information from providers when compared with the United States sample in the Commonwealth Survey. However, they endorsed medical record information being unavailable between organizations more highly. Demographic variables were associated with gaps in care continuity as well as consent policy preferences, with 56.8% of Whites preferring an opt-out policy as compared with 40.3% of Blacks, 44.9% of Hispanic Latinos, 48.3% of Asian/Pacific Islanders, and 38.3% of Native Americans (P < .001). Discussion Observed large differences by race and ethnicity in privacy preferences for electronic health information exchange should inform implementation of these programs to ensure cultural sensitivity. Veterans experienced care continuity comparable to a general United States sample, except for less effective exchange of health records between heath care organizations. VHA followed an opt-in consent policy at the time of this survey which may underlie this gap.

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Leece, Lesley. "Towards a better life: Volunteer work with families who are substance abusing." Children Australia 31, no. 2 (2006): 37–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1035077200011111.

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This article presents the findings of a study into the effectiveness of trained volunteers working with families where substance abuse was identified as an issue. The study was initiated by Mater Family Support (now known as Mater Parent Aide Unit), Mater Health Services, Brisbane, and funded by the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (now known as the Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs). The goals of the study were to begin to understand the effectiveness of volunteer Parent Aide services that have been provided to myriad client groups over many years. The findings demonstrate that the services are valued by this particular target group. This is summed up in the words of one participant who said, ‘Government has to fund this for more people because there are so many people I know who could use it, but haven’t been offered the chance’. Replication of the study with other client groups will further enhance understanding of volunteer service provider effectiveness.

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Jeewandara, J. M. K. Chandima, Inoka Sepali Aberathna, Saubhagya Danasekara, Laksiri Gomes, Suranga Fernando, Dinuka Guruge, Thushali Ranasinghe, et al. "Comparison of the Immunogenicity of five COVID-19 vaccines in Sri Lanka." Journal of Immunology 208, no. 1_Supplement (May 1, 2022): 65.01. http://dx.doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.208.supp.65.01.

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Abstract We assessed antibody responses 3 months post-vaccination in those who received mRNA-1273 (n=225), Sputnik V (n=128) or the first dose of Gam-COVID-Vac (n=184) and compared the results with previously reported data of Sinopharm and AZD1222 vaccinees. 99.5% of Moderna >94% of AZD1222 or Sputnik V, 72% to 76% of Gam-COVID-Vac (first dose) and 38.1% to 68.3% of Sinopharm vaccinees had ACE2 blocking antibodies above the positive threshold. The ACE2 blocking antibody levels were highest to lowest was Moderna > Sputnik V/AZD1222 (had equal levels)> first dose of Gam-COVID-Vac > Sinopharm. All Moderna recipients had antibodies above the positive threshold to the ancestral (WT), B.1.1.7, B.1.351.1 and 80% positivity rate for B.1.617.2. Positivity rates of Sputnik V vaccinees for WT and variants, were higher than AZD1222 vaccinees, while Sinopharm vaccinees had the lowest positivity rates (<16.7%). These findings highlight the need for further studies to understand the effects on clinical outcomes. Allergy, Immunology and Cell Biology Unit, University of Sri Jayewardenepura; the NIH, USA (grant number 5U01AI151788-02), UK Medical Research Council and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for support. T.K.T. is funded by the Townsend-Jeantet Charitable Trust (charity number 1011770) and the EPA Cephalosporin Early Career Researcher Fund. A.T. are funded by the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS) Innovation Fund for Medical Science (CIFMS), China (grant no. 2018-I2M-2-002).

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