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Improving health outcomes: innovation, coverage, quality and adherence

The Israeli health system has made considerable progress in reducing deaths amenable to medical care but has more to do. This commentary describes how progress in this area results from innovation, coverage, quality, and adherence to treatment. It describes what is being done in Israel and beyond to...

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Autores principales: McKee, Martin, Chow, Clara K
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3502094/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23098127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-43
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description The Israeli health system has made considerable progress in reducing deaths amenable to medical care but has more to do. This commentary describes how progress in this area results from innovation, coverage, quality, and adherence to treatment. It describes what is being done in Israel and beyond to address each of these factors but concentrates on the often poorly recognised problem of adherence to treatment, describing the growing evidence that it is often sub-optimal and reviewing evidence on what can be done to improve it.
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spelling pubmed-35020942012-11-21 Improving health outcomes: innovation, coverage, quality and adherence McKee, Martin Chow, Clara K Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary The Israeli health system has made considerable progress in reducing deaths amenable to medical care but has more to do. This commentary describes how progress in this area results from innovation, coverage, quality, and adherence to treatment. It describes what is being done in Israel and beyond to address each of these factors but concentrates on the often poorly recognised problem of adherence to treatment, describing the growing evidence that it is often sub-optimal and reviewing evidence on what can be done to improve it. BioMed Central 2012-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC3502094/ /pubmed/23098127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-43 Text en Copyright ©2012 McKee and Chow; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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