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Effectiveness of school-based influenza vaccination

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Live attenuated influenza vaccine is used and compared to assess the effect of a school-based vaccination program on the households of children in intervention schools and control schools. It is found that the outcomes related to influenza-like illness are significantly lower in intervention-school households than in control-school households.

Services information, All Other Miscellaneous Ambulatory Health Care Services, Vaccination & Immunization, Services, Prevention, Surveys, Vaccination, Influenza, School-based health clinics

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The "dis-location" of U.S. medicine--The implications of medical outsourcing

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Concern about the rapidly increasing health care costs has led to wide-ranging cost-cutting efforts, and has created a powerful impetus for outsourcing. In the digitally globalized world, the truth is that the only durable protection against the outsourcing of services is to provide the highest quality of care at the lowest cost.

Use of services, Health care industry, Outsourcing

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America's new refugees - seeking affordable surgery offshore

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The middle-income seriously ill Americans are showing a preference towards affordable treatments from advanced private hospitals in low-income countries. These people are evading impoverishment by expensive, medically necessary operations, as health care services are increasingly included in international economic trade.

Financial management, Health aspects, Finance, Americans, Company financing, Middle classes, Middle class

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