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Background: Catch-up HPV vaccination is challenging in many low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Pay-it-forward offers an individual a subsidized vaccine, then an opportunity to donate to help others access vaccinations. Our randomized control trial assessed the effectiveness of pay-it-forward in improving HPV vaccination among girls aged 15-18 years in China.
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January 2025
Department of Biostatistics, Ankara University, Faculty of Medicine, Morfoloji Binasi, Biyoistatistik AD, 06230, Ankara, Altindag, Turkey.
Background: Pay-for-performance system (P4P) has been in operation in the Turkish healthcare sector since 2004. While the government defended that it encouraged healthcare professionals' job motivation, and improved patient satisfaction by increasing efficiency and service quality, healthcare professionals have emphasized the system's negative effects on working conditions, physicians' trustworthiness, and cost-quality outcomes. In this study, we investigated physicians' accounts of current working conditions, their status as a moral agent, and their professional attitudes in the context of P4P's perceived effects on their professional, social, private, and future lives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehav Sci (Basel)
November 2024
School of Communication, Soochow University, Suzhou 215031, China.
Rapidly changing digital technologies are reconfiguring the way human society lives, indicating that more and more middle-aged and older adults will lead a digital life in the future. Whether digital technology for today can effectively improve the quality of digital life of this cohort is the focus of this study. This study proposed a "cognitive-emotional-behavioral" model and situated the use of the Extreme Edition App as a cross-sectional research object.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReddit is a popular social media platform that is made up of subreddits, a kind of special interest page. One of these is DoctorsUK, which has over 45,000 members and claims to be a community for UK-based doctors. There is, however, no way of verifying who uses the page, as Reddit is essentially anonymous.
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January 2025
Department of Urology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Women now comprise over 50% of medical school graduates and over one-third of practicing physicians in the United States. Despite this progress, significant barriers to career advancement and leadership persist, particularly in male-dominated fields like urology and oncology. Women physicians are linked to improved patient outcomes and are critical to addressing the projected physician shortage, which is expected to be exaggerated in oncology specialties.
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