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Editor's Pick: Immigrant health access in Texas: policy, rhetoric, and fear in the Trump era
Restrictive changes to immigration policies may impact healthcare access for immigrants already residing in the US. A recent study published in BMC Health Services Research investigated this by conducting focus groups with health workers in Texas.
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Understanding in the Australian aged care sector of reablement interventions for people living with dementia: a qualitative content analysis
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Influences of health facility type for delivery and experience of cesarean section on maternal and newborn postnatal care between birth and facility discharge in Malawi
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Intervention intended to improve public health professionals’ self-efficacy in their efforts to detect and manage perinatal depressive symptoms among Thai women: a mixed-methods study
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A quasi-experiment assessing the six-months effects of a nurse care coordination program on patient care experiences and clinician teamwork in community health centers
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Relationship between Organizational Culture, Leadership Behavior and Job Satisfaction
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How nurses and their work environment affect patient experiences of the quality of care: a qualitative study
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Equity of access to reproductive health services among youths in resource-limited suburban communities of Mandalay City, Myanmar
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Interventions to improve cultural competency in healthcare: a systematic review of reviews
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The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research
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BMC Health Services Research is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of health services research, including delivery of care, management of health services, assessment of healthcare needs, measurement of outcomes, allocation of healthcare resources, evaluation of different health markets and health services organizations, international comparative analysis of health systems, health economics and the impact of health policies and regulations.
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- Tillie Cryer, BMC, UK
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- Anisa Lowe, BMC, UK
Section Editors
- Onyebuchi A Arah, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Dina Balabanova, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
- Stefano Bonacina, Karolinska Institutet
- Kostuv Dalal, Örebro University
- Hengjin Dong, Zhejiang University School of Medicine
- Michael Donnelly, Queen's University Belfast
- Marie-Pierre Gagnon, Laval University
- David Hotchkiss, Tulane University
- Holly Lanham, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio
- Evelina Pappa, Hellenic Open University
- Milena Pavlova, Maastricht University
- Antoni Plasencia, ISGlobal Barcelona Institute for Global Health
- Fabrizio Tediosi, University of Basel
- Kaspar Wyss, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
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Highlights of the BMC Series: January 2020
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Tailoring interventions for social isolation and loneliness
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Latest Collections
2017
Thematic series
Exploration of disinvestment in the local healthcare setting
Edited by: Dr Milena Pavlova
Collection published: 4 May 2017
2015
Cross-journal collection
The Many Meanings of 'Quality' in Healthcare: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Edited by: Dr Deborah Swinglehurst
Collection published: 23 April 2015
2013
Cross-journal collection
Medical tourism - concepts, ethics and practices
Edited by: Dr Tulsi Patel and Prof Silke Schicktanz
Collection published: 20 August 2013
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