Incidence of Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia Following Extremely Premature Birth and Associated Mortality Rates and Medication Use: Findings from a Large Integrated Health Care Delivery System in the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
De-kun Li ◽  
Andrew Hirst ◽  
Sujata Sarda ◽  
Jeannette Ferber ◽  
Michael Kuzniewicz ◽  
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2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Les Spencer

This paper introduces clinical sociology as a humanistic, multidisciplinary specialty seeking to improve the quality of people's lives. It traces the emergence of clinical sociology in the United States in 1931, and in Australia in the late 1950s in the context of the pioneering clinical sociology research into social transformation at Australian society's margins by Neville Yeomans. A contemporary illustration is given demonstrating how a biopyschosocial model of health is now being implemented as world best-evidence-based practice within the Australian health care delivery system. Further arguments, citing national and international evidence based on sociotherapeutic models of intervention, support a proposal for the Australian Sociology Association to engage in dialogues with health care agencies with the view of establishing clinical sociologists as an integral part of the Australian health-care delivery system.


1980 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takarinda Samuel Agere

[ ABSTRACT: This paper examines how an African country, Zambia, reproduces patterns of health care delivery system of the West characterized by U.S. The replication of pattern of health discriminates against the poor, and rural in habitants. First, a brief theoretical analysis of underdevelopment is provided. Secondly, the structure of the present U.S health care delivery system is provided high lighting t'he role of the academic-medical component. The analysis shows how health care resources are distributed among socio- economic, racial groups and between urban and rural areas. 'The major part of the paper examines health care delivery system in Zambia, outlining those areas that are replicated. The paper emphasizes that this should serve as lessons for Africa. This replication is made possible by the indigenous African middle class through which Western values are transmitted. This class (elites) is in control of state machinery and makes decisions on the distribution, and consumption of health resources. In conclusion, I recommend a radical economic and political transforma tion of these societies if resources have to be distributed equitably.]


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