Health Care Reform

"Health Care Reform" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.

Descriptor ID	D018166
MeSH Number(s)	I01.655.500.608.400.285 I01.880.604.825.608.400.285 N03.349.285 N03.623.500.608.428.285 N04.590.374.285 N05.300.380
Concept/Terms	Health Care Reform Health Care Reform Health Care Reforms Reform, Health Care Reforms, Health Care Healthcare Reform Healthcare Reforms Reform, Healthcare Reforms, Healthcare

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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena [I]
Social Sciences [I01]
Policy [I01.655]
Social Control Policies [I01.655.500]
Public Policy [I01.655.500.608]
Health Policy [I01.655.500.608.400]
Health Care Reform [I01.655.500.608.400.285]
Sociology [I01.880]
Social Control, Formal [I01.880.604]
Social Control Policies [I01.880.604.825]
Public Policy [I01.880.604.825.608]
Health Policy [I01.880.604.825.608.400]
Health Care Reform [I01.880.604.825.608.400.285]
Health Care [N]
Health Care Economics and Organizations [N03]
Health Planning [N03.349]
Health Care Reform [N03.349.285]
Policy [N03.623]
Social Control Policies [N03.623.500]
Public Policy [N03.623.500.608]
Health Policy [N03.623.500.608.428]
Health Care Reform [N03.623.500.608.428.285]
Health Services Administration [N04]
Patient Care Management [N04.590]
Delivery of Health Care [N04.590.374]
Health Care Reform [N04.590.374.285]
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation [N05]
Delivery of Health Care [N05.300]
Health Care Reform [N05.300.380]

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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Reform" was a major or minor topic of these publications.

Bar chart showing 32 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1999	1	0	1
2001	2	0	2
2005	1	2	3
2007	0	2	2
2008	1	0	1
2009	1	2	3
2010	2	0	2
2011	1	1	2
2012	2	1	3
2013	1	1	2
2014	3	1	4
2015	1	0	1
2016	1	0	1
2018	0	1	1
2019	0	2	2
2022	0	1	1
2025	1	0	1

Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.

Hedden L, Grudniewicz A, Katz A, Lavergne MR, McDonald T, Rudoler D, Austin N, Halas G, Spencer S, Thelen R, Mathews M, McCracken R, McGrail K, Shiplett H, Strumpf EC. Informing family physician payment reform in Canada: protocol for a cross-provincial, multimethod study. BMJ Open. 2025 Jun 20; 15(6):e103894.

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King B, Spadaro A, Schiff G, Rodriguez-Monguio R, Jordan AO, Flaherty L, Lee WC, Zito J, Fein O. The American Public Health Association Endorses Single-Payer Health System Reform. Med Care. 2022 06 01; 60(6):397-401.

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Wu TT, Liu WW, Zou M, Lei X, Yang Q, Sharma M, Zhao Y, Shi ZM. Changes in preventive care utilisation and its influencing factors among Chinese adults before and after the healthcare reform: cross-sectional evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey in 2004-2015. BMJ Open. 2020 10 01; 10(10):e038763.

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Struthers A, Metge C, Charette C, Harlos K, Bapuji SB, Beaudin P, Botting I, Katz A, Kreindler S. Primary care renewal strategies in Manitoba: Family physicians' perceptions. Can Fam Physician. 2019 Sep; 65(9):e397-e404.

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Livingston CJ, Allison RD, Niebuhr DW, Sherin KM, Costales VC, Berenji M, Phares TM, Caplan LS, Nelkovski L, Seeff LC, Singleton CM. Preventive Medicine Physicians and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's 6|18 Initiative. Am J Prev Med. 2019 07; 57(1):127-133.

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Quentin W, Geissler A, Wittenbecher F, Ballinger G, Berenson R, Bloor K, Forgione DA, K?pf P, Kroneman M, Serden L, Suarez R, van Manen JW, Busse R. Paying hospital specialists: Experiences and lessons from eight high-income countries. Health Policy. 2018 05; 122(5):473-484.

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Younis MZ. Healthcare reform in the Middle East and the USA. J Comp Eff Res. 2017 Jan; 6(1):13-14.

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Levesque JF, Haggerty JL, Hogg W, Burge F, Wong ST, Katz A, Grimard D, Weenink JW, Pineault R. Barriers and Facilitators for Primary Care Reform in Canada: Results from a Deliberative Synthesis across Five Provinces. Healthc Policy. 2015 Nov; 11(2):44-57.

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Ogundipe B, Alam F, Gazula L, Olagbemiro Y, Osiezagha K, Bailey RK, Richie WD. Remaking the American health care system: a positive reflection on the Affordable Care Act with emphasis on mental health care. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2015 Feb; 26(1):49-61.

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Shaw FE, Asomugha CN, Conway PH, Rein AS. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: opportunities for prevention and public health. Lancet. 2014 Jul 05; 384(9937):75-82.

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