Like most chronic conditions, the diagnosis and optimum management of epilepsy relies on contributions from a number of healthcare disciplines in a variety of geographically diverse number of healthcare settings e.g. ...

Service providers, the personnel and organisations that deliver care, are the foundation of any health care system. The personnel include not only doctors, but pharmacists, nurses, and an array of allied health professions, ...

The provision of care to people living and dying with serious chronic illness is a public health priority in most parts of the world. In a context of demographic change and shifting patterns of disease, the cost of care ...

This thesis set out to investigate whether ageing is a surrogate measure for proximity to death in the older population when estimating medication expenditures. The medication expenditures used were the ingredient cost of ...

A mixed methodological approach facilitated an in-depth examination of the service experiences, service preferences and financial costs associated with caring for children with life-limiting neurodevelopmental conditions ...