This is important, given wireless networks will be a predominant medium for communication in pervasive care environments.
Poverty is pervasive, health care nearly nonexistent, illiteracy rampant.
This results in a lack of discipline that allows for pervasive excess care and exorbitant prices.
Access to primary care is a pervasive policy concern for most countries; however, increasing the supply of doctors does not necessarily lead to better access [ 1].
Multitasking is pervasive in health care.
For better or worse, anything as comprehensive and pervasive as health care reform really must be based upon a consensus.
Obesity and osteoporosis are two of the most pervasive chronic health-care problems in the industrialized world.
While the immediate causes of obstetric fistula in developing countries are obstructed labor and lack of prompt access to emergency obstetric care, pervasive poverty is often the root cause [ 30, 31].
Through its payment policies and the standards it sets for doctors, hospitals and other health care providers, the Medicare agency has a pervasive influence on health care in America, out of proportion to the money it spends.
Deficiencies in the patient-centredness of care and poor communication with consumers are persistent and pervasive problems in health care and a large range of interventions now exist to promote active participation and patient-centred care [ 10, 41].
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services finances health care for one in three Americans, spends more than the Pentagon and has a pervasive influence on medical care, regulating hospitals, doctors, health plans and almost every other type of health care provider.
