understanding Health is one of the most complicated issues for governments, professionals, Organizations, individuals and academia even in this 21st century. However, WHO consider Health not only as the absence of a disease or infirmity but a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being (World Health Organisation Constitution, 1948). The WHO definition acknowledged the fact that our physical, mental and social well-being is important if indeed we want to remain Healthy. Good Health care is critical
improvement of maternal and child health. Maternal and child health services is said to play a vital role in achieving improved health outcomes. The decision to use health care is undoubtedly influence by the characteristics of the health delivery system such as the availability and accessibility of the services. However, this does not necessarily mean that where there is a good supply of services, demand is created in and of itself, which will then lead to increased utilization. In this context, there has
recruitment: • Use sponsor representatives to identify interested physicians • Partner with local site management organizations (SMO) • Ask the physicians in the field to suggest interested colleagues • Recruit and raise awareness at conferences or health check-up camps Selecting Hospitals: • Identify eligible hospitals from the hospital database • Utilize sponsor representatives to identify potentially interested hospitals • Register hospital through physicians who work there and are interested in
Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada headed by Roy Romanow can be said as the first step taken towards making a change. In this report Mr. Romanow made 47 recommendations towards making healthcare in Canada a really national, more exhaustive, responsive and responsible healthcare framework. He discusses the collaboration required from the government in terms of funding,
BOOK REVIEW HEALTH ECONOMICS PEOPLE’S HEALTH MOVEMENT (2011), GLOBAL HEALTH WATCH III SUBMITTED BY:- AYUSHI BASOYA M.A. ECONOMICS 3rd SEMESTER GROUP 1 The book “Global Health Watch III” published in the year 2011, gives us an analysis of the health and health care issues across the globe. A huge variety of issues related to health and health care have been dealt in this book. The book deals not just with issues directly related to health but also with other political, economical and social
The main problem health sector faces is the fact that even though there is more and more data available, most of it is under the form of unstructured data and so it is hard to use it appropriately. Also, veracity of data in a sector in which it is easy to make mistakes (also due to the presence of many unstructured data), errors should be reduced as more as possible to have a good quality of data. To minimize big data problems, many hospitals started to focus in 5 main concepts 18 : • Right provider
stress among training nurses in Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) Healthcare disciplines are often identified as high stress professions. Among these disciplines, it is observed that nursing students undergo tremendous amounts of stress during various stages of their course (Papazisis et al, 2008). Nursing focuses on meeting physical, social and emotional health care needs of these individuals. In the process of meeting the needs, nurses often have to give care under emotionally intense conditions. Thus
nutrition and health of poor farmers in developing countries (Asenso-Okyere et al., 2009). Ill heath in the farming community can reduce agricultural
However, there are perceptions that the levels of utilization of program evaluation findings are very low, compromising the overall goal of investing in program evaluations. Indeed, Orszag (2009) mentions that numerous crucial federal programs remain formally unevaluated, and the findings from those that have
Abstract This paper discusses different pros and cons of cutting Medicaid costs and how Medicaid recipients are affected such as: Cutting reimbursement to health care providers, reducing fraud and abuse, imposing copays, implementing pharmaceutical caps, cutting benefits to Medicaid recipients, and implementing more preventative care measures. Even though cutting costs in all these areas will save the state money, they also cost the state a significant amount of money and cause a lot of controversy