Health Status: The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.Delivery of Health Care: The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.Public Health: Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.Drug Delivery Systems: Systems for the delivery of drugs to target sites of pharmacological actions. Technologies employed include those concerning drug preparation, route of administration, site targeting, metabolism, and toxicity.Health Policy: Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.Health Care Reform: 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.Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Health Promotion: Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.Mental Health: The state wherein the person is well adjusted.Delivery, Obstetric: Delivery of the FETUS and PLACENTA under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, medical, or surgical interventions.Health: The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.Health Services Accessibility: The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others.Health Care Surveys: Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.Attitude to Health: Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.Health Planning: Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities.Primary Health Care: Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)Quality of Health Care: The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.Health Behavior: Behaviors expressed by individuals to protect, maintain or promote their health status. For example, proper diet, and appropriate exercise are activities perceived to influence health status. Life style is closely associated with health behavior and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural.Health Services: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.Insurance, Health: Insurance providing coverage of medical, surgical, or hospital care in general or for which there is no specific heading.Health Personnel: Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)World Health: The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.Health Services Needs and Demand: Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.Health Education: Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.Oral Health: The optimal state of the mouth and normal functioning of the organs of the mouth without evidence of disease.Health Services Research: The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)Delivery of Health Care, Integrated: A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (Coddington et al., Integrated Health Care: Reorganizing the Physician, Hospital and Health Plan Relationship, 1994, p7)Health Expenditures: The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice: Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviors which pertain to health-related topics such as PATHOLOGIC PROCESSES or diseases, their prevention, and treatment. This term refers to non-health workers and health workers (HEALTH PERSONNEL).Public Health Administration: Management of public health organizations or agencies.Environmental Health: The science of controlling or modifying those conditions, influences, or forces surrounding man which relate to promoting, establishing, and maintaining health.Patient Acceptance of Health Care: The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.Health Status Disparities: Variation in rates of disease occurrence and disabilities between population groups defined by socioeconomic characteristics such as age, ethnicity, economic resources, or gender and populations identified geographically or similar measures.Occupational Health: The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.Health Care Rationing: Planning for the equitable allocation, apportionment, or distribution of available health resources.National Health Programs: Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance.Health Priorities: Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to PL93-641.Public Health Practice: The activities and endeavors of the public health services in a community on any level.Mental Health Services: Organized services to provide mental health care.Rural Health: The status of health in rural populations.Women's Health: The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of women.Health Care Sector: Economic sector concerned with the provision, distribution, and consumption of health care services and related products.Community Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community.Pregnancy: The status during which female mammals carry their developing young (EMBRYOS or FETUSES) in utero before birth, beginning from FERTILIZATION to BIRTH.Attitude of Health Personnel: Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.Urban Health: The status of health in urban populations.Health Literacy: Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.Child Health Services: Organized services to provide health care for children.World Health Organization: A specialized agency of the United Nations designed as a coordinating authority on international health work; its aim is to promote the attainment of the highest possible level of health by all peoples.Health Facilities: Institutions which provide medical or health-related services.Rural Health Services: Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Outcome Assessment (Health Care): Research aimed at assessing the quality and effectiveness of health care as measured by the attainment of a specified end result or outcome. Measures include parameters such as improved health, lowered morbidity or mortality, and improvement of abnormal states (such as elevated blood pressure).Community Health Planning: Planning that has the goals of improving health, improving accessibility to health services, and promoting efficiency in the provision of services and resources on a comprehensive basis for a whole community. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988, p299)Socioeconomic Factors: Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure.Regional Health Planning: Planning for health resources at a regional or multi-state level.Health Manpower: The availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL. It includes the demand and recruitment of both professional and allied health personnel, their present and future supply and distribution, and their assignment and utilization.Maternal Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.Quality Assurance, Health Care: Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.Cross-Sectional Studies: Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.Health Resources: Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.Community Health Centers: Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to people living in a community or neighborhood.Preventive Health Services: Services designed for HEALTH PROMOTION and prevention of disease.Infant, Newborn: An infant during the first month after birth.Drug Carriers: Forms to which substances are incorporated to improve the delivery and the effectiveness of drugs. Drug carriers are used in drug-delivery systems such as the controlled-release technology to prolong in vivo drug actions, decrease drug metabolism, and reduce drug toxicity. Carriers are also used in designs to increase the effectiveness of drug delivery to the target sites of pharmacological actions. Liposomes, albumin microspheres, soluble synthetic polymers, DNA complexes, protein-drug conjugates, and carrier erythrocytes among others have been employed as biodegradable drug carriers.Public Health Nursing: A nursing specialty concerned with promoting and protecting the health of populations, using knowledge from nursing, social, and public health sciences to develop local, regional, state, and national health policy and research. It is population-focused and community-oriented, aimed at health promotion and disease prevention through educational, diagnostic, and preventive programs.Cesarean Section: Extraction of the FETUS by means of abdominal HYSTEROTOMY.Health Occupations: Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is available.Electronic Health Records: Media that facilitate transportability of pertinent information concerning patient's illness across varied providers and geographic locations. Some versions include direct linkages to online consumer health information that is relevant to the health conditions and treatments related to a specific patient.Reproductive Health: The physical condition of human reproductive systems.Health Benefit Plans, Employee: Health insurance plans for employees, and generally including their dependents, usually on a cost-sharing basis with the employer paying a percentage of the premium.Occupational Health Services: Health services for employees, usually provided by the employer at the place of work.Health Services Administration: The organization and administration of health services dedicated to the delivery of health care.Interviews as Topic: Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.Nanoparticles: Nanometer-sized particles that are nanoscale in three dimensions. They include nanocrystaline materials; NANOCAPSULES; METAL NANOPARTICLES; DENDRIMERS, and QUANTUM DOTS. The uses of nanoparticles include DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS and cancer targeting and imaging.Health Services for the Aged: Services for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in the aged and the maintenance of health in the elderly.Gene Transfer Techniques: The introduction of functional (usually cloned) GENES into cells. A variety of techniques and naturally occurring processes are used for the gene transfer such as cell hybridization, LIPOSOMES or microcell-mediated gene transfer, ELECTROPORATION, chromosome-mediated gene transfer, TRANSFECTION, and GENETIC TRANSDUCTION. Gene transfer may result in genetically transformed cells and individual organisms.Health Plan Implementation: Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs.State Health Plans: State plans prepared by the State Health Planning and Development Agencies which are made up from plans submitted by the Health Systems Agencies and subject to review and revision by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council.Public Health Informatics: The systematic application of information and computer sciences to public health practice, research, and learning.Quality Indicators, Health Care: Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determining the quality of health care.National Institutes of Health (U.S.): An operating division of the US Department of Health and Human Services. It is concerned with the overall planning, promoting, and administering of programs pertaining to health and medical research. Until 1995, it was an agency of the United States PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE.Politics: Activities concerned with governmental policies, functions, etc.Prevalence: The total number of cases of a given disease in a specified population at a designated time. It is differentiated from INCIDENCE, which refers to the number of new cases in the population at a given time.Women's Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to women. It excludes maternal care services for which MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES is available.Health Services, Indigenous: Health care provided to specific cultural or tribal peoples which incorporates local customs, beliefs, and taboos.Reproductive Health Services: Health care services related to human REPRODUCTION and diseases of the reproductive system. Services are provided to both sexes and usually by physicians in the medical or the surgical specialties such as REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; ANDROLOGY; GYNECOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; and PERINATOLOGY.Program Evaluation: Studies designed to assess the efficacy of programs. They may include the evaluation of cost-effectiveness, the extent to which objectives are met, or impact.Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care): Evaluation procedures that focus on both the outcome or status (OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT) of the patient at the end of an episode of care - presence of symptoms, level of activity, and mortality; and the process (ASSESSMENT, PROCESS) - what is done for the patient diagnostically and therapeutically.Health Maintenance Organizations: Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)Catchment Area (Health): A geographic area defined and served by a health program or institution.Health Care Coalitions: Voluntary groups of people representing diverse interests in the community such as hospitals, businesses, physicians, and insurers, with the principal objective to improve health care cost effectiveness.Health Planning Guidelines: Recommendations for directing health planning functions and policies. These may be mandated by PL93-641 and issued by the Department of Health and Human Services for use by state and local planning agencies.Logistic Models: Statistical models which describe the relationship between a qualitative dependent variable (that is, one which can take only certain discrete values, such as the presence or absence of a disease) and an independent variable. A common application is in epidemiology for estimating an individual's risk (probability of a disease) as a function of a given risk factor.Health Records, Personal: Longitudinal patient-maintained records of individual health history and tools that allow individual control of access.Urban Health Services: Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.Poverty: A situation in which the level of living of an individual, family, or group is below the standard of the community. It is often related to a specific income level.Time Factors: Elements of limited time intervals, contributing to particular results or situations.Men's Health: The concept covering the physical and mental conditions of men.Mental Disorders: Psychiatric illness or diseases manifested by breakdowns in the adaptational process expressed primarily as abnormalities of thought, feeling, and behavior producing either distress or impairment of function.Allied Health Personnel: Health care workers specially trained and licensed to assist and support the work of health professionals. Often used synonymously with paramedical personnel, the term generally refers to all health care workers who perform tasks which must otherwise be performed by a physician or other health professional.Questionnaires: Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.Family Health: The health status of the family as a unit including the impact of the health of one member of the family on the family as a unit and on individual family members; also, the impact of family organization or disorganization on the health status of its members.Adolescent Health Services: Organized services to provide health care to adolescents, ages ranging from 13 through 18 years.Rural Population: The inhabitants of rural areas or of small towns classified as rural.Health Planning Support: Financial resources provided for activities related to health planning and development.Quality of Life: A generic concept reflecting concern with the modification and enhancement of life attributes, e.g., physical, political, moral and social environment; the overall condition of a human life.Social Justice: An interactive process whereby members of a community are concerned for the equality and rights of all.Healthcare Disparities: Differences in access to or availability of medical facilities and services.Community Mental Health Services: Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive mental health services provided for individuals in the community.Great BritainPopulation Surveillance: Ongoing scrutiny of a population (general population, study population, target population, etc.), generally using methods distinguished by their practicability, uniformity, and frequently their rapidity, rather than by complete accuracy.Schools, Public Health: Educational institutions for individuals specializing in the field of public health.Comprehensive Health Care: Providing for the full range of personal health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation of patients.Consumer Participation: Community or individual involvement in the decision-making process.Policy Making: The decision process by which individuals, groups or institutions establish policies pertaining to plans, programs or procedures.Qualitative Research: Any type of research that employs nonnumeric information to explore individual or group characteristics, producing findings not arrived at by statistical procedures or other quantitative means. (Qualitative Inquiry: A Dictionary of Terms Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997)Age Factors: Age as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or the effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from AGING, a physiological process, and TIME FACTORS which refers only to the passage of time.School Health Services: Preventive health services provided for students. It excludes college or university students.Financing, Government: Federal, state, or local government organized methods of financial assistance.Cohort Studies: Studies in which subsets of a defined population are identified. These groups may or may not be exposed to factors hypothesized to influence the probability of the occurrence of a particular disease or other outcome. Cohorts are defined populations which, as a whole, are followed in an attempt to determine distinguishing subgroup characteristics.Genetic Therapy: Techniques and strategies which include the use of coding sequences and other conventional or radical means to transform or modify cells for the purpose of treating or reversing disease conditions.United States Dept. of Health and Human Services: A cabinet department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services.Needs Assessment: Systematic identification of a population's needs or the assessment of individuals to determine the proper level of services needed.Educational Status: Educational attainment or level of education of individuals.Prospective Studies: Observation of a population for a sufficient number of persons over a sufficient number of years to generate incidence or mortality rates subsequent to the selection of the study group.Pregnancy Outcome: Results of conception and ensuing pregnancy, including LIVE BIRTH; STILLBIRTH; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; INDUCED ABORTION. The outcome may follow natural or artificial insemination or any of the various ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, such as EMBRYO TRANSFER or FERTILIZATION IN VITRO.Marketing of Health Services: Application of marketing principles and techniques to maximize the use of health care resources.Genetic Vectors: DNA molecules capable of autonomous replication within a host cell and into which other DNA sequences can be inserted and thus amplified. Many are derived from PLASMIDS; BACTERIOPHAGES; or VIRUSES. They are used for transporting foreign genes into recipient cells. Genetic vectors possess a functional replicator site and contain GENETIC MARKERS to facilitate their selective recognition.Chronic Disease: Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: they are permanent, leave residual disability, are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration, require special training of the patient for rehabilitation, or may be expected to require a long period of supervision, observation, or care. (Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)Private Sector: That distinct portion of the institutional, industrial, or economic structure of a country that is controlled or owned by non-governmental, private interests.Health Fairs: Community health education events focused on prevention of disease and promotion of health through audiovisual exhibits.Sex Factors: Maleness or femaleness as a constituent element or influence contributing to the production of a result. It may be applicable to the cause or effect of a circumstance. It is used with human or animal concepts but should be differentiated from SEX CHARACTERISTICS, anatomical or physiological manifestations of sex, and from SEX DISTRIBUTION, the number of males and females in given circumstances.Program Development: The process of formulating, improving, and expanding educational, managerial, or service-oriented work plans (excluding computer program development).Maternal-Child Health Centers: Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to mothers and children.Health Food: A non-medical term defined by the lay public as a food that has little or no preservatives, which has not undergone major processing, enrichment or refinement and which may be grown without pesticides. (from Segen, The Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)Social Class: A stratum of people with similar position and prestige; includes social stratification. Social class is measured by criteria such as education, occupation, and income.Longitudinal Studies: Studies in which variables relating to an individual or group of individuals are assessed over a period of time.Insurance Coverage: Generally refers to the amount of protection available and the kind of loss which would be paid for under an insurance contract with an insurer. (Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms, 2d ed)Health Communication: The transfer of information from experts in the medical and public health fields to patients and the public. The study and use of communication strategies to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health.United States Public Health Service: A constituent organization of the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES concerned with protecting and improving the health of the nation.Dental Health Services: Services designed to promote, maintain, or restore dental health.International Cooperation: The interaction of persons or groups of persons representing various nations in the pursuit of a common goal or interest.Organizational Objectives: The purposes, missions, and goals of an individual organization or its units, established through administrative processes. It includes an organization's long-range plans and administrative philosophy.Particle Size: Relating to the size of solids.Interinstitutional Relations: The interactions between representatives of institutions, agencies, or organizations.Urban Population: The inhabitants of a city or town, including metropolitan areas and suburban areas.Organizational Case Studies: Descriptions and evaluations of specific health care organizations.Insurance, Health, Reimbursement: Payment by a third-party payer in a sum equal to the amount expended by a health care provider or facility for health services rendered to an insured or program beneficiary. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)Cost-Benefit Analysis: A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. Cost effectiveness compares alternative ways to achieve a specific set of results.Prepaid Health Plans: Contracts between an insurer and a subscriber or a group of subscribers whereby a specified set of health benefits is provided in return for a periodic premium.Residence Characteristics: Elements of residence that characterize a population. They are applicable in determining need for and utilization of health services.Public Policy: A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.Pregnancy Complications: Conditions or pathological processes associated with pregnancy. They can occur during or after pregnancy, and range from minor discomforts to serious diseases that require medical interventions. They include diseases in pregnant females, and pregnancies in females with diseases.Maternal Welfare: Organized efforts by communities or organizations to improve the health and well-being of the mother.Health Transition: Demographic and epidemiologic changes that have occurred in the last five decades in many developing countries and that are characterized by major growth in the number and proportion of middle-aged and elderly persons and in the frequency of the diseases that occur in these age groups. The health transition is the result of efforts to improve maternal and child health via primary care and outreach services and such efforts have been responsible for a decrease in the birth rate; reduced maternal mortality; improved preventive services; reduced infant mortality, and the increased life expectancy that defines the transition. (From Ann Intern Med 1992 Mar 15;116(6):499-504)Obstetric Labor Complications: Medical problems associated with OBSTETRIC LABOR, such as BREECH PRESENTATION; PREMATURE OBSTETRIC LABOR; HEMORRHAGE; or others. These complications can affect the well-being of the mother, the FETUS, or both.Health Planning Councils: Organized groups serving in advisory capacities related to health planning activities.Universal Coverage: Health insurance coverage for all persons in a state or country, rather than for some subset of the population. It may extend to the unemployed as well as to the employed; to aliens as well as to citizens; for pre-existing conditions as well as for current illnesses; for mental as well as for physical conditions.Australia: The smallest continent and an independent country, comprising six states and two territories. Its capital is Canberra.Public Sector: The area of a nation's economy that is tax-supported and under government control.Occupational Health Nursing: The practice of nursing in the work environment.Cooperative Behavior: The interaction of two or more persons or organizations directed toward a common goal which is mutually beneficial. An act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit, i.e., joint action. (From Random House Dictionary Unabridged, 2d ed)Government Agencies: Administrative units of government responsible for policy making and management of governmental activities.Retrospective Studies: Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons.Patient Satisfaction: The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial.History, 20th Century: Time period from 1901 through 2000 of the common era.Education, Public Health Professional: Education and training in PUBLIC HEALTH for the practice of the profession.Financing, Organized: All organized methods of funding.Regression Analysis: Procedures for finding the mathematical function which best describes the relationship between a dependent variable and one or more independent variables. In linear regression (see LINEAR MODELS) the relationship is constrained to be a straight line and LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS is used to determine the best fit. In logistic regression (see LOGISTIC MODELS) the dependent variable is qualitative rather than continuously variable and LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS are used to find the best relationship. In multiple regression, the dependent variable is considered to depend on more than a single independent variable.Pilot Projects: Small-scale tests of methods and procedures to be used on a larger scale if the pilot study demonstrates that these methods and procedures can work.EnglandState Medicine: A system of medical care regulated, controlled and financed by the government, in which the government assumes responsibility for the health needs of the population.Social Support: Support systems that provide assistance and encouragement to individuals with physical or emotional disabilities in order that they may better cope. Informal social support is usually provided by friends, relatives, or peers, while formal assistance is provided by churches, groups, etc.Social Determinants of Health: The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics (http://www.cdc.gov/socialdeterminants/).Treatment Outcome: Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.Managed Care Programs: Health insurance plans intended to reduce unnecessary health care costs through a variety of mechanisms, including: economic incentives for physicians and patients to select less costly forms of care; programs for reviewing the medical necessity of specific services; increased beneficiary cost sharing; controls on inpatient admissions and lengths of stay; the establishment of cost-sharing incentives for outpatient surgery; selective contracting with health care providers; and the intensive management of high-cost health care cases. The programs may be provided in a variety of settings, such as HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS and PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS.Stress, Psychological: Stress wherein emotional factors predominate.Holistic Health: Health as viewed from the perspective that humans and other organisms function as complete, integrated units rather than as aggregates of separate parts.Employment: The state of being engaged in an activity or service for wages or salary.Smoking: Inhaling and exhaling the smoke of burning TOBACCO.Ethnic Groups: A group of people with a common cultural heritage that sets them apart from others in a variety of social relationships.BrazilIndiaFollow-Up Studies: Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease.National Health Insurance, United StatesHealth Facility Administration: Management of the organization of HEALTH FACILITIES.Medical Informatics: The field of information science concerned with the analysis and dissemination of medical data through the application of computers to various aspects of health care and medicine.Obstetric Labor, Premature: Onset of OBSTETRIC LABOR before term (TERM BIRTH) but usually after the FETUS has become viable. In humans, it occurs sometime during the 29th through 38th week of PREGNANCY. TOCOLYSIS inhibits premature labor and can prevent the BIRTH of premature infants (INFANT, PREMATURE).Medically Uninsured: Individuals or groups with no or inadequate health insurance coverage. Those falling into this category usually comprise three primary groups: the medically indigent (MEDICAL INDIGENCY); those whose clinical condition makes them medically uninsurable; and the working uninsured.Consumer Satisfaction: Customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction with a benefit or service received.Social Responsibility: The obligations and accountability assumed in carrying out actions or ideas on behalf of others.Dental Health Surveys: A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to dental or oral health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.Demography: Statistical interpretation and description of a population with reference to distribution, composition, or structure.Financing, Personal: Payment by individuals or their family for health care services which are not covered by a third-party payer, either insurance or medical assistance.Neoplasms: New abnormal growth of tissue. Malignant neoplasms show a greater degree of anaplasia and have the properties of invasion and metastasis, compared to benign neoplasms.Personal Health Services: Health care provided to individuals.Polymers: Compounds formed by the joining of smaller, usually repeating, units linked by covalent bonds. These compounds often form large macromolecules (e.g., BIOPOLYMERS; PLASTICS).Patient Education as Topic: The teaching or training of patients concerning their own health needs.Information Services: Organized services to provide information on any questions an individual might have using databases and other sources. (From Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2d ed)Decision Making, Organizational: The process by which decisions are made in an institution or other organization.Research Design: A plan for collecting and utilizing data so that desired information can be obtained with sufficient precision or so that an hypothesis can be tested properly.
Good health care: patient and professional perspectives. (1/4815)
Many health needs assessment exercises are professionally led, employing complex epidemiological methods. An alternative method that gives valuable information about patient preferences is a forced-choice questionnaire, which this study used in five practices in the West of Scotland. In each practice, patient-centred care was the most highly valued attribute of service provision. (+info)The use of targets to improve the performance of health care providers: a discussion of government policy. (2/4815)
The aim of this discussion paper is to examine the advantages and drawbacks of employing targets, or performance indicators, to improve the performance of those delivering health care services. The paper is based on an examination of two target-setting policies initiated by Government: the 1992 Health of the Nation strategy and the 1990 General Practitioners' Contract. It is argued that the introduction of both the General Practitioners' Contract and the Health of the Nation have indeed been accompanied by improvements in performance, however, there are a number of problems with targets. They tend to focus on those things that are most easily measured, and they may foster complacency on the part of providers who have already achieved upper target limits, and defensiveness on the part of those performing badly. National targets may skew local priorities; they may also be unrealistic and unattainable for particular, less privileged population groups. They may serve to widen inequalities in health, and can exacerbate the 'inverse care law' by encouraging providers to direct their efforts at the more advantaged sections of society, where such efforts are more likely to pay off in terms of overall improvements in the target level achieved. Finally, the achievement of some targets will not necessarily result in better health outcomes. The paper concludes that a target-setting approach to improving the quality of care must be based on the use of appropriate indicators, and must take account of differences between more and less advantaged sections of society. (+info)Rider injury rates and emergency medical services at equestrian events. (3/4815)
BACKGROUND: Horse riding is a hazardous pastime, with a number of studies documenting high rates of injury and death among horse riders in general. This study focuses on the injury experience of cross country event riders, a high risk subset of horse riders. METHOD: Injury data were collected at a series of 35 equestrian events in South Australia from 1990 to 1998. RESULTS: Injury rates were found to be especially high among event riders, with frequent falls, injuries, and even deaths. The highest injury rates were among the riders competing at the highest levels. CONCLUSION: There is a need for skilled emergency medical services at equestrian events. (+info)Patterns of care and survival for adolescents and young adults with acute leukaemia--a population-based study. (4/4815)
We report a population-based study of patterns of care and survival for people with acute leukaemia diagnosed at age 15-29 years during 1984-94 in regions of England and Wales covered by specialist leukaemia registries. There were 879 patients: 417 with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and 462 with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). For ALL, actuarial survival rates were 43% at 5 years after diagnosis and 37% at 10 years. Survival improved significantly between 1984-88 and 1989-94 for those aged 15-19 at diagnosis. Patients entered in national clinical trials and those not entered had similar survival rates. Survival rates were similar at teaching and non-teaching hospitals and at hospitals treating different numbers of study patients per year. For AML, survival rates were 42% at 5 years after diagnosis and 39% at 10 years. Survival improved significantly between 1984-88 and 1989-94. Patients entered in the Medical Research Council AML10 trial had a higher survival rate than those who were in the earlier AML9 trial. Survival did not vary with category of hospital. We conclude that survival has improved for adolescents and young adults with acute leukaemia but that there is at present no evidence that centralized treatment results in a survival benefit for patients in this age group. (+info)Where do people go for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases? (5/4815)
CONTEXT: Major public health resources are devoted to the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) through public STD clinics. However, little is known about where people actually receive treatment for STDs. METHODS: As part of the National Health and Social Life Survey, household interviews were performed from February to September 1992 with 3,432 persons aged 18-59. Weighted population estimates and multinomial response methods were used to describe the prevalence of self-reported STDs and patterns of treatment utilization by persons who ever had a bacterial or viral STD. RESULTS: An estimated two million STDs were self-reported in the previous year, and 22 million 18-59-year-olds self-reported lifetime STDs. Bacterial STDs (gonorrhea, chlamydia, nongonococcal urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease and syphilis) were more common than viral STDs (genital herpes, genital warts, hepatitis and HIV). Genital warts were the most commonly reported STD in the past year, while gonorrhea was the most common ever-reported STD. Almost half of all respondents who had ever had an STD had gone to a private practice for treatment (49%); in comparison, only 5% of respondents had sought treatment at an STD clinic. Respondents with a bacterial STD were seven times more likely to report going to an STD clinic than were respondents with a viral STD--except for chlamydia, which was more likely to be treated at family planning clinics. Men were significantly more likely than women to go to an STD clinic. Young, poor or black respondents were all more likely to use a family planning clinic for STD treatment than older, relatively wealthy or white respondents. Age, sexual history and geographic location did not predict particular types of treatment-seeking. CONCLUSIONS: The health care utilization patterns for STD treatment in the United States are complex. Specific disease diagnosis, gender, race and income status all affect where people will seek treatment. These factors need to be taken into account when STD prevention strategies are being developed. (+info)The just provision of health care: a reply to Elizabeth Telfer. (6/4815)
Dr Hillel Steiner in this reply to Elizabeth Telfer takes each of her arguments for different arrangements of a health service and examines them--'four positions which can be located on a linear ideological spectrum'--and adds a fifth which could have the effect of 'turning the alleged linear spectrum into a circle'. Underlying both Elizabeth Telfer's article and Dr Steiner's reply, the base is inescapably a 'political' one, but cannot be abandoned in favour of purely philosophical concepts. Whatever the attitude of mind of the reader of these two papers to the provision of a health service, the stimulus to more careful assessments of our own National Health Service and its problems can only be good. (+info)The present state and future prospects of occupational health in Bangladesh. (7/4815)
Bangladesh is a relatively young and developing country. At the present time, like in most developing countries, a clear demarcation between occupational health care and general medical care is difficult to be recognized in Bangladesh. Occupational health is a fairly new field, as the country is undergoing industrialization and occupational health activities are operated by several ministries, such as Labour, Health, Industry and Transport. Legal foundations of the occupational health-care system based on British India and Pakistani era, were adopted and amended by the Government of Bangladesh after the liberation of the country in 1971. Most of the Labour laws have been rectified by the Government of Bangladesh according to the ILO Conventions. Reconsideration of the occupational health service system avoiding duplication for the 'occupational health' component in several ministries might be helpful to achieve the successful provision of an occupational health service in the developing Bangladesh. (+info)Canada's "disasters-R-us" medical platoon a hit in Honduras. (8/4815)
The Canadian Forces Disaster Assistance Response Team did not take long to adapt to the medical needs of 90,000 survivors of Hurricane Mitch last November. (+info)
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- Technology Association of Oregon President and CEO Skip Newberry points to early implementations of smart homes to address the social determinants of health and the barriers they faced. (brightcovegallery.com)
System1
- Dr. Richard Milani, chief clinical transformation officer of Ochsner Health System, discusses how digital tools are changing the chronic care landscape. (brightcovegallery.com)
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- The amount of data produced by health organisations has increased by a staggering 878% between 2016 to 2018, according to a 2019 Dell EMC report . (govinsider.asia)
Quality4
- As the researchers highlight, despite containing valuable information on quality and safety, healthcare complaints are currently under-utilised with their potential for improving health services going untapped - often because the complex nature of complaints makes them hard to codify and manage. (lse.ac.uk)
- Consumer-centric healthcare, in turn, refers to a trend of empowering patients to make their own healthcare decisions, akin to how consumers make a choice about buying - evaluate quality and cost, and take a decision. (indiamedtoday.com)
- That said, there is no denying that adding a consumer angle to the healthcare industry helps improve quality in the industry across the board. (indiamedtoday.com)
- Second, related to the first, consumerisation of healthcare will definitely lead to improvement in quality of services provided. (indiamedtoday.com)
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Services2
- A massive backlog of routine and elective healthcare services has built up, as hospitals have hunkered down to care for Covid-19 patients. (govinsider.asia)
- Finally, there are issues related to direct marketing of healthcare services to patients. (indiamedtoday.com)
Innovation2
- We are the world's first online broadcasting network, focused on global innovation and how information and technology are driving change in healthcare. (brightcovegallery.com)
- Brigham Digital Innovation Hub's Santosh Mohan and Dr. Mark Zhang discuss how the team sprang into action to address the growing needs of COVID-19 care and how innovations that once took months to create are now taking just days in some cases. (brightcovegallery.com)
Systems1
- This backlog will take months to clear, and data can help healthcare systems prioritise and cope. (govinsider.asia)
Improve1
- As cutting-edge technology unlocks new opportunities to improve healthcare provision, how can organisations prepare for these shifts? (govinsider.asia)
Economics1
- Healthcare complaints made by patients can provide unique insight on aspects of healthcare delivery not easily evaluated by hospitals, a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found. (lse.ac.uk)
Patients3
- Patients were also uniquely placed to report cases where there was an omission of care such as neglect of patient hygiene. (lse.ac.uk)
- Not only is this dangerous since it leads to price-undercutting between healthcare firms, but it also leads to confusion in the patients' mind. (indiamedtoday.com)
- First, and maybe most importantly, it drives transparency - all said and done, with price and information no longer being "hidden" and patients having access to both at the click of a button, healthcare providers are forced to make decisions that are optimized for each individual patient. (indiamedtoday.com)
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- Dr Tom Reader said:"Healthcare complaints provide hospitals with valuable and unique information for improving healthcare delivery, and policymakers have a responsibility to ensure patient experiences are analysed and learnt from. (lse.ac.uk)
- This could help physicians identify the risk factors early and provide more preventative care. (govinsider.asia)
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- A greater amount of medical data allows AI and machine learning to be more accurately trained to forecast health conditions. (govinsider.asia)
Providers1
- Cloudera's Enterprise Data Cloud works on-premise, in the cloud, as a hybrid of both, or across multiple clouds, allowing healthcare providers to store and process both structured and unstructured data types onto a single cohesive platform. (govinsider.asia)
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- Health Quest is currently participating in value-based care programs offered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). (ibm.com)
- Tuesday's announcement also comes several days after another insurer, UnitedHealth Group Inc., said it would spend nearly $5 billion deal to buy hundreds of clinics from DaVita Inc. UnitedHealth's Optum segment runs more than 1,100 primary, urgent and surgery care centers. (insurancenewsnet.com)
- Located at the heart of one of the nation's most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul benefit from extensive partnerships with world-renowned health centers, international corporations, government agencies, and arts, nonprofit, and public service organizations. (coursera.org)
- Janini uses a combination of social marketing and franchising techniques to provide value to its partners and ensure the sustainability of its networks, which currently consist of 260 franchised medical clinics, 39,000 rural health centers and 40,000 shops. (nextbillion.net)
- AMPATH (Academic Model for Providing Access to Healthcare) is a global consortium of academic health centers working with Kenya's Ministry of Health to deliver health services and provide research. (thoughtworks.com)
- Moi University, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and a consortium of North American academic health centers led by Indiana University forms AMPATH. (thoughtworks.com)
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is funding the expansion of community health centers to increase access to primary care, but this approach will not ensure effective access to subspecialty services. (rwjf.org)
- To address this issue, the researchers interviewed directors of 20 community health centers. (rwjf.org)
- The analysis of their responses led them to identify six unique models of how community health centers access subspecialty care, which they called Tin Cup, Hospital Partnership, Buy Your Own Subspecialists, Telehealth, Teaching Community, and Integrated System. (rwjf.org)
- Because Medicaid accountable care organizations encourage integrated delivery of care, they offer a promising policy solution to improve the integration of community health centers into "medical neighborhoods. (rwjf.org)
- Both the usual care and the GRACE groups were comprised of lower risk for hospitalization and higher risk for hospitalization individuals, were predominately female (77 percent) and African-American and were seen at six community-based health centers. (eurekalert.org)
- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is on a constant mission to transform the delivery of healthcare and how they reimburse healthcare providers. (aapc.com)
- Improving accessibility of the African population to diabetes care seems to be a big challenge in most countries where the number of care centers and medical staff is reduced. (hindawi.com)
- At Banner Health's hospitals, Banner Health Clinics and Banner Health Centers, we offer complete maternity services - routine and specialized care, education, and support. (bannerhealth.com)
- Multidisciplinary healthcare teams at two community health centers in Ottawa, Ontario, participated in the study. (chiro.org)
- Community health centers (CHCs) currently care for clients by using multidisciplinary healthcare teams. (chiro.org)
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- Our Asia-Pacific Front Line of Healthcare Report 2020 finds that healthcare systems across the region need to undergo transformational change-and that the timing couldn't be better. (bain.com)
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- Another powerful element of the IBM Watson Care Manager solution is that we will be able to see what protocols are needed to improve patient care. (ibm.com)
World Health Organ5
- According to a World Health Organization (WHO) global health report, India's per capita health spending is only about 20% of China's. (bain.com)
- Arnaudova A (‎ World Health Organization. (who.int)
- European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies (‎ World Health Organization. (who.int)
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- Regional Office for Europe (‎ World Health Organization. (who.int)
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- Hear how other leading organizations are balancing the shift from volume to value-based care by reviewing the IBM Watson Health case study library here . (ibm.com)
- While shared-savings bonuses under accountable care organizations (ACOs) may provide incentives for cost-saving innovations, the authors explain, it is unclear if ACOs will sidestep cost-ineffective technologies, "particularly if the latest shiny innovation increases market share. (apta.org)
- Establish a point of contact within the AASLD for partnerships with other organizations on health services topics of mutual interest. (aasld.org)
- These two acquisitions are really such great fits, both being doctor-driven organizations with several features that perfectly complement and fine-tune the suite of services Medici now offers,' said Clinton Phillips , Medici founder and CEO, who in November was honored as a national finalist in Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year competition in the healthcare technology category. (prnewswire.com)
- The project team identified eight elements or themes common to many of the 24 models and said these eight characteristics 'help describe how they [the models] have changed care delivery, as well as inform future efforts by other organizations. (rwjf.org)
- However, virtual health assistants and chatbots aim to improve the conversation between healthcare provides, payers and patients and put more information in the hands of the end users, to help healthcare organizations improve processes and reduce costs. (healthcareitnews.com)
- Virtual health assistants can help healthcare organizations improve processes and put more information in the hands of their users," explained Hadas Bitran, group manager for Microsoft Healthcare Israel. (healthcareitnews.com)
- Healthcare organizations acknowledge that effective care coordination, leading to personalized care management, is critical for ensuring quantifiable improvement in delivery. (hcltech.com)
- With the industry embracing value-based reimbursements, organizations must solve the healthcare intelligence puzzle to generate actionable insights based on past data (clinical/non-clinical). (hcltech.com)
- From data acquisition and aggregation to analytics and personalized care management, we are the growth partner of choice for healthcare organizations. (hcltech.com)
- Netsmart clients include public and private sector mental health and addiction services organizations, social services and child and family health agencies, managed care organizations and local health departments. (businesswire.com)
- The CONNECTIONS Executive Symposium, a "conference within a conference" for CEOs, CIOs, CFOs, chief medical officers and others with management responsibilities for their organizations, includes sessions such as integrating with hospitals for coordinated care, harnessing and using big data, legislative and public policy issues and how disruptive innovation is transforming healthcare. (businesswire.com)
- More than 23,000 client organizations, including 450,000 care providers and more than 40 state systems use Netsmart solutions to help improve the quality of life for more than 25 million people each day. (businesswire.com)
- Netsmart clients include mental health and addiction services agencies, health homes, psychiatric hospitals, private and group mental health practices, public health departments, social services and child and family health agencies, managed care organizations, and vital records offices. (businesswire.com)
- Netsmart is pleased to support the EveryDay Matters Foundation, which was established for behavioral and public health organizations to learn from each other and share their causes and stories. (businesswire.com)
- We believe that other health care providers and organizations may wish to adopt aspects of this program, as clinicians treating men with prostate cancer aim to provide the highest quality, affordable care. (eurekalert.org)
- These first-to-market blueprints represent Lumeon's evolution from being a technology vendor, to becoming a partner for healthcare organizations looking to optimize care delivery," said Robbie Hughes, Lumeon founder and CEO. (businesswire.com)
- Lumeon provides Care Pathway Management (CPM) solutions for healthcare organizations. (businesswire.com)
- Because nurses are in such pivotal roles and at the forefront of patient encounters, they can push change forward by using technology to drive patient safety protocols, a key driver in many healthcare organizations. (healthdatamanagement.com)
- With advancements in technology, reimbursement models, focus on quality and the movement of connected care, health systems across the United States are offering accountable care organizations for employer benefit solutions. (propertycasualty360.com)
- New models, like patient-centered medical homes and accountable care organizations, are altering the practice context. (ajmc.com)
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- Those firms also will acquire the rest of Louisville, Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare Inc., which runs long-term acute care and inpatient rehabilitation hospitals. (insurancenewsnet.com)
- Over many years, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) developed a systematic approach to guide investigation and public health response to case reports of acute HBV or HCV infection in patients whose infection was potentially associated with health-care delivery. (cdc.gov)
- Outbreaks often are identified through the investigation of a single case report of acute HBV or HCV infection in which infection is suspected to be associated with health-care delivery (e.g. (cdc.gov)
- It is expected that more and more nursing jobs will become available out in the community, and less will be available in acute care hospitals. (brainmass.com)
- As the demand for chronic care management outpaces that for acute care services, expenditures will grow at double the rate of the rest of the world. (bain.com)
- This year's CONNECTIONS conference features two keynotes and 12 General Conference tracks with 140 sessions on a wide range of clinical and business topics, including the integration of behavioral health and acute care, clinical informatics, ICD-10 conversion, revenue cycle management, medication management, and challenges in Asperger's and autism assessment and treatment. (businesswire.com)
- Cancer care spans prevention and screening, diagnosis and acute treat-ment, and long-term follow-up and end-of life care. (ajmc.com)
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- Kowsilliya Ramnaresh shared some steps her organization has taken to speed its transition to value-based care. (ibm.com)
- The doctor-driven Chiron organization will be a valuable addition to Medici, a company which provides a global HIPAA-compliant mobile app with secure text, voice and video messaging for doctors to provide convenient virtual healthcare to patients. (prnewswire.com)
- Filling the need for trusted information on national health issues, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California. (kff.org)
- However, today s medical devices connect to a variety of healthcare systems, networks, and other tools within a healthcare delivery organization (HDO). (nist.gov)
- Can we survive if we choose not to become an accountable care organization (ACO)? (thehealthcareblog.com)
- The purpose was to bring attention to-and promote replication of-models of care that emphasize interdisciplinary collaboration and offer promise for workforce organization in the rapidly changing health care environment. (rwjf.org)
- This comprehensive, regional care management program has proven to deliver reliable improvement in the way a health care organization approaches prostate cancer care," said Dr. Loo. (eurekalert.org)
- And they are expected to fill many roles during their shifts, interacting with patients, clinicians and other care providers within their organization. (healthdatamanagement.com)
- Khin-Kyemon Aung is a fellow at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation where she will be helping design and implement new accountable care organization models in the Seamless Care Models Group . (elsevier.com)
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- Combined with custom-configured logistics solutions, we empower hospitals, care providers, specialist pharmacies, diagnostic labs, manufacturers and CROs to improve service delivery, gain efficiencies and reduce costs. (ups.com)
- Care providers, hospitals, labs and specialist pharmacies that need greater visibility and direct control over deliveries to improve their patients' experience. (ups.com)
- With hospitals under strain, health workers have criticised the government's advice that PPE worn while treating patients infected with coronavirus could be re-used, as supplies run low across the country. (reuters.com)
- Britain is at or near the peak of a health crisis in which more than 15,000 people have died in hospitals alone - the fifth highest national death toll of a pandemic linked to at least 150,000 deaths worldwide. (reuters.com)
- Healthcare complaints made by patients can provide unique insight on aspects of healthcare delivery not easily evaluated by hospitals, a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found. (lse.ac.uk)
- Dr Tom Reader said:"Healthcare complaints provide hospitals with valuable and unique information for improving healthcare delivery, and policymakers have a responsibility to ensure patient experiences are analysed and learnt from. (lse.ac.uk)
- QIO patient safety initiatives in hospitals and nursing homes are driving changes to reduce hospital-acquired infections such as central-line associated bloodstream infections and health care-associated conditions such as pressure ulcers. (ahqa.org)
- Our rapidly evolving program in Western Kenya is committed to fully integrated and comprehensive health care services extending from villages to hospitals. (thoughtworks.com)
- To achieve this, stakeholders must empower consumers to manage their care, transition nonemergency care out of hospitals, increase consumer access to digital tools and platforms, and support physicians with new technologies. (bain.com)
- The panel featured state Medicaid Director Jason Helgerson, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, state Sen. Kemp Hannon, Healthcare Association of New York State President Dennis Whalen, Marlene Zurack, the chief financial officer of New York City's Health and Hospitals Corporation, and Jill Furillo, executive director of the New York State Nurses Association. (cityandstateny.com)
- The Health Department is running out of vehicles to keep struggling hospitals and other providers open. (cityandstateny.com)
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- Having IBM Watson Health affords us a clear path of best practices so that our providers do not have to start from scratch every time. (ibm.com)
- Patient sharing arrangements are important to effective care coordination but it is not known how these relationships are related to the organizational boundaries of physicians' practices. (nihcm.org)
- Currently catering to over 1,000 physician practices, Chiron Health is noted for its Reimbursement Rules Engine, which provides doctors with accurate estimates on how much they will be paid for consults across 300 different healthcare plans. (prnewswire.com)
- Corporate programs for sustainable and ethical sourcing practices, however, have fallen far short of solving the underlying causes of extreme poverty, extensive use of child labor, and threats to the environment and human health. (hbs.edu)
- Can we finance and service a hard turn into integrated healthcare by acquiring physician and specialty practices? (thehealthcareblog.com)
- Consequently, it takes a historical look at how certain prehistoric constructs have provided the scientific basis for modern medical practices, and argues further that learning from the past, and agreeing to work together in the present, would without doubt initiate a breakthrough in healthcare delivery in the Nigerian future. (springer.com)
- Public health investigations of cases of HBV and HCV infection suspected to be associated with health-care delivery play an essential role in identifying unsafe practices and controlling health-care-associated viral hepatitis transmission. (cdc.gov)
- It's unfortunate that it took a health-care disaster like COVID for it to become more acceptable, but most of us are seeing that it's actually a very effective way to interact with people and we can do a majority of our practices in that way. (mlive.com)
- Bitran will share insights on virtual health assistants in her HIMSS20 session, "Virtual Health Assistants: Best Practices and Real Use Cases. (healthcareitnews.com)
- We use the same best practices for maternity care, labor and delivery at all of our locations. (bannerhealth.com)
- As a result of health reform, the industry has experienced significant consolidation of health systems and medical practices, with an added emphasis on patients as consumers of healthcare, and providers continue to evolve. (propertycasualty360.com)
- One type of integration that has been examined previously is that of nurse practitioners into primary care practices. (chiro.org)
- Other benefits can include building the right foundation to participate in value-based care (VBC) models, or improve population health, share best practices, and engage in advocacy efforts. (modernhealthcare.com)
Search2
- Search of media reports on apparent strategic failures in the health care or biotechnology industries (e.g. divestment of a business, layoff of a large proportion of the workforce, very large losses over several years). (brainmass.com)
- The following databases were used to search for the sources for this project and identify current research on telemedicine: Citations and Abstracts for Literature of Nursing and Allied Health (CINHAL) plus full text, Cochrane Library, EBSCO host, and OVID. (ajmc.com)
Accountable1
- I will also discuss emerging paradigms like the Triple and Quadruple Aims and Accountable Care, which are rapidly spreading across the US healthcare industry. (coursera.org)
Access18
- How can nurse practitioners and physician assistants assist neurologists in providing access to care for individuals with MS? (nationalmssociety.org)
- This webinar explored approaches to increase access to inclusive care to close these gaps. (nihcm.org)
- Austin -based Chiron Health is a platform on which doctors can provide convenient healthcare access to their remote patients through secure video visits. (prnewswire.com)
- Potential threats include unauthorized access to patient health information, changes to prescribed drug doses, and interference with a pump s function. (nist.gov)
- We can envision the use of remote health care sensors and mobile remote presence devices in a wide range of scenarios - for instance, the care of the elderly, mental health sessions and the delivery of health care at home - in which access to medical expertise in real time would be just a computer click away. (leaderpost.com)
- Horizontal Inequity in Access to Health Care in Four South American Cities ," Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) 1509, Department of Economics - dECON. (repec.org)
- Horizontal inequity in access to health care in four South American cities ," Working Papers 131, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality. (repec.org)
- Care management supports the achievement of optimal health, access to care, and appropriate utilization of resources, balanced with the patient's right to self-determination. (centracare.com)
- A large population and low overall healthcare and public spending have led to skewed access to healthcare across the country. (bain.com)
- On his part, Project Director, Arctic Infrastructure, Mr. Lookman Oshodi said the Project was to improve access to healthcare delivery in Makoko and Iwaya waterfront. (vanguardngr.com)
- A brief review of current data regarding the impact of telepractice upon access and satisfaction with clinical care is provided. (igi-global.com)
- In rural areas of resource-poor countries, basic access to health workers, medicines, and supplies is often stalled by the poor condition of health transportation. (stanford.edu)
- The increasing use of apps provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs is meant to improve access to patient health and benefits information in convenient digital platforms. (healthdatamanagement.com)
- Clinicians are able to handle more patients than traditional care models would typically allow, and with increased access and a more connected level of care, physicians and patients can work together to achieve their therapeutic goals, particularly in the home and hospice care environments. (ajmc.com)
- They want access to all their patient information spread across all points of care via a secure web-portal experience. (healthcareitnews.com)
- Health care in Sweden is a public sector responsibility and equity in access to care is quite important. (tudelft.nl)
- If we're going to survive, we've got to provide "open access": people can get care when and how they want it, and primary care can refer people to you and know that service is going to be available. (behavioral.net)
- Equitable access: Health care should be free of financial barriers, such as payment at the point of service for medically necessary treatment. (wikipedia.org)
Clinicians7
- With valid outcome and cost information, managers and clinicians can standardize clinical and administrative processes, eliminate non-value added and redundant steps, improve resource utilization, and redesign care so that appropriate medical resources perform each process step. (hbs.edu)
- We are also focused on bringing back the joy of medicine for physicians and clinicians, so they can focus on what matters most: caring for their patients. (optum.com)
- The large Solutionarium and Innovations area of the conference features real-life provider workflow scenarios including front desk, outpatient, inpatient settings, as well as hands-on demonstrations of a variety of Netsmart solutions for coordinated care and mobile apps for use by clinicians and case workers in the field. (businesswire.com)
- The AAP recognizes the valuable contributions of nonphysician clinicians, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants, in delivering optimal pediatric care. (aappublications.org)
- However, the expansion of the scope of practice of nonphysician pediatric clinicians raises critical public policy and child health advocacy concerns. (aappublications.org)
- However, none of these firms can plug directly into an electronic health record in a way that offers clinicians just in time decision support. (thehealthcareblog.com)
- The lack of elec-tronic health record interoperability makes it difficult to ensure accurate and timely communication among clinicians and be-tween clinicians and patients. (ajmc.com)
20163
- According to the 2016 HealthLeaders Media Value-Based Readiness Survey , 94 percent of providers say they are currently on a path toward some form of value-based care. (ibm.com)
- Caregivers' Reactions and Experience (CARE) is a supplemental substudy of the Imaging Dementia-Evidence for Amyloid Scanning (IDEAS) Study, which began recruiting over 18,000 Medicare beneficiaries in March 2016. (westat.com)
- India's per capita public and private healthcare spending in 2016 was $87, compared with $10,203 in the US and $471 in China. (bain.com)
Collaboration3
- The Public Health / Health Care Delivery SIG was formed to improve the collaboration of scientists and health care professionals from a range of disciplines who share common specialized interests. (aasld.org)
- The practice of professional nursing includes independent nursing functions, interdependent functions and delegated medical functions which may be performed in collaboration with other health team members or may be delegated by the professional nurse to other nursing personnel. (centracare.com)
- A quantitative questionnaire assessed providers' opinions, experiences with collaboration, and perceptions of chiropractic care. (chiro.org)
Innovation5
- Specific clinical examples of productivity improvement and the many uses of such research - for private industry as well as public policy - illustrate why productivity research could be considered the 'genome' of healthcare delivery innovation. (nih.gov)
- Innovation can help deliver effective, coordinated care at a lower cost. (optum.com)
- Healthcare has trailed most sectors in terms of innovation, but we are beginning to see signs that suggest change is on its way. (eventbrite.com)
- Tracy, who has presented at the Lab before, will provide the unique perspective of an expert in innovation outside of healthcare. (eventbrite.com)
- Having grown Cumberland Consulting Group into a recognized national healthcare project management consulting firm, Dave turned his attention to Jumpstart Foundry, a seed stage healthcare innovation platform. (eventbrite.com)
Reform6
- The new survey sheds light on Americans' experiences with issues more typically discussed by health policy experts -- including electronic medical records, coordination of care and comparative effectiveness -- all of which have become serious components of reform plans and some of which have been signed into law this year. (kff.org)
- Healthcare reform is calling out for ways to improve health and lower costs. (eurekalert.org)
- Healthcare Delivery Reform and New Technologies: Organizational Initiatives. (igi-global.com)
- In M. Guah (Ed.), Healthcare Delivery Reform and New Technologies: Organizational Initiatives (pp. 226-240). (igi-global.com)
- All provided information has extensive bibliographies and is continually updated.With the 2008 election fast approaching, HCDP has become an increasingly essential resource for anyone concerned with healthcare reform as a political issue. (littlesis.org)
- Health reform is affecting and changing healthcare delivery models, however, there is a large gap between the healthcare related to Workers' Compensation and the group health approach. (propertycasualty360.com)
Approaches2
- Find curated resources about promising approaches to improving care for people with complex needs. (commonwealthfund.org)
- Components of this approach might be useful to other health departments that are developing their own approaches to this type of investigation. (cdc.gov)
Diabetes2
- In just six years, social enterprise ClÃnicas del Azúcar has grown into the largest private provider of specialized diabetes care in Mexico, but faces an almost constant challenge to balance its financial and social performance. (nextbillion.net)
- Lumeon has developed a starter library of 15 ready-made pathway blueprints in high priority areas, including diabetes screening, pre-surgical optimization, post-discharge heart failure and post-discharge comprehensive care for joint replacement (CJR). (businesswire.com)
Culturally competent health1
- 2014). The provision of culturally competent health care . (springer.com)
Populations7
- Advances in telecommunications, robotics, medical sensor technology and artificial intelligence (AI) have opened the door for solutions that may help address health care delivery to underserviced rural and remote populations. (leaderpost.com)
- In Saskatchewan, we have established a remote medicine program that focuses on the care of the most vulnerable populations such as acutely ill children, pregnant women and the elderly. (leaderpost.com)
- Wearable remote presence devices such as Google Glass technology are the next step in remote presence health care for underserviced populations. (leaderpost.com)
- The government has recognised the system's gaps and is introducing several healthcare schemes to benefit the country's underprivileged populations. (bain.com)
- Telehealth is viewed as the removal of time and distance barriers in the provision of health care and patient education to underserved populations. (igi-global.com)
- Future research opportunities include testing PN interventions in the post-treatment settings and among gynecological cancer patient populations, age--related barriers to effective PN, and collaborative efforts between community health workers and patient navigators as care goes across segments of the cancer control continuum. (frontiersin.org)
- As PN programs continue to develop and become a standard of care, further research will be required to determine the effectiveness of cancer PN across the cancer care continuum, and in different patient populations. (frontiersin.org)
Processes5
- UPS is here to help you deliver on these growing demands with healthcare-optimised products and processes, innovative technology tools and flexible delivery options. (ups.com)
- The virtual assistant needs to be integrated to the organization's assets and extended to support its processes and needs, while maintaining top privacy, security and compliance standards to allow it to handle healthcare use cases and data," Bitran noted. (healthcareitnews.com)
- Virtual health assistants could also help with finding information about healthcare conditions, medications and procedures, and improving administrative processes like proactive follow-up, sending reminders and scheduling. (healthcareitnews.com)
- Lumeon announced the launch of its care pathway blueprints, offering easy-to-deploy workflow templates to make healthcare processes more efficient. (businesswire.com)
- In 2012, the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) announced that health-care facilities seeking CoC-accreditation must have PN processes in place starting January 1, 2015. (frontiersin.org)
Disparities2
- Integrated Case Management: Does It Reduce Health Service Disparities Across African American and White Medicaid Beneficiaries? (nihcm.org)
- LGBTQ+ individuals face health disparities linked to stigma and discrimination. (nihcm.org)
Improvements1
- by getting up and running quickly with care pathway management, they can start to generate immediate care delivery process improvements - leading to ROI in weeks instead of years. (businesswire.com)
Costs12
- Can Value-Based Payment Improve Health Care and Lower Costs? (commonwealthfund.org)
- In the United States, two groups experience problems with their health care more intensely and more frequently than any other: people with high health care needs and high costs, and people with low income. (commonwealthfund.org)
- For healthcare companies, transportation charges can account for up to 10 percent of supply-related costs. (ups.com)
- Rely on our healthcare logistics experts to help you reduce costs by working with a variety of healthcare companies, hospital suppliers, and medical equipment producers. (ups.com)
- After summarizing Porter's outcome taxonomy (Porter 2010), we illustrate how to use process mapping and time-driven activity-based costing to measure the costs of treating patients over a complete cycle of care for a specific medical condition. (hbs.edu)
- Although private sector strategies may improve efficiencies and lower costs, some fear that turning healthcare entirely into a consumer service will marginalize the poor even further. (nextbillion.net)
- In recent attempts to curb health care costs, efforts to cut expensive tests, hospital stays, and referrals to specialists have been utilized. (brainmass.com)
- This includes making the consumer more aware of, and more responsible for the payment of, healthcare costs. (brainmass.com)
- But it also requires constant evolution to help constrain rising health care costs and improve value for purchasers of health care, from federal and state governments to individual consumers. (ahqa.org)
- Such a move would help keep spiraling health insurance costs under control. (netquote.com)
- As a result of better care and employee satisfaction, this has also helped to reduce litigation costs. (propertycasualty360.com)
- DATA SOURCE: The authors used secondary data from the California State Inpatient Database obtained from the Healthcare Costs and Utilization Project. (rand.org)
Coverage3
- Despite Medicaid coverage of dental care, only a little more than 1/3 of children. (westat.com)
- What are the key challenges facing Myanmar in its progress towards achieving universal health coverage? (who.int)
- The government's latest announcement of INR 5 lakh insurance coverage for poor families under the National Health Protection Scheme is notable in this regard. (bain.com)
Mental9
- Health is defined as "a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being. (rand.org)
- The percentage of people receiving disability benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) for a mental health impairment is increasing. (westat.com)
- It is no secret that mental health conditions are prevalent, and recent years have seen an increase in the dialogue on their causes and consequences. (kevinmd.com)
- SAMHSA estimated that 58 percent of adults have a medical condition and that 25 percent of adults have a mental health condition. (kevinmd.com)
- At least as important is the rate of comorbidity that they estimate: 29 percent of those with medical conditions have mental health conditions, and 68 percent of those with mental health conditions have medical conditions. (kevinmd.com)
- 2014). Music therapy in mental health- evidence based practice support . (springer.com)
- Mental health is getting newfound respect. (mlive.com)
- This is the major focus of our research programme in mental health, but also extends to other areas. (sgul.ac.uk)
- Use of peer support workers is a common theme linking several collaborative studies with local Mental Health NHS Trusts. (sgul.ac.uk)
Efficiencies1
- Cost reduction can be achieved by increasing efficiencies in the delivery of care and minimizing care outside of locally developed appropriate use guidelines. (hbs.edu)
Advances3
- The ch- lenges posed by health care delivery in the 21st century are immense, ranging from redefining life and health given the advances in genetic technology, global environmental changes, and multinational simultaneous increases in poverty and longevity, to economic decisions rega- ing technology and service levels that fewer and fewer can afford. (springer.com)
- There have always been advances in healthcare technology. (eventbrite.com)
- Realizing the full public health impact of these advances will re-quire their routine implementation in healthcare delivery. (ajmc.com)
Deliver4
- If we're able to allow them to stay home in their community and deliver their care remotely, that's a great thing for for that patient. (mlive.com)
- Clinical and technical pathway experts map out key tasks and milestones that must be achieved to deliver the right care to the right patient at the right time. (businesswire.com)
- Its industry leading platform combines evidence-based pathways with deep operational expertise to deliver better care at lower cost. (businesswire.com)
- The pediatrician is the clinician most extensively educated in pediatric health care and has the depth and breadth of knowledge, skills, and experience to deliver optimal care to children. (aappublications.org)
Pediatric health1
- We depend upon the generosity of people like you to help us improve pediatric health and enhance the patient care experience. (childrensmn.org)
Clinics1
- AMPATH addresses the health needs of a population of 3.5 million people in western Kenya, treating HIV infected patients at more than 500 clinics in urban and rural sites. (thoughtworks.com)
Diagnosis4
- Looking for more information about a diagnosis, treatment, or general health and wellness topics? (childrensmn.org)
- should be provided for all health staff to increase adherence to the strategies for improve prevention, diagnosis and management of OM. (health.gov.au)
- It is focused on screening and prevention, shared decision making for treatment following diagnosis and care improvement for men with localized and advanced disease. (eurekalert.org)
- The pediatrician, here defined to include not only pediatric generalists but all pediatric medical subspecialists, all surgical specialists, and internal medicine/pediatric physicians, is uniquely qualified to manage, coordinate, and supervise the entire spectrum of pediatric care, from diagnosis through all stages of treatment, in all practice settings. (aappublications.org)
21st century1
- Telepractice: A 21st Century Model of Health Care Delivery. (igi-global.com)
Patient's care1
- Implementing a web-based EHR will help to integrate a patient's care across the continuum. (healthdatamanagement.com)
Workers6
- LONDON/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A delivery of protective equipment for British health workers that was due on Sunday from Turkey has been delayed, a British government official said, as medics on the frontline of the coronavirus outbreak increasingly report shortages of gear. (reuters.com)
- Additional community-based ear workers may be required to sustain hearing health education programs. (health.gov.au)
- Training is required for staff (including all health workers, nurses and GPs) in the following diagnostic instruments. (health.gov.au)
- A pure-tone audiometer enables trained staff (ear health workers, Aboriginal Health Workers and remote nurses) to perform hearing tests. (health.gov.au)
- The training will take place at Yaba College of Health Technology, where they are going to be trained as CBA in the process, they will have confidence in themselves interact with Community Health Extension Workers and be under the supervision of Community Health Officers. (vanguardngr.com)
- Community Health Workers: Role. (hhs.gov)
Medicaid1
- Most of the panel's discussion centered on the $8 billion Medicaid waiver and the difference it could make for healthcare statewide. (cityandstateny.com)
Inefficiencies1
- In healthcare, delays, errors and inefficiencies can jeopardise care and strain tight resources. (ups.com)
Community Health Centres1
- A tympanometer or a wall mounted pneumatic otoscope is essential equipment for all Community Health Centres. (health.gov.au)
Content1
- Especially in healthcare, virtual assistants need to constantly update the content they rely on, and need to understand when they don't understand or can't help," Bitran said. (healthcareitnews.com)
Main2
- The main goal is to equip health care organisations with useful insights and instruments to help them perform well in an increasingly complicated environment. (eur.nl)
- The first post in the series described the background and main themes of the Health 2.0 and Ix movements. (thehealthcareblog.com)
Context1
- The apparent benefits of integrating CHWs into health care teams seem to depend on context. (hhs.gov)
Coordination4
- However, effective care coordination is a challenge when healthcare intelligence gathering is impaired by isolated and siloed data across the enterprise. (hcltech.com)
- The coordination of care model describes the integration of patient- and family-centered care within a collaborative multidisciplinary team environment. (centracare.com)
- Care is provided based on the identification and prioritization of patient needs, complexity, referrals, and level of coordination of care needed. (centracare.com)
- The outcome of coordination of care is a patient with healthy balance of mind, body, and spirit. (centracare.com)
Program10
- In addition, the Society has opened up this program to accept investigator-initiated health policy studies in MS on any pertinent topic. (nationalmssociety.org)
- In this blog-post, Ozge shares information about the AMPATH project in the Healthcare Space and how the HSP program supports AMPATH. (thoughtworks.com)
- Kaiser Permanente Southern California developed the prostate cancer care program in 2003. (eurekalert.org)
- The new program offered improved drug management and patient follow-up care, including standardized osteoporosis screening. (eurekalert.org)
- The Health Care Delivery Policy (HCDP) Program provides a forum for the health care industry's leading institutions and analysts to collaboratively. (littlesis.org)
- The Health Care Delivery Policy (HCDP) Program provides a forum for the health care industry's leading institutions and analysts to collaboratively assess strategic challenges and synthesize strategic care in the largest industrial category in the American economy, accounting for 15% of the Gross Domestic Product. (littlesis.org)
- Sweden has a national program in health care technology assessment (TA), and TA is increasingly visible to policy makers and physicians. (tudelft.nl)
- On the national front today, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has a total worker health program that considers the total person and the factors that affect the individual's health. (propertycasualty360.com)
- Not only can instructors program any number of labor and delivery complications like a postpartum hemorrhage, eclampsia or seizure, they can also program reactions to the care provided. (stkate.edu)
- The Intermountain Healthcare Delivery Institute holds the Advanced Training Program (ATP) and mini-Advanced Training Program (miniATP) twice each year - winter (January - April) and Fall (August - November) at the Intermountain Healthcare Transformation Center in Murray, Utah. (unc.edu)
Behavioral health1
- The notion of treatment that goes on forever is over," says Linda Rosenberg, CEO of the National Council for Behavioral Health. (behavioral.net)
Prevention1
- Introduction: Not with standing care for chronically ill patients requires a shift towards care that is well coordinated and focused on prevention and self-care, the concept of integrated care lacks specificity and clarity. (tudelft.nl)
Provision4
- We strategically and proactively plan for the provision of nursing care by evaluating our patient care delivery models. (centracare.com)
- I N recognition of the important role that they play in the provision of healthcare, especially at the grassroots, Traditional Birth Attendants, TBAs, have been recognised as indispensable to healthcare delivery in the country. (vanguardngr.com)
- Addressed is a technology model, which demonstrates the capability of reducing time and distance barriers in the provision of health care and education through telehealth technology. (igi-global.com)
- The provision of optimal pediatric care depends on a team-based approach to health care that is ideally led by a pediatrician. (aappublications.org)