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Wright Byrne, Westley. "Melding Fields of Care." Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine 155, no. 6 (June 1, 2001): 739. http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.155.6.739.
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Huq, Jo-Louise, and Jaana Woiceshyn. "Changing Health Care Fields: When, Who, and How." Academy of Management Proceedings 2017, no. 1 (August 2017): 12334. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2017.12334abstract.
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Wolcott, Harry F. "Health Care and Other Fields: A Kwakiutil Quandary ?" General Anthropology 10, no. 2 (April 14, 2009): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-3466.2004.tb00053.x.
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Bartkiewicz, T., W. Bautsch, A. Gerlach, M. Goldapp, R. Haux, U. Heller, H. P. Kierdorf, et al. "A Regional Health Care Network: eHealth.Braunschweig." Methods of Information in Medicine 51, no. 03 (2012): 199–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/me11-02-0010.
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SummaryBackground: Health care network eHealth.Braunschweig has been started in the South-East region of Lower Saxony in Germany in 2009. It composes major health care players, participants from research institutions and important local industry partners.Objectives: The objective of this paper is firstly to describe the relevant regional characteristics and distinctions of the eHealth.Braunschweig health care network and to inform about the goals and structure of eHealth.Braunschweig; secondly to picture and discuss the main concepts and domain fields which are addressed in the health care network; and finally to discuss the architectural challenges of eHealth.Braunschweig regarding the addressed domain fields and defined requirements.Methods: Based on respective literature and former conducted projects we discuss the project structure and goals of eHealth.Braunschweig, depict major domain fields and requirements gained in workshops with participants and discuss the architectural challenges as well as the architectural approach of eHealth.Braunschweig network.Results: The regional healthcare network eHealth.Braunschweig has been established in April 2009. Since then the network has grown constantly and a sufficient progress in network activities has been achieved. The main domain fields have been specified in different workshops with network participants and an architectural realization approach for the transinstitutional information system architecture in the healthcare network has been developed. However, the effects on quality of information processing and quality of patient care have not been proved yet. Systematic evaluation studies have to be done in future in order to investigate the impact of information and communication technology on the quality of information processing and the quality of patient care.Conclusions: In general, the aspects described in this paper are expected to contribute to a systematic approach for the establishment of regional health care networks with lasting and sustainable effects on patient-centered health care in a regional context.
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Gamm, Larry D. "Health Care Markets as Interorganizational Fields: A Conceptual Perspective." Health Services Management Research 5, no. 1 (March 1992): 44–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/095148489200500105.
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This paper examines the interorganizational (IO) field approach to the study of local health care markets. Art IO field conceptualization focuses attention on organizational behavior and interorganizational relations among providers and purchasers and other health care organizations relevant to the field. This perspective is suitable for guiding evaluations of the multiple effects of pro-competition or regulative interventions on health care markets.
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Bansal, Tanushka. "Smart Health Care." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 5 (May 31, 2022): 3139–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.42925.
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Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has been widely used in many sectors like Agriculture and Farming, Autonomous Flying, Security and Surveillance, Clinical Medicine etc, and one such important sector is healthcare where there is a tremendous increase in innovations in the fields of AI.Medical facilities need to be really advanced so that better decisions can be made for patient diagnosis and treatment options. Machine learning in healthcare helps humans to process huge and complex medical datasets and then analyse them into clinical insights. This can be later used by the physicians in providing suitable medical care. Hence machine learning and artificial intelligence when implemented in healthcare can lead to increased patient satisfaction. Disease Prediction using AI is the system that is used to predict the diseases from the symptoms which are given by the patients or any user. The system then processes the symptoms provided by the user be it image or details as an input and gives the required output depending upon the probability of the disease. With an increase in biomedical and healthcare data, accurate analysis of medical data benefits early disease detection and patient care. By using this, we are predicting diseases like Diabetes, Malaria, Heart disease and many more. Keywords: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, disease prediction, healthcare
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s, Keerthi Rani. "Artificial Intelligence on Medical Fields." Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence 3, no. 2 (February 1, 2023): 113–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.46632/daai/3/2/21.
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This paper is about a overview of AI in medical field, dealing with recent and future applications that are related to AI. The aim is to develop knowledge and information about AI among the primary care physicians in the health care. Firstly, I've described about what is Artificial Intelligence then, who’s the father of it, what are the types of AI that is used in the medical field, features of AI, approaches and its needs. This paper is also about how AI is used in the health care, diagnosis, creation of new drug and delivery of drug, AI in COVID-19 pandemic, how it is used to analyze CT scans, x-rays, MRIs and about how Machine Learning is used in the health care and also how google is dealing with the future problem using Machine learning.
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Ward, Michael. "Health, health care and healing: introduction to the Festschrift for Professor Ken Donald." Australian Health Review 32, no. 2 (2008): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ah080301.
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THE CITATION for Ken Donald?s recent and well deserved award of an Order of Australia reads ?For service to medicine as an academic and administrator, particularly as a contributor in the fields of pathology and community health?. A true enough statement but hardly sufficient for such a diverse career and lifetime of contributions in so many different fields. In this issue of Australian Health Review we include a collection of papers to honour Professor Donald.
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Ben Mortenson, W., John L. Oliffe, William C. Miller, and Catherine L. Backman. "Grey spaces: the wheeled fields of residential care." Sociology of Health & Illness 34, no. 3 (June 24, 2011): 315–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01371.x.
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Landa, Krzysztof, and Karolina Skóra. "Indicating Fields of Inequalities Regarding the Access to Health Benefits." International Journal of Reliable and Quality E-Healthcare 1, no. 2 (April 2012): 41–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijrqeh.2012040104.
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Restrictions to health services in Poland have been an inspiration to establish Watch Health Care Foundation (WHC). The fundamental disease of the system is namely the disproportion between the amount of the funds and the contents of the package. It causes everywhere the same ’symptoms’ and leads to the same pathological phenomena: queues and other forms of rationing (’guaranteed’) health benefits, corruption, making use of privileges. Foundation uses the potential of information society and available infrastructure (web portal http://www.watchealthcare.eu) and all activities are presented on the website with the aim of influencing the health care system. On the basis of reports of limited access to health services, a ranking is created at WHC web portal, which aims to show what the biggest gaps in access to health services are - this is the way of showing the patient and health care system needs and also one possible approach of continuous education of the health care services consumers targeted at health care systems improvement.
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Hull, Richard T. "The Allied Health care Professions: New fields for philosophical exploration." Journal of Value Inquiry 26, no. 4 (October 1992): 473–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00138915.
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Lin, Alice J., Charles B. Chen, and Fuhua (Frank) Cheng. "Virtual Reality Games for Health Care." MATEC Web of Conferences 232 (2018): 01047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201823201047.
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Virtual reality (VR) and interactive technologies have become increasingly common in today’s world, and there are many applications for this technology in numerous fields. In this paper, we present a review on recent and ongoing research related to applications of VR and VR games in the healthcare field. VR technology is allowing medical practitioners to help their patients in a number of innovative ways in addition to helping health care providers improve their skills. Lastly, we propose a VR game design for rehabilitation and palliative care.
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John, Ayain, Abhigna G, Adithi K V, Harusha R, and Kavya A S. "HEALTH CARE CHATBOT." International Research Journal of Computer Science 9, no. 8 (August 13, 2022): 297–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.26562/irjcs.2022.v0908.28.
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Chatbots mimic human speech to make the software more user-friendly or just for amusement purposes. NLP (Natural language Processing) and AI (Artificial intelligence) are new emerging technologies that can be utilized to improve the capacity of chatbots to stimulate a more natural and free-flowing conversation. Chatbots can be used to offer customers support and services as more and more mobile device users switch to more frequent use of texts and messaging Healthcare chatbots provide a customized experience to each user in ways that may be more practical and effective than humans are capable of. By communicating with consumers in a human like manner, a medical chatbot enhances the work of a healthcare professional and aids in enhancing their performance. Medical chatbots are conversational AI-powered tools that facilitate communication between patients, insurance providers, and health care professionals. These bots can be quite useful in providing timely access to pertinent healthcare information to the appropriate parties. We discuss current chatbot research and uses in the fields of medical and health care education, our main areas if concentration includes the use of virtual patients in medical education patient education regarding healthcare issues, and the use of chatbots as course assistants to improve the curriculum for healthcare professionals. Because of their mobility and affordances, chatbots are increasingly being used into the teaching and learning processes in the field of healthcare education. Clients of this application have discussions with the wellbeing chatbot likewise to how they would have discussions with different clients. Through a series of questions, the health chatbot helps people identify their symptoms in order to assist them decide whether or not to see a doctor. People who are unsure of whether their symptoms are temporary or call for further testing from a doctor may find this.
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MUHAMMAD, WALI, Muhammad Haroon, Muzamil Shah, Muhammad Asad Ullah, and Iqra Haleem. "Potential Application of Nanotechnology in Health Care: An Insight." Nanoscale Reports 1, no. 2 (August 24, 2018): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/nr1821.
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Nanotechnology uses very small molecular and intracellular structures ranging from 1 to 100-nanometer in size to create, employ and qualify materials and devices. It is a well-established branch of science having significant applications in wide range of medicine. It has wide usage in pharmaceutics for targeted delivery of drugs and genes into cells. Various targeted procedures in the animal body have been accomplished using nano instruments, especially nano-robotics. Scientific bodies have also set the status of nanomedicine in health fields especially neurological and cancerous antidotes. Thus, nanoparticles of extremely small size have vast prominence in almost all medical fields for facilitating mankind.
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Mohapatra, Nijhum, and Dr Bhuvana J. "Online Health Care System: A Survey." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 2 (February 28, 2022): 685–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.40349.
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Abstract: Today`s technology offers many online services in almost every field. From those fields Healthcare is one of them. However, in this pandemic it is very difficult to obtain the consultation with the doctor for every health problem so to overcome this problem Online Healthcare System can be implemented. This Web application contains features like manage patient details, doctor`s detail, schedule appointments, view reports, online payment and some additional features like videos for “yoga and exercise” and a “Chatbot”, Which is a type of software that used to redirect the conversation between human beings and users which will help people to provide details according to their quires in an productive way
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Geng, Dao Qu, and Zhen Fang. "Health Care Monitoring System Based on WBASN." Applied Mechanics and Materials 278-280 (January 2013): 978–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.278-280.978.
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In recent years, wireless body area sensor network (WBASN) has gained a lot of attention from researchers for its potential application in medical care and health care fields. However, previous studies are typically involved in performance of WBASN, and most research has barely considered the details of system design. This paper presents a health care monitoring system. The design of the system is detailedly described. The evaluation result shows that the system can be easily deployed and suitable for health care monitoring.
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Oransky, Ivan. "Will improvements in health journalism improve health literacy?" Information Services & Use 40, no. 1-2 (October 23, 2020): 27–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/isu-200081.
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Today’s health care journalists work in a very different environment than those of yesterday. The demand for stories and broadcasts has grown exponentially, and the resources available have shrunk dramatically. While it may therefore be difficult to see how improvements in health care journalism are possible, let alone a way to improve health care literacy, there is an important connection that, if illuminated, could help both fields. To understand the literature on the quality of health care journalism, it is critical to understand the backgrounds of today’s health care journalists and the challenges they face. That literature also goes hand in hand with studies of the effects that news coverage has on the public’s understanding of health care issues. There are training and educational programs designed to help health care journalists do their jobs better, and this chapter concludes with a discussion of how cooperation between health journalists, physicians, and other stakeholders can lift all boats.
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Glover, Gyles R. "Mental health care and the big IT." Psychiatric Bulletin 20, no. 4 (April 1996): 195–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.20.4.195.
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When I was at school the big IT everyone talked about, some explored avidly and others shunned nervously was sex. In psychiatry today, as in so many other fields IT is information technology. This article is a polemic. I believe IT (the new sort) is indispensable for modern mental health care. In the British National Health Service we have a window of opportunity to get IT right and if clinicians fail to act decisively and quickly, there isa risk that the chance will be lost.
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Oschman, James L. "Clinical aspects of biological fields: an introduction for health care professionals." Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies 6, no. 2 (April 2002): 117–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1054/jbmt.2001.0259.
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Mulcahy, Richard. "Health Care in the Coal Fields: The Miners Memorial Hospital Association." Historian 55, no. 4 (June 1, 1993): 641–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6563.1993.tb00916.x.
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Philips, Kathy L., Maria T. Morandi, Del Oehme, and Paul A. Cloutier. "Occupational Exposure to Low Frequency Magnetic Fields in Health Care Facilities." American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 56, no. 7 (July 1995): 677–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15428119591016692.
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Xu, Rebecca. "Electronic Health Records: Patient Care Quality." Revue interdisciplinaire des sciences de la santé - Interdisciplinary Journal of Health Sciences 5, no. 1 (March 10, 2016): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.18192/riss-ijhs.v5i1.1442.
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The advancement of technology has led to its integration in widespread fields, heavily impacting areas such as communications. While there is concern that the introduction of information technology into healthcare renders the medical practice impersonal, its implementation has a positive effect on patient care quality. The exchange of health information via an electronic medium, such as the electronic health record (EHR), is known as health information technology (HIT) and has been the focus of many studies. Many supporters of HIT promote the benefits associated with the general rise in technology, such as the increase in convenience and efficiency of information storage; but others are hesitant, often citing privacy and security breaches as primary concerns. Studies show that despite various initial qualms about EHR integration, once the integration is complete, the quality of patient care increases.
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Rivera, Isaias. "Education, Health Care, and Poverty in Cuba." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 20, no. 5-6 (February 11, 2022): 551–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341611.
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Abstract Cuba’s economic integration into European socialist countries, led by the Soviet Union, offered the possibility of Cubans studying in these countries. A large number of professionals were trained in different fields. This at the same time created better opportunities and higher quality for the national education system at all levels due to academic mobility at all levels. To think about the term ‘revolution’ in Cuba, one must believe in a movement of ideas that promote progress. However, most of us in the Western world come to believe that progress has an equivalency of economic gain.
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Kiisk, Liidia, Helje Kaarma, and Mai Ots. "Treatment diets in Estonian health care institutions." Medicina 44, no. 8 (January 27, 2008): 577. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/medicina44080075.
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New system and nomenclature of diets for Estonian health care institutions have been developed in the university hospital based on theoretical and practical experience obtained over several years of cooperation with medical scientists from different fields of specialization. The nomenclature of diets includes ordinary food and eight groups of diet food with subgroups. The normative values of the basic nutrients are in accordance with the Estonian and Nordic nutritional recommendations. The whole system includes the menus and recipes of nutritional food portions. The system of treatment diets helps to optimize proper nutrition in different departments and organize better patient care.
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Sage, William M., and Kelley McIlhattan. "Upstream Health Law." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 42, no. 4 (2014): 535–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jlme.12174.
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Medicine and health are surprisingly separate. In the introduction to his 1963 master work on medical economics, Kenneth Arrow acknowledged that “the subject is the medical-care industry, not health.” In the 50 years that followed, researchers, policymakers, and public health professionals generated valuable and varied insights into health, impacting both behaviors and environments while addressing social determinants and demographic trends. Yet medical care has followed an even steeper upward trajectory, growing rapidly in scientific precision, public esteem, and technical sophistication. As a result, the economic gap between the two domains has widened. The U.S. health care system spends almost $3 trillion annually. Preventive screening and early intervention bridge medical care and health, as do nutrition, behavioral health, aging, and a few other fields. But the money is overwhelmingly in medical care, particularly rescue care for those with acute illnesses or serious (and typically preventable) complications of chronic disease.
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Kolakowski, Heather, Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, Ellie Valenzuela-Mendoza, and Nicolas R. Ziebarth. "How the COVID-19 Pandemic Will Change Workplaces, Healthcare Markets and Healthy Living: An Overview and Assessment." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 9, 2021): 10096. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810096.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted most aspects of our lives: how we work, how we socialize, how we provide health care, and how we take care of our most vulnerable members of society. In this perspectives article, we provide a multidisciplinary overview of existing research covering these fields. Moreover, we enrich this research overview with news reporting and insights from a panel of expert practitioners affiliated with the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures. We sketch existing evidence, focusing on how the pandemic has transformed our lives since March 2020. Then, for each of the fields covered by this article, we propose optimistic perspectives on what healthy living could look like in the future, given the current challenges and opportunities. In particular, we discuss the needed transformations of our workplaces, the health care market, senior living, healthy eating, and personal wellness.
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Kim, Hye-Sook, Jae-Sung Park, and Eun-Joo Jo. "The Perceptions of Marriage and Childbirth of Health Care Fields College Students." Korean Journal of Health Service Management 5, no. 2 (June 30, 2011): 131–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.12811/kshsm.2011.5.2.131.
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Assmuth, Timo, and Jari Lyytimäki. "Co-constructing inclusive knowledge within converging fields: Environmental governance and health care." Environmental Science & Policy 51 (August 2015): 338–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2014.12.022.
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Barbui, C., F. Girlanda, E. Ay, A. Cipriani, T. Becker, and M. Koesters. "Implementation of treatment guidelines for specialist mental health care." Advances in Psychiatric Treatment 20, no. 2 (March 2014): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/apt.20.2.82.
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A huge gap exists between the production of evidence and its take-up in clinical practice settings. To fill this gap, treatment guidelines, based on explicit assessments of the evidence base, are commonly employed in several fields of medicine, including schizophrenia and related psychotic disorders. It remains unclear, however, whether treatment guidelines have any impact on provider performance and patient outcomes, and how implementation should be conducted to maximise benefit.
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Sahraian, A., A. Javadpour, and A. Mani. "Sleep quality and its correlation to general health status in health care students." European Psychiatry 26, S2 (March 2011): 1565. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(11)73269-2.
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IntroductionSleep-wake cycle is one of human biological rhythm highly correlated to well being and general health status.Poor sleep quality, sleep disruption and changes in regular Sleep-wake pattern may cause physical and psychological burden such as impairment in job performance, decreased work efficiency and learning disability.ObjectiveHealth care students trained in medical, nursing and midwifery fields is a population who are at great risk to develop sleep disruption and its subsequent physical and mental morbidity.AimThe aim of this study was to describe how sleep quality correlated to general health status among 280 health care students.Methods280 health care students studying in health related fields participated in this cross section study. Pittsburg sleep quality index (PSQI), sleep- wake questionnaire and the general health questionnaire (GHQ) administered to gather data describing sleep quality, sleep wake disruption and the general health status.ResultsPreliminary results showed that 61.4% of subjects defined as poor sleeper. In further co relational analysis there was a significant correlation between sleep quality and general health status (r = .6, p = . 000, n = 280). Regression analysis showed that number of nights with sleep disruption due to shift work or academic needs was a strong predictor for both poor sleep quality and general health status.ConclusionIn conclusion, Sleep disruption due to shift work or other academic demands is a predictor for poor sleep and its subsequent mental health morbidity, which should be considered as a part of mental health policy for health related college students.
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Han, Paul K. J., William M. P. Klein, and Neeraj K. Arora. "Varieties of Uncertainty in Health Care." Medical Decision Making 31, no. 6 (January 18, 2011): 828–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0272989x10393976.
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Uncertainty is a pervasive and important problem that has attracted increasing attention in health care, given the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine, shared decision making, and patient-centered care. However, our understanding of this problem is limited, in part because of the absence of a unified, coherent concept of uncertainty. There are multiple meanings and varieties of uncertainty in health care that are not often distinguished or acknowledged although each may have unique effects or warrant different courses of action. The literature on uncertainty in health care is thus fragmented, and existing insights have been incompletely translated to clinical practice. This article addresses this problem by synthesizing diverse theoretical and empirical literature from the fields of communication, decision science, engineering, health services research, and psychology and developing a new integrative conceptual taxonomy of uncertainty. A 3-dimensional taxonomy is proposed that characterizes uncertainty in health care according to its fundamental sources, issues, and locus. It is shown how this new taxonomy facilitates an organized approach to the problem of uncertainty in health care by clarifying its nature and prognosis and suggesting appropriate strategies for its analysis and management.
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H, Bando. "Fundamental Philosophy of Health and Medical Care would be Hinoharaism." Journal of Health Care and Research 1, no. 1 (November 20, 2019): 1–3. http://dx.doi.org/10.36502/2019/hcr.6150.
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Congratulations on the inaugural issue of Journal of Health Care and Research in the Asploro publishing group. In the fields of health and medical care across the world, there have been various clinical practices and research for long time. This journal would be expected to play an important role in further development in the future.
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Musalek, M. "Promoting appropriate health care in Europe - the case of psychiatry." European Psychiatry 24, S1 (January 2009): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0924-9338(09)70503-6.
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Nowadays different professions are involved in mental heath care in Europe, e.g. general practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, social-workers, case-managers, prevention specialists, health ministry bureaucrats etc. As mental health represents a weak concept with vague and ambiguous definitions and delimitations it remains quite unclear who should be responsible for mental health today and in the future. In the last decades psychiatrists gained high expertise in treating mental disorders (e.g. psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic and social measures) but lost terrain in mental health matters because of a lack of interest in such questions leading to the hardly acceptable contemporary situation that professionals without any psychopathological knowledge and without clinical experiences in mental illnesses as well as in the various transitional states between mental health and disordered health have taken the leading positions in the field of mental health care. Of course, the main tasks of psychiatry are to diagnose and to treat mental disorders, but as the prognosis of mental disorders and the treatment efficacy highly depend on the time of recognizing the disorder (the earlier the recognition of a mental disorders and the earlier the start of therapy the better the treatment out-come and prognosis) early recognition of mental disorders and prevention measures (esp. secondary and tertiary prevention) have to become core fields of psychiatry. Therefore psychiatry cannot any longer restrict itself to the treatment of severe mental disorders but has to take again a crucial role in future mental health care system in cooperation with other mental health stake-holders. This implies that future training programs for psychiatrists have to take into account such considerations and have to include beside usual fields of interests (e.g. psychopathology, neurosciences, psychopharmacology, psychotherapy, medical humanities, etc.) also topics like early recognition, transitional states and prevention of mental disorders as regular parts.
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Dinh, Julie V., Allison M. Traylor, Molly P. Kilcullen, Joshua A. Perez, Ethan J. Schweissing, Akshaya Venkatesh, and Eduardo Salas. "Cross-Disciplinary Care: A Systematic Review on Teamwork Processes in Health Care." Small Group Research 51, no. 1 (September 13, 2019): 125–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1046496419872002.
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As health care delivery moves toward more complex, team-based systems, the topic of medical teamwork has gained considerable attention and study across disciplines. This systematic review integrates empirical research on teamwork and health care to identify broad trends. We identified and coded 1,818 relevant, English, and peer-reviewed journal articles using a teamwork processes rubric. Several themes emerged. The health care teamwork literature has grown substantially over the past 20 years. Approximately half of the studies were descriptive (rather than interventional or psychometric); the majority relied on quantitative methods. Health care teamwork was also studied in thematically distinct manners. Interpersonal processes were most commonly studied across fields. Of all disciplines, medicine focused most on transition processes, whereas those from team science centered more highly on action processes. There were also finer grained disciplinary differences in content areas of communication and collaboration. Interprofessional journals represent a potential area for interdisciplinary efforts. Implications and future directions are discussed.
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Juvinyà-Canal, Dolors, Rosa Suñer-Soler, Adela Boixadós Porquet, Marion Vernay, Hervé Blanchard, and Carme Bertran-Noguer. "Health Literacy among Health and Social Care University Students." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 7 (March 27, 2020): 2273. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17072273.
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Health literacy has been defined by the World Health Organization as the cognitive and social skills which determine the motivation and ability of individuals to gain access to, understand and use information in ways which promote and maintain good health. Its importance in reducing inequalities makes health literacy a thematic area that should be addressed in the training of professionals in the fields of healthcare, Social Work and Education. The objective of this study was to define the health literacy levels of students from the Universities of Girona and Barcelona (Spain) and the Regional Institute of Social Work in Perpignan (France). A cross-sectional study was conducted among students of Nursing, Social Work, Primary Education and Special Education in the 2017–2018 academic year. Sociodemographic and academic variables were considered and the HLS-EU-Q16 questionnaire was used to study health literacy levels. In total, 219 students with an average age of 24.9 participated. Of these, 64.4% were studying Social Work, 23.7% Nursing, 5.9% Primary Education, and 5.9% Special Education. Of the total sample, 36.5% were classified as sufficient in health literacy. The total average score of the health literacy index was 11.1; 13.2 among Nursing students; 10.5 among Social Work students; 10.1 among Primary Education students, and 10.1 among Special Education students (p < 0.001). Nursing students obtained the best results and healthcare was the highest rated subdomain, more than disease prevention and health promotion.
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Hansen, Fredrik, Anders Anell, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, and Carl Hampus Lyttkens. "The future of health economics: The potential of behavioral and experimental economics." Nordic Journal of Health Economics 3, no. 1 (May 10, 2015): 68–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/njhe.660.
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Health care systems around the globe are facing great challenges. The demand for health care is increasing due to the continuous development of new medical technologies, changing demographics, increasing income levels, and greater expectations from patients. The possibilities and willingness to expand health care resources, however, are limited. Consequently, health care organizations are increasingly required to take economic restrictions into account, and there is an urgent need for improved efficiency. It is reasonable to ask whether the health economics field of today is prepared and equipped to help us meet these challenges. Our aim with this article is twofold: to introduce the fields of behavioral and experimental economics and to then identify and characterize health economics areas where these two fields have a promising potential. We also discuss the advantages of a pluralistic view in health economics research, and we anticipate a dynamic future for health economics.Published: Online May 2015. In print December 2015.
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Nerur, S., and W. Raghupathi. "Research Themes and Trends in Health Information Systems." Methods of Information in Medicine 47, no. 05 (2008): 435–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/me0516.
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Summary Objectives: The health information systems (HIS) field is characterized as being associated with health care and information systems. Drawing on several disciplines, a body of knowledge has come together that help define the core internal structure of the field. This study attempts to identify the emerging sub-fields using the bibliometric technique of author-cocitation analysis. Methods: Co-citation data for members of editorial boards of several health information systems journals for the period of 1998-2006 was collected and analyzed (N = 166). We performed numerous multivariate analyses, including cluster analysis, factor analysis and multidimensional scaling to extract the sub-fields. Results: Our findings indicate the presence of several strong sub-fields, including HIS evaluation, communication and e-health, and clinical DSS. In addition, we identified other sub-fields that are distinct but still emerging, such as adoption, outcome and policy, and use and impact of HIS. The study also confirms the existence of several historical sub-fields and contrasts technology-oriented sub-fields with managementoriented sub-fields. Topics on the periphery of HIS provide links to other disciplines as well. Conclusions: The study provides a unique perspective on the field of HIS, and the results indicate opportunities for further research that explores collaborations and social networks among the sub-fields.
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Reddy, Vundrala Sumedha, Yilong Tian, Chuanqi Zhang, Zhen Ye, Kallol Roy, Amutha Chinnappan, Seeram Ramakrishna, Wei Liu, and Rituparna Ghosh. "A Review on Electrospun Nanofibers Based Advanced Applications: From Health Care to Energy Devices." Polymers 13, no. 21 (October 29, 2021): 3746. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym13213746.
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Electrospun nanofibers have been exploited in multidisciplinary fields with numerous applications for decades. Owing to their interconnected ultrafine fibrous structure, high surface-to-volume ratio, tortuosity, permeability, and miniaturization ability along with the benefits of their lightweight, porous nanofibrous structure, they have been extensively utilized in various research fields for decades. Electrospun nanofiber technologies have paved unprecedented advancements with new innovations and discoveries in several fields of application including energy devices and biomedical and environmental appliances. This review article focused on providing a comprehensive overview related to the recent advancements in health care and energy devices while emphasizing on the importance and uniqueness of utilizing nanofibers. A brief description regarding the effect of electrospinning techniques, setup modifications, and parameters optimization on the nanofiber morphology was also provided. The article is concluded with a short discussion on current research challenges and future perspectives.
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Coe, Gloria A., and David Banta. "Health Care Technology Transfer in Latin America and the Caribbean." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 8, no. 02 (March 1992): 255–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300013489.
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AbstractThe greatest problem concerning health care technology for developing countries is that they are dependent upon the industrialized world for technology. The only short-term solution to this problem is to improve the choices that are available to them. This goal will require changes in the structure and processes of policy making. A particular difficulty for these countries is the lack of trained personnel in fields related to technology assessment.
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Zaren, H. A., A. Patel, E. K. Radeke, and A. B. Uy. "Reproductive health importance in oncology care." Journal of Clinical Oncology 27, no. 15_suppl (May 20, 2009): e20744-e20744. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2009.27.15_suppl.e20744.
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e20744 Background: Based on a case series of patients, we recognized a disparity between patients’ reproductive health goals and conveyed health information by providers on reproductive health issues. The objective of this study was to assess the reproductive health interest amongst cancer care providers. Methods: This observational study was performed using a 13 item questionnaire that was administered to 15 healthcare professionals in oncology and allied health fields. The items in the questionnaire related to information regarding the importance of cancer care, sexuality, fertility preservation and contraception. Results: Of the providers surveyed, 11 were medical doctors, 3 were nurses, and 1 was indicated as other. On a scale of 0 to 10, 86.6% (n=13) rated cancer care as extremely important (10), 33% (n=5) felt the same for fertility preservation, and 46.6% (n=7) for sexuality. In a rank of importance, cancer care was first, followed by sexuality, fertility, and contraception. Only 33% (n=5) of providers always asked patients about interest in fertility preservation and with regards to contraception, only 33% (n=5) offer contraception to reproductive age patients. Conclusions: Although most providers felt that sexuality and fertility are important to women diagnosed with cancer, their practice and information provision does not reflect these findings. This highlights the significance of bringing closer together the goals of the health care providers with their actual practice to improve patient care. No significant financial relationships to disclose.
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Reed, Debra B. "Literacy and health literacy - why they matter to health professionals." Southwest Respiratory and Critical Care Chronicles 4, no. 16 (October 12, 2016): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.12746/swrccc.v4i16.322.
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Low literacy and low health literacy affect people in all demographic strata and interfere with patients’ abilities to understand and act on information provided by health careproviders. Many print health education materials are written at reading levels well above those recommended. Thus, compliance to health messages is compromised, and health costs are increased. As medicine moves into new fields such as precision medicine, effective communication between patients and health care professionals becomes even more challenging and important.
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Gulino, Gaetano, Michele Antonucci, Giuseppe Palermo, Daniele D'Agostino, Alessandro D'Addessi, Marco Racioppi, Francesco Pinto, Emilio Sacco, and Pierfrancesco Bassi. "Robot technology in the Italian Health-care system: Cost-efficacy economic analysis." Urologia Journal 79, no. 2 (February 3, 2012): 69–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.5301/ru.2012.9098.
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Background Robotic technology is used in multiple fields of surgery, especially radical prostatectomy in patients with prostate cancer. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the introduction of robotic technology in the Italian Public Heath-care context, from the perspective of the Health Technology Assessment (HTA). An economic analysis that compares the costs and effectiveness of the method was developed. Data were compared with those of the most important international literature, analyzing structural and organizational problems related to the method. Materials and Methods A systematic review of literature on tertiary literature (Health Technology Assessment reports) and secondary (systematic reviews) published since 2002 was conducted. The review was also conducted on more recent primary literature regarding the clinical effectiveness and the economic analysis in the fields of surgery where da Vinci® robot is most promising. Results 18 studies were selected out of a total of 65 evaluated. The “Break-Even Point” (BEP) is the minimum number of cases needed to be treated in order to achieve a balance between costs and revenues, below which the system is losing money. It was calculated that the total fixed costs are € 378,000 and variable costs are € 3,810 per surgery. Considering that the current value of DRG (Diagnosis-Related Group) refunded by the public Health-care system is actually € 4,553, the BEP would be achieved performing 508 surgeries, so that the robotic technology does not generate neither profit nor loss. Conclusions It is not possible to demonstrate the superiority of robotic surgery in terms of efficacy. The robotic surgery is safe and effective only if performed by surgical teams with relevant experience. Considering the reported case of an Italian University Hospital with public Health-care system refund, the BEP target of 508 radical prostatectomies could be achieved after a few years. The use of the robot in multiple fields on one hand shortens recovery time costs, but on the other hand increases costs due to organizational issues. The value of the DRG refund does not appear adequate to new robotic technology.
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Chernyaeva, T. I. "Health as a Point of Consolidation of Human Capital." Vestnik Povolzhskogo instituta upravleniya 20, no. 5 (2020): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1682-2358-2020-5-49-56.
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Conceptualizing the health capital, alongside with revealing its multidimensional nature and reconstructing the basic dimensions is analyzed. Conflict fields of Russian health care are distinguished. Conflicts are considered as markers of social constructs of health capital.
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Rodrigues e Silva, Daniella, and Samara Jamile Mendes. "Avaliação de tecnologias em saúde e a incorporação de medicamentos oncológicos no SUS." JMPHC | Journal of Management & Primary Health Care | ISSN 2179-6750 12, spec (March 18, 2021): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.14295/jmphc.v12.1054.
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A Constituição Federal de 1988 estabeleceu a saúde como um direito social, definindo o Estado como responsável por garantir esse direito, incluindo o acesso universal e equitativo às tecnologias em saúde. Nos últimos anos, houve um aumento de imunoterapias e tal fato tem elevado a preocupação com os gastos em saúde. No Brasil, o processo de incorporação ou exclusão tecnologias em saúde a serem disponibilizadas pelo Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) é realizado pela Comissão Nacional de Incorporação de Tecnologias no Sistema Único de Saúde (CONITEC). Tal processo é chamado de Avaliação de Tecnologias em Saúde (ATS). A ATS é um conjunto de mecanismos técnicos que auxiliam na regulação do ciclo de vida das tecnologias em saúde no que tange sua disponibilização no SUS, trazendo a opinião técnica necessária para a tomada de decisão. A ATS envolve uma criteriosa análise da acurácia, eficácia, segurança, efetividade, custo-efetividade, custo-utilidade, impacto, equidade e ética. Sendo, em 2018, a segunda principal causa de morte em todo o mundo, o câncer, é responsável por 9,6 milhões de mortes. Sendo um agravo em saúde, em contínuo crescimento, tem consequências físicas, emocionais e financeiras sobre indivíduos, famílias, comunidades e sistemas de saúde como um todo. O tratamento do câncer consiste em uma série de intervenções que tem por objetivo a cura da doença ou o prolongamento da vida do paciente atrelada a qualidade de vida. Tais intervenções podem estar relacionadas ao apoio psicossocial, cirurgia, radioterapia, quimioterapia, terapia hormonal e imunoterapia. Sendo esta última, uma terapia biológica que utiliza substâncias feitas de organismos vivos, ajudando o sistema imunológico no combate à doença. Os medicamentos biotecnológicos trouxeram uma mudança importante no prognóstico para o tratamento de algumas neoplasias. No entanto, o custo do tratamento da maioria dos medicamentos é muito alto, contribuindo para o aumento dos gastos com medicamentos, especialmente em hospitais onde eles são mais prescritos e dispensados. Para que essas terapias estejam disponíveis no SUS é necessária a avaliação da CONITEC, no entanto, desde 2012 foram submetidos 12 pedidos de incorporação de medicamentos biológicos para o tratamento de cânceres variados, no SUS. Das moléculas submetidas, 8 obtiveram parecer favorável à incorporação e 4 obtiveram parecer desfavorável. Ademais, a estrutura de reembolso da terapia oncológica no SUS foi estabelecida em 1990, onde o Ministério da Saúde (MS) realizou uma revisão completa de todos os regulamentos e tabelas de procedimentos oncológicos. Após essa revisão, o MS publicou uma série de regulamentos para padronizar a Autorização de Procedimento Ambulatorial em Oncologia. Analisar o que a literatura apresenta sobre o processo de ATS para incorporação no SUS de medicamentos biológicos utilizados em oncologia. Trata-se de uma revisão integrativa, realizada de maneira sistematizada e ordenada, buscando bibliografias sobre o processo de avaliação de tecnologias em saúde para incorporação no SUS de medicamentos biológicos utilizados em oncologia. O desenvolvimento para esta revisão teve como base inicial a identificação de bibliografias correlacionadas aos descritores do estudo a ser desenvolvido, através de busca por meio eletrônico nas bases de dados: Biblioteca Virtual da Saúde (BVS), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde – LILACS, Medical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System online – MEDLINE, Scientific Electronic Library Online – Scielo e PubMed. A sintaxe de busca foi definida com base em 3 termos-chave definidos a partir da pergunta de pesquisa: ‘Avaliação de tecnologias em saúde’, ‘Oncológicos’, ‘Sistema único de saúde (SUS)’. A busca e a seleção das bibliografias foram realizadas com a inserção de descritores, termos MESH e sinônimos para identificar artigos relacionados ao tema. As buscas exploratórias foram feitas com todas as combinações possíveis analisando duplas e trios com a utilização dos operadores booleanos ‘OR’ e ‘AND’. Após a definição da sintaxe ideal para as buscas nas bases citadas, foram utilizados alguns critérios de inclusão e exclusão para garantir que os artigos a serem incluídos estavam alinhados ao tema a ser estudado. Foram selecionados os cruzamentos que apresentaram resultados mais expressivos na tentativa de responder a pergunta de pesquisa. A sintaxe final escolhida para utilização nas bases BVS, LILACS, Medline e Scielo foi: (tw:((tw:("Avaliação das Tecnologias de Saúde")) OR (tw:("Avaliação de Tecnologias de Saúde")) OR (tw:("Avaliação de Tecnologias em Saúde")))) AND (tw:((tw:("Oncologia")) OR (tw:("Neoplasias")) OR (tw:("Neoplasia")) OR (tw:("Câncer")))) AND (tw:((tw:("Sistema Único de Saúde")) OR (tw:("SUS")) OR (tw:("Sistema único de Saúde (SUS)")))). Para as buscas na base Pubmed a sintaxe final foi: (((((("assessment technology"[All Fields] OR "Biomedical Technology Assessment"[All Fields]) OR "assessment technology"[All Fields]) OR "Biomedical Technology Assessment"[All Fields]) OR "Technology Assessment"[All Fields]) OR "technology assessment health"[All Fields]) AND (((("Medical Oncology"[All Fields] OR "Neoplasms"[All Fields]) OR "Cancer"[All Fields]) OR "Neoplasia"[All Fields]) OR "Neoplasm"[All Fields])) AND ((((("Health Care Systems"[All Fields] OR "Healthcare Systems"[All Fields]) OR "Public health care systems"[All Fields]) OR "Public healthcare systems"[All Fields]) OR (((("unified"[All Fields] OR "unifies"[All Fields]) OR "unify"[All Fields]) OR "unifying"[All Fields]) AND (((("delivery of health care"[MeSH Terms] OR (("delivery"[All Fields] AND "health"[All Fields]) AND "care"[All Fields])) OR "delivery of health care"[All Fields]) OR (("health"[All Fields] AND "care"[All Fields]) AND "systems"[All Fields])) OR "Health Care Systems"[All Fields]))) OR (((("unified"[All Fields] OR "unifies"[All Fields]) OR "unify"[All Fields]) OR "unifying"[All Fields]) AND (((("delivery of health care"[MeSH Terms] OR (("delivery"[All Fields] AND "health"[All Fields]) AND "care"[All Fields])) OR "delivery of health care"[All Fields]) OR ("healthcare"[All Fields] AND "systems"[All Fields])) OR "Healthcare Systems"[All Fields]))). Chegou-se a 337 publicações científicas, em seguida foram excluídos os títulos duplicados, livros e dissertações. Foram analisados 249 títulos de artigos e por meio dos critérios de inclusão que são: o processo de avaliação de tecnologias em saúde, o processo de avaliação de tecnologias em saúde de medicamentos oncológicos e o processo de avaliação de tecnologias em saúde de medicamentos oncológicos no SUS alguns artigos foram incluídos. Foram excluídos os títulos que abordavam análises de medicamentos biológicos específicos. Após essa análise, 15 artigos foram selecionados para a etapa de leitura e avaliação dos resumos. Após análise dos resumos foram selecionados 8 para realização de leitura na integra para análise reflexiva, os anos de publicação variam de 2014 a 2019 e 6 são de revistas nacionais.
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Wise, J. "E-Mental Health in Health Care Systems–a Global Perspective." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.191.
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eMental Health is the use of information technology (ICT) to support and improve mental health; it includes online resources, social media and smartphone applications, as well as videotelephony.It used to be the new frontier, ungoverned but time has led to a maturity such that the novel is now commonplace and what was once Tomorrow's World is here today. From the experience of the networked Scandinavian countries, to the populations that novel techniques are reaching out to; QR codes in the UK, teens in Australia; from determining levels of Internet Addiction in Poland, to the use of that medium to treat anxiety disorders.An innovation from Law Enforcement has massive implications for patients recording consultations. Other experiments with risk management led to the failure of ‘Radar’, but paved the way for social care providers to develop safer systems that can care for large populations with few therapists.It is this use of Artificial Intelligence that may be the most challenging. Over 90 companies are developing the use of AI in diagnostics and related fields, with 14 US and Canadian hospitals involved with IBM's Watson. Will Drs become unnecessary? However the most innovative aspect of ICT in medicine is in research whether to greatly accelerate the process, or to ensure that educational tools genuinely answer patients’ questions.eHealth is an expanding field, that holds new promise, and opens question about who we are, what is our role, who do we care for and how; that today, ‘No man is an Island’, everyone should be connected.Disclosure of interestThe author declares that he has no competing interest.
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Suresh, Kallam, and M. Rajasekhara Babu. "Emerging Biomedical Health Care System by Using Internet of Things." Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering 27 (May 2016): 103–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/jbbbe.27.103.
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Internet of Things and Big Data are critical passion to applying medical field. But both field interaction necessary for Bio Medical fields to improve the Doctor efficiency and it helps to serve patients in better way. In this paper mention that what are the important of the Bio Medical field linking with most recent Technology. Scientific relations to delaying with unstructured data analysis. Digital Device integration requirements for patients. Digital way user friendly communication with Doctor to patient. It helpful for finding disease and counseling patient complications reduce. Finally we achieved a better virtual environment creating with Doctor to patients for improving service.
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Reay, Trish, and C. R. (Bob) Hinings. "The Recomposition of an Organizational Field: Health Care in Alberta." Organization Studies 26, no. 3 (March 2005): 351–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0170840605050872.
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In this paper we develop a theoretical model that helps to understand change in mature organizational fields by emphasizing the role of competing institutional logics as part of a radical change process. Our investigation into a large-scale, government-led health reform initiative in Alberta, Canada, is based upon a qualitative case study approach to understanding the process of field recomposition. This study focuses on the later portions of change in an organizational field — that is, rather than explaining the sources of change, we investigate how a field becomes re-established after the implementation of a radical structural change.
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Bhat, Mamatha, Peter Ghali, Marc Deschenes, and Philip Wong. "Hepatitis B and the Infected Health Care Worker: Public Safety at What Cost?" Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology 26, no. 5 (2012): 257–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/348240.
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Public safety and the right of the health care worker to practise without prejudice based on underlying illness may be at odds for those affected by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Nevertheless, HBV does not preclude entry into a health care profession, and the risk of transmission from health care worker to patient is not uniform across the spectrum of health care fields. In the present article, the authors present an overview of the literature regarding transmission of HBV from the health care worker to the patient, and the current recommendations that vary from province to province within Canada. The establishment of national guidelines to standardize monitoring of HBV infection among health care workers would improve health care work-place safety and patient care.
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Babamahmoodi, Farhang, Lotfollah Davoodi, Roya Sheikholeslami, and Fatemeh Ahangarkani. "Tuberculous Empyema Necessitatis in a 40-Year-Old Immunocompetent Male." Case Reports in Infectious Diseases 2016 (2016): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4187108.
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Empyema necessitans (EN) is a kind of empyema that diffuses to extrapleural space and can involve chest pain. Tuberculosis (TB) is the most common cause of EN. This disease can be found in both immunocompromised and immunocompetent individuals but is usually seen in the immunocompromised individuals. Because of long duration and ambiguous symptoms of the disease, diagnosis can be hard. The disease can be treated both medically and surgically. Missing the disease can lead to undesirable effects on patient’s condition and health care setting. This problem can be seen in endemic area in which controlling of TB is hard. Report of the disease in local health care center for desirable treatment and health maintenance is necessary. We explained a rare case of pulmonary TB in a patient that was healthy in other fields and just showed the minimum systemic symptoms. The patient came with a mass in lower part of back of chest cage, with a mild pain. The imaging survey showed EN. Smear and Ziehl-Neelsen stains from subcutaneous aspiration were positive for TB. This case showed importance of clinical view and awareness of this silent but serious disease in endemic area especially for TB.
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L., J. F. "HEALTH REFORM CAN'T CURE HIGH COSTS." Pediatrics 94, no. 3 (September 1, 1994): A40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.94.3.a40.
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These facts prove that, contrary to widespread belief, no health care system offers a magic cure for rising costs. Something else is going on. The "something else" is that health care, like education and police work, is a "handicraft service." Characteristically, these activities can't be automated or sped up and made more productive. Doctors, for instance, simply cannot work much faster than they do without cutting into quality. True, technological advances can and do add some productivity to these fields, but not that much ... This important phenomenon is called "the cost disease of the handicraft services" and it undermines a basic assumption of some health reforms. If, by its craft nature, health care is condemned to low productivity growth and rapidly rising costs, then these inherent limits will simply not be correctable by price controls or other reforms of the system. In other words, cost increases are in the nature of the health care beast. Efforts to alter this nature will be fruitless or harmful.