Thèses : « Health and Healthcare »

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Kling, Rakel Nessa. « Promoting the health of healthcare workers : evaluating patient violence in healthcare ». Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/32674.

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Introduction: The high rate of violence in the healthcare sector supports the need for greater prevention efforts. This study had two main objectives: 1) identify risk factors for violence province- wide and 2) investigate the effectiveness of a violence risk assessment system in reducing the risk of violence in an acute care hospital in British Columbia. Methods: Study 1: Data was extracted for a one-year period from the Workplace Health Indicator Tracking and Evaluation (WHITE ™) database for all employee reports of violent incidents for four of the six British Columbia Health Authorities. Risk factors for violence were identified through comparisons of incident rates (number of incidents/100,000 worked hours) by work characteristics, and by regression models. Study 2: Hospital violence incident rates (number of incidents/ 100,000 worked hours)were calculated pre, during and post implementation of the Alert System, a violence risk assessment system, at one acute care hospital. Then, using a retrospective case control study design, multivariable conditional logistic regression was used to model the effect of the Alert System (flag status yes or no) on the risk of a patient violent incident. Results: Study 1: Across health authorities, three groups at particularly high risk for violence were identified: very small healthcare facilities, the care aide occupation, and pediatric departments in acute care hospitals. Study 2: The violent incident rate decreased during the Alert System implementation period, but subsequently returned to pre-implementation levels. In the case-control analyses, patients flagged for violence were associated with an increased rather than decreased risk for violence. Conclusions: Study 1: The specific risk factors that put health care groups at an increased risk of violence should be examined so that targeted prevention or intervention efforts can be implemented. The identification of high-risk groups supports the importance of a province-wide surveillance system. Study 2: Although useful at identifying violent patients, the Alert System does not appear to provide the resources or procedures needed by health care workers to prevent a patient from progressing to a violent incident once flagged. These studies suggest that violence in healthcare should be studied and prevented using a multifaceted approach.
Medicine, Faculty of
Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
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Nakamoto, Ichiro. « Essays on Health, Healthcare, Job Insecurity and Health Outcomes ». Scholar Commons, 2019. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/7865.

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This doctoral dissertation proposal is comprised of three separate chapters, all of which uses the nationally representative uniform survey Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) to examine the relationship between health, insurance, health care and health outcomes. Below, the brief introduction for each section is provided:  Chapter I: Medicare Part D and Patients' Well-being  Chapter II: Parent's Health Insurance and Informal Care  Chapter III: Job Insecurity and Health (with Dr. Ayyagari) In chapter I, I explore how Medicare Part D (MD) affects the well-being of the severely sick patients both in the short- and in the long- term. I employ difference-in-difference (DD) alongside the instrumental variable (IV) model. The estimated results imply MD significantly improves mental health and increases regular drug utilization for the elderly. However, it neither systematically improves out-of-pocket payment (OOP) nor improves mortality across all waves. This suggests that MD provides an efficient mechanism to improve mental health and drug utilization, but might not necessarily enhance survival rate and financial burden for vulnerable patients. Chapter II investigates the relationship between informal care provided by the children and the take-up of health insurance by the near-elderly and elderly parents, and how the correlation is influenced by parent’s Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) and Instrumental Activities of vii Daily Living (IADLs). The results indicate that when the endogeneity is controlled for, in-formal care systematically crowds out the take-up of private long-term care (LTC) insurance whereas “crowds in” the take-up of the total plan including supplement insurance plans (TSP). Nevertheless, the degree of both crowding-out and “crowding-in” effect is reduced when the severity of ADLs/IADLs disability level grows. Our study reflects (a) the strong demand for TSP and more additional health coverage within household budget line (b) and the potential gap between healthcare demands by the parents and the informal care provided by the children and the potential gap between the healthcare demands by the parents and the formal care covered by the insurance. Our estimates are robust to alternative measures of informal care. The final chapter III examines the causal effect of subjective job insecurity on health, using pooled ordinary least squares (OLS), fixed-effects (FE) and instrumental variable (IV) specifications. The estimate implies that the negative impact of job insecurity is more pronounced for certain outcomes such as mental health and the emergence of new health conditions. Job insecurity provides a powerful prediction on subsequent job displacement and real income loss. Sub-population such as low-employability/better-educated individuals or males responds more to job insecurity than their counterparts.

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Matthews, Bob. « Mixed ethnicity, health and healthcare experiences ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/1796/.

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The ethnic composition of Britain's population continues to change. This thesis explores the health and healthcare experiences of the fastest-growing sector of our population; people of mixed ethnicity. The thesis contextualises the research with reference to 'race' and ethnicity, immigration, demography and statistics. This research is based within a Foucauldian theoretical framework and utilises narrative data collection methods and an innovative analysis process, based on the construction of a series of metanarratives, to investigate the manner in which people of mixed ethnicity construct their identifies. It also seeks to explain how their ethnicity impacts both on health status and the nature of the mixed ethnicity healthcare experience in the NHS, particularly within the doctor/patient relationship. The findings from the research are discussed in relation to existing health policy initiatives and recommendations made for changes in the way in which the needs of people of mixed ethnicity are assessed, concluding that the present analytical categorisation are inadequate and in need of review. The research also concludes that doctors use their powerful position to suppress the discourse of health and mixed ethnicity.

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Abraham, Sarah Marie. « Essays on health and healthcare economics ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120447.

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Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Economics, 2018.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-156).
This thesis consists of three chapters on the economics of health and healthcare. The first and third chapters explore geographic variation in health outcomes within the United States. The second chapter focuses on empirical methods for obtaining causal estimates of treatment effects with an application to healthcare settings. In the first chapter I study geographic variation in health care utilization under two different insurance systems: traditional Medicare and employer-provided private insurance. For each system, I use patient migration as a source of identification combined with empirical Bayes methods to construct optimal linear forecasts for the causal effects of place on utilization. These place effects measure the causal differences in treatment intensity across areas. I find similar levels of variation in the causal place effects for the publicly and privately insured patients, with a correlation of .39 across the two systems. These findings emphasize that insurance systems are affecting the forces that drive the causal component of geographic variation in utilization. In the second chapter, Liyang Sun and I explore event studies, a model for estimating treatment effects using variation in the timing of treatment. Researchers often run fixed effects regressions for event studies that implicitly assume treatment effects are constant across cohorts first treated at different times. In this paper we show that these regressions produce causally uninterpretable estimands when treatment effects vary across cohorts. We propose alternative estimators that identify convex averages of the cohort-specific treatment effects, hence allowing for causal interpretation even under heterogeneous treatment effects. We illustrate the shortcomings of fixed effects estimators in comparison to our proposed estimators through an empirical application on the economic consequences of hospitalization. In the third chapter, Raj Chetty, Michael Stepner, Shelby Lin, Benjamin Scuderi, Nicholas Turner, Augustin Begeron, David Cutler and I use newly available administrative data to quantify the relationship between income and mortality in the United States. Although it is well known that there are significant differences in health and longevity between income groups, debate remains about the magnitudes and determinants of these differences. We use new data from 1.4 billion anonymous earnings and mortality records to construct more precise estimates of the relationship between income and life expectancy at the national level than was feasible in prior work. We then construct new local area (county and metro area) estimates of life expectancy by income group and identify factors that are associated with higher levels of life expectancy for low-income individuals. Our study yields four sets of results. First, higher income was associated with greater longevity throughout the income distribution. The gap in life expectancy between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of individuals was 14.6 years for men and 10.1 years for women. Second, inequality in life expectancy increased over time. Between 2001 and 2014, life expectancy increased by 2.34 years for men and 2.91 years for women in the top 5% of the income distribution, but increased by only 0.32 years for men and 0.04 years for women in the bottom 5%. Third, life expectancy varied substantially across local areas. For individuals in the bottom income quartile, life expectancy differed by approximately 4.5 years between areas with the highest and lowest longevity. Changes in life expectancy between 2001 and 2014 ranged from gains of more than 4 years to losses of more than 2 years across areas. Fourth, geographic differences in life expectancy for individuals in the lowest income quartile were significantly correlated with health behaviors such as smoking, but were not significantly correlated with access to medical care, physical environmental factors, income inequality, or labor market conditions. Life expectancy for low income individuals was positively correlated with the local area fraction of immigrants, fraction of college graduates, and local government expenditures. Additional information on this project is available at https: //healthinequality. org/.
by Sarah Marie Abraham.
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Kessler, Aaron. « Transgender Experiences in Healthcare ». Kent State University Honors College / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1588334197961745.

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Jani, Sonia. « Asthma, Related Healthcare Seeking, Disease Management, Health Care Access, Health Education, and Healthcare Provider Health Communication Among Immigrants and Asian Americans ». University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1627667134092486.

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Hidalgo, Stevan. « Healthcare expenditure vs healthcare outcomes a comparison of 25 world health organization member countries / ». [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2008. http://165.236.235.140/lib/SHidalgo2008.pdf.

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Youn, Ji Hee. « Modelling health and healthcare for an ageing population ». Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/13982/.

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Population ageing has received much attention as a contributing cause of spiralling healthcare expenditure. This study primarily aims to estimate the impact of population ageing on key diseases, and to develop a flexible modelling framework that can inform policy decisions. This research provides a proof-of-concept model where individual Discrete Event Simulation models for three diseases (heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and osteoporosis) were extended from existing published models to simulate the general UK population aged 45 years and older, and combined within a single model. Using external population projection data incorporating potential demographic changes, the methods for projecting future healthcare expenditures for the three diseases were demonstrated and the relative benefits of improving treatment of each of the diseases evaluated. Secondary outcomes include the development of a pragmatic literature search method which can be used for literature within diffuse topic areas, and a literature repository for future researchers to explore the existing literature on ageing and healthcare expenditure. Expenditure for the three diseases is projected to increase from £16 billion in 2012 to £28 billion in 2037. A key finding from this work is that the estimates of costs, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and the projected expenditure for healthcare services can differ when multiple diseases are modelled in a single model compared with the summed results from single disease models. This implies that policy decisions on the allocation and planning of healthcare resources based on the results from individual disease models can be different from those based on linked models. The novel approach of linking multiple disease models with correlations incorporated provides a new methodological option primarily for modellers who undertake research on comorbidities. It also has potential for wider applications in informing decisions on commissioning of healthcare services and long-term priority setting across diseases and healthcare programmes, hence ultimately contributing to the improvement of population health.

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Duell, Paul. « Assessing health literacy in a routine healthcare environment ». Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2018. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/67703/.

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Background: Individuals with limited health literacy ability have poorer health outcomes compared with individuals with adequate health literacy. Health literacy ability is not assessed in routine healthcare environments in the UK. The objective of the thesis is to assess how healthcare professionals could identify an individual’s health literacy ability in daily practice. Methods: A systematic review of existing health literacy assessment instruments was undertaken to identify the optimal health literacy instrument for use in a clinical setting. The selected health literacy instrument was evaluated in a community pharmacy setting to provide an early indication of the feasibility for regular use. A theory based heuristic assessment instrument was developed and piloted as an alternative instrument for use in routine practice. Results: The systematic review identified the NVS instrument to be the most practical health literacy instrument to use. However, the early findings when used in practice indicated that there were barriers that could limit use. The preliminary findings of a heuristic assessment instrument indicate that recall of written potentially could be used. Conclusions: At present, there is no accepted practice to identify an individual’s health literacy ability in UK healthcare. Further research, with a larger sample size, into the use of heuristic indicators could identify a simple process to accurately assess health literacy ability that can be used in routine healthcare environments. Further work is also required to formulate more structured guidance on how to use the heuristic in consistent way so that the predictive ability demonstrated by the experienced pharmacists can be replicated by all.

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Airoldi, Mara. « Essays on healthcare priority setting for population health ». Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/916/.

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Healthcare priority setting is a major concern in most countries because healthcare represents a large and increasing public expenditure. Yet, there is not well established procedure that is consistently used to support those responsible for priority setting decisions. This dissertation consists of a review of the literature and five independent essays on healthcare priority setting, focusing on the value of formal analysis to support local healthcare planners in allocating a fixed budget. This dissertation makes both an intellectual and a practical contribution. The intellectual contribution is a synthesis of both economics and decision analysis insights. The review of the literature shows that tools grounded in health economics currently fail to contribute to local healthcare priority setting decisions because they are not practical. At the same time, tools grounded in (multi-criteria) decision analysis fail to incorporate the methodological advances of health economics and are hence theoretically weak. My thesis contributes to closing this gap. The practical contribution is that I design, and test the value of, a process and of particular value functions that can be used by local healthcare planners within their limited resources.

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Anand, Anugraha. « Wealth for Health : Applying Rawlsian Principles to Healthcare ». Scholarship @ Claremont, 2019. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/2016.

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John Rawls developed principles of justice to guide the fair allocation of resources in a society. However, his principles did not take into consideration a society’s differing health needs. Norman Daniels attempted to extend Rawlsian principles of justice to apply to the allocation of health resources. In Just Health, Daniels argued that, under certain circumstances, an age-based allocation of health resources can be prudent. He proposed the Prudential Lifespan Account (PLA) to defend age-rationing against claims that it would lead to favoring one age-group over another. In this paper, I analyze Daniels’s PLA and argue that societal aging poses a significant threat to its effectiveness. I then examine and critique alternate theories to extend Rawlsian principles of justice to account for health, specifically those proposed by Dennis McKerlie and Hugh Lazenby.

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Gonzalez, Heidi M. « DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic Business Plan ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10603164.

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Diabetes is best described as a disease which affects blood levels and the body cannot regulate or produce enough insulin on its own causing sugar build up in the blood. Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of the death in the United States. Diabetes affects over 29 million Americans, with about 25% of them living with it undiagnosed. Another 86 million people living with pre-diabetes comprise 90% of the population is unaware they are pre-diabetic. Our business, DiaBeaThis Healthcare Clinic, provides health care services to adults 18 years or older who suffer from diabetes or are pre-diabetic. The diabetic services provided for these adults residing in Oceanside, North San Diego County, California. The clinic will provide testing for diabetes, health monitoring, and dietary counseling and will be a source for diabetics to obtain the required medication, supplies, and education needed.

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Gallagher, Ann. « Healthcare virtues and professional education ». Thesis, University of Central Lancashire, 2003. http://clok.uclan.ac.uk/19052/.

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This thesis emerged from a long-standing interest in healthcare ethics and professional education and is the result of conceptual and literature-based research. It began with: a nagging doubt about the possibility of teaching professional ethics; with an interest in the gap between what is known and what is done; with an awareness that the A grade ethics student is not necessarily the exemplary nurse or doctor in practice; and with an idea that virtue ethics might be the answer. Two central and related issues are addressed: (1) ethical values and perspectives which are necessary components of healthcare ethics and (2) the implications of, and strategies for, promoting these ethical values and perspectives in the education of health professionals. Changes within healthcare and in society urge an ongoing consideration and reevaluation of ethical values in healthcare and professional education. Contemporary approaches to health professional ethics have, for the most part, focused on duty, consequences, principles and, more recently, on rights. Such obligation-based approaches are primarily concerned with action and the cognitive realm with too little regard for the emotions and character. It will be argued that virtue ethics, which focuses on the character of the professional, goes some way towards correcting the rationalist and externalist bias of predominant approaches to healthcare ethics. A wide array of ethical values, have been described and discussed as characterising healthcare ethics. One of the most well-known perspectives is that of Beauchamp and Childress (2001) who elucidate four biomedical ethical values, what they call principles, of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence and justice. Beauchamp and Childress identify but elaborate little on the virtue correlates of these principles: respectfulness, benevolence, non-malevolence and justice. In this thesis, the virtue of respectfulness will be developed. It will be argued that respectfulness and selfrespectfulness are necessary healthcare values. Respectfulness is considered both initself and as respect-for: in relation to dignity and autonomy. Respectfulness also goes some way to reinforcing and encompassing other values: if the dignity and autonomy of people are respected they will be benefited rather than harmed and they will be treated fairly. Whilst self-respectfulness and respectfulness are necessary health professional virtues, they are not sufficient. Two further necessary virtues will be discussed in relation to the health professions: courage and practical wisdom. The more holistic approach to ethics proposed in this thesis requires attention to: technical-rational ('hard, high ground') and professional artistry ('swampy lowlands') perspectives on healthcare; to 'whole person' and common human experience perspectives; to rationality and the emotions; to action or conduct and character; to obligations and virtues; and to empirical and theoretical ethics. These aspects should be considered in professional education. It is argued that the development of ethical competence is the overall purpose of professional ethics education. The model of ethical competence proposed comprises: ethical knowing; ethical seeing; ethical reflection; ethical doing; and ethical being A draft curriculum is suggested regarding how ethical competeiice might be promoted.

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Alu, Stephanie. « Self-Rated Health, Healthcare Satisfaction, Healthcare Adherence, and Medical Mistrust : The Moderating Role of Rurality ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2019. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/482.

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The current study is part of a broader study called the Women’s Reproductive Health Survey (WRHS) which aimed to examine various aspects of women’s life experiences. This study examined the moderating effect of rurality on several factors of healthcare in a sample of women between the ages of 18 and 50. Self-rated health (SRH) was hypothesized to predict healthcare satisfaction, healthcare adherence, and medical mistrust. Furthermore, rurality was hypothesized to weaken the relationships between SRH and healthcare satisfaction and adherence; it was further hypothesized to exacerbate the relationship between SRH and medical mistrust. A survey containing a single-item measure of SRH and rurality, a seven-item measure of medical mistrust, and an exploratory measure of both healthcare satisfaction and adherence, was uploaded to the Internet forum Redditt. Participants received informed consent and monetary compensation for their time. Bivariate correlations and moderation analysis was conducted on the resulting data. Self-rated health was found to be a significant predictor of healthcare satisfaction, healthcare adherence, and medical mistrust. Rurality was a nonsignificant moderator. Healthcare systems may consider enhancing patient portfolios with a measure of SRH. This may have implications for improved quality of care and health outcomes. Limitations within the study included the participant demographics, which were mostly White and of a high socioeconomic status, as well as the broader survey from which this study originated. Future studies may consider comparing populations from a high socioeconomic status to populations from a low socioeconomic status.

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Baidoo, Rhodaline. « Toward a Comprehensive Healthcare System in Ghana ». Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1237304137.

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Smith, Roxanne. « Leadership Strategies to Improve Healthcare Outcomes ». Thesis, Pepperdine University, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13808345.

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The disparities in healthcare and the challenges of healthcare leaders in achieving positive health outcomes are a priority in America. Much discourse and policy is currently evolving in the legislative and executive branches of government. The United States has the highest health expenditures in the world and is classified as one of the unhealthiest countries. Many factors contribute to the disparities. These factors include socioeconomic, cultural competency, social determinants, policy, and health leadership. The challenge for health leaders is to identify strategies to improve the trends and e the status of health quality and well-being for all Americans. This study employed qualitative research using a phenomenological approach; surveying healthcare leaders in the United States. Data collection employed in-depth interviews of healthcare leaders with at least two years of experience in their current role. This qualitative study identified challenges of leaders in health care, best practices of successful healthcare leaders to improve patient access, narrow the gap of health-related disparities, and evaluated techniques and methods to improve health outcomes across racial and ethnic groups.

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Zajkowska, Sandra. « Healthcare utilization of children enrolled in public programs ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1585819.

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Healthcare utilization is a factor that directs quality and cost of health services. The cost of healthcare, income level, and demographics affect the frequency and circumstances, in which patients seek medical attention. One of the main goals of public assistance programs in this study is to facilitate the access to medical services for vulnerable groups of children. This study analyzes the impact of enrollment in various different public assistance programs and the access patterns to healthcare services. The study found that children who are enrolled in public assistance programs are more likely to visit an emergency room but less likely to visit a doctor at least 7 times a year (high utilization) compared to children who are also eligible for public programs but are not enrolled. This difference in patterns has a significant impact on cost of health services for public assistance programs' beneficiaries. A causal multifactorial link is observed, and therefore further research is needed.

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Opper, Scott. « Redesigning the American healthcare system ». Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2000. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/400.

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Bachelors
Health and Public Affairs
Social Work

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Talice, Kerlie W. « An Assessment of Veterans Affairs Healthcare Leadership Competencies ». Thesis, Capella University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10604903.

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The purpose of this study was to collaborate with one of the New England VA Healthcare Systems to conduct research to evaluate the current leadership competencies at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to identified competencies essential for leadership by the VA. The researcher also assessed how VA front-line staff, first-line supervisors, mid-level managers, and senior/executive leadership rate their performance and that of their supervisors. Lastly, the researcher evaluated how these leaders are trained to assume their important roles at the VA and how much of a role are executive coaching and mentoring play in this training process. The research is a quantitative research study, and the competencies and specific behavior indicators were assessed using a web-based survey via a self-administered competency instrument designated to determine employee’s perceptions. The data collected comprised data from four different surveys/questionnaires for each position level within the organization including the demographic data. A total of 143 VA employees participated in the research study and completed surveys to measure the frequency of behaviors on a 10-point scale to answer the research questions. The results answered the key research questions asked in this study to measure leaders and emerging leader competence.

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Al, Magrabi Katibah Saad Aldean. « Geographical aspects of health and use of primary health care services in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ». Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2001. http://oleg.lib.strath.ac.uk:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=21426.

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This thesis examines the contribution that geographical analysis can make to the study of the variation in the patterns of human health and subsequently to the discussion on the type and level of use of the public health service in a rapidly developing country. The current study was conducted in Jeddah Governorate, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the period 1994 and 2000. One of the main aims was to examine the pattern of health services provided in Saudi Arabia and this aim was achieved by investigating the provision and use of the Public Healthcare services. An attempt was made to clarify the complex web of relations that existed between, on the one hand, the different socioeconomic and geographic factors and on the other, the distribution of common ailments together with the level of utilization of health services. Shortcomings in the nature of the official health statistics regarding socioeconomic conditions of the patients were remedied through the use of a questionnaire. A tot al of 1000 patients from the eight PHCCs were surveyed for their use of the public health service. Data was collected from the same patients on their socio-economic, education and habitation details. This sample was used to supplement the data collected from the official government health statistics. These two data sets permitted an evaluation of the occurrence of different ailments and the variations in geographic distribution among the eight selected PHCCs. Difficulties persisted in the availability of official 1992 census data until publication of census data became available in 1999. In contrast to the problems of the census data, the availability of accurate and up-to-date patient records compiled by Ministry of Health staff was of considerable benefit to this research project. Use was made of Geographic Information Systems software for the analysis of data collected at the level of the PHCC. This allowed visual identification of the spatial variation in the use of the different health services and also allowed the identification of gaps in healthcare provision. The study showed that a density of habitation index used as a prime indicator of socio-economic status could be used as an indicator of the occurrence level for a number of common diseases. A pattern of disease was observed that suggested that the number of visits to PHCCs was substantially higher in low socio-economic districts compared to medium and higher socio-economic districts. It can be shown that the most common ailment was Upper Respiratory Tract Infections followed by Dental and Gingival diseases. Persons aged between 15 and 44 years made most visits to PHCCs although children under 15 years made proportionately greater use of PHCC facilities. No difference could be found between Saudi and Non Saudi as regards the occurrence of the most common ailments and diseases. The lack of difference was probably due to the close integration of the two population groups and the sharing of the same local environment. This similarity occurred despite considerable differences in income levels and socio-economic status. The level of utilisation of health centers in the selected districts showed differences, being higher in those districts categorized as low socio-economic in the south of Jeddah when compared to higher socio-economic districts in the north of the city. It was evident that the difference in socio-economic factors had an impact on the occurrence of some frequently occurring diseases e.g. URI, Dental, Ophthalmic, musculoskeletal and skin diseases. Although not primarily concerned with private health care facilities, for completeness sake some information was collected on the use of private health care in conjunction with public health care facilities. The author was surprised to discover that greatest use of private facilities occurred among women and children patients from Al Nuzla al Yamaneyyah and Al Thaalebah, districts that were characterised by low socio-economic conditions. The use of traditional folk healing was also briefly studied as this form of treatment remains important for some patients. Results showed that there was no difference between the educational standards of patients and their use of traditional folk healers. Again, children and women constituted the majority (86.6%) of users of traditonal healing with Saudi users (18.9%) higher than non Saudi (11.4%). There remains the supposition that alternative medicine may be of far greater importance than the sparse official data suggests. The unquantified illegal immigrant population may be totally reliant on unofficially operating alternative medicine centres. The thesis concludes by recommending a number of improvements to the existing public health care system. Some changes in the policy and practice of PHCC services will inevitably require more financial resources. These include an extension of the opening times of PHCCs and an increase in the number of specialist facilities such as dental surgeries. Other changes may not require more finances. These include a strengthening of communication and co-operation between PHCCs and hospitals to improve the referral of patients. Expansion of the existing computer network connecting PHCCs with hospitals should be given high priority.

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Sharma, Ekta. « HealthElixir home healthcare solutions business plan ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10124505.

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Given the ever increasing population of elderly in U.S, home healthcare agencies (HHA) serve as a model of continuous quality and affordable care. HHA hold a promise to boost economy and reduce healthcare expenditures to a significant level. This business plan examines the business potential of a home healthcare startup in downtown LA. Chapter 1 deals with market analysis, providing detailed information on the company, its organization, services, market definition, customer analysis, target population, and service demand. Chapter 2 deals with feasibility analysis and strategic planning, including SWOT, to sell our services. In chapter 3, we have discussed the legal issues and regulations, and defined policies to abide by state and federal rules and regulations. Finally, chapter 4 is about financial analysis, providing detailed pricing structure, other expenditures and revenues and the overall potential of the business to strive profitability and survive market competition. In conclusion, the Health Elixir Home Healthcare business has shown potential for success in the market.

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Vu, Hung V. « Healthcare Optimizing Patient Education Smartcard (H.O.P.E.S.) ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10752237.

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The healthcare industry is ever-changing, with the significant advancement of technology compare to 30 years ago. Access to information has become quicker and paper chart has been reduced to the implementation and the creation of an EMR/EHR system. With patients obtaining a healthcare smartcard and acts as a portable EHR, this can help clinicians communicate better with other clinicians and be able to educate their patients on drug therapies, avoid administering duplicate testing, and thus, reduce cost for both the insurance and patients side. H.O.P.E.S. is making its way in the healthcare industry to alleviate burden for patients carrying papers and lab results, when it can be store using the smartcard system. This allows clinicians to access patients’ latest results if patients are seeing multiple clinicians (specialists) for their medical conditions. The smartcard allows physicians to educate their patients, getting them more involve and advocate for a healthier lifestyle.

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Ponce, Michael. « Healthcare fraud and non-fraud healthcare crimes : A comparison ». CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/3233.

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Healthcare fraud is a major problem within the healthcare industry. The study examined medical fraud, its laws, and punishments on federal and state levels. It compared medical fraud to non-fraud crimes done in the healthcare industry. This comparison will be done on a state level. The study attempted to analyze the severity of fraud against non-fraud and that doctors would commit fraud offenses more often than non-fraud offenses.

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Feilen, Sujung, et Karolina Seminova. « Educating health profession students about health disparities : a systematic review of educational programs ». The University of Arizona, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/623608.

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Class of 2012 Abstract
Specific Aims: Health disparities are contributing to differences in access to healthcare and health outcomes among diverse groups in the United States. Causes of health disparities are multifactorial. One approach to minimize health inequalities is through educating future health care professionals. The purpose of this review is to identify and describe approaches for developing health disparities curriculum for health professions programs in the United States. Methods: A systematic review was conducted in April of 2012 to identify articles describing medical and nursing school curricula, educational courses, and activities focusing on health disparities in the United States. The search was conducted by utilizing Medline PubMed database. Articles describing a specific educational course/curriculum in health disparities in medical and nursing undergraduate or graduate programs were included in the review. The review did not take into account continuing education programs. All articles describing educational programs focus on healthcare disparities in the United States. Main Results: The search identified 153 articles focusing on specific health disparities curricula or education programs. Out of those articles 30 were included in the analysis. Results are pending. Conclusions: Anticipated results will aid in identifying successful and effective health disparities curricula for health professions programs in the United States.

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Rouhani, Setareh. « Refugee healthcare in British Columbia : health status and barriers for gorvernment asssised refugees in accessing healthcare ». Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/38159.

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Background: Government-Assisted Refugees (GARs) have greater health needs than other immigrants due to their pre-migration and Canadian resettlement experiences. There is a lack of detailed research into their health status and access to healthcare services. This thesis investigated factors associated with reported health, mental health problems, number of annual physician visits and difficulties obtaining healthcare from a sample of GARs. Methods: Secondary data analysis was conducted on data from a study of GARs in BC who attended the Bridge Refugee Clinic during the 26 month period from April 2005 to May 2007. Multivariate logistic regression was used to model the factors associated with excellent health, mental health problems, physician visits and difficulties obtaining healthcare. Results: There were 177 participants in the study. Excellent health was inversely associated with being female, having financial burden, having no English proficiency and having a diagnosed health condition. Factors associated with mental health problems were being female, west Asian, and having financial burden. Attending refugee clinics was inversely associated with reporting mental health problems. Factors associated with physician visits were unemployment, while not having English proficiency and no access to a regular doctor were inversely associated with the number of visits. Young Age, no access to a regular doctor and health region were associated with difficulties obtaining healthcare, while not being married had an inverse relationship with reporting difficulties. Conclusion: Findings highlight sex and English proficiency as important factors associated with GARs’ health and utilization of services. It is recommended that specialized health literacy classes, health programs and support groups for GARs, especially women, be developed. These interventions would benefit from active participation of ethnic communities.

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Tsang, Chiu-yee Luke, et 曾昭義. « Prisoners' primary healthcare : healthful or harmful ? » Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45174246.

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Davies, Gareth Rees. « Health service users help-seeking decisions in primary healthcare : a health psychology approach ». Thesis, Bangor University, 2009. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/health-service-users-helpseeking-decisions-in-primary-healthcare-a-health-psychology-approach(61c7a65a-b88e-4fbb-a3f0-ed7a64afa969).html.

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Effective decision making about when to seek help and with whom by patients who experience health-related symptoms is an issue for the health service. This thesis examines some of the factors associated with this issue from a number of perspectives. Largely neglected in the research, the effectiveness of everyday health helpseeking decisions may have important consequences for patients making those decisions. With 291 million consultations (OHE, 2005) made with general practitioners (GPs) each year, even a small minority of ineffective help-seeking decisions may have a substantial impact on the use of limited resources. The day-to-day health help-seeking behaviour of normally healthy health service users (HSUs) has been largely ignored by researchers while an extensive body of literature exists examining the behaviour of specific patient cohorts, patients with specific morbidities and the behaviour of patients seeking help from specific service providers. Literature searches did not reveal any definitional parameters that might describe effective and indeed, ineffective day-to-day help-seeking behaviour which is somewhat surprising given the potentially vast scale of ineffectively made help-seeking decisions. Not surprisingly, given the lack of definitional parameters, tools for measuring the scale of this issue do not exist. Examination of the effectiveness of help-seeking decisions in this thesis is an inclusive, rather than exclusive, exercise. Issues about the effectiveness of help-seeking decisions transcend patient populations and boundaries between different sectors of self referral health services. The vast majority of research in help-seeking behaviour to date has however focused on either specific patient cohorts or specific health services, excluding the majority of help seekers who do not fall into those discrete categories. Research, in this thesis, aims to be inclusive rather than exclusive in its consideration of the day-to-day help-seeking and consultation-seeking decisions. Acknowledging the work done in these specialised help-seeking domains, the research presented here aims to take a more holistic approach to help and consultation-seeking decisions.

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Westin, Marcus. « Health and Healthcare Utilization Among Swedish Single Parent Families ». Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis : Univ.-bibl. [distributör], 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7908.

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Powell, Adam C. (Adam Cooper). « To our health : the role of IT in healthcare ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/43169.

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Thesis (S.B. in Expository Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2006.
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Preventable medical complications are afflicting a growing number of Americans. Meanwhile, the field of healthcare has been slow to uptake information technology. This thesis reviews existing literature in order to produce recommendations on how to use information technology to reduce the cost and increase the quality of healthcare in the United States. Current findings and statistics from academic and governmental sources are cited in order to illustrate the present state of the healthcare system. Changes in the healthcare model are advocated on an individual, corporate, and government level. It is proposed that improvements can be made through the metrication of personal health statistics, the use of electronic medical records, and the conversion of American healthcare into a market-based system with widely accessible quality ratings. These recommendations are targeted to voters and policymakers interested in improving the American healthcare system.
by Adam C. Powell.
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Cohen, Daniel. « Novel methods of simulation in healthcare and health policy ». Thesis, Imperial College London, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/44015.

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This thesis explores how innovative behavioural and virtual environment simulations could benefit healthcare and health policy. In the first half of the thesis I review the use of behavioural simulations in healthcare and contextualise an evidence-based approach for development and analysis. This approach is informs the successful design and completion of two simulations - The Crucible and Lateral Play. The Crucible was designed to improve leadership skills and understanding of the Health and Social Care Act amongst clinicians. Lateral Play was designed to aid organisational development of Imperial College Health Partners, the Academic Health Sciences Partnership in North-West London. Detailed analysis demonstrated, for the first time, the measurable positive effect of Behavioural Simulations on participant learning and behaviours. In the second half of the thesis I examine and demonstrate the potential for virtual world simulations to enhance major incident preparation, reviewing the evidence behind major incident training the potential benefits of using virtual world environments via a user-needs analysis and expert advisory group. I describe the successful design, development and assessment of three virtual world scenarios for multidisciplinary major incident training in the context of a bomb blast. Face and content validity is demonstrated and performance assessed in both technical and non-technical skills. Finally, I determine the feasibility of utilising a virtual trauma scenario for long-distance training between the UK, Canada and Southern Africa. The thesis concludes with an overall discussion of the pertinent findings, limitations and implications for future practice and research.

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Modayil, Maria I. « Global Health Experiences in the Development of Healthcare Professionals ». Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1597416179932742.

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Foster, Christopher A. « Electronic Health Record Implementation Strategies for Decreasing Healthcare Costs ». ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6426.

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Some managers of primary care provider (PCP) facilities lack the strategies to implement electronic health records (EHRs), which could decrease healthcare costs and enhance the efficiency and quality of healthcare that patients receive. The purpose of this single-case study was to explore the strategies PCP managers used to implement EHRs to decrease healthcare costs. The population consisted of 5 primary care managers with responsibility for the administration, oversight, and direct working knowledge of EHRs in Central Florida. The conceptual framework was the technology acceptance model. Data were collected from semistructured face-to-face interviews and the review of company documents, including training logs, activity records, and cost information. Methodological triangulation was used to validate the creditability and interpretation of the data in transcribing themes. Three themes emerged from the analysis of study data: implementation of EHRs, costs of implementing EHRs, and perceived usefulness of EHRs. Participants indicated that the implementation of EHRs depended on motivation, financial cost, and the usefulness of EHRs relating to training that reflected user-friendliness. The implications of this study for social change include the potential to lower the cost and improve the efficiency of healthcare for patients. The use of EHR systems could enhance the quality of care delivered to patients through improved accessibility, elimination of duplicative tests, and retrieval of accurate patient information. The use of EHRs can lead to a comprehensive preventative healthcare system resulting in a healthier environment.

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Jordan, Susan Ann. « Exploring Healthcare Transitions and Health Equity : An Integrative Review ». ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/7305.

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Compared to their typically developing peers, adolescents, and emerging adults with special healthcare needs (AEA-SHCN) disproportionately experience healthcare transition (HCT) disparities and poor access to adult care. Theoretical models that describe how access gaps develop and strategies to address unmet HCT needs are not well understood. While HCT researchers describe both system and patient healthcare barriers, a comprehensive approach that discovers how these factors interact and interfere remains misunderstood. An integrative review (IR) was conducted to understand the multiplicity of these factors. An intersectional theory (IT) provided further clarity on how key findings influence patient HCT experiences. Several themes were found to intersect and thus increase the HCT complexity, particularly for patients with social disadvantages. Communication gaps, mismatched goals/expectations, and poorly defined roles were common themes. Poor health equity, disparities in access, and inadequate HCT support intersected with poor patient HCT experiences, while youth with stigma-related diseases were most at-risk for poor provider-relationships. The thematic synthesis provided granularity to these experiences with characterizations as fear, loss, and uncertainty with access change. Social change implications underscore the need to reframe poor patient HCT experiences as potential opportunities for health policy advocates and clinicians to address unmet HCT needs.

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Borja, Jairo. « Recruiting Strategies for a Nonprofit Health Care Facility ». ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6524.

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Although predictions for the supply of registered nurses (RNs) is projected to increase to 3,849,000 by 2025, the demand for RNs is projected to grow to 3,509,000. The purpose of this single case study was to explore the strategies some recruiters in a nonprofit health care facility used to recruit RNs. The conceptual lens used for this study was general systems theory. Through a purposeful sample of 3 recruiters at a nonprofit health care facility located in New York, data collection occurred through semistructured interviews, reviewing job boards and the company website, and taking field notes the day of the interviews. Data analysis involved a process of organizing, coding, arranging data into common themes relevant to the research question, and interpreting the data. Member checking was used to enhance the credibility and validity of the data. Through thematic analysis, 4 themes emerged: partnering with colleges, strategies in recruiting RNs, partnering with professional organizations to recruit RNs, and updating the website. Using multiple job boards to promote available RN positions was also identified as a strategy to recruit RNs. Identifying strategies to recruit RNs may assist human resource leaders in a challenging business environment in which the supply of qualified RNs is low. The study findings have implications for positive social change for recruiters in a nonprofit health care facility and in the community. Recruiters in a nonprofit health care facility that recruit qualified RNs may assist with improving the nonprofit mission, identifying sickness or disease, and assisting with proper treatment for patients.

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Crawford, William Charles Richards. « Mapping healthcare information technology ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58179.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2010.
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In this thesis I have developed a map of Healthcare Information Technology applications used in the United States for care delivery, healthcare enterprise management, clinical support, research and patient engagement. No attempt has previously been made to develop such a taxonomy for use by healthcare policy makers and on-the-spot decision makers. Using my own fifteen years of experience in HIT, along with an extensive set of literature reviews, interviews and on-site research I assembled lists of applications and organized them into categories based on primary workflows. Seven categories of HIT systems emerged, which are Practice Tools, Advisory Tools, Financial Tools, Remote Healthcare Tools, Clinical Research Tools, Health 2.0 Tools and Enterprise Clinical Analytics, each of which have different operational characteristics and user communities. The results of this pilot study demonstrate that a map is possible. The draft map presented here will allow researchers and investors to focus on developing the next generation of HIT tools, including software platforms that orchestrate a variety of healthcare transactions, and will support policy makers as they consider the impact of Federal funding for HIT deployment and adoption. Further studies will refine the map, adding an additional level of detail below the seven categories established here, thus supporting tactical decision making at the hospital and medical practice level.
by William Charles Richards Crawford.
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DeMain, Karen A. « Healthcare Managers' Perspectives of their Management Education ». The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1418909720.

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Scott, Kirstin W. « The Politics of Healthcare Quality ». Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:17467364.

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Improving the quality of care provided by the U.S. healthcare system is an important societal goal. Policymakers who wish to operationalize this goal must navigate an increasingly polarized health policymaking environment. In this dissertation, I examine three stakeholders who can influence this environment: the public, state governors, and health care providers. In Chapter 1, I explore attitudes of and experiences with health care quality among Democrats and Republicans. Relying on a national survey of 1,508 American adults, I find that regardless of having a recent medical issue, Democrats express greater concerns about national quality of care problems relative to Republicans. At the same time, I find no difference in their personal experiences with quality of care received while hospitalized or with healthcare providers. In Chapter 2, I examine how gubernatorial candidates treat health policy in the 2012 and 2014 elections given the states’ increasing role in ACA implementation, which can collectively impact the quality of care provided nationally. After generating a novel database of all gubernatorial candidates’ campaign websites, I summarize the presence of healthcare content, framing of health system problems, and issue engagement with the ACA and its key coverage provisions in these two elections. I find the majority of gubernatorial candidates discuss health policy but are selective in their focus. Republicans, who are more likely than Democrats to express their views specifically regarding the ACA (which they nearly all refer to as “Obamacare”), won the majority of these 47 gubernatorial seats. Winning candidates from both parties discussed the Medicaid expansion decision of their state, with some expressing intentions to reverse course relative to their current expansion status. In Chapter 3, I examine a trend expected to grow under the ACA: hospital-physician integration. Using national hospital and Medicare data from 2003-2012, I document the rise of hospital employment of physicians and examine whether or not this yields improvements in mortality, readmission rates, length of stay or patient satisfaction. Though I find that a plurality of hospitals now enter into employment relationships with physicians, this study provides no evidence that these changes are associated with improvements in quality of care.
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Shah, Harshal. « A context-aware approach to healthcare ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10144828.

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Context-aware systems are a component of a ubiquitous computing or pervasive computing environment. Three important aspects of context include the following: where you are, who you are with, and what resources are nearby. Although location is a primary capability, location-aware does not necessarily capture information of interest that are mobile or changing. Context-aware, in contrast, is used more generally to include nearby people, devices, lighting, noise level, network availability, and even a social situation, such as whether someone is with a family member or a friend from school.

The purpose of this project is to introduce a healthcare application named ‘Care Taker’ that facilitates a longitudinal study in which data is gathered from a user’s smartphone over a period of time using a context aware application. This data is then analyzed to give a user actionable health related recommendations.

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Hulett, Kimberly. « Leadership Strategies for Retaining Healthcare Professionals ». ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/3168.

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Obtaining information about employee engagement and retention practices is vital for organizations. Affective organizational commitment reflects the extent to which organizational members are loyal and willing to work toward organizational objectives. In particular, affective organizational commitment holds important implications at all organizational levels (e.g., turnover rates, performance, and citizenship behavior). Using general systems theory and transformational leadership theory, the purpose of this single case study was to explore strategies used to improve employee engagement and retention from 5 senior leaders with hiring responsibilities from a midsize hospital in Austin, Texas that have been successful with employee engagement and retention strategies. All participants volunteered to participate in semistructured interviews. The interviews were transcribed and participants were asked to member check the drafted findings to reinforce credibility and trustworthiness. Interview data and researcher reflexive memos were inductively analyzed and coded through NVivo. Five themes emerged that focused on employee engagement and retention: development and training, reward and recognition, compensation, work-life balance, and leadership skills and behaviors. By implementing practices that improve employee engagement and retention, hiring managers can increase employee productivity, reduce employee turnover cost, create a stable life for the individuals in need of support, and develop relationships with the community where integration occurs

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Wood, David L. « New Models of Health and Social Determinants of Health ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5180.

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Brown, Kathryn. « Workplace incivility in a large metropolitan healthcare organization ». Thesis, Northern Kentucky University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3622556.

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Healthcare today is constantly transforming as hospital systems are challenged to maximize productivity and value. Factors such as occupational stress, difficult working conditions, unresolved conflict, lack of leadership, and increased complexity of healthcare foster disruptive and uncivil behavior and directly impact work performance, patient safety, and the physical well-being of those providing or supporting the care given to patients. The objectives of this study were to: 1. assess the prevalence of incivility within a large metropolitan healthcare organization, 2. determine differences in the frequency of incivility within select occupational groups, and 3. examine the relation between incivility and productivity, organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and workplace stress. The study was a cross-sectional, correlation design, using survey methodology. Data were collected from employees working in one organization consisting of an acute care facility, outpatient centers, and ambulatory locations. The study population included direct and non-direct patient care job categories and physicians.

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Card, Alan Joseph. « Contributions to active risk control in healthcare : steps toward a rebalanced approach to healthcare risk management ». Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648296.

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Cherry, Shirley J. « Communication and Collaboration in HealthCare ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2488.

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Cherry, Shirley J. « Collaboration and Communication in Healthcare ». Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2002. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2491.

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Olsson, Jesper. « Factors for successful improvement of Swedish healthcare / ». Stockholm, 2005. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2005/91-7140-391-4/.

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Goodwin, Charles Scott. « Healthcare Organizational Metaphors and Implications for Leadership ». Thesis, Franklin Pierce University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3567804.

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Healthcare as an industry included over 14 million workers in the United States and accounted for more than 15 percent of total Gross Domestic Product in 2008. Healthcare, particularly hospitals, played a significant role in shaping the culture, economy and quality of life throughout the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing to the present. For this reason, it was important to understand the nature of hospitals as healthcare organizations and the nature of leadership within these organizations. Metaphors were identified as a viable way to capture the structure and functioning of hospitals through their evolution as organizations over the past century and were used to evaluate the effectiveness of hospital leadership in responding to environmental, financial and societal changes. Based on this assessment, the role of metaphors as a leadership tool was examined and as well as the potential role of metaphors in promoting organizations development.

A survey of Certified Professionals in Healthcare Quality (CPHQ) in the Northeastern United States was used to assess the prevalence of the two most common metaphors cited in the literature for healthcare organizations, mechanistic and complex adaptive system. A unique aspect of this survey was the use of paired statements reflecting characteristics of the two most common metaphors to evaluate their use in healthcare organizations. Surprisingly, the metaphors frequently cited in the literature were identified infrequently and no metaphors were identified consistently across hospitals in the region.

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Young, Lisa. « iPawsome, LLC| A Healthcare Employee Well-Being Service ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10839189.

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Employee burnout has been a toxic concern in today’s American workforce. The prevalence of stress in the healthcare workplace is costing America billions of dollars and leading to medical errors, absenteeism, and turnover. Research indicates that human-animal bond provides physical, physiological, and psychological health benefits for professionals. This project will present the benefit of human-animal interactions (HAI) therapy in promoting the well-being in healthcare professionals. It will address services which will deliver to healthcare employees in the convenience of their workplace as well as educate the reader about the role animals play in humans’ lives. A combined minimal overhead cost and scientifically-proven health benefits of HAI, overall enhanced feelings of employee well-being and decreased animal abandonment are the strengths to this project. Finally, a discussion outlining the market, feasibility, legal and regulatory considerations and the proposal of financial analysis to deliver the project’s value with specific services from the human-animal interactions program.

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Bender, Kelly L. « Choosing a healthcare facility a survey of women's views in a local healthcare setting / ». Online version, 2008. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2008/2008benderk.pdf.

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Kidambi, Supriya. « WeCare Home Healthcare Support Services Business Plan ». Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10261395.

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Considering the expanding populace of elderly in the United States of America, there has been a significant growth in demand for home healthcare organizations which serve to deliver continuous quality care. Home healthcare organizations guarantee to support our economy and decrease healthcare costs to a huge level. This marketable business plan inspects the business capability of a home healthcare services startup located in San Diego Downtown.

This business plan has been broken down into several compartments where chapter 1 accounts on the market analysis of our business providing marketing strategies and intricate details of our company and its analysis, services provided, services in demand, customer and competitor analysis, marketing potential and demand. Chapter 2 deals with feasibility and SWOT analysis, to evaluate pros and cons, and to get a better idea of the organizational structure of the business plan. In Chapter 3, we talk about the legal aspects concerning State and Federal laws. Chapter 4 explains about the financial assumptions and analysis, annual expenditures as well as monthly expenses with the overall potential of home healthcare services to survive market competition.

We conclude that WeCare home healthcare services plan showed great potential to withstand the competitive market and drive towards success.

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Myers, Catherine. « Constructing a Healthcare Assets Map in Rural Appalachia : An Analysis of Healthcare Services and Perceived Health Threats ». Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4922.

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Using data gathered over the course of two months through participant observation and semi-structured interviews with health providers (n=19) and community members (n=20), this research analyzes patient access to health care resources and describes community members' and health care providers' perceptions of pressing health concerns in their area. The results of this research show the types of health care resources in the county, the similarities and differences between health providers' and community members' perceptions, and how the unique characteristics of this community influence health care access and health disparity.

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