The effect of the latest health care reforms on the quality of community health services in China

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. e1225-e1231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanhong Gong ◽  
Juan Xu ◽  
Ting Chen ◽  
Na Sun ◽  
Zuxun Lu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Health Care Reforms

scholarly journals Patient experience surveys for children’s community health services: A scoping review

2021 ◽  
pp. 136749352110058
Author(s):  
Helen J Nelson ◽  
Catherine Pienaar ◽  
Anne M Williams ◽  
Ailsa Munns ◽  
Katie McKenzie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Experience Of Care ◽  
Healthcare Experience

Patient experience surveys have a user focus and measure the quality of person-centered health care for hospital inpatients and consumers of community health services, providing a governance process to evaluate the quality of care and to action improvement. Experience of care has been described as effective communication, respect and dignity, and emotional support. Measurement criteria for these domains are not standardized, leading to inconsistent reporting of patient experience. The objective of this scoping review was to synthesize evidence for measuring experience of care in children’s community health services using the Joanna Briggs Institute framework for scoping review method. Three parent-reported surveys met the inclusion criteria, and 50 survey items were assessed by expert reviewers for fit to domains of healthcare experience. Conceptual domains of parent experience in children’s community health services included respect and dignity, effective communication, and emotional support. A gap was identified, in that few items in identified surveys measured emotional support. This contribution will promote consistent reporting of healthcare experience, informing policy and practice for person-centered health care.

The COAG Reforms and Community Health Services

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Duckett ◽  
Tracie Hogan ◽  
Jan Southgate
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Acute Care ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Community Wellbeing ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Acute Care Services ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Impact

Ultimately, the reform directions announced by the Council of Australian Governments (COAG) in April 1995 have the potential to touch all aspects of health care and community wellbeing, and the impact will be felt as much by community health services, and for groups with special needs, such as people from non-English speaking backgrounds, as it will for acute care services.

scholarly journals How to Screen Suitable Service Improve Community Health Care Services by University Students in Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guey-Shin Shyu ◽  
Shinn-Jou Lin ◽  
Wei-Ta Fang ◽  
Bai-You Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
University Students ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Study Results

Engaging in social contributions to enhance social participation and attending community experiential service learning or internship courses have become an essential learning experience for university students. On the basis of postmodern education theories, this study adopted images and oral accounts involving personal experiences to construct a postmodern education research scheme by using the method of collaborative ethnography. This study selected and performed the following services: filming a community documentary, administering community health dance classes, and archiving community cultural artifacts in databases. Interviews were also administered to facilitate implementation of the actual services. Community health services commonly seen in Taiwan and abroad were compiled, and the resources required for each service were examined. Subsequently, factor analysis was performed to explore the characteristic of these services in order to recommend feasible services for university students to undertake. The results indicated that the eight resources required for the 59 common community health services were (1) a designated space or venue, (2) materials, (3) monetary resources, (4) human resources, (5) expertise, (6) professional equipment, (7) patience, and (8) empathy. The results revealed three principal components, namely labor services, high-resource services, and professional services, for a total explanatory power of 67.99%; the individual explanatory power of these components accounted for 25.04%, 21.81%, and 21.15%, respectively. Next, community health care services suitable for university students to perform were selected and implemented, and these services were well received. The study results indicated that community and environmental justice can be realized by identifying with the value of community health services and promoting postmodern education theories and social norms. The research results are suitable for implementation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community health services and health care utilization in rural Bangladesh

1989 ◽  
Vol 29 (12) ◽  
pp. 1343-1349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruhul Amin ◽  
Shifiq A. Chowdhury ◽  
G.M. Kamal ◽  
J. Chowdhury
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Care Utilization ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Rural Bangladesh

scholarly journals Nurse competence in implementing public health care

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 428
Author(s):  
Suprapto Suprapto ◽  
Trimaya Cahya Mulat ◽  
Nur Syamsi Norma Lalla
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Public Health Care ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Public Health Center ◽  
And Training

Health development is a way of increasing awareness, willingness and ability to live healthy for everyone so that an optimal degree of public health can be achieved. The purpose of knowing how the relationship between nurse competence and community health care activities. This study employed quantitative approach and correlation analysis. The population was nurses who work at public health center in Makassar City, Indonesia, however there were 118 nurses who meet the criteria in their selection. There were relationships between attitudes, skills, and competencies with the level of implementation of community health services and that there is an interaction between competence and training. The results of the competency analysis obtained an OR value of 6.429, meaning that public health center nurses who have good competence have a chance of 6.429 times to carry out community health care activities optimally. Most dominant with the implementation of public health care is the interaction between competence and training. The competence of nurses need to be improved in order to optimize the implementation of community health services through training, coaching through assigned teams, and collaborating with peers and providing support in the form of policies for rewards and sanctions such as nurse career paths.

Obtaining and Using Client Feedback in Community Health Services

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jolley ◽  
Libby Kalucy ◽  
Joanne McNamara
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Service Planning ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Client Feedback

Client feedback is an important component of two primary health care strategies: participation and evaluation. Workers need feedback from clients to ensure that their practice meets the criterion of providing affordable, accessible and appropriate services to enhance the health of their communities. Telephone interviews were conducted with thirty staff and thirty clients from women's and community health services in South Australia, to identify current practice in obtaining and using feedback from users of one-to-one services and group health promotion and community development activities. Factors which encourage feedback to be given and used include: trust and effective communications between all stakeholders; and supportive organisational philosophies, culture and practices. Client feedback is more likely to be used when given in written form. Collection and use of feedback are discouraged by inappropriate methods and timing, rapid organisational change, and clients' lack of awareness of, or confidence in, giving feedback about the services they receive. Verbal feedback, although preferred by many clients, is less likely to be recorded and used in service planning and evaluation. Client feedback is a valuable tool to reinforce the notion of partnership and power sharing between clients and health care workers. Staff at all levels should be engaged in obtaining feedback and the information gained should be disseminated throughout the agency in order to improve the quality and effectiveness of services. The challenge is now for service providers and users to adopt new, and support currently successful, ways of obtaining and using feedback so that service providers and users are engaged in working in partnership to ensure the needs of the community are best met.

Contracts and the Quasi-market in Community Health Services

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Flynn ◽  
Susan Pickard ◽  
Gareth Williams
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Acute Hospital ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Hospital Services ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Qualitative Evidence ◽  
Contracting Process

ABSTRACTIn the NHS quasi-market, contracts are the crucial mechanism through which purchasers influence providers of health care. Most attention has been given to the commissioning and contracting process in acute hospital services. However, there is another important but neglected sector of health care – community health services (CHS) – in which the specification and implementation of contracts is particularly difficult. In this article, three dimensions of contracting are analysed, illustrated by qualitative evidence from case studies, concerning: the measurement of activity; the estimation of costs and prices; and the monitoring of outcomes and quality. This article argues that community health services are intrinsically problematic within the quasi-market, and suggests that the nature of the services and the system of delivery militate against provider competition. It is argued that CHS have more in common with ‘clans’ and ‘networks’ rather than markets and hierarchies, and that this requires collaborative rather than adversarial relationships between purchasers and providers.

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