scholarly journals The Digital Lifeworld and Salutogenesis

2022 ◽  
pp. 625-634
Author(s):  
Luis Saboga-Nunes ◽  
Uwe H. Bittlingmayer ◽  
Pauline Bakibinga
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Financial Barriers ◽  
Health Behaviour Change ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Quitting Smoking ◽  
Care Health ◽  
The One

AbstractIn this chapter, the authors explore salutogenesis in the context of the ‘digital world’, concerning both high- and low-resource countries. The digital world is rapidly developing and can transcend physical and financial barriers of health care and health promotion. The digital world also has many challenges, especially for equity. On the one hand, digitalization carries the risk of excluding many people – also healthcare workers – because they cannot access the digital world or do not have the technical skills to understand it (make sense of it). On the other hand, the digital world offers both new generalized resistance resources (GRRs) and specific resistance resources (SRRs) to improve population health and promote healthy lifestyles and health literacy. The authors nicely illustrate how the sense of coherence (SOC) helps people find a balance in the digital world’s stress-rich environment. Important steps forward in this field include work to strengthen the evidence base and to document the preconditions for a digital world that supports decision making in health care, health behaviour change (e.g. quitting smoking) and – above all – supports empowerment and social justice.

Práticas humanizadoras na Atenção Básica: uma revisão sistemática qualitativa

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-62
Author(s):  
Ieda Carla Almeida dos Santos de Souza Pastana ◽  
Erika Cardozo Pereira Cardozo Pereira ◽  
Janaina Cristina Santos Lima Cristina Santos Lima ◽  
Mariana Cabral Schveitzer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Personal Autonomy ◽  
Attitude Of Health Personnel ◽  
Holistic Care ◽  
Patient Centred Care ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Health

Objetivos: identificar práticas de humanização na Atenção Básica. Método: revisão sistemática, partindo das seguintes fontes de in-formação: PubMed, CINAHL, Scielo, utilizando-se a palavra-chave primary health care, associada separadamente às seguintes pa-lavras-chave: humanization of assistance (humanização), holistic care/health (cuidado/saúde holístico), patient centred care, user embracement (acolhimento), personal autonomy, holism, attitude of health personnel (atitude dos profissionais). Método: Revisão sistemática qualitativa. Resultados: Foram incluídos 17 estudos identificados entre 2012 e 2018. Os dados foram sistematizados em sete categorias: (a) Oferta de práticas humanizadoras, (b) Difi-cultadores das práticas humanizadoras, (c) Facilitadores das prá-ticas humanizadoras, (d) Necessidade de capacitação sobre as práticas humanizadoras, (e) Vínculo profissional-usuário, (f) Efei-to positivo das práticas humanizadoras no trabalho em equipe e (g) Atitudes e crenças que refletem as práticas humanizadoras. Considerações Finais: As práticas humanizadoras continuam a ser desenvolvidas na Atenção Básica e seus efeitos positivos são re-conhecidos pelos profissionais de saúde. Por isso, investimentos no desenvolvimento dessas práticas e também em pesquisas de-vem continuar, incluindo também as percepções de usuários e dos órgãos gestores.  

Investigating the role of Non-Technical Skills in Railway Traffic Operations through Expert Knowledge Elicitation

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 262-266
Author(s):  
Iga Jarosz* ◽  
Julia Lo ◽  
Jan Lijs
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Control ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Skill Training ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Knowledge Elicitation ◽  
Protective Function ◽  
Nontechnical Skills ◽  
Railway Traffic ◽  
The One ◽  
Expert Classification

Many high-risk industries identify non-technical skills as safety-critical abilities of the operational staff that have a protective function against human fallibility. Based on an established non-technical skills classification system, methods for expert knowledge elicitation were used to describe non-technical skills in the specific context of train traffic control in the Netherlands. The findings offer insights regarding the skill importance for good operational outcomes, skill difficulty, categorization, and attitudes based on subject matter experts’ opinions. Substantial overlap between the employed non-technical skills framework and the observed expert classification was found, which might indicate that the experts utilize a mental model of nontechnical skills similar to the one used. Furthermore, considerations concerning the organizational culture and the attitudes towards change provide a promising outlook when introducing novel solutions to non-technical skill training and assessment.

Health and Health Care of Sexual and Gender Minorities

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 318-333
Author(s):  
Ning Hsieh ◽  
Stef M. Shuster
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sexual And Gender Minorities ◽  
Social Dimensions ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Care Health ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship

Research on the social dimensions of health and health care among sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) has grown rapidly in the last two decades. However, a comprehensive review of the extant interdisciplinary scholarship on SGM health has yet to be written. In response, we offer a synthesis of recent scholarship. We discuss major empirical findings and theoretical implications of health care utilization, barriers to care, health behaviors, and health outcomes, which demonstrate how SGMs continue to experience structural- and interactional-level inequalities across health and medicine. Within this synthesis, we also consider the conceptual and methodological limitations that continue to beleaguer the field and offer suggestions for several promising directions for future research and theory building. SGM health bridges the scholarly interests in social and health sciences and contributes to broader sociological concerns regarding the persistence of sexuality- and gender-based inequalities.

Patient Segmentation Based on Patient Loyalty

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-534
Author(s):  
Remedios Calero ◽  
Carlota Lorenzo ◽  
Martina G. Gallarza
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Patient Loyalty ◽  
Health Council ◽  
Patient Segmentation ◽  
Patient Profiles ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

The present study aims to perform a segmentation of patients based on their loyalty behaviour. The analysis focuses on Valencia, a region in Spain that features a capitated financing and free-elective framework; such a framework is particularly suitable for this type of study because patient loyalty directly affects the system’s budget and economic viability. Using secondary data from the regional health council, the study focuses on relationships of influence and latent segmentation in answering seven research questions. The two-pronged statistical analysis is designed to analyse relationships of influence, on the one hand, and latent segmentation, on the other. Significant differences were found among the various scales analysed in the three patient loyalty behavioural models (capture, retention and desertion) for each variable within the scope, that is, subjective (gender, age and nationality) and circumstantial (size of the assigned and receiving hospital, location of the province of the assigned hospital). This finding indicates that it may be possible to develop patient profiles based on such variables to analyse different loyalty behaviours in patients and the impact of hospital communication strategies on these behaviours. Patient loyalty is essential to the viability of a capitated health care financing and management system. Likewise, identifying patient profiles would contribute to a better Valencian public health management. Accordingly, it might be applied to evaluate other health care financing systems.

scholarly journals Community Pharmacy Response in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Time-Sensitive Opportunity for Research and Evaluation

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 215013271881349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Melin ◽  
Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Community Pharmacy ◽  
Natural Disaster ◽  
Community Pharmacists ◽  
Evidence Base ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Prescription Medications ◽  
Collaborative Practice Agreement

One year ago, Hurricane Maria passed over the archipelago of Puerto Rico, leaving widespread disruption of nearly all human services, including the health care sector. In the aftermath of the hurricane, limited access to medical care and prescription medications presented a serious challenge to maintaining control of preexisting chronic diseases. Many patients did not have access to refrigeration for heat-sensitive medications. Significant dietary changes due to the limited availability of shelf-stable foods further exacerbated chronic conditions such as heart failure and diabetes. The role of community pharmacists following a natural disaster has previously been documented, and may include the triage of evacuees, assessment of immunization needs, and provision of prescription medications under a collaborative practice agreement. However, our experience in Puerto Rico demonstrated a variety of barriers limited pharmacists’ ability to adequately respond to the magnitude of this disaster. These included medication shortages, extended loss of power, and limited telecommunications for contacting prescribers, disaster relief agencies, and third-party payers. Ultimately, the lack of preexisting emergency protocols made overcoming such barriers difficult. As the first and sometimes only accessible health care provider to many patients following a natural disaster, we must build a solid evidence base and better understanding of the individual, interpersonal, and environmental factors that contribute to the community pharmacist response. To date, however, a paucity of data exists on both the pharmacist and patient factors, which may contribute to an effective immediate response to patient needs at the community pharmacy following a natural disaster. Future research must focus on these multi-level factors to better inform public policy and effective disaster planning. Ultimately, such research and planning will lead to increased resiliency in our primary health care systems in the face of future disasters.

Friend or Foe? Regional Newspapers and the Power of Facebook

2015 ◽  
Vol 156 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristy Hess ◽  
Kathryn Bowd
Keyword(s):  
Digital World ◽  
Comparison Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Regional Newspapers ◽  
Case Comparison ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Access Information ◽  
The One ◽  
Digital Landscape

This article examines how some regional newspapers in Australia are engaging with the social media juggernaut Facebook, and looks at the effects of this on their relationships with audiences in a digital world. We highlight how terms such as friend' and ‘community’ mask complex power struggles taking place across these two media platforms. On the one hand, Facebook can facilitate public conversation and widen the options for journalists to access information; on the other, it has become a competitor as news outlets struggle to find a business model for online spaces. We suggest that newspapers and journalists are facing challenges in navigating the complexities of a platform that crosses public/private domains at a time when the nature of ‘private’ and ‘public’ is being contested. The article adopts a ‘pooled case comparison’ approach, drawing on data from two separate Australian studies that examine regional newspapers in a digital landscape. The research draws on interviews with journalists and editors in Australia across three states, and on focus groups and interviews with newspaper readers in Victoria.

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