Demand for Healthcare Reform by Public Opinion and Medical Professionals: A Comparative Survey Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Claus Wendt ◽  
Elias Naumann
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Comparative Survey

Attitudes of Medical Workers Toward Artificial Intelligence in Ophthalmology: A Comparative Survey (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weihua Yang ◽  
Bo Zheng ◽  
Maonian Wu ◽  
Shaojun Zhu ◽  
Hongxia Zhou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Medical Ethics ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Acceptance Level ◽  
Professional Workers ◽  
Basic Understanding ◽  
Comparative Survey ◽  
Definition Of

BACKGROUND Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely applied in the medical field, especially in ophthalmology. In the development of ophthalmic artificial intelligence, some problems worthy of attention have gradually emerged, among which the ophthalmic AI-related recognition issues are particularly prominent. That is to say, currently, there is a lack of research into people's familiarity with and their attitudes toward ophthalmic AI. OBJECTIVE This survey aims to assess medical workers’ and other professional technicians’ familiarity with AI, as well as their attitudes toward and concerns of ophthalmic AI. METHODS An electronic questionnaire was designed through the Questionnaire Star APP, an online survey software and questionnaire tool, and was sent to relevant professional workers through Wechat, China’s version of Facebook or WhatsApp. The participation was based on a voluntary and anonymous principle. The questionnaire mainly consisted of four parts, namely the participant’s background, the participant's basic understanding of AI, the participant's attitude toward AI, and the participant's concerns about AI. A total of 562 participants were counted, with 562 valid questionnaires returned. The results of the questionnaires are displayed in an Excel 2003 form. RESULTS A total of 562 professional workers completed the questionnaire, of whom 291 were medical workers and 271 were other professional technicians. About 37.9% of the participants understood AI, and 31.67% understood ophthalmic AI. The percentages of people who understood ophthalmic AI among medical workers and other professional technicians were about 42.61% and 15.6%, respectively. About 66.01% of the participants thought that ophthalmic AI would partly replace doctors, with about 59.07% still having a relatively high acceptance level of ophthalmic AI. Meanwhile, among those with ophthalmic AI application experiences (30.6%), respectively about 84.25% of medical professionals and 73.33% of other professional technicians held a full acceptance attitude toward ophthalmic AI. The participants expressed concerns that ophthalmic AI might bring about issues such as the unclear definition of medical responsibilities, the difficulty of ensuring service quality, and the medical ethics risks. And among the medical workers and other professional technicians who understood ophthalmic AI, 98.39%, and 95.24%, respectively, said that there was a need to increase the study of medical ethics issues in the ophthalmic AI field. CONCLUSIONS Analysis of the questionnaire results shows that the medical workers have a higher understanding level of ophthalmic AI than other professional technicians, making it necessary to popularize ophthalmic AI education among other professional technicians. Most of the participants did not have any experience in ophthalmic AI, but generally had a relatively high acceptance level of ophthalmic AI, believing that doctors would partly be replaced by it and that there was a need to strengthen research into medical ethics issues of the field.

scholarly journals Changing Logics in Healthcare and Their Effects on the Identity Motives and Identity Work of Doctors

2020 ◽  
pp. 017084061989587 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Martin ◽  
Stacey Bushfield ◽  
Sabina Siebert ◽  
Brian Howieson
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Reform ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Medical Professional ◽  
Identity Work ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Identity Motives ◽  
Large Category

Recent literature on hybridity has provided useful insights into how professionals have responded to changing institutional logics. Our focus is on how shifting logics have shaped senior medical professionals’ identity motives and identity work in a qualitative study of hospital consultants in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service. We found a binary divide between a large category of traditionalist doctors who reject shifting logics, and a much smaller category of incorporated consultants who broadly accept shifting logics and advocate change, with little evidence of significant ambivalence or temporary identity ‘fixes’ associated with liminality. By developing a new inductively generated framework, we show how the identity motives and identity work of these two categories of doctors differ significantly. We explore the underlying causes of these differences, and the implications they hold for theory and practice in medical professionalism, medical professional leadership and healthcare reform.

scholarly journals HSR Development in Russia Considering the Dynamics of Passenger Traffic and Public Opinion

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 248-270
Author(s):  
E. A. Ivanova ◽  
T. A. Flyagina
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Rolling Stock ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
High Speed Rail ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Passenger Traffic

To study the problems and opportunities for implementation of high-speed railway (HSR) projects, as well as to confirm the potential demand for highspeed transportation services, the authors studied public opinion regarding three of the potential HSR lines as well as the experience of foreign countries in implementation of projected passenger traffic, financing of construction of high-speed main lines and assessing their impact on the general economic growth of regions.When conducting the study, the authors used the methods of a questionnaire sociological survey, analysis, comparison, induction.The main results of the study have shown that in development and implementation of expensive highspeed rail projects, it is of particular importance to identify the demand of passengers for high-speed transportation, the general attitude and readiness of the population of countries to use such main lines. The article has studied the dynamics of demand for passenger transportation by branded and non-branded trains on key directions, which made it possible to identify several of them as the most promising for development of high-speed lines. The sociological research carried out by the authors, using the method of questioning in social networks, made it possible to reveal the attitude of the country’s residents towards the most potentially promising for high-speed rail projects directions: Moscow–St. Petersburg, Moscow– Kazan and Moscow–Rostov-on-Don. According to the results of the survey, Russians have a positive attitude to development of high-speed railways in the country, most of the respondents intend to use them when it is necessary to make interurban trips, especially on Moscow–St. Petersburg route.The authors present the external economic effects and risks of development of high-speed railways in Russia. The effects comprise the growth of the population’s transport mobility. The potential risks of developing high-speed rail projects are associated with complexity of ensuring reliable operation of rolling stock and infrastructure of these main lines under difficult climatic conditions in Russia, as well as with high cost of travel for Russians, which negatively affects demand. To overcome the latter risk, it is important to form a positive image of projects by modelling public opinion.

scholarly journals Academic reading format preferences and behaviors among university students worldwide: A comparative survey analysis

PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. e0197444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Mizrachi ◽  
Alicia M. Salaz ◽  
Serap Kurbanoglu ◽  
Joumana Boustany ◽  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Academic Reading ◽  
Comparative Survey ◽  
And Behaviors

Comparative Survey Analysis

1969 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 191-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stein Rokkan ◽  
Jean Viet ◽  
Sidney Verba ◽  
Elina Almasy
Keyword(s):  
Survey Analysis ◽  
Comparative Survey

The Curious Case of Chastine Cox: Murder, Race, Medicine and the Media in the Gilded Age

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-501
Author(s):  
Courtney E Thompson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Evidence ◽  
Medical Authority ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
Defence Strategy

Summary This paper explores the intersection of race, law and medical authority in Gilded Age New York through an examination of the trial and execution of Chastine Cox. This case was a media sensation due to two controversies which played out in the courtroom and the court of public opinion. For the public, Cox’s race inflected the debate over the crime and execution. Within the courtroom, however, controversy centred on the interpretation of medical evidence, which raised the possibility that Cox was not guilty. In particular, the defence strategy centred on medical theories of suspended animation, making use of new medical evidence about the line between life and death to prompt uncertainties both about the possibility of murder and the reliability of medical professionals. This paper demonstrates the ways in which anxieties about life, death, law, race and medicine were negotiated in courts of law and public opinion.

The student-led movements of 2014 and public opinion

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao ◽  
Po-San Wan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Political System ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
Local Movement ◽  
Comparative Survey ◽  
Independent Effects ◽  
Demographic Attributes ◽  
The Relationship

This article, which is based on a comparative survey conducted in late 2014, explores public opinion in Taiwan and Hong Kong on the Sunflower and Umbrella movements. We find that public support for the local movement in each place was almost equally divided. As for the other movement, the supporters outnumbered opponents. The basic patterns of the relationship between socio-demographic attributes, political attitudes, as well as the evaluation of the “China impact”, and public support for the two movements were consistent in both societies. Those most likely to support the Sunflower and Umbrella movements were: the young; Minnanese, Hakka, or Hong Kong-born people; those who support the “Pan-Green” or “Pan-democracy” camps; those who agreed that democracy is the best political system; those who had a negative view of the “China impact”, especially its harmful influence on local democracy. Notwithstanding these similarities, in Taiwan, support for the Sunflower Movement was mainly divided by ethnic group and for the Umbrella Movement by gender; while in Hong Kong, support for both movements was largely divided by age, and the perceived “China impact” on local economic growth had no independent effects.

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