Minimizing COVID-19 disruption: ensuring the supply of essential health products for health emergencies and routine health services

Patients in health services have different behaviors in deciding to take advantage of health services. Patients used various considerations to make decisions based on the health products or services for re-treatment. The study aimed to analyze the factors that influence the patient's decision in using health services for re-treatment. This research was quantitative with cross-sectional design and conducted at Tanjung Pura Regional Hospital. The population was 3.946 people, and the sample were 247 respondents taken by using purposive sampling. Data analysis was univariate and bivariate using chi-square and multivariate using multiple logistic regression at the 95% confidence level (a= .05). The results showed that the factors that influenced the patient's decision to use health services for re-treatment at the Tanjung Pura Regional Hospital were the service quality of doctors / nurses (p= .000), distance (p=.049), facilities (p=0.000), and service speed (p = .000). The factors that did not influence we age (p=.461). gender (p=.895), education (p=.371), occupation (p=.593). The most dominant factor influencing is facilities with Exp (B)/OR =14.477, meaning that respondents who stated that the hospital facilities were good, had the opportunity to use health services for re-treatment by 14.4 times higher the respondents who stated that the hospital facilities were not good. It is suggested to Tanjung Pura Regional Hospital to propose and allocate a budget for improving hospital facilities that are still lacking and adding new service facilities so that it can increase public confidence for repeat treatment

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Perlindungan Konsumen Terhadap Peredaran Produk Kesehatan Ilegal di Era Pandemik Covid-19 Di Kota Ambon

SASI ◽

10.47268/sasi.v27i2.453 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (2) ◽

pp. 160

Author(s):

Theresia Louize Pesulima ◽

Jenny Kristiana Matuankotta ◽

Sarah Selfina Kuahaty

Keyword(s):

Health Services ◽

Research Methods ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Quality Monitoring ◽

Municipal Administration ◽

Empirical Law ◽

Health Products ◽

The Law ◽

Industry And Commerce ◽

The City

This study swapped to know and analyze the protection of the law against consumen over the illicit circulation of health products in the covid-19 pandemic in the city of Ambon and the takes of the territory of the illegal health products in the covid -19 pandemic in the city of Ambon. The study was a sociolegal research. Which is the combination of research methods of doctrinal law research and empirical law research methods. The study was conducted in the municipal administration of Ambon, in the city of Ambon health services, in the industry and commerce of the province of Maluku and in the large hall of the Maluku drug and food centers. This type of data is primer data and seconder data through literature studies and interviews shown by the study shows that quality monitoring in done by both preventive and repressive governments in the pandemic covid-19 of Ambon, it is a legal protection for consumers against illegal health products that are unqualified and consumer helath standards and health that are circulated on the market according to prevailing legislation regulations.

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How Can an AI Supported, Self-Assessment Tool Raise Standards of Digital Health Services During COVID-19 Emergency?

40th International Conference on Organizational Science Development Values Competencies and Changes in Organizations ◽

10.18690/978-961-286-442-2.62 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Neja Samar Brenčič ◽

Malcolm Fisk ◽

Uroš Rajkovič

Keyword(s):

Health Services ◽

Social Services ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Digital Health ◽

Assessment Tools ◽

Alternative Form ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Traditional Health ◽

Health Products ◽

Common Interests

It is understandable that digital health services are now being developed in the context of a global emergency. However, it is crucial that standards are in place for these services to support their operation in a way that accommodates common interests and objectives and recognises the level of their importance for all stakeholders involved (including service recipients or users). We believe that it is necessary to establish and maintain quality standards for digital health products and services in these conditions. Furthermore, even after the pandemic, the need to integrate digital health services into traditional health and social services will remain a priority. Therefore we consider whether multi-criteria, self assessment tools, supported with artificial intelligence, can raise standards of digital health services that are rapidly developing as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. We believe that such digital services are no longer just an alternative form of health care. It follows that frameworks for the development of standards, accreditation and regulation must also be included as national (or supra-national) priorities. These will help ensure not only technological but also service quality.

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Romanian customers’ satisfactions regarding private health services

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence ◽

10.2478/picbe-2020-0075 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 788-796

Author(s):

Andreea Marin-Pantelescu ◽

Mihaela Hint

Keyword(s):

Health Services ◽

Mixed Reality ◽

Da Vinci ◽

Digital Health ◽

The Body ◽

Da Vinci Surgical System ◽

Private Healthcare ◽

Health Products ◽

Airway Stents ◽

Vinci Surgical System

AbstractNowadays customers become more concerned about private health services, as performance, innovation and creativity overspread into our lives. Digital health services development in Romania has grown gradually through the acquisition of state-of-the-art equipment as RMN Siemens Magnetom Essenza machine, CT Optima 520 available in Romanian health private clinics. Is the e-health the future of health services in Romania? The answer will be a strong yes. Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment by leveraging the immune system to fight tumors. The hope is that someday immunotherapy options will exist for all types of tumors. On the other hand, 3-D printing allows the user to create health products specific to the patient, including prosthetics, implants, and airway stents. More than that, Virtual reality/mixed reality applications have become popular in Romanian medical education. Robotic approaches to surgery are less invasive and faster, and are often associated with improved clinical outcomes, such as decreased recovery time and reduced pain. For example, the da Vinci Surgical System translates the surgeon’s hand movements to smaller movements made by the robot inside the body, all visualized via laparoscopy. The da Vinci System has been used on more than 3 million patients globally. The present paper researched the Romanian customers’ satisfactions regarding private health services. The sample size was 400 people, of which 168 males and 232 females, with an average age of 40 years old, all from the urban area, developed standard of living with an average income of 1,500 euro per month. The results have shown that Romanian customers are willing to pay for private health services more than 500 euro per year. Romanian customers had declared in proportion of 68% that are satisfied with the prices of private healthcare networks, in proportion of 79% that are satisfied with the medical services offered by the private healthcare networks. In what it concerns the surgery performed by robots instead of doctors, only 45% customers had declared in the robots favor. Further insights will be discussed in the research paper and concussions will be drawn reflecting the assessment of the Romanian customers’ satisfaction regarding private health services.

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GATS and International Trade in Health Services: Impact and Regulations

Hasanuddin Law Review ◽

10.20956/halrev.v3i2.1050 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 104

Author(s):

Bakhouya Driss

Keyword(s):

International Trade ◽

Health Services ◽

Health Sector ◽

Trade Agreements ◽

International Trade Agreements ◽

Foreign Products ◽

Health Products ◽

The Impact

This article is interested in studying the impact of trade agreements on the quality of health services, and the statement of the role of the Ministry of Health to protect the quality of these services. The problems that arise in this study; how the application of GATT on trade in health, and services? This article also includes the impact of international trade agreements on the issue of attracting foreign investments in the field of health, and to clarify the government's ability to maintain the health and political, and the capacity of national health products to compete with foreign products. As pointed out repeatedly in this paper, it is too early to make definitive conclusions regarding the impact of GATS, or the liberalization of trade, in the health sector. Nevertheless, we conclude that although so far only a few countries where trade in health services has a major role, trading as it does –which is not based on the GATS or GATS commitments– and appears to be increasing, GATS agreement provides a framework for international trade in services, including health services, but the actual content and obligations are determined in large part by the national government.

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Factors Involved in Evaluating Health Services and Products

International Journal for Innovation Education and Research ◽

10.31686/ijier.vol6.iss4.1003 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 72-82

Author(s):

Aleke Christian Okechukwu ◽

Kpe-Nobana Christiana Leesi ◽

Nkiru Edith Obande-Ogbuinya

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Services ◽

General Public ◽

Well Being ◽

Herbal Supplement ◽

Elliptical Cross ◽

Care Givers ◽

Health Products ◽

Total Body ◽

The Individual

Health services and products are of paramount importance at reforming and improving the performance of health system. The evaluation of health services and products should be based on the therapeutic needs of the health care system. This paper focuses on the factors involved in evaluating health services and products. Various ailments /indications, definitions and products recommendations were identified and some factors for evaluating various health products and health services were also reviewed. The individual, community, government, health care givers or professionals and the general public were advised to be equipped and guided by these factors involved in evaluating health services and products in other to achieve sound physical, mental, emotional and social well being. Claims about health products can be persuasive and misleading. This paper has been designed to help individual, community, health care givers or professionals, government and the general public learn to evaluate information about health products, especially those that target the youth market. Thus health services and products are those self growth tools for those seeking to improve their health and wellness through herbal supplement, over -the-encounter drugs, mental enrichment, and physical fitness product (such as exercycle exercise), arthro-aquatic fitness system, treadmills, total-body elliptical cross-trainers , wheel chair bike. These groups of people highlighted above are consumers of a range of health products and services throughout their lives, hence, it is important that they gain the knowledge and skills to select and evaluate those that will best meet their health needs.

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CHARACTERIZATION OF HEALTH-RELATED HOTEL PRODUCTS ON THE SLOVENIAN COAST

Geoadria ◽

10.15291/geoadria.3158 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 39-52

Author(s):

Metod Šuligoj

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Health Services ◽

Qualitative Comparative Analysis ◽

Physical Activities ◽

Traditional Health ◽

Complete Health ◽

Health Products ◽

Health Related ◽

Natural Healing

Health services in tourism are usually provided in hotels with complementary offers and centres without accommodation. The focus of this study is on hotels on the Slovenian coast, a traditional health destination. The research is aimed at the identification of hotels that offer health services in order to analyse and determine product clusters; the paper focuses only on the structure of the coastal health products through which providers generate revenue. A total of 25 up-scale, luxury and comfort hotels with health services were identified (population) and included in the analysis. Through qualitative comparative analysis, the following clusters of hotel health products were created: (1) medical therapy, (2) physical activities, (3) spiritual and mental activities, (4) psychological and physical relaxation. The results suggest that hotels should pay attention to constructing complete health-related products by putting more energy into the reinforcement of spiritual activities, and the typical local natural healing factors related to climate and sea. It is also necessary to point out that excessive commercialization should not obscure the primary purpose – to offer preventative and curative programmes to ensure health.

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