Patient-Focused Care: The Systemic Implications of Change

1993 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 27-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Jirsch
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Continuous Quality ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Customer Identification ◽  
Past Activity

Continuous quality improvement and customer identification have become pivotal concerns for modern management. It is evident that much past activity in health care has been narrowly focused, technologically based and of unknown efficiency. Identifying the patient as primary and overarching customer for health service organizations serves to simplify, refocus and redesign institutions so that resources and personnel are organized and allocated based on patient-care needs. Health care facilities can, accordingly, be ranked on the basis of their commitment and achievement with regard to patient-focused care. Quality becomes a matter of providing excellent and efficient medical care and satisfying the demands of the larger patient experience. Redefining the organization in the context of patient need profoundly changes the work place, creating less rigid, flattened organizational structures and emphasizing leadership rather than managerial activities.

An Assessment of Health Needs in Selected Nigeria Villages

1985 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Collins O. Airhihenbuwa
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
High Morbidity ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Poor Access ◽  
Care Facilities

Two hundred and fifty five heads of households in Iyekuselu District, Bendel State Nigeria, were interviewed. Fifteen villages were randomly selected from the 107 villages that make up the district. There is high morbidity of infectious diseases identified in the study. Limited number of medical professionals and medical institutions present problems of availability of services. This is compounded by high cost of medical services and poor access to health care facilities. The self-perceived health care needs of the heads of households are disease prevention, availability of health services, improved accessibility to health care facilities and reduced cost of care. There is a strong need for health education programs in these villages. This should be attempted with the cooperation of community members, so as to attain the goal of promoting health and preventing diseases.

scholarly journals Penerapan Pemodelan Spasial pada Sistem Informasi Geografis Tenaga Kesehatan Kabupaten Malang

MATICS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Karina Auliasari ◽  
Sukmadiningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Service Needs ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Care Facilities

<p class="Abstract" style="text-align: justify;"><em>Abstract</em>—Geographic information systems can improve the health services to the community. This system able to provide spatial considerations in determining the type of health services and accessibility to public health facilities.The increase of health care needs, especially in Kabupaten Malang still has an unbalanced ratio between health-care facilities and service needs, so that the necessary to improve the facility and medical personnel. In this research is to developed a geographic information system that provide the visualization. The visualization of the mapping is visualization the distribution of medical personnel in Kabupaten Malang. The system generates mapping visualization that equipped with a comparative analysis of the number of medical personnel and the population of Kabupaten Malang. In this system also provides a potential data of health facilities in Kabupaten Malang. The system is also supported with data management to change facilities and medical personnel data. Results from the mapping showed that the health personnel, particularly physicians uneven. Nine of a total of thirty-three districts in Malang has a number of doctors that excessive when compared with the rest of the other districts are still lacking.</p>

ETHNOVETERINARY MEDICINAL USES OF SOME MEDICINAL PLANTS ON PNEUMONIA BY THE GUJJAR AND PAHARI TRIBES OF POONCH DISTRICT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
JAMIL AHMED KHAN ◽  
RAJINDER PAUL
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Medicinal Plant ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Jammu And Kashmir ◽  
Medicinal Uses ◽  
Modern Health Care ◽  
Care Facilities

Poonch district of Jammu and Kashmir is a reservoir of enormous natural resources including the wealth of medicinal plants. The present paper deals with 12 medicinal plant species belonging to 8 genera of angiosperms used on pneumonia in cattle such as cows, sheep, goats and buffaloes in different areas of Poonch district. Due to poverty and nonavailability of modern health care facilities, the indigenous people of the area partially or fully depend on surrounding medicinal plants to cure the different ailments of their cattles. Further research on modern scientific line is necessary to improve their efficacy, safety and validation of the traditional knowledge.

FIRST AID AND TREATMENT FOR CHILDREN ACCIDENT INJURY IN BUON MA THUOT CITY, DAK LAK PROVINCE 2014

2017 ◽  
pp. 69-74
Author(s):  
Van Hung Nguyen ◽  
Van Thang Vo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Intervention Program ◽  
First Aid ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Accident Injuries ◽  
Accident Injury

Background: Accident injuries caused has been serious heatlth problem in developing coutries. Children is vulnerable group with accident injury beucase of lacking knowlegde and exposing with risk factors in eviromental household. The treatment outcome for accident injury of children usually has more serious than other groups. The aims of this study to describle some characteristics of first aid and the outcome of treatment for children accident in Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak provice in 2014. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted total 2,273 household which was 4,505 children aged under 16 in 8 communes, Buon Ma Thuot city, Daklak province. Interview technique with structural questionnaire and household observation methods were used for data collection. Results: The propotion of first aid was 75.9%; not received any first aid (23.8%); mortality at accident place (0.3%). At the time accident: The highest personal involving first aid was pedestrians 54.1%; 25% of health staff, self- first aid was 14.5%. Two main of first aid methods were hemostasis and bandeged with 45.5%; 28% respectiviely. After first aid, there was 80% delivering to health care facilities. The transport methods were motocycle (91.8%), car (5.6%) and ambulance (0.4%). The rate of approach health care facilities around early 6 hours were 86.7%. The characteristics of damages: sub-damages (scratches, dislocations, sprains...) were 36.9 %, deep damages (fractures, open wounds) accounted for 44.6%. Inpatient treatment was 23.9%; 91.5% medical therapy, surgery of 8.2%. The outcome of treatment were good (97.2%), sequelae/disability 2.6%. Conclusion: First aid activities for children at time and properly right were demonstrated effectively for prevented seriously outcome. There should be an intervention program for children with the appropriate models to reduce accident injuries in children; improvement first aid to communities and health care worker. Key words: accident injury, first aid, capacity first care, children under 16 years old

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