scholarly journals Age-Friendly Cities and Older Indigenous People: An Exploratory Study in Prince George, Canada

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Nelson ◽  
Mark W. Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
World Health ◽  
Action Plans ◽  
The World ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
The City

Abstract Cities around the world are responding to aging populations and equity concerns for older people by developing age-friendly communities plans, following the World Health Organization’s guidelines. Such plans, however, often fail to account for the wide diversity of older people in cities, with the result that some older people, including Indigenous older people, do not see their needs reflected in age-friendly planning and policies. This article reports on a study involving 10 older First Nations and Métis women in the city of Prince George, Canada, comparing the expressed needs of these women with two age-friendly action plans: that of the city of Prince George, and that of the Northern Health Authority. Four main categories were raised in a group discussion and interview with these women at the Prince George Native Friendship Centre: availability of health care services, accessibility and affordability of programs and services, special roles of Indigenous Elders, and experiences of racism and discrimination. There are many areas of synergy between the needs expressed by the women and the two action plans; however, certain key areas are missing from the action plans; in particular, specific strategies for attending to the needs of Indigenous and other older populations who often feel marginalized in health care and in age-friendly planning.

scholarly journals The Contribution of Public Health Investments to the Economic Growth of Cameroon

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ismaila Amadu ◽  
Ngoe Fritz Eseokwea ◽  
Marcel Ngambi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Spending ◽  
World Health ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Health Investments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government

The goal of this paper is to determine the contribution of public health investments to the economic growth of Cameroon. The study used the human capital model of Lucas (1988) within the framework of endogenous growth theories. The Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) was employed in the estimations procedure using the World Development Indicators (WDI, 2013) data from the World Bank over the period spanning from 1988 to 2013.The findings show that government health expenditures contribute to economic growth only in the long run. From our results, we recommend that: first, the government should increase health spending to 10 or 15 percent of its GDP as initially suggested by the African Union and the World Health Organization respectively; second, government should enhance the provision of health care services by the private sector by putting in place incitation measures; third, competitive awards should be granted to those health units that render quality health care services.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 4, Issue-1: 12-21

scholarly journals Expected impact of COVID-19 outbreak in a major metropolitan area in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarcísio M. Rocha Filho ◽  
Fabiana Sherine Ganem dos Santos ◽  
Victor Bertollo Gomes ◽  
Thiago Augusto Hernandes Rocha ◽  
Julio Henrique Rosa Croda ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Older People ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
World Health ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

AbstractIn January 2020 China reported to the World Health Organization an outbreak of pneumonia of undetermined origin in the city of Wuhan, Hubei. In January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of COVID-19 as a Public Health Emergency of International Interest (PHEI).ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to assess the impact of a COVID-19 epidemic in the metropolitan region of São Paulo, Brazil.MethodsWe used a generalized SEIR (Susceptibles, Exposed, Infectious, Recovered) model, with additional Hospitalized variables (SEIHR model) and age-stratified structure to analyze the expected time evolution during the onset of the epidemic in the metropolitan area of São Paulo. The model allows to determine the evolution of the number of cases, the number of patients admitted to hospitals and deaths caused by COVID-19. In order to investigate the sensibility of our results with respect to parameter estimation errors we performed Monte Carlo analysis with 100 000 simulations by sampling parameter values from an uniform distribution in the confidence interval.ResultsWe estimate 1 368 (IQR: 880, 2 407) cases, 301 (22%) in older people (≥60 years), 81 (50, 143) hospitalizations, and 14 (9, 26) deaths in the first 30 days, and 38 583 (IQR: 16 698, 113, 163) cases, 8 427 (21.8%) in older people (≥60 years), 2181 (914, 6392) hospitalizations, and 397(166, 1205) deaths in the first 60 days.LimitationsWe supposed a constant transmission probability Pc among different age-groups, and that every severe and critic case will be hospitalized, as well as that the detection capacity in all the primary healthcare services does not change during the outbreak.ConclusionSupposing the reported parameters in the literature apply in the city of São Paulo, our study shows that it is expected that the impact of a COVID-19 outbreak will be important, requiring special planning from the authorities. This is the first study for a major metropolitan center in the south hemisphere, and we believe it can provide policy makers with a prognosis of the burden of the pandemic not only in Brazil, but also in other tropical zones, allowing to estimate total cases, hospitalization and deaths, in support to the management of the public health emergence caused by COVID-19.

scholarly journals Pengagihan Sumber Perubatan Terhad Dalam Menangni Pandemik Covid-19:Prinsip Keadilan dari Perspektif Bioetika dan Sharia'ah

2020 ◽  
pp. 71-79
Author(s):  
Fadhlina Alias ◽  
Syaryanti Hussin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
World Health Organisation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
World Health ◽  
Health Care Resources ◽  
Medical Practitioners ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The World

At the end of 2019, the world was shaken by the discovery of a new coronavirus strain (SARS-CoV-2), which was identified to be the source of the outbreak that originated in China. The outbreak, which was subsequently named COVID-19, was declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation and has adversely affected and impacted upon many countries, not only from the aspects of medical and health care services, but also with respect to economic stability, financial management and social security. The treatment of COVID-19 patients is costly and involves limited resources, particularly in the case of critically ill patients who require mechanical ventilation. Thus, medical practitioners are faced with complex issues in justifying the distribution of health care resources to deserving patients. This article seeks to discuss the concept of justice in the distribution of health care resources from the bioethical and Islamic standpoints. The research employs the qualitative method of doctrinal analysis, which comprises primary and secondary sources relating to the principle of justice in contemporary medical ethics and from the sharīcah point of view. Findings of this study illustrate that there exist similarities between the two perspectives, which among others, include the agreed nexus between the allocation of scarce resources to patients and deliberations on the futility of medical treatment. Abstrak Pada penghujung tahun 2019, dunia digemparkan dengan penemuan strain coronavirus baru (SARS-CoV-2) yang dikenalpasti sebagai punca wabak absah yang bermula di China, yang kemudiannya dinamakan COVID-19. Wabak yang telah diisytiharkan sebagai pandemik oleh Pertubuhan Kesihatan Sedunia ini menjejaskan dan memberi impak yang signifikan terhadap kelangsungan sesebuah negara bukan sahaja dari aspek perkhidmatan perubatan dan penjagaan kesihatan, tetapi juga dari segi kestabilan ekonomi, pengurusan kewangan dan keselamatan sosial. Rawatan pesakit COVID-19 melibatkan kos yang tinggi dan sumber yang terhad, terutamanya pesakit-pesakit kritikal yang memerlukan alat bantuan pernafasan. Oleh itu, pengamal perubatan berhadapan dengan isu-isu yang kompleks tentang kewajaran pengagihan sumber yang terhad kepada pesakit yang berhak. Makalah ini bertujuan untuk mengupas konsep keadilan dalam pengagihan sumber perubatan dari sudut pandangan bioetika dan bagaimana Islam menangani isu tersebut. Kajian ini mengaplikasi metode kualitatif iaitu analisa doktrin yang merujuk kepada sumber-sumber utama dan sekunder berkaitan prinsip keadilan di dalam etika perubatan moden dan dari sudut pandangan sharīcah. Hasil kajian mendapati bahawa terdapat persamaan di antara kedua-dua perspektif tersebut, antaranya justifikasi pengagihan sumber perubatan yang terhad berkait rapat dengan pertimbangan tentang rawatan perubatan yang tidak membawa apa-apa manfaat (futile treatment).

Special Pharmacy Challenges for Older People in Difficult Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-109
Author(s):  
Chris Alderman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
World Health ◽  
Duty Of Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Difficult Times

Older people are especially vulnerable to the impacts of natural disasters such as the fires in Australia and elsewhere around the world. Health care professionals have a duty of care under these circumstances, and among those who respond are pharmacists who contribute their expertise, energy, and dedication to help where needed.

The Great Awakening - Digitalization in Dental Healthcare during the pandemic COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 380-384
Author(s):  
Priyanka Paul Madhu ◽  
Yojana Patil ◽  
Aishwarya Rajesh Shinde ◽  
Sangeeta Kumar ◽  
Pratik Phansopkar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Record System ◽  
The World

disease in 2019, also called COVID-19, which has been widely spread worldwide had given rise to a pandemic situation. The public health emergency of international concern declared the agent as the (SARS-CoV-2) the severe acute respiratory syndrome and the World Health Organization had activated significant surveillance to prevent the spread of this infection across the world. Taking into the account about the rigorousness of COVID-19, and in the spark of the enormous dedication of several dental associations, it is essential to be enlightened with the recommendations to supervise dental patients and prevent any of education to the dental graduates due to institutional closure. One of the approaching expertise that combines technology, communications and health care facilities are to refine patient care, it’s at the cutting edge of the present technological switch in medicine and applied sciences. Dentistry has been improved by cloud technology which has refined and implemented various methods to upgrade electronic health record system, educational projects, social network and patient communication. Technology has immensely saved the world. Economically and has created an institutional task force to uplift the health care service during the COVID 19 pandemic crisis. Hence, the pandemic has struck an awakening of the practice of informatics in a health care facility which should be implemented and updated at the highest priority.

Infodemiological patterns in searching medication errors: relationship with risk management and shift work (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Fabbian ◽  
Emanuele Di Simone ◽  
Sara Dionisi ◽  
Noemi Giannetta ◽  
Luigi De Gennaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
World Health ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
Google Search

BACKGROUND Western world health care systems have been trying to improve their efficiency and effectiveness in order to respond properly to the aging of the population and the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases. Errors in drugs administration is an actual important issue due to different causes. OBJECTIVE Aim of this study is to measure interest in online seeking medical errors information online related to interest in risk management and shift work. METHODS We investigated Google Trends® for popular search relating to medical errors, risk management and shift work. Relative search volumes (RSVs) were evaluated for the period November 2008-November 2018 all around the world. A comparison between RSV curves related to medical errors, risk management and shift work was carried out. Then we compared world to Italian search. RESULTS RSVs were persistently higher for risk management than for medication errors during the study period (mean RSVs 74 vs. 51%) and RSVs were stably higher for medical errors than shift work during the study period (mean RSVs 51 vs 23%). In Italy, RSVs were much lower than the rest of the world, and RSVs for medication errors during the study period were negligible. Mean RSVs for risk management and shift work were 3 and 25%, respectively. RSVs related to medication errors and clinical risk management were correlated (r=0.520, p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Google search query volumes related to medication errors, risk management and shift work are different. RSVs for risk management are higher, are correlated with medication errors, and the relationship with shift work appears to be even worse, by analyzing the entire world. In Italy such a relationship completely disappears, suggesting that it needs to be emphasized by health care authorities.

scholarly journals Older people living at home: experiences of healthy ageing

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astrid Fjell ◽  
Kristin Ådnøy Eriksen ◽  
Monica Hermann ◽  
Anne-Marie Boström ◽  
Seiger Berit Cronfalk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Healthy Ageing ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Manifest Content ◽  
Professional Perspective ◽  
At Home

Abstract Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate how old persons perceived their life to be, how they viewed the ageing process and their need of health care and societal support. Background: The purpose of WHO’s Healthy Ageing strategy and development of age-friendly environments is to support physiological and psychosocial changes in old persons by facilitating basic needs. Interventions to operationalize these needs in older people living at home are often developed from a professional perspective and to a small extent involves the perceptions, experience and expectations of the older persons. Method: This qualitative study has an explorative design using focus group discussions to collect data. In all, 34 persons between 69 and 93 years of age participated in seven group discussions. The interviews were analyzed using inductive manifest content analysis. Findings: The main results suggest that most old persons enjoyed life and wished it to continue for as long as possible. Important was to sustain networks and to feel useful. Unexpected changes were described as threats and the need to use health care services was associated with illness and being dependent. The result is presented in three categories with sub-categories: ‘Embracing life’, ‘Dealing with challenges’ and ‘Considering the future’.

Assessment of older people in the community: lessons from Britain’s ‘75-and-over checks’

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 305-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Iliffe ◽  
Mari Gould ◽  
Paul Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Older People ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Health Assessment ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Contractual Obligation ◽  
Assessment Programme ◽  
The World

Research carried out in the 1950s and early 1960s indicated that there was considerable unmet need amongst older people in Britain. This work prompted research into ways of meeting the health care needs of older people, a task made more important by the aging of the population at the end of this century. This focus resulted in the introduction in 1990 of a nationwide health assessment programme for older people, as a contractual obligation for general practitioners. The programme, the first in the world, remains in force but is widely ignored. This paper describes:

scholarly journals 2014 Geneva Declaration on Person- and People-centered Integrated Health Care for All

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 66-68
Author(s):  
Juan Mezzich
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
World Health ◽  
Universal Health Care ◽  
The World ◽  
International College ◽  
Commission Report ◽  
Geneva Conference ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
Improve Health

We, participants in the 7th Geneva Conference on Person-centered Medicine, call on everyone to join together to promote person-centered and people-centered health care in order to improve health for all in ways that are equitable, sustainable, and cost-effective. Equity and integration in person-centered health care are crucial foundations for targeting opportunities for effective action. The International College of Person-Centered Medicine (ICPCM) adheres to the new perspectives on universal health care endorsed by the World Health Assembly since 2009 and reads with interest the 2013 Lancet Commission Report on “Global Health 2035:  World converging within a generation”, both of which outline objectives, research, and strategies for developing Person- and People-centered Integrated Care (PPCIC) for all people

scholarly journals Legal Framework for the Training of Health Care Specialists in the Health Care System of Lithuania to Work with the Disabled

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-161
Author(s):  
Milda Ratkevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The World ◽  
The Disabled

AbstractIntroduction:Health care is one of the most important fields not only in individual countries, but globally as well, yet it remains one of the most sensitive topics, too. Global organisations have calculated that one out of seven residents around the world has some sort of disability. It is very likely that due to various processes, the number of people with disabilities will increase. Therefore, the world in general and each country in particular, Lithuania included, faces a great challenge: to ensure suitable and high-quality accessibility to health care services for the disabled. Each country must have clear political guidelines and strategies how to ensure training of health care specialists qualified and able to carry out their tasks when working with the disabled. Therefore, this article analyses global trends of training specialists to work with the disabled and legal basis of such specialist training in Lithuania.Methods:This article features analysis of scientific literary sources and legal documents.Results:International and national Lithuanian documents have clearly established that people with disabilities have equal rights to health care services like the rest of the population without any reservations, so this norm must be established adhering to the principles of accessibility, suitability and universality, and which basically should be ensured by health care specialists. However, document analysis has revealed that documents governing the training of health care specialists in Lithuania and processes related to it pay little attention to the training of future health care specialists to work with the disabled, while descriptions of some specific areas of studies, e.g. dentistry, pharmacy, etc. designed to train health care specialists do no address the work with the disabled at all.Discussion and conclusions:Analysis has revealed that institutions of higher education in Lithuania that train health care specialists are not legally entitled to, other requirements aside, to focus the study process on the work with the disabled. Therefore, it begs the question whether such specialists are actually ready to implement the requirements guiding the provision of health care services and ensure top-quality and proper provision of services to all members of the society, irrespective of their special needs, disabilities, etc. Therefore, this article can serve as a basis for further research related to the training of health care specialists to work with the disabled in order to identify what practice is applied in this area in other countries, as well as to ensure it internationally, what are the options and means required to implement it and how to improve the training of health care specialists as much as possible to work with the disabled ensuring the quality of health care in particular and their life in general.

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