scholarly journals Disaster Relief following the Earthquake in Western India: Basic Health Care Activity with ERU Operated by the Japanese Red Cross Society

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S1) ◽  
pp. S19-S19
Author(s):  
Seishi Takamura ◽  
Akira Miyata ◽  
Sunao Asai ◽  
Wakako Takashima ◽  
Hidenobu Matsukane
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Western India ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care ◽  
Care Activity ◽  
Health Care Activity

scholarly journals (A4) Emergency Health Interventions in Earthquakes: Red Cross Experience from Haiti and Chile, 2010

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (S1) ◽  
pp. s2-s2
Author(s):  
P. Saaristo ◽  
T. Aloudat
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care ◽  
Health Response ◽  
Local Health Care ◽  
Local Health Care System ◽  
Rapid Deployment

On 12 January 2010, the fate of Haiti and its people shifted with the ground beneath them as the strongest earthquake in 200 years, and a series of powerful aftershocks demolished the capital and multiple areas throughout the southern coast in thirty seconds, leaving some 220,000 people dead, and 300,000 persons injured. On 27 February 2010, at 03:35 hours local time, an earthquake of magnitude 8.8 struck Chile. As a consequence, the tsunami generated affected a coastal strip of more than 500 kilometers. Approximately 1.5 million people were affected and thousands lost their homes and livelihoods. The emergency health response of the International Red Cross Movement to both disasters was immediate, powerful and dynamic. The IFRC deployed seven emergency response units (ERU) to Haiti: one 150-bed referral hospital, one Rapid Deployment Emergency Hospital, and five basic health care units. One surgical hospital and two Basic Health Care Units were deployed to Chile. The ERU system of the IFRC is a flexible and dynamic tool for emergency health response in shifting and challenging environments. Evaluations show that the system performs well during urban and rural disasters. Despite a very different baseline in the two contexts, the ERU system of IFRC can adapt to the local needs. As panorama of pathology in the aftermath of an earthquake changes, the ERU system adapts and continues supporting the local health care system in its recovery.

Thailand's Bare-headed Doctors

1985 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 761-796 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gosling
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care

For the last few years an imaginative programme for training Buddhist monks in basic health care has been in operation in Thailand. The scheme, originally based on two wats (temples) in Bangkok, is now being extended to the Northeast where poverty and malnutrition are most acute. The originator of the programme, Dr Prawase Wasi, a distinguished haematologist, has received several awards for his work, which is increasingly recognized as a major landmark in the implementation of health care in developing countries.

scholarly journals Inefficiency Factors in Basic Health Care Supply in Côte d’Ivoire: A Comparative Econometric Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Alliou S. Diarrassouba
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Technical Inefficiency ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Basic Health Care ◽  
Double Bootstrap

The achievement of universal health coverage has put Primary Health Care back at the center of policy orientations, particularly by identifying factors likely to improve the organization of peripheral facilities. However, this objective depends on the econometric methods used, especially for cross-sectional data and small sample sizes. This study aims to examine the sensitivity of the most usual estimation methods (Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA), Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), DEA double bootstrap, Tobit, Truncated Standard Regression) for evaluating the scores and determinants of technical inefficiency of Primary Health Care Facilities (PHCF) in Côte d’Ivoire. Estimates show average technical efficiency scores of 94.13% for the DEA versus 89.61% for the SFA and 82.24% for the DEA double bootstrap. The results also indicate a proportion of determinants of technical inefficiency, in decreasing order of importance, with the DEA double bootstrap, the SFA, truncated regression and Tobit. This technical inefficiency can be improved in policies to promote basic health care by: increasing the proportion of nurses in the medical staff, the nurse/inhabitant ratio, the adult literacy rate by region, controlling the average capacity of the PHCFs, improving their geographical accessibility and reducing the rate of extreme poverty by health region.

Community Physicians' Knowledge on Basic Health Care for Elderly Persons in Israel: Comparing Findings From 2006 to 1996

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Lubart ◽  
Refael Segal ◽  
Ruth Mishiev ◽  
Ruth Buchman ◽  
Arthur Leibovitz
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care

Making Basic Health Care Accessible to Rural Communities: A Case Study of Kiang West District in Rural Gambia

2013 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 126-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Saja Sanneh ◽  
Allen H. Hu ◽  
Modou Njai ◽  
Omar Malleh Ceesay ◽  
Buba Manjang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
Basic Health Care

Health care as a tourist resource

1995 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-429
Author(s):  
Đurđica Zoričić ◽  
Lorena Mošnja
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Health Condition ◽  
Entire Volume ◽  
Institutional Condition ◽  
Tourist Resource ◽  
Care Activity ◽  
Fast Adaptation ◽  
The One ◽  
Health Care Activity

Nowadays it is beyond all doubt that the health care activity in its entire volume, on the one hand, represent parts of the global economic system, developing in a considerable mutual dependence. In the paper, within the scope of the development of tourism, one of its narrower segments is perceived: the health care of the tourist population. The research work has been done in Istria, one of the most outstanding tourist destinations, where scientists and experts have been working intensively on the tourism development forecast up to 2010. In addition to healthy food, clean sea and environment, a tourist has to have certainty that in case of illness he/she will get a service corresponding to the world standards. The concourse of tourism and health care gives answers to the question what should be done to achieve a harmony in the development of both activities, and in this way the general progress of the Croatian State. For the requirements of this paper adaptation possibilities of the health system to the new situation have been researched on the basis of perception of the institutional condition of the health care activity, staff and material supply and equipment for the work in new conditions. In the first part the population health condition is researched on the basis of relevant indicators such as morbidity and mortality of the inhabitants, movement of the number of born and deceased, volume and structure of sick leaves and the like. In the second part an analysis is made and the health care development degree stated for Istria as the tourist resource. On the basis of the entire research work it could be concluded that the health care of Istria has at its disposal staff potential and capital objects that enable a fast adaptation in harmony with the development of tourism.

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