Evaluating Personal Health Care and Health Promotion Web Sites

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (02) ◽  
pp. 328-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Collen ◽  
J. R. Lang
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
The Public ◽  
Site Evaluation ◽  
Methodological Approaches

Summary Objective: An exemplary sample of web sites relevant to personal health care and health promotion was chosen and evaluated. Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative data were converged to assess and rank the sites on nine attributes. Results: The sites provided a definitive range of value and variety of presentations, health care and health promotion information, and services covering the virtual choices currently available to users of the Internet. Conclusion: Discussion focused on methodological approaches and issues of web site evaluation serving the public interest, health care, and health promotion.

The regulation of health care in Scandinavia: professionals, the public interest and trust

2018 ◽  
pp. 61-76
Author(s):  
Karsten Vrangbæk
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
State Level ◽  
Professional Regulation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Voluntary Health Insurance

Scandinavian health systems have traditionally been portrayed as relatively similar examples of decentralised, public integrated health systems. However, recent decades have seen significant public policy developments in the region that should lead us to modify our understanding. Several dimensions are important for understanding such developments. First, several of the countries have undergone structural reforms creating larger governance units and strengthening the state level capacity to regulate professionals and steer developments at the regional and municipal levels. Secondly, the three Nordic countries studied experienced an increase in the purchase of voluntary health insurance and the use of private providers. This introduces several issues for the equality of users and the efficiency of the system. This paper will investigate such trends and address the question: Is the Nordic health system model changing, and what are the consequences for trust, professional regulation and the public interest?

scholarly journals Public Interest, Health Research and Data Protection Law: Establishing a Legitimate Trade-Off between Individual Control and Research Access to Health Data

Laws ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark J. Taylor ◽  
Tess Whitton
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Health Research ◽  
Health Data ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Individual Control ◽  
Data Protection Law

The United Kingdom’s Data Protection Act 2018 introduces a new public interest test applicable to the research processing of personal health data. The need for interpretation and application of this new safeguard creates a further opportunity to craft a health data governance landscape deserving of public trust and confidence. At the minimum, to constitute a positive contribution, the new test must be capable of distinguishing between instances of health research that are in the public interest, from those that are not, in a meaningful, predictable and reproducible manner. In this article, we derive from the literature on theories of public interest a concept of public interest capable of supporting such a test. Its application can defend the position under data protection law that allows a legal route through to processing personal health data for research purposes that does not require individual consent. However, its adoption would also entail that the public interest test in the 2018 Act could only be met if all practicable steps are taken to maximise preservation of individual control over the use of personal health data for research purposes. This would require that consent is sought where practicable and objection respected in almost all circumstances. Importantly, we suggest that an advantage of relying upon this concept of the public interest, to ground the test introduced by the 2018 Act, is that it may work to promote the social legitimacy of data protection legislation and the research processing that it authorises without individual consent (and occasionally in the face of explicit objection).

Randomized Trial of a Health Promotion Program For Frail Elders

1992 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Hall ◽  
Paula De Beck ◽  
Debra Johnson ◽  
Kelly Mackinnon ◽  
Gloria Gutman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Treatment Group ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Personal Health ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Care At Home ◽  
At Home

AbstractThis study evaluates a local health promotion project that may be widely adaptable to assist frail elderly persons to live longer at home. Subjects, enrolled in New Westminster, B.C., were men and women aged 65 and over living in their own homes but assessed and newly admitted to “personal care at home” by the Long Term Care (LTC) program of the B.C. Ministry of Health. About 90 per cent of eligible clients consented to participate. Randomized to Treatment or Control, they were followed for three years. Controls (n = 86) received standard LTC services, which included screening and pre-admission assessment, arrangement/purchase of needed services and review at three months and at least yearly thereafter. The Treatment group (n = 81) received standard LTC services plus visits from the project nurse who helped each subject to devise a personal health plan based on his or her needs in the areas of health care, substance use, exercise, nutrition, stress management, emotional functioning, social support and participation, housing, finances and transportation. The visits concentrated on setting goals and developing personal health skills, with referral to appropriate community services. An additional group of LTC clients (n = 81) from the adjacent community of Coquitlam was also followed. Success or “survival” was defined as “alive and still assessed for care at home”. After three years the “survival rate” for the Treatment group was 75.3 per cent, compared with 59.3 per cent for the Control group and 58.0 per cent for the Coquitlam group. Standard Kaplan-Meier “survival” graphs show that Treatment subjects were more likely to be alive and living at home at every time point during the three years. Differences between the Treatment and Control groups were statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05) both for simple cross-tabulations of care status at 24 and 36 months and in tests comparing “survival” curves. The results are especially striking because Control subjects received LTC services in a geographic area that offers universal access to health care and community resources and because the Control data were concurrent, not historical.

Understanding COVID-19 vaccines and immunity

Dental Update ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Lakshman Samaranayake ◽  
Sukumaran Anil
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Dental Health ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dental Health Care ◽  
The World

COVID-19 Vaccines are currently the talk of the world. The internet is full of memes on COVID-19 vaccines - myths more than truths. In this commentary we further review some of the issues related to the success and failure of COVID-19 vaccines, and the theoretical and practical elements on vaccinations and immunity that the dental health care providers have to be knowledgeable, so as to offer advice and guidance to their team, the patients, as well as the public.

The Emerging Field of Internet Governance

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura DeNardis
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Net Neutrality ◽  
Internet Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Policy Arenas

This chapter demonstrates the significance of the emerging field of Internet governance, highlighting issues over standards, names and numbers, and net neutrality, which are unfolding in a variety of contexts around the world, including the Internet Governance Forum. It describes how technology could bias outcomes across policy arenas, such as privacy or freedom of expression. Internet governance generally refers to policy and technical coordination issues related to the exchange of information over the Internet. Governance has had immediate implications for freedom of expression online. Despite the significant public interest implications, Internet governance is largely hidden from public view. A crucial role of Internet governance research is to evaluate the implications of the tension between forces of openness and forces of enclosure, examine the implications of the privatisation of governance, and bring to public light the key issues at stake at the intersection of technical expediency and the public interest.

scholarly journals ANALISIS HUBUNGAN PELAKSANAAN PROMOSI KESEHATAN DENGAN KUNJUNGAN IBU BALITA KE POSYANDU DI PUSKESMAS NANGGALO DAN PUSKESMAS LUBUK BUAYA KOTA PADANG TAHUN 2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Hilda Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Community Empowerment ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Public

The role of health promotion is very important in anticipating the behavior of the public to know, willing and able to mobilize mothers to Posyandu. But, the process of behavioral change in society is not easy, it is seen at the Nanggalo Health Center which has a rate visit new mothers to Posyandu is 43.2% and highest 77.1% in Puskesmas Lubuk Buaya with a target of 80%. The research has done in February until August 2015 was conducted using qualitative research methods, the research location in Nanggalo Health Center and Lubuk Buaya Health Centre in Padang City. The qualitative data was collected using interview guideline to 6 informants, document analysis and observation. Qualitative data processing by triangulation. At Nanggalo and Lubuk Buaya Health Centre there is no technical rule, financial resources, and Region Budget Income and Health Operational Financial. At Nanggalo Health Centre, Health Promotion Officer as posyandu officer, and then at Lubuk Buaya Health Centre Health Promotion Officer as activity coordinator. Lubuk Buaya Posyandu stay at citizen home and facilities are available but in Nanggalo hasn’t. Partnership and empowerement Lubuk Buaya Health Centre run as expected compare Nanggalo Health Centre cause of that the mother to visit posyandu almost reach of target. Health Centre make technical rule and decision letter to hold posyandu training, and health promotion manual direction.Keywords : Analysis Health Promotion (Advocacy, Partnership, Community Empowerment), Visit Mother Toddler

scholarly journals Processos de comunicação das operadoras de saúde: apontamentos para utilização da internet para promoção da saúde no Brasil

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Lanzalotta Marcelino ◽  
Jorge Pedro Sousa ◽  
Mozahir Salomão Bruck
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Communication Processes ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Medios Sociales

O presente artigo busca debater sobre processos de comunicação e sobre rearranjos teóricos recentes quanto à comunicação organizacional, direcionados a utilização da internet para promoção da saúde no Brasil. Discute também como o papel das mídias sociais pode ser determinante em ações que tem como primazia novas estratégias nesse sentido, sobretudo para empresas operadoras de saúde.Palavras chave: Comunicação organizacional; Operadoras de saúde; Internet Procesos de comunicación de las operadoras de salud: apuntes para utilización de internet para promoción de la salud en BrasilResumen: El presente artículo busca debatir sobre procesos de comunicación y sobre reajustes teóricos recientes en cuanto a la comunicación organizacional, dirigidos a la utilización de Internet para promoción de la salud en Brasil. También discute cómo el papel de los medios sociales puede ser determinante en acciones que tienen como primacía nuevas estrategias en ese sentido y para empresas operadoras de salud.Palabras clave: Comunicación organizacional; Operadoras de salud; InternetCommunication processes of health care providers: notes for use of the internet for health promotion in BrazilAbstract: This article aims to discuss communication processes and recent theoretical rearrangements regarding organizational communication, directed to the use of the internet for health promotion in Brazil. It also discusses how the role of social media can be decisive in actions that have as a priority new strategies in this sense, especially for healthcare companies.Keywords: Organizational communication; Health care workers; Internet

scholarly journals Good Intentions, Questionable Results

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayla Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Mandatory Reporting ◽  
Mandated Reporting ◽  
The Public

Mandatory reporting legislation is designed to clarify when to report and ensure that all cases of child maltreatment are reported. However, while mandated reporting is well meaning and in the public interest, many practical difficulties for health care professionals and families reduce its effectiveness. Therefore, Ontario mandatory reporting legislation is falling short of its purpose of eliminating underreporting to protect children. This paper outlines this problem and offers some potential solutions.

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