Your transforming role in preventative healthcare

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
John Helps
Keyword(s):  
Preventative Healthcare

scholarly journals In the Camp and on the March: Military Manuals as Sources for Studying Premodern Public Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-60
Author(s):  
G. Geltner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Medical Tradition ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

Historians tend to view public health as a quintessentially modern phenomenon, enabled by the emergence of representative democracies, centralised bureaucracies and advanced biomedicine. While social, urban and religious historians have begun chipping away at the entrenched dichotomy between pre/modernity that this view implies, evidence for community prophylactics in earlier eras also emerges from a group of somewhat unexpected sources, namely military manuals. Texts composed for (and often by) army leaders in medieval Latin Europe, East Rome (Byzantium) and other premodern civilisations reflect the topicality of population-level preventative healthcare well before the nineteenth century, thereby broadening the path for historicising public health from a transregional and even global perspective. Moreover, at least throughout the Mediterranean world, military manuals also attest the enduring appeal of Hippocratic and Galenic prophylactics and how that medical tradition continued for centuries to shape the routines and material culture of vulnerable communities such as armies.

scholarly journals Preventative Healthcare in Post-Soviet Armenia: Providing Education and Screenings to Expand Awareness of Noncommunicable Diseases

2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
H.Z. Wright ◽  
E. Gavin ◽  
N. Channell ◽  
B. Craner ◽  
K. Amirkhanashvili ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

scholarly journals Developing practical recommendations for preventative healthcare consultations involving dogs and cats using a Delphi technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 184 (11) ◽  
pp. 348-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoe Belshaw ◽  
Natalie Jane Robinson ◽  
Marnie Louise Brennan ◽  
Rachel S Dean
Keyword(s):  
Delphi Technique ◽  
Small Animal ◽  
Delphi Panel ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Extensive Experience ◽  
Pet Owners ◽  
Veterinary Surgeons ◽  
Preventative Healthcare ◽  
Practical Recommendations

Preventive healthcare is the focus of a large proportion of UK small animal veterinary consultations. The evidence base for how to optimise these consultations is limited. Therefore, evidence-based practical recommendations are needed for veterinary surgeons conducting these consultations. The aim of this study was to use an evidence-based methodology to develop the first consensus recommendations to improve dog and cat preventative healthcare consultations (PHCs).Evidence from multiple sources was systematically examined to generate a list of 18 recommendations. Veterinary surgeons and pet owners with extensive experience of PHCs were recruited to an anonymous panel to obtain consensus on whether these recommendations would improve PHCs. A Delphi technique was followed during three rounds of online questionnaire, with consensus set at 80 per cent agreement or disagreement with each recommendation. Thirteen of the original 18 recommendations reached consensus (>80per cent agreement), while the five remaining recommendations did not reach consensus.Globally, these are the first evidence-based recommendations developed specifically in relation to small animal general practice PHCs, generated via a Delphi panel including both veterinary surgeons and pet owners. Future work is needed to understand how these recommendations can be implemented in a range of veterinary practice settings.

scholarly journals Classification of a member in terms of healthcare risk

2004 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-26
Author(s):  
A. De Villiers ◽  
C. A. Van Der Merwe ◽  
T. J. Van Wyk Kotze
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Important Risk Factor ◽  
Healthcare Programme ◽  
Playing Fields ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

Legislation by government has changed the playing fields in the medical scheme industry in South Africa. Medical schemes can no longer choose their members or discriminate against members who claim more than projected amounts. Only those medical schemes that are able to manage their risk optimally, will ultimately survive.In the research it was established that the number of chronic beneficiaries in a family is an important risk factor if a member is classified into a normal claim category or an above-normal claim category. The medical schemes should make sure that they have systems in place to manage the health of such beneficiaries holistically. This group of individuals is ideally suited for a preventative healthcare programme.

The New Dietary Ingredient Safety Provision of DSHEA: A Return to Congressional Intent

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 285-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Bass ◽  
Emily Marden
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Supplements ◽  
Dietary Supplement ◽  
Drug Administration ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Food And Drug Administration ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Education Act ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

In the ten years since the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (“DSHEA”), dietary supplements have become a widely available and important element of individualized preventative healthcare. Congress created DSHEA in response to great consumer demand, thereby embracing the dietary supplement category and opening the door for the growth of the dietary supplement industry. DSHEA introduced an expansive definition of dietary supplements and laid out available claims and strict safety standards for such products.While the statute has remained unchanged since its passage in 1994, the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) appears to be in the process of re-interpreting sections of DSHEA in ways that could fundamentally limit the availability of dietary supplements. Specifically, FDA has been utilizing DSHEA's “new dietary ingredient” (“NDI”) safety provision to narrow the scope of ingredients that can be considered, even before addressing their safety, for use in dietary supplements.

scholarly journals The provision of promotive and preventative healthcare services by private primary care physicians in the era of the national health insurance program

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 140
Author(s):  
Ketut Ary Diana Artha ◽  
Ketut Suarjana ◽  
Pande Putu Januraga
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Inhibiting Factors ◽  
Preventative Healthcare ◽  
Preventative Services

Background and purpose: In addition to their duties in addressing the curative and rehabilitative needs of the community, private primary care physicians (PCP) play an important role in providing promotive and preventative healthcare services. This study aims to determine the behaviours, enabling and inhibiting factors involved with the provision of promotive and preventative services by PCP in the era of national health insurance (JKN) implementation.Methods: This research is a mix method study using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches. Quantitative surveys were conducted with all PCPs already in working collaboration with the Social Security Administering Agency (BPJS) in the Denpasar City area (61 people). Data analysis techniques used descriptive techniques in order to explore the kinds of promotion and preventative services provided by PCPs. Qualitative research was conducted through in-depth interviews of 8 informants selected by purposive sampling and analyzed thematically to discover the enabling and inhibiting factors of the provision of promotive and preventative services by PCPs.Results: The results showed that 91.8% of PCPs did perform promotive and preventative services in their practice site. PCPs who did not carry out promotive and preventative services demonstrate perceptions, beliefs and motivations categorized as low and weak as well as attitudes that do not support the implementation of such services. Enabling factors of promotion and preventative services by PCPs, include among others, quality of facilities and infrastructure, the receipt of awards from BPJS and capitation systems that benefit physicians financially. Inhibiting factors include a low willingness of the patient to carry out doctor's advice, limitations in the PCPs work time and limited funds to perform preventative/promotive services.Conclusions: Promotive and preventative services are not being optimally carried out by PCPs in Denpasar. This is due to the low willingness of the patients, the limited time of the doctor, and the limited allocated funds for promotive and preventative services and low capitation.

scholarly journals The importance of environmental education in preventative healthcare

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Ryszard Kowalski ◽  
Edward Grott
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mental Condition ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
Preventive Healthcare ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Preventative Healthcare

Environmental education frequently referred to as ecological education, is commonly associated with the description and shaping of human relationships with the natural environment. It points to the examples of the anthropocentric transformation of nature and the consequences thereof. The deeper analysis leads to the conclusion that the existing emphasis on environmental education was on natural aspects while neglecting no less important social issues, including human health. !is article is devoted to demonstrating the interrelationships and dependencies of environmental education and preventive healthcare, from definition through to various activities and finally effects. !e article clearly promotes being active, highlighting the importance of being involved in the development of gardens, which are important both in terms of the protection of the natural environment, through the development and diversification of the landscape, and in the maintenance of the good physical and mental condition. In summary, the article puts forward the notion that is going through life, it is worthwhile to really care about one’s health and the natural environment, especially since one is dependent on the other.

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