scholarly journals Health Care Services as a Setting for Health Promotion: Health promotion in palliative care

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (suppl_3) ◽  
Author(s):  
B Andre ◽  
GI Ringdal
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services

scholarly journals Pharmaceutical care in Brazil’s primary health care

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (suppl.2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Sodré Araújo ◽  
Ediná Alves Costa ◽  
Augusto Afonso Guerra Junior ◽  
Francisco de Assis Acurcio ◽  
Ione Aquemi Guibu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Pharmaceutical Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Educational Activities ◽  
Health Team ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health

OBJECTIVE: To characterize the activities of clinical nature developed by pharmacists in basic health units and their participation in educational activities aiming at health promotion. METHODS: This article is part of the Pesquisa Nacional sobre Acesso, Utilização e Promoção do Uso Racional de Medicamentos – Serviços, 2015 (PNAUM – National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines – Services, 2015), a cross-sectional and exploratory study, of evaluative nature, consisting of a survey of information in a representative sample of cities, stratified by the Brazilian regions that constitute domains of study, and a subsample of primary health care services. The interviewed pharmacists (n=285) were responsible for the delivery of medicines and were interviewed in person with the use of a script. The characterization of the activities of clinical nature was based on information from pharmacists who declared to perform them, and on participation in educational activities aiming at health promotion, according to information from all pharmacists. The results are presented in frequency and their 95% confidence intervals. RESULTS: From the interviewed subjects, 21.3% said they perform activities of clinical nature. Of these, more than 80% considered them very important; the majority does not dispose of specific places to perform them, which hinders privacy and confidentiality in these activities. The main denominations were “pharmaceutical guidance” and “pharmaceutical care.” The registration of activities is mainly made in the users’ medical records, computerized system, and in a specific document filed at the pharmacy, impairing the circulation of information among professionals. Most pharmacists performed these activities mainly along with physicians and nurses; 24.7% rarely participated in meetings with the health team, and 19.7% have never participated. CONCLUSIONS: Activities of clinical nature performed by pharmacists in Brazil are still incipient. The difficulties found point out to the professionals’ improvisation and effort. The small participation in educational activities of health promotion indicates little integration of pharmacists with the health team and of pharmaceutical services with other health actions

Perceptions of the impact of health-care services provided to palliative care clients and their carers 274

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 274-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Connell ◽  
Ritin S Fernandez ◽  
Rhonda Griffiths ◽  
Duong Tran ◽  
Meera Agar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Future Perspectives of Health Care: Closing Remarks

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-380
Author(s):  
Gørill Haugan ◽  
Monica Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Health Promoting ◽  
Professional Leadership ◽  
Salutogenic Model

AbstractThe Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of our health care systems as well as our societies. During the year of 2020, we have witnessed how whole societies globally have been in a turbulent state of transformation finding strategies to manage the difficulties caused by the pandemic. At first glance, the health promotion perspective might seem far away from handling the serious impacts caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. However, as health promotion is about enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, paradoxically health promotion seems to be ever more important in times of crisis and pandemics. Probably, in the future, pandemics will be a part of the global picture along with the non-communicable diseases. These facts strongly demand the health care services to reorient in a health promoting direction.The IUHPE Global Working Group on Salutogenesis suggests that health promotion competencies along with a reorientation of professional leadership towards salutogenesis, empowerment and participation are required. More specifically, the IUHPE Group recommends that the overall salutogenic model of health and the concept of SOC should be further advanced and applied beyond the health sector, followed by the design of salutogenic interventions and change processes in complex systems.

The application of the complexity theory to public health interventions: a review of the literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
P Contu ◽  
E Breton
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Care Services

Abstract Background There is a growing recognition of the limitations of a linear cause-and-effect rationality in planning and evaluating public health interventions. Although this perspective is amenable to programme planning and evaluation, it leaves aside a whole array of mechanisms of change triggered by interactions taking place in complex social systems. Generative causality is one and recognized under a number of works referring to the complexity paradigm. Here we review the state of knowledge on what is often referred to as the complexity theory (CT), and present the results of a review of the literature on its application in public health. Methods We searched PubMed for articles, commentaries, editorials published in English, French and Italian, using the keywords 'Complexity Theory' (also plural). We categorized the fields of application of the CT according to the three core WHO's Essential Public Health Operations, i.e., Health Promotion, Prevention and Protection. All papers addressing issues related to health care services (but not prevention) were included in the category “health care services” while others were tagged as “others”. Results We found 203 papers meeting our inclusion criteria. The largest share of the research output applying the CT was in health care services (n = 167), followed by Health Promotion (5), Prevention (3) and Protection (2). 26 papers were labelled others. In health promotion/ prevention, applications of the CT have yet to integrate most of its concepts. Most authors tap into both the linear and generative rationality perspectives. Conclusions Although regularly deemed as promising in uncovering mechanisms for change triggered by public health intervention, applications of the complexity theory remain uncommon and has made little inroads in the public health domain. This is particularly the case for health promotion where one would assume that participatory community-based interventions would be an incentive to integrate this perspective. Key messages Although deemed promising the complexity theory has made little inroads in public health. Health promotion with its participatory community-based interventions can benefit from its application.

scholarly journals ‘Yassaba’ or the Fear of Being Abandoned

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Maria Cristina Manca
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Culturally Appropriate ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Local Populations ◽  
Care Services

AbstractHealth promotion is dependent upon sharing information with local populations and adapting health-care services to make them more acceptable, and is an essential part of any Ebola intervention. Listening to the concerns of local communities and engaging them as active participants ensures that health promotion messages are relevant, acceptable and understandable as well as culturally appropriate. Ebola is associated with fear and death, thus understanding the significance and meanings of life, death, disease and sickness for the Kissi of Guinea Forestière (Guinea) is essential for ensuring acceptable health services. Community engagement was essential for this research to gain the trust of the Kissi and to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and information to reduce the transmission of the Ebola virus. This technical account is based on three periods of ethnographic fieldwork and health promotion activities conducted in Guinea between May 2014 and February 2015.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF HEALTH LITERACY IN PREDICTING PATIENT SATISFACTION WITH HEALTH CARE

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Vineta Silkane ◽  
Agnese Davidsone ◽  
Linda Veliverronena
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Technical Quality ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion

Patient satisfaction has become one of the central indicators to measure quality of provision of health care services. However, it has been made clear in previous literature that the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care services is not directly proportional to the satisfaction level, because an array of patient’s personal, psychological, and cognitive factors such as beliefs, expectations, knowledge and others may come into play. In this current article, we report on a study aiming to examine the role of health literacy in predicting patient satisfaction with health care in Latvia. In summer-autumn 2017, data were collected from a random sample of 451 participants (44 % male) in age from 18 to 81 years. The participants filled-in the questionnaire consisting of: Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ-III, Ware, Snyder, & Wright, 1976) and European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q, HLS-EU Consortium, 2012). We measured four out of the seven aspects of PSQ, namely, general satisfaction, technical quality, interpersonal aspects, and communication. HLS-EU-Q contains three subscales: health care, disease prevention, and health promotion. Study results confirm that one of the health literacy aspects - health care - was the most important predictor of all patient satisfaction aspects, while health promotion predicted technical quality.  

scholarly journals The Griffith Area Palliative Care Service: A Pilot Project

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hatton ◽  
Keith Mcdonald ◽  
Lynette Nancarrow ◽  
Keith Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Palliative Care Service ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas

In September 2000 the Commonwealth released, as part of its National Palliative Care Strategy under the AustralianHealth Care Agreements, a National Framework for Palliative Care Service Development. The new NationalFramework stressed an important set of values to guide models of palliative care delivery. It notes that the challenge isto secure the place of palliative care as an integral part of health care across Australia, routinely available within localcommunities to those people who need it. Care and support for people who are dying and their families need to bebuilt not only into health care services, but also into the fabric of communities and their support networks. While fewwould disagree with this, little is known about how best to achieve it in rural Australia. The Griffith Area PalliativeCare Service (GAPS) is a two-year pilot project delivering a palliative care service through a truly integrated approachto care for patients, their carers and families within the Griffith Local Government Area and Carrathool Shire areas.This paper describes how GAPS is successfully meeting the challenges of service provision to rural and remote areas.

scholarly journals Helsepersonells erfaringer og tanker om bruk av frivillige i palliativ omsorg

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragnhild Skaar ◽  
Marthe M. F. Fensli ◽  
Sylvi M. Flateland ◽  
Ulrika Söderhamn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Health Care Personnel ◽  
Close Monitoring ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Care Services

Health care personnel’s experiences and thoughts on the use of volunteers in palliative care in a social perspectiveThe government of Norway is planning for the municipalities’ health care resources, including volunteering. The purpose of this study was to shed light on the experiences and thoughts of a group of health care personnel on the use of volunteers in palliative care in the community health care services, and to discuss the findings in a social perspective. Individual interviews were conducted with seven nurses and three nursing assistants. Using a qualitative content analysis three categories emerged: "The importance of organization, clarification and responsibility," "Qualifications" and "Different types of tasks," with the overarching theme: “Close monitoring and good clarification of roles can contribute to suitable volunteers functioning as an appropriate supplement for patients in palliative care in the community health care services”. The informants stated that trained health care personnel must perform the nursing tasks in palliative care while volunteers can be a positive supplement for the patient.

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