Factors Influencing Unmet Need for Health Care Services in Korea

Purpose The health-care services in Iraq currently face many challenges. The most noted is the lack of effective nursing leaders to meet the growing needs of the health-care services. Effective nursing leadership is critical to the health-care system, affecting work performance, quality of care and staff satisfaction. The literature suggests that nursing leaders in Iraq are not adequately trained to provide leadership to improve the nursing profession and have limited involvement in decision-making. The purpose of this study is to explore the views of nurses on what they believe constitutes effective leadership in Iraq. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative methods approach is used involving 20 semi-structured interviews of senior nurses. The sample of nurses came from two large general hospitals in Iraq. The qualitative data was thematically analyzed and interpreted. Findings The study results indicated that there were factors that influence the performance of nurse leader, namely, excessive workload, personal relationship with nursing staff, professional recognition of nursing and selection criteria of leaders. Test results show that there were significant differences in views of the nurses toward nurse leaders’ performance. This research concludes that the nurse leader performance in developing countries is affected by excessive workload, personal relationship with nursing staff, professional recognition of nursing and selection criteria of leaders. Originality/value The relevance of the study stems from the scarcity of research on the leader performance in developing countries, while studies on the factors influencing the innovative performance of leaders in nurses’ professional are significantly limited. This study is one of the earliest studies that investigate these factors influencing the nurse leader’s performance.

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Studi Literatur: Kebutuhan Pelayanan Kesehatan yang Belum Terpenuhi pada Penyintas Kanker Ginekologi

Jurnal Kesehatan Manarang ◽

10.33490/jkm.v7i2.407 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 85

Author(s):

Selly Kresna Dewi ◽

Margaretha Martini

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Services ◽

Cancer Survivor ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Unmet Need ◽

Psychological Needs ◽

Literature Study ◽

Care Needs ◽

Care Services ◽

Online Library

There is an urgent increase of health care needs for cancer survivor nowadays caused by the escalations of global cancer survivor’s unmet need for cancer care health services. The purpose of this literature study was to identify the gynecology cancer survivor’s unmet need of health care services. A literature search was PRISMA for relevant research paper. Six database were searched: Proquest, Elsevier, Spinger, Wiley Online Library, and Google Scholar using keyword: “CaSUN”, “SCNS-SF34”, “Unmet need”,” Survivor cancer”, “Supportive care”, Cancer Gynecological”. The final review included 9 articles from 993 article that being identified from 2015 – 2020. The result of this study was minimum 1 unmet need found in every gynecology cancer survivor, psychological needs and information on health services, physical and sexual needs.

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