scholarly journals National health policy-makers’ views on the clarity and utility of Countdown to 2015 country profiles and reports: findings from two exploratory qualitative studies

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin M Hunter ◽  
Jennifer H Requejo ◽  
Ian Pope ◽  
Bernadette Daelmans ◽  
Susan F Murray
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
National Health ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
National Health Policy ◽  
Policy Makers

scholarly journals National Health Policy Reform for Primary Care in Chile: A Qualitative Analysis of the Health Program Documents

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 215013272092488
Author(s):  
Karen A. Dominguez-Cancino ◽  
Patrick A. Palmieri ◽  
Maria Soledad Martinez-Gutierrez
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Program ◽  
Interprofessional Collaboration ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
National Health Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Biopsychosocial Approach ◽  
Centered Care

Introduction: Chilean policy makers reformed the national health policy for primary health care (PHC), shifting from the traditional biomedical model to the integral family and community health model with a biopsychosocial approach, to guide the delivery of PHC throughout the country. Purpose: To evaluate the implementation of the national health policy for PHC through an analysis of the program documents for PHC; and to identify to what extent the national health policy is expressed in each program document, and across all the documents. Methods: A qualitative document analysis with a purposive sample of program documents for PHC. The Chilean Ministry of Health website was systematically searched between October and December 2018 to identify relevant program documents. Thematic and content analysis were performed to identify evidence of the biopsychosocial approach to care delivery with each program document, including the types of interactions between professionals that contribute to person-centered or fragmented care. Results: The study included 13 PHC program documents. Three themes and 10 categories emerged from the data. Most program justifications focused on the biopsychosocial approach to care while including biomedical interventions and supporting independent professional work. Only 4 of the 13 programs were consistent in the justification, interventions, and types of stated professional interactions: 2 from the biopsychosocial and 2 from the biomedical perspectives. Conclusion: In terms of the national health policy for PHC in Chile, interprofessional collaboration and person-centered care processes and practices were partially aligned with the written content of the health program documents. As such, policy makers and health sector leaders are advised to analyze draft health program documents for consistency in translating national health policies into the written communications that define the actualization of the care model in PHC and direct professionals how to provide PHC to individuals and families.

Psychology and National Health Policy.

1981 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-89
Author(s):  
Theodore H. Blau
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
National Health ◽  
National Health Policy

Advanced practice in ophthalmic nursing: A comparison of roles and the effects of policy on practice in the UK and New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Marsden ◽  
Mary E. Shaw ◽  
Sue Raynel
Keyword(s):  
Health Policy ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
National Health ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
National Health Policy ◽  
Minimal Effect ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
Role Development ◽  
The Uk

This paper compares the results of studies of ophthalmic advanced practice in two similar but distinct health economies and integrates the effects of the setting, health policy and professional regulation on such roles. A mixed method questionnaire design was used, distributed at national ophthalmic nursing conferences in the UK and in New Zealand. Participants were nurses undertaking advanced practice who opted to return the questionnaire. Data were analysed separately, and are compared here, integrated with national health policy and role regulation to provide commentary on the findings. The findings suggest that health policy priorities stimulate the areas in which advanced practice roles in ophthalmic nursing emerge. The drivers of role development appear similar and include a lack of experienced doctors and an unmanageable rise in healthcare demand. Titles and remuneration are different in the two health economies, reflecting the organisation and regulation of nursing. In clinical terms, there are few differences between practice in the two settings and it appears that the distinct systems of regulation have minimal effect on role development. Ophthalmic nursing, as a reactive, needs based profession and in common with nursing in general, evolves in order that practice reflects what is needed by patients and services.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Alex Rajczi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
National Health Policy ◽  
Universal Health Insurance ◽  
Insurance System ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Fiscal Risk ◽  
Universal Health

Most Americans see the need for a national health policy that guarantees reasonable access to health insurance for all citizens, but some worry that a universal health insurance system would be inefficient, create excessive fiscal risk, or demand too much of them, either by increasing their taxes or by rendering their own health insurance unaffordable. After describing these three objections and the role they play in health care debates, the introduction outlines the contents of each chapter. It concludes with some remarks about how data will be handled in the book’s later chapters.

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