scholarly journals Comparing tuberculosis management under public and private healthcare providers: Victoria, Australia, 2002–2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie D. Dale ◽  
Ee Laine Tay ◽  
James M. Trauer ◽  
Peter G. Trevan ◽  
Justin T. Denholm
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Healthcare

scholarly journals Public and private sectors collective response to combat COVID-19 in Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ching Siang Tan ◽  
Saim Lokman ◽  
Yao Rao ◽  
Szu Hua Kok ◽  
Long Chiau Ming
Keyword(s):  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Private Hospitals ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

AbstractOver the last year, the dangerous severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread rapidly around the world. Malaysia has not been excluded from this COVID-19 pandemic. The resurgence of COVID-19 cases has overwhelmed the public healthcare system and overloaded the healthcare resources. Ministry of Health (MOH) Malaysia has adopted an Emergency Ordinance (EO) to instruct private hospitals to receive both COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 patients to reduce the strain on public facilities. The treatment of COVID-19 patients at private hospitals could help to boost the bed and critical care occupancy. However, with the absence of insurance coverage because COVID-19 is categorised as pandemic-related diseases, there are some challenges and opportunities posed by the treatment fees management. Another major issue in the collaboration between public and private hospitals is the willingness of private medical consultants to participate in the management of COVID-19 patients, because medical consultants in private hospitals in Malaysia are not hospital employees, but what are termed “private contractors” who provide patient care services to the hospitals. Other collaborative measures with private healthcare providers, e.g. tele-conferencing by private medical clinics to monitor COVID-19 patients and the rollout of national vaccination programme. The public and private healthcare partnership must be enhanced, and continue to find effective ways to collaborate further to combat the pandemic. The MOH, private healthcare sectors and insurance providers need to have a synergistic COVID-19 treatment plans to ensure public as well as insurance policy holders have equal opportunities for COVID-19 screening tests, vaccinations and treatment.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Patient-Oriented Medicines Supply Information on Russian Healthcare Providers’ Websites

2021 ◽  
pp. 202-211
Author(s):  
Nikita V. Polukhin ◽  
Natalia V. Ekkert ◽  
Mikhail V. Vodolagin
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
Simple Random Sample ◽  
Legal Requirements ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Supply Information

Aims: To evaluate the Russian Federation healthcare providers’ websites compliance to legal requirements on availability of patient-oriented medicines supply information and compare the evaluation results between public and private healthcare facilities. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: The evaluation of compliance to legal requirements to medicines supply information on public and private healthcare providers’ websites available on the Internet was conducted in September 2021. Methodology: The study included a simple random sample of 66 websites of Russian healthcare providers containing two groups:  public (n=33) and private (n=33) healthcare facilities’ websites. The compliance evaluation was performed by checking the availability of 4 medicines lists on the websites: (1) essential medicines list; (2) list of medicines for the most expensive chronic diseases to treat; (3) list of medicines that are prescribed only by shared decision of healthcare facility medical commission; (4) list of medicines that are dispensed for certain social groups with no charge or with 50% discount in outpatient care settings. Results: The difference of availability of the first list was 90.9% (95% CI 77.7%–97.4%) vs. 33.3% (95% CI 19.2%–50.3%) on public and private healthcare facilities’ website, respectively, P<.001. The difference of that in the second list was 42.4% (95% CI 26.8%–59.3%) vs. 15.2% (95% CI 6.0%–30.1%), P<.028. For the third no statistical significance was revealed (P>.05). For the fourth list the difference was 66.7% (95% CI 49.7%–80.8%) vs. 21.2% (95% CI 10.0%–37.2%), P<.001. Conclusion: It is required to improve the supervision approaches for both public and private healthcare facilities for better patient-oriented medicines supply information provision. The problem may be solved by the implementation of a centralized government policy repository with regularly updated lists, requirements, and best practices.

PRIME MINISTER'S NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMME (PMNHP): A COST COMPARISON ANALYSIS

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42
Author(s):  
Shaikh Hussain ◽  
Rubina Hussain ◽  
Assad Hafeez ◽  
Adnan Khan
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
National Health ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Caesarian Section ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Normal Delivery ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Health Programme

Background: Prime Minister's National Health Programme (PMNHP) is a publically funded cashless scheme at point of service, which was initiated in December 2015 to provide access to universal healthcare to people living below poverty line for indoor secondary and tertiary healthcare services for priority diseases in Pakistan. Objective: Our study aimed to compare prices of PMNHP districts packages, compare PMNHP with average payments made to healthcare providers by various health insurance companies, and compare prices among PMNHP itself, public sector not supported by the programme, and private healthcare not supported by the programme in Islamabad Methods: We conducted this comparative descriptive cross sectional study. For first two objectives, we collected secondary data, and for the third objective, we did convenient sampling of the treated patient (n-158) from PMNHP, public and private hospitals for selected diseases. Results: PMNHP district comparisons showed no significant difference among districts except Normal Delivery (NVD) at Rahim Yar Khan had lowest cost (mean=10111.11). For Diabetes Mellitus, Muzaffarabad had lowest (mean=1733.33), and Quetta had highest (mean=5300). Average price paid to healthcare providers by various insurance companies are on higher side as compared to PMMHP. Price differences were significant among PMNHP, Public Out of Pocket Spending (OOPS) and Private For NVD, [F(2, 27)=3364, p=0.000] with PMNHP (mean=15.000, SD=0.000) Public (OOPS) (mean=2.127, SD=0.221) and Private (mean=14.702, SD=0.658) For caesarian section [F(2,27)=2850, p=0.000], and Cholecystectomy, [F(2, 28)=221, p=0.000]. While in comparison with Private, PMNHP were cost beneficial for caesarian section (mean=32.016, SD=1.31) and Cholecystectomy (m=43.133, SD=6.648). Conclusion: PMNHP district wise packages are almost same among and for all the districts. Program is fairly and competitively priced against public and private healthcare providers, and private health insurance healthcare provider payments. PMNHP design features may be used to extend program in other districts.  

scholarly journals Improving The Slovenian Healthcare System By Examining Other European Healthcare Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 229-238
Author(s):  
Stanka Setnikar Cankar ◽  
Veronika Petkovsek
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Healthcare ◽  
Private Expenditure ◽  
European Healthcare ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Organisation Management

This paper focuses improving the Slovenian healthcare system by comparing it with the systems in place in the UK, Denmark, and France. The aim of the paper is to find and present the solutions required if the healthcare system in Slovenia is to be improved. Changes need to be made to the organisation, management, and financing of the Slovenian healthcare system in response to demographic changes and changes to the age structure of the population, the rapid development of new medical technologies, drugs, treatments, and globalisation. The paper outlines the main features of the Slovenian healthcare system and compares the structure of public and private expenditure and resources with the structures in place in the UK, Denmark, and France. Public and private healthcare providers and public-private partnerships in Slovenian healthcare are also presented and compared. An insight is given at the end of the paper into the current state of the Slovenian healthcare system and the required changes, with solutions proposed for improvements and reform. The proposed solutions include redefinition of an insured person’s status, changes to the insurance basis and rates, a redefinition of the basic basket of healthcare rights, the integration and networking of public healthcare institutions, and the separation of public and private healthcare providers. 

scholarly journals Quality of anti-malarial drugs provided by public and private healthcare providers in south-east Nigeria

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Obinna Onwujekwe ◽  
Harparkash Kaur ◽  
Nkem Dike ◽  
Elvis Shu ◽  
Benjamin Uzochukwu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Healthcare

Clinical trials — the personal perspective of the research physician?

2020 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-263
Author(s):  
Maria Y. Egorova ◽  
Irina A. Shuvalova ◽  
Olga I. Zvonareva ◽  
Igor D. Pimenov ◽  
Olga S. Kobyakova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Study Drug ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Perspective ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
To Receive

Background. The organization of clinical trials (CTs) requires the participation and coordination of healthcare providers, patients, public and private parties. Obstacles to the participation of any of these groups pose a risk of lowering the potential for the implementation of CTs. Researchers are a key human resource in conducting of CT. Their motivation for participation can have a significant impact on the recruitment and retention of patients, on the quality of the data collected, which determines the overall outcome of the study. Aims to assess the factors affecting the inclusion of Russian physicians-researchers in CT, and to determine their role in relations with patients-participants. Materials and methods. The study was organized as a part of the Russian multicenter face-to-face study. A survey was conducted of researchers from 10 cities of Russia (20172018). The participation in the survey for doctors was anonymous and voluntary. Results. The study involved 78 respondents. Most research doctors highly value the importance of research for science (4,84 0,39), society (4,67 0,46) and slightly lower for participating patients (4,44 0,61). The expectations of medical researchers are related to improving their financial situation and attaining new experience (n = 14; 18,18%). However, the opportunity to work with new technologies of treatment and diagnosis (n = 41; 52,56%) acted as a motivating factor. According to the questionnaire, the vast majority of research doctors (n = 29; 37,18%) believe that the main reason for patients to participate in CT is to receive quality and free medical care. The most significant obstacle to the inclusion of participants in CT was the side effects of the study drug (n = 38; 48,71%). Conclusions. The potential of clinical researchers in Russia is very high. The patient-participant acts for the research doctor as the subject of the study, and not the object, so the well-being of the patient is not indifferent to the doctor. However, the features of the functioning of our health care system form the motivation of doctors-researchers (additional earnings, professional self-development) and the way they perceive the motivation of patients (CT as an opportunity to receive quality medical care).

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