The Social, Psychological, and Legal Construction of Risk

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda C. Fentiman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Risk Communication ◽  
Patient Information ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Risk Construction

This chapter explores the psychosocial process of risk construction, explaining general processes of risk perception, risk communication, and risk management. These unconscious and powerful processes create subliminal biases and stereotypes and affect the discretionary decisions of prosecutors, judges, and juries. Health care professionals wield tremendous power in deciding when to disclose confidential patient information to law enforcement if they believe that a patient, especially a pregnant woman, has engaged in “risky” behavior.

scholarly journals Risk Perception and Worries among Health Care Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from an Italian Survey

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 535
Author(s):  
Mariangela Valentina Puci ◽  
Guido Nosari ◽  
Federica Loi ◽  
Giulia Virginia Puci ◽  
Cristina Montomoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Care Workers

The ongoing pandemic scenario, due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has had a considerable impact on public health all over the world. Italy was one of the most affected countries, as the first European full-blown outbreak occurred there. The exposure of the Italian health care workers to COVID-19 may be an important risk factor for psychological distress. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe worries and risk perception of being infected among Italian Health Care Workers (HCWs) during the first wave of the pandemic. In total, 2078 HCWs participated in a web survey (78.8% were females). The highest percentage of respondents were physicians (40.75%) and nurses (32.15%), followed by medical (18.00%), health care support (4.50%) and administrative (4.60%) staff. In a score range between 0 (not worried) and 4 (very worried), our results showed that participants declared that they were worried about the Coronavirus infection with a median score of 3 (IQR 2-3) and for 59.19% the risk perception of being infected was very high. In addition, HCWs reported they suffered from sleep disturbances (63.43%). From the analysis of the psychological aspect, a possible divergence emerged between the perceived need for psychological support (83.85%) and the relative lack of this service among health care providers emerged (9.38%). Our findings highlight the importance of psychological and psychiatric support services not only during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also in other emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) scenarios. These services may be useful for health authorities and policymakers to ensure the psychological well-being of health care professionals and to promote precautionary behaviors among them.

Social care, the personal passport, and reasonable adjustments

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Traolach S. Brugha
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Social Worker ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Care Planning ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adult Autism

Where treatment and health care is no longer able to bring relief and improve functioning, social care should take over. In this chapter, we discuss the development of social care in the context of adult autism, and the range of its concerns and interests is considered. The key role of the social worker, particularly as a broker of social care, is developed. Health professionals define the need for reasonable adjustments to assessed disability, and the content of a personal passport, summarizing individual’s needs. Health professionals also have a key role in risk management, although the social worker may have a key co-ordinating role. A wide range of contexts for social care within and beyond health care is considered. The distinction between individual need and care planning, and the role of the wider society, which will be covered in Chapter 14, concludes this chapter.

TXTING4HEALTH: The Role of the Mobile Channel in the Health Care Industry and in the Sphere of Public Health

2009 ◽  
Vol 15 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 30-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric Holmen
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Care Industry ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Care Industry ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Initiatives ◽  
Health Related

The vast mobile network created by high adoption rates and increasing familiarity with mobile device capabilities worldwide has potential for far more than the commercial operations to which it is currently relegated. This will be the next wave of mobile: the social and socially conscious dimension of an already broad medium. Mobile's potential is virtually limitless, and the advantages unique to it align well with the demands of the health care industry. The accuracy and speed provided by the medium are particularly valuable to health care professionals and their patients. The emerging social aspect of mobile is being tapped for myriad health-related uses, including smoking cessation and the treatment of eating disorders. Moreover, the ubiquity of the mobile device is advancing public health initiatives across the globe. This article endeavors to describe the state of the mobile medium and what effects it can have on both the health care industry and public health. It also discusses the particular effect the social aspect of mobile technology is having on certain health initiatives and cites specific examples of the synergy between mobile communication and health-related programs. This article concludes by looking toward the future of mobile health projects.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS OF SOCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT

2020 ◽  
pp. 38-44
Author(s):  
Radmila Pidlypna
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Labor Market ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Social

Introduction. Accelerated pace of development of society contributes to the accelerated generation of social risks, modern society is characterized by constant technological, natural, economic, environmental, socio-cultural changes. Therefore, minimizing social risks and leveling their consequences is of paramount importance. Methods. Diagnosis of the state of the social risk management system combined the principles of systemic, structural-functional and targeted analysis, which provided a comprehensive assessment of the whole and individual components. Results. The analysis of expenditures on the social sphere showed their stable absolute growth despite the dynamic reduction of their share in the budget. Social risks are largely due to the non-transparency of the mechanism for regulating the supply and demand of labor in the domestic labor market. A significant share of macroeconomic social risks is related to the problems of social infrastructure, which is financed from the budget. Problems with access to health care, the opacity of the pharmaceutical market, the degradation of the health care network, chronic underfunding, and the lack of health insurance also generate social risks. The task of state policy should be to prevent and prevent social risks, identify social conflicts that lead to destructive consequences. Systematization of social risks allows to methodologically substantiate the mechanisms of social risk management, to modernize the models of social protection of the population, to develop effective tools for ensuring public management of social risks. Discussion. The impossibility of reducing funding for social needs without deteriorating the quality of life and social protection of the population requires further search for alternative sources of funding for socio-cultural expenditures, rationalization in the budget structure to effectively combat the development of social risks. Keywords: social policy, social risks, social transfers, household expenditures, labor market, health care.

Vaccines Throughout the Lifecycle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Q. Tan ◽  
John P. Flaherty ◽  
Melvin V. Gerbie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Post Partum ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
Vaccination Recommendations ◽  
Adolescents And Adults

Immunization schedules for infants, children, adolescents, and adults help clinicians ensure that they are administering vaccines in a timely and appropriate manner. Specific, current CDC schedules for infants, children, adolescents, and adults are presented Special attention is paid to recommendations and contraindications for the vaccination of pregnant women and women who are trying to conceive. Details for the specific illnesses, their influences on the pregnant woman and the fetus, vaccination recommendations in the pre-pregnancy, various trimesters, and post-partum periods are given. Safety concerns and Frequently Asked Questions are given significant space as patients and their families are appropriately concerned. Health Care Professionals and their staff needs are included in the recommendations.

Doing the Right Things Right or the Wrong Things Well

2014 ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Vahé A. Kazandjian
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Services Quality ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Social Responsibilities ◽  
Specific Disease ◽  
The Social ◽  
Measurement And Evaluation ◽  
The Right

The measurement and evaluation of healthcare services’ quality is faced with the challenge of describing its appropriateness. Is the right service rendered for the specific disease? Or do our measures quantify the efficiency of producing these services without first assessing if they were needed? Eventually, it is a question of accountability about the processes and outcomes of the care, which are expected to both demonstrate the social responsibilities of health care professionals and gauge the expectations of patients, families, and communities. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the determinants of what and why patients expect from healthcare and caring. Within the concept of accountability, the role of physicians as educators rather than exclusively healers of disease is explored.

Integrating Interdisciplinary Supportive Care Programs

2021 ◽  
pp. 775-781
Author(s):  
Matthew J. Loscalzo ◽  
Karen L. Clark ◽  
Barry D. Bultz ◽  
Juee Kotwal
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Supportive Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Clinical Excellence ◽  
Distress Screening ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
Unifying Principles

Now that the needs of those affected by cancer have been well documented, primarily because of biopsychosocial distress screening as the sixth vital sign, it is time to address how these multiple and complex needs can be addressed by organized teams of health care professionals. Internationally, psychosocial oncology and supportive care programs have had significant growth. In addition to the humanistic cancer care provided by treating physicians, the interdisciplinary nature of supportive care creates unique opportunities across institutions and settings and in low- and high-resourced countries to bring compassionate expertise to people affected by serious illness. Although growth has been uneven, the trajectory for the greater need of supportive care services is clear: patient need (aging populations, environmental degradation, unequal resource distribution related to the social determinants of health), limited workforce capacity, and acute concerns about rising health care costs. These trends are expected to only accelerate and are to be seen and utilized as strategic opportunities. There is a serious dearth of strategic information on how to create supportive care programs. This chapter focuses on the unifying principles and essential infrastructure that enables integrated interdisciplinary supportive care programs to grow and, more significantly, to create team cultures that alchemize diversity and conflict into programmatic and clinical excellence.

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