The 21st Century and Alternative Medicine: PAMA’s Role

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-98
Author(s):  
Alice G Brandfonbrener
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject

Over the years I have found that along with the obligation to find suitable topics for these quarterly editorials comes an opportunity for me to sort out and organize some otherwise random thoughts and ideas. It is as if by the act of writing that I can (at least sometimes) ultimately make better sense to myself and, hopefully, to you as well. In this vein some of my recent experiences have forced me into rethinking some of my ideas about nontraditional therapies, particularly as they relate to performing arts medicine. Unconventional medicine is a topic that has received greatly increased attention in the recent past by the general public and the media, as well as by health care providers and health insurers. Because those involved with performing arts medicine have reason to have a special interest in this area, an updated new look at the subject for readers of MPPA seems justified.

Oefening Baart Kunst—“Exercise Bears (Gives Birth To) Art”: Symposium for and by the Allied Health Professions of the NVDMG, Medisch Centrum Haaglanden, Den Haag, February 5, 2011

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-113
Author(s):  
ABM Rietveld ◽  
John D Macfarlane
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Allied Health ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Performing Arts Medicine ◽  
Allied Health Care ◽  
Related Approach ◽  
Nederlandse Vereniging Voor

On Saturday, February 5th, 2011, the Dutch Performing Arts Medicine Association (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Dans- en MuziekGeneeskunde, NVDMG) organized a Symposium for and by allied health care professionals, held in the Medisch Centrum Haaglanden (MCH, Medical Centre of The Hague). Allied health care professionals, such as physiotherapists, manual therapists, Mensendieck therapists, speech therapists, and foot therapists, form a vital and indispensable link in the chain of healthcare and cure for dancers, musicians, and singers. The intention of the symposium was to highlight the practical and experience-related approach of allied health care providers, both in the presentations and in the artistic intermezzi. Apart from the exchange of knowledge and experience, there was ample opportunity for informal contact, facilitating and stimulating the formation of an interdependent network of allied health care providers specialized and/or interested in dance, music, and singing in The Netherlands.

Disparities in Pediatric Oncology: The 21st Century Opportunity to Improve Outcomes for Children and Adolescents With Cancer

2021 ◽  
pp. e315-e326
Author(s):  
Paula Aristizabal ◽  
Lena E. Winestone ◽  
Puja Umaretiya ◽  
Kira Bona
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Pediatric Cancer ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cancer Disparities ◽  
Care Providers

Adult cancer disparities have been documented for decades and continue to persist despite clinical advancements in cancer prevention, detection, and treatment. Pediatric cancer survival has improved significantly in the United States for the past 5 decades to over 80%; however, disparate outcomes among children and adolescents with cancer still affect many populations in the United States and globally, including racial and ethnic minorities, populations with low socioeconomic status, and residents of underserved areas. To achieve equitable outcomes for all children and adolescents with cancer, it is imperative that concerted multilevel approaches be carried out to understand and address health disparities and to ensure access to high-quality cancer care. Addressing social determinants of health, such as removing barriers to health care access and ensuring access to social supports, can reduce pediatric cancer disparities. Nevertheless, public health policy, health system interventions, and innovative delivery of evidence-based services are critically needed. Partnerships among patients, caregivers, and health care providers, and among health care, academic, and governmental institutions, have a pivotal role in reducing cancer disparities and improving outcomes in the 21st century.

scholarly journals One Institution - 2 Podcasts - Our experience

2019 ◽  
pp. 01-09
Author(s):  
Tony R Tarchichi ◽  
Jessica Garrison ◽  
Kishore Vellody
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Down Syndrome ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Hospital Medicine ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Pediatric Hospital ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Objectives: Podcasts have increased in popularity since the early 2000s. The number of medical podcasts created by physicians for patients and/or health care providers is increasing. With the increase in podcasts' popularity and their convenience, podcasts have significant potential for use as an educational tool. Methods: Faculty at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC have created two podcasts, the Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) podcast and the Down Syndrome Center (DSC) of Western Pennsylvania Podcast. This paper is a descriptive review of both podcasts. The PHM podcast was created for health care providers who care for hospitalized children. The DSC podcast was started as a source of reliable information for parents of children with Down syndrome. Results: The PHM podcast has over seventeen thousand downloads in over sixty-seven countries. The DSC podcast has over twenty-three thousand downloads in over sixty-nine countries. The PHM podcast has an option for listeners to get CME credit after they listen to the podcast if they click on a link at the University of Pittsburgh website and answer a few questions. Data from responses to these questions demonstrates that 83% of the respondents reported that the podcast either highly or very highly enhanced their knowledge of the subject matter, and 86.8% reported that the content of the podcast was highly or very highly relevant to their work. Conclusion: These results suggest podcasts are a popular and useful tool for disseminating information to families and health care professionals.

Medical Care in a Police Intervention with Conducted Electrical Weapons: Zaragoza (Spain) Fire Department Protocol

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Armando Cester-Martínez ◽  
Leticia Serrano-Lasaosa ◽  
Diego Borraz-Clares
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Medical Literature ◽  
Fire Department ◽  
Risk Groups ◽  
Clinical Effects ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
The Subject

Abstract In the last decade, conducted electrical weapons (CEWs) have become a new tool for law enforcement agencies as an alternative to firearms. They provide security in the intervention for both the police and the citizen and try to cause the least possible harm to the subject to immobilize. The health care providers who perform in joint actions with the police in which CEWs are used should be aware of how they work, risk groups, as well as the most frequent clinical effects associated with the application of electrical discharge, and the complications that can be produced according to the area of impact of the electrodes. For this purpose, the current medical literature was reviewed by consulting the main health care sciences database (PubMed) to determine the medical measures to be taken before, during, and after the use of these weapons. Also presented and shared is the Zaragoza (Spain) Fire Department protocol.

Under- or Overtreatment of Mental Distress? Practices, Consequences, and Resistance in the Field of Mental Health Care

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (10) ◽  
pp. 1503-1516
Author(s):  
Sigita Doblytė
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
The Media

The economic, social, and health costs of mental distress are increasingly burdening individuals and societies in Europe. Yet, overmedicalization of mild symptoms is also well documented. This accumulates in more pressures and demands on health care systems. In this article, I explore how the process of help seeking in mental distress might be shaped by health system design and functioning in one of the South European societies—Spain. Employing Bourdieu’s theoretical lens, in-depth interviews with health care providers and users of services are analyzed. I reveal how the logic of the mental health care field, which is reinforced by the market, the state, and the media, may result in medicalization of mild distress while severe mental illness remains undertreated. I also show how mental help-seeking practices could gradually influence the functioning of the treatment system. Nevertheless, points of resistance to medicalization can also be identified.

Adolescent Pregnancy—Where Is the Unwed Teenage Father?

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1979 ◽  
Vol 63 (5) ◽  
pp. 824-824
Author(s):  
Arthur B. Elster ◽  
Susan Panzarine
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Teenage Pregnancy ◽  
Financial Assistance ◽  
Psychosocial Risk ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Psychosocial Risks ◽  
Repeat Pregnancy ◽  
The Subject

As discussed by McAnarney et al (Pediatrics 61:199, February 1978), a comnprehensive teenage maternity program can have an effect on reducing the psychosocial risk of repeat pregnancy. School attendamice figures and reliance on government financial assistance, however, did not differ between the groups they studied. Perhaps the missing key to reducing the psychosocial risks of teenage pregnancy may be found by including the girl's partner in the activities offered by maternity programs. Since the work of Pannor et al1 in 1969, there has been a paucity of literature addressing the subject of the unmarried teenage father, and health care providers show little interest in encouraging these teenage boys to share in the responsibility of the pregnancy.

Dangerous Times for Medicaid

2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 834-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
John V. Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Health Care Safety Net ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control

These are indeed dangerous times. In the name of “cost-effectiveness,” we cut back health benefits to the poor, who are more likely to be sick than the nonpoor. We miss our chance to heal. In the setting, we’re told, of “scarce resources,” we imperil the health care safety net. In the name of expedience, we miss our chance to be humane and compassionate.’Medicaid is again - still - the subject of reform discussions in Washington and in state capitals. The program has been subject to varying, sometimes conflicting pressures since its inception. Its primary purpose has been serving the health care needs of the poor and disabled. It was structured, however, to appeal to (or at least to not alienate) private health care providers. In addition, its mix of state and federal funding and control was intended to draw in the states as partners.

Malpractice & Negligence: Cal. Supreme Court Clarifies Negligence Provisions under State’s Elder Abuse Act

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-203
Author(s):  
Kendra Carlson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Elder Abuse ◽  
Skilled Nursing Facility ◽  
Pressure Sores ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Nursing Facility ◽  
Skilled Nursing ◽  
The Supreme Court

The Supreme Court of California held, in Delaney v. Baker, 82 Cal. Rptr. 2d 610 (1999), that the heightened remedies available under the Elder Abuse Act (Act), Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 15657,15657.2 (West 1998), apply to health care providers who engage in reckless neglect of an elder adult. The court interpreted two sections of the Act: (1) section 15657, which provides for enhanced remedies for reckless neglect; and (2) section 15657.2, which limits recovery for actions based on “professional negligence.” The court held that reckless neglect is distinct from professional negligence and therefore the restrictions on remedies against health care providers for professional negligence are inapplicable.Kay Delaney sued Meadowood, a skilled nursing facility (SNF), after a resident, her mother, died. Evidence at trial indicated that Rose Wallien, the decedent, was left lying in her own urine and feces for extended periods of time and had stage I11 and IV pressure sores on her ankles, feet, and buttocks at the time of her death.

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