scholarly journals Digital health projects financing: challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-107
Author(s):  
Nataliia Kotenko ◽  
Viktoriya Bohnhardt
Keyword(s):  
Digital Health ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Mobile Medicine ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Digital Medicine ◽  
Logical Sequence ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Research Goal

The article summarizes current trends in financial support for digital health in Ukraine, considering the requirements and recommendations of international institutions. The research goal is to identify problems and challenges in public funding in Ukraine and find effective ways to solve them based on world experience. The systematization of scientific sources and approaches to solving the problem of financing digital health projects has shown that most studies present the results on finding effective mechanisms for financing health care or technical aspects of digital health and its components. However, under the WHO report, the lack or insufficient level of sustainable funding is an insuperable obstacle for implementing digital health projects in most countries. Thus, the above confirmed the relevance of the investigated scientific problem. Methodical tools of this research were systematization, structural and comparative analyses, logical generalization. The practical implementation of the study was carried out using the tools of Excel 2016. In the study, the start point for gathering data was 2016, which is the beginning of the digital health transformation in Ukraine. For gaining the research goal, this study was conducted in the following logical sequence: analyzing the effectiveness and stability of budget funding for the electronic health record projects in Ukraine within the eHealth initiative; defining the current state of Telemedicine and Mobile Medicine financings; identifying the potential directions for solving the problem of lack of funding based on world experience; determining the innovative digital medicine projects implemented by startups; setting the relationship between the amount of venture financing, the maturity and number of employees of companies. Following the findings, the authors developed the recommendations to use AI, Big Data, blockchain technologies, the Internet of Things to establish cooperation between the private, public sectors, academia, and non-governmental organizations.

scholarly journals Education, Work, and Motherhood in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Review of Equality Challenges and Opportunities for Women with Disabilities

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belaynesh Tefera ◽  
Marloes L. Van Engen ◽  
Alice Schippers ◽  
Arne H. Eide ◽  
Amber Kersten ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Women With Disabilities ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Governmental Organization ◽  
Middle Income Countries ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Government ◽  
Low And Middle Income

This study looks at the equality challenges and opportunities for women with disabilities in low and middle income countries (LMICs) to participate and succeed in education, employment and motherhood. It is based on a systematic review of the literature from academic and non-governmental organization databases. The search of these databases yielded 24 articles, which were subsequently passed through open, axial, and selective coding. The resulting review found that women with disabilities in LMICs have severe difficulty participating and succeeding in education, employment and motherhood due to a number of interrelated factors: (i) hampered access to education, employment, intimacy and marriage, (ii) stigma and cultural practices resulting in discrimination and prejudice, and (iii) lack of support from family, teachers and institutions—all of which are exacerbated by poverty. Support from families, communities, the government, and non-governmental organizations improves women’s ability to fulfil their social roles (as students, employees and mothers), resulting in a better quality of life. Strategies that create awareness, minimize poverty and facilitate justice may improve the opportunities for women with disabilities in LMICs to participate in education, employment and motherhood, as well as their ability to succeed in these domains.

Taking Care of Companion Animals

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 423-444
Author(s):  
Mark C.J. Stoddart ◽  
Liam Swiss ◽  
Nicole Power ◽  
Lawrence F. Felt
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Companion Animals ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Companion Animal ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Interpretive Frameworks

Focusing on local government and non-governmental nonhuman animal welfare organizations, this paper reports survey results on institutional policies, interpretive frameworks, and practices regarding companion animals in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The findings suggested that local governments and animal shelters use different interpretive frameworks of companion animal welfare, with the former taking a human-centric position and the latter focusing on animal well-being. The results showed that most local governments are not well engaged with animal welfare issues. Instead, these issues are more often dealt with by non-governmental organizations that operate on limited budgets and rely heavily on volunteer labor. Whereas federal and provincial governments are responsible for legislating companion animal welfare, practical implementation of animal welfare has been largely the responsibility of non-governmental organizations. Our findings demonstrated that the ways that animal welfare policy is interpreted and enacted at the local level have significant implications for animal well-being more broadly.

scholarly journals The Sociopolitical Mission of the Institution of Transfer of State Powers to Organizations: Expert Knowledge Attraction and State Service Quality Raising

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Rafael Z. Khasyanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Professional Competence ◽  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The Russian Federation

The subject of the article is the study and analysis of the socio-political purpose of the institution of the delegation of state powers to organizations in a view of its two functions: attracting expertise to the public sector and improving the quality and accessibility of public services by involving non-governmental organizations in this process. From the point of view of constitutional law, these functions of the indicated institution are derived through the principle of popular sovereignty and the right of citizens to participate in the management of state Affairs. Recent amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation (art. 75.1) further increased the relevance of these functions as creating conditions for mutual trust between the state and society. The function of attracting expertise helps to complement public policy with the contribution of a more experienced private sector, which, having higher professional competence in a particular field of activity, contributes to a better, more efficient and faster solution of tasks (SKOLKOVO Innovation center, special economic zones). The function of improving the quality and accessibility of public services is aimed at achieving such goals as attracting non-governmental organizations to participate in the provision of public services, as well as improving their quality and accessibility for citizens and their associations (accredited passport and visa centers, multifunctional centers). Thus, it is noted that the functions of the institution of the delegation of state powers to organizations make a huge contribution to the development and harmonization of relations between the state and society, as well as contribute to the practical implementation of certain provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

scholarly journals Vietnam’s Policies on Climate Change: Practical Implementation and Some Challenges

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tran Thi Huong
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Climate Change Policies ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Quantitative Analysis Method ◽  
Multi Stakeholder

This study analyzes climate change policies and highlights encouraging practices as well as continuing challenges of effective multilevel climate governance in practice. The research is based on a quantitative analysis method using the outcomes from multi-stakeholders, policy-makers, researchers and representatives from non-governmental organizations. Study results touched on the following areas: (1) Vietnam’s policies on climate change, (2) multilevel activites implemented to copewith climate change, and (3) some barriers impedingthe implementation of climate change policies in practice.The study is written for both policy-makers and development practitioners working in Vietnam to facilitate development of multi-stakeholder, multilevel partnerships that are grounded in community engagement from the outset, with the aim of overcoming barriers to translate policies more effectively into on-the-ground action.

scholarly journals Critical Insights into Gender Mainstreaming in Non-Governmental Organizations Based in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Binh Thi Le
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Gender Mainstreaming ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
And Gender

<p>In Vietnam, Confucian doctrine has traditionally influenced gender issues. Although, the determination of Government has brought about considerable improvements in gender equality in society, there remains a need for interventions from a variety of stakeholders including Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Recently, both International NGOs (INGOs) and Local NGOs (LNGOs) have increased in scope, size, and resources to address development issues in general and gender issues in particular in the specific context of Vietnam. They all play a pivotal role in delivering services and advocacy in an effort to enable Vietnamese people to live in a society of justice and well-being. However, there continues to be a gap between the rhetoric and practice of these organizations for both internal and external reasons. This research analyses the process of integrating gender into an INGO and an LNGO’s policies and development projects drawing on semi-structured interviews with staff in these organizations. The study explores the extent to which these NGOs use gender mainstreaming as a tool to achieve the goal of gender equality in their own organization and project sites. What challenges and opportunities for each organization exist? The findings indicate that in reference to gender mainstreaming, these NGOs, more or less, have encountered a series of common obstacles found in literature from other parts of the world. They also highlight the importance of the approach to gender work taken by NGOs. Each approach must be based on the specific conditions and characteristics of each organization and more importantly adaptable to the context, culture, and traditions of Vietnam. As a part of gender mainstreaming, NGOs are starting to pay attention to the work/home divides of their staff as a critically important element in organizational culture aiming to get the organization in order first before integrating gender into other dimensions of their development work. Both NGOs have the strong determination to have more male staff in office and involve more men in projects to address gender issues. Furthermore, the lack of openness and dialogue on implementing gender mainstreaming in the NGO community makes a part of the findings. These particular aspects of organisational practice were highlights of this thesis.</p>

scholarly journals Implementation of the Domestic Violence Law in the Republika Srpska

Temida ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivanka Markovic
Keyword(s):  
Extended Family ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Criminal Offence ◽  
Mandatory Arrest ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Republika Srpska ◽  
Paper Author

In this paper author analyzes criminal offence "Violence in family or extended family". This criminal offence was introduced for the first time in the new Criminal Code of the Republika Srpska in 2000 (article 198). In the first part of the paper author exposes characteristics of legal provisions regarding criminal offence "Violence in family or extended family". In the second part practical implementation of this criminal offence is analyzed. For doing that analyzes, the author uses the interviews carried out with representatives of the police, prosecutors judges and representatives of non-governmental organizations. At the end author suggests introduction of certain measures for victim protection such as mandatory arrest of a perpetrator, the increased efficiency of the criminal procedure, restraining orders (regarding communication and contact between perpetrator and victim) and other measures, which should provide adequate implementation of this incrimination and optimal protection of victims of this crime.

scholarly journals Formalization of Technological Processes for Accounting and Storage of Information in a Healthcare Institution

2020 ◽  
pp. 70-78
Author(s):  
O.S. Kovalenko ◽  
◽  
L.M. Kozak ◽  
O.O. Romanyuk ◽  
M. Najafian Tumanjani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Effective Interaction ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Mobile Medicine ◽  
Digital Medicine

Introduction. To ensure the effective delivery of health services, it is important to provide accessible mechanisms for interaction between different levels of health care and patients. mHealth, eHealth and other technological developments, such as telemedicine, constitute a new digital health paradigm. The purpose of the paper is to develop the formalized components of the digital medicine integrating environment to ensure effective interaction between patients, family physicians and health care workers at various levels. Results. The general structure of information flows of the integrative environment of digital medicine is described and the formalized representation of health care business processes are developed.An analysis of the characteristics of the main actors actively involved in medical care was provided, and the access level to medical information of each participant, which is an obligatory condition, in particular in the case of mobile medicine, was determined. To ensure the storage of this information, an infologicalmodel of the database was developed, indicating the internal links between the blocks of the database. Model elements are defined for each block: classes, attributes and operations (using UML). Conclusions. Formalized representation of eHealth business processes using mHealth reflects the interaction of participants in these processes (patient and different groups of health professionals) and information flows that arise in this interaction. To ensure reliable mechanisms for the digital medical data exchange, access levels were prescribed for each participant included in the eHealth system.

scholarly journals Impact of international donors’ new policy agenda on project collaboration between community-based women organizations and NGOs in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya

Afrika Focus ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-50
Author(s):  
Sophie De Feyter
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Participatory Development ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This article first describes the New Policy Agenda (NPA), a market-based ideology influencing donor agencies’ strategies for international development. The article then continues to discuss how community-based women organizations (CBWOs) and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) evaluate their collaborations or ‘partnerships’ in practice in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya. We tested the research hypothesis that the NPA reduces the likelihood of achieving equitable partnerships because of its insistence on ‘contracting’ partners, i.e. creating a patron-client relationship. This was carried out through qualitative research consisting mainly of semi-structured interviews and participatory observation with NGOs and CBWO representatives working in Kibera. Research results show that the contract conditions for CBWOs to enter into a partnership may reduce the chances of the most vulnerable groups in society of obtaining assistance. This ‘contracting’ relationship may also cause a loss of CBWO members’ motivation. The NPA and its emphasis on saving time and money also has a negative impact not only on the external development actors’ knowledge about the development context, but also on the multiple accountabilities in a CB WO-NGO partnership, on the quick-fix nature of the solutions applied to remedy the Jack of accountability and on the practical implementation of ‘participatory development’ in Kibera.

scholarly journals YOUTH POLICY IN MODERN FOREIGN STATES

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Наталья Трещетенкова ◽  
Natalya Treshchetenkova ◽  
Наталья Касаткина ◽  
Natalya Kasatkina ◽  
Татьяна Чурсина ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The State ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Youth Policy ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Basic Approaches

The basic directions of youth policy of foreign countries, which in recent years has become one of the priority directions of the state policy in general are considered in the article. In the overall context of demographic change in the world, high unemployment among young people, negative impact on the youth of military conflicts, the radicalization of the society in the number of countries it is particularly acute vulnerability of youth part of society. Young people have to look for ways to adapt, socialize, provide a decent standard and increase quality of life. The reaction of some youth to these negative developments is the emergence of extremist youth teams, growth of alcoholism, drug abuse and youth crime that puts the state to the need for the development of an effective system of measures aimed at the prevention of these social phenomena, the protection of political, labor, social and cultural rights of young people. In foreign practice there are two basic approaches to the implementation of youth policy. The first is based on the recognition of the State’s responsibility for the successful entry of young people into society. The second approach assumes that the main emphasis in the practical implementation of youth policy, the basic grounds of which are defined by the state, should be emphasised on non-governmental organizations whose activities are carried out mainly by attracting funding from various nongovernmental sources.

Fundraising for life: the children's cancer center of Lebanon

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Hala Khayr Yaacoub ◽  
Jessica El Kfoury ◽  
Elias Ayoub ◽  
Lea Rihana
Keyword(s):  
Development Program ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Unstable Part

Subject area Fundraising, Marketing Strategy. Study level/applicability Undergraduate and Postgraduate. Case overview Professional fundraising plays a key role in the operation and sustainability of various forms of organizations, particularly non-governmental organizations (NGOs). “Fundraising for Life” is the success story of a center that is totally dependent on fundraising to achieve its mission of lifesaving and treatment for children with chronic diseases regardless of their financial situation. This case sheds the light on the primary sources of contributions, the importance of an integrated development program, the mutual benefits of partnering with other entities and the challenges encountered in the fundraising endeavors in this developing and unstable part of the world. Expected learning outcomes The students will be able to explore the current practices used in fundraising as well as the marketing and communication strategies employed in nurturing and maintaining relations with potential donors and partners. They will also be able to explore the internal and external challenges and opportunities available for fundraisers. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Please contact your library to gain login details or email [email protected] to request teaching notes.

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