scholarly journals Remote Monitoring Technology for COVID-19 Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-47
Author(s):  
Prakash Kanade ◽  
Monis Akhtar ◽  
Fortune David
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Patient Needs ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Open Society ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Closed World

Human beings have adapted to a new way of life, from an open society to a closed world. Covid19 has brought many changes to the way people live, social distance and minimal to no contact are our goals. This could have been impossible if we were not surrounded by technology. This Perspective offers a context for the implementation of Remote Technologies, demonstrating the forms in which pandemic preparation, monitoring, research, tracking, and Health Care Technologies are effectively implemented. Our research is focused on providing a solution for handling patients at health facilities with the help of remote technologies keeping in mind the importance of social distancing and minimum to no contact to minimize the spread of the virus. The strategy is to identify the two fronts where contact with a patient is to be made. The first front is the point at which a patient needs to be detected and classified as a potential risk, at this stage the technology needs to identify the patient's symptoms, gather relevant data, and help doctors build a portfolio. The second front is where an admitted patient needs to be monitored and taken care of with regular check-ups, the technology should also take good of the patient’s mental health. The paper proposes a solution to device remote technologies that could prove beneficial in the fight against the deadly coronavirus.

scholarly journals Evolving Ethical Issues in Health and Mental Health

2017 ◽  
Vol 53 (03) ◽  
pp. 121-130
Author(s):  
Shridhar Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Health Care Institution ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Care Institution ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
The Right

ABSTRACTEthics is the Science of morals in human conduct. However, ethics and morals are not same. The ethics is based on certain principles, which include 'Respect for Person and Justice'. This principle is not in total conformity with Hippocratic tradition, where Physician is given a 'Position of Paternalism'. The basic idea of 'justice' is that all human beings are equally valuable. Similarly, the principle of liberty is the right to self determination but what is the use of this right that can not be fulfilled. These basic principles are evolving and are constantly posing problems in every health care institution and are a challenge to every Physician.

scholarly journals Perceptions of adults with obesity about multiprofessional remote monitoring at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Heloá Costa Borim Christinelli ◽  
Dandara Novakowski Spigolon ◽  
Élen Ferraz Teston ◽  
Maria Antonia Ramos Costa ◽  
Greice Westphal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Distance ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
Weight Control ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Professional Treatment

ABSTRACT Objective: To understand the perception of adults with obesity about remote monitoring at the beginning of the pandemic of COVID-19. Methods: A descriptive-exploratory, qualitative study with participants in remote monitoring of a multi-professional treatment program in southern Brazil. Data was collected through digital platforms with interviews in written or audio-recorded records. The results were submitted to content analysis, thematic modality. Results: 26 women participated, emerging the thematic category "Difficulties and potentialities in adherence to lifestyle changes during the pandemic. Among the difficulties are the change of routine and increased anxiety; and, among the potentialities are the multi-professional accompaniment, decreased tension, and weight control. Final considerations: The participants' perception showed considerable weaknesses in adhering to the program, caused by social distance. Studies with remote interventions are essential to improve the quality of this type of health care.

scholarly journals A participatory discourse analysis of service users’ accounts of meeting places in Norwegian community mental health care

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lill Susann Ynnesdal Haugen ◽  
Andreas Andreas Envy ◽  
Tor-Johan Ekeland ◽  
Marit Borg ◽  
Norman Anderssen
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Community Mental Health ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Service Users ◽  
Community Mental Health Care ◽  
Human Beings

Since the 1960s, deinstitutionalisation has been salient in mental health reforms across the West. In Norway, this culminated in the National Action Plan for Mental Health (1999-2008), where meeting places in community mental health care were deemed a prioritised strategy to counter social isolation among people in psychosocial hardships. However, during the same period in England, meeting places were beginning to be contested for contributing to social exclusion. This is an inquiry of meeting places in Norway guided by the following research question: How do service users discuss their encounters with the spaces and people of meeting places? Situated in community psychology and participatory research traditions, we engaged in a participatory discourse analysis of four focus group discussions with 22 service users from meeting places. We detail and discuss four central discursive constructions of meeting places against the backdrop of a civil society identified as fraught with sanism that stigmatises and excludes service users: a compensatory public welfare arrangement positioning service users as citizens with social rights; a peer community positioning service users as peers who share common identities and interests; spaces of compassion validating service users as fellow human beings who are precious in their own right; and greenhouses facilitating service users to expand their horizons of possibility. This inquiry implies that meeting places could mean everything to the people who attend them by facilitating opportunities considered less accessible elsewhere in their everyday lives in a sanist civil society.

scholarly journals COVID 19 and Psychological Impact across Lifespan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanjay Kumar Nadigapu Dayanand
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Psychological Impact ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Good Mental Health ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
The Individual

COVID-19 the present pandemic like all pandemics puts a strain on both the individual and the community. Human beings are social animals; they need interactions with other human beings in order to maintain good mental health, the present pandemic put a restriction on interactions between people in the form of social distancing, wearing of masks, use of sanitizers and soap and water, which are essential to control the spread of the corona virus but the flip side, it has reduced the family gatherings, going out for restaurants, factors to a great extent that will have impact on psychological health. Health infrastructure and health services across the globe are under enormous pressure and face unprecedented challenges. Medical professionals, health care workers, scientists and other front line workers are on the forefront on one hand they are providing health care to the Covid 19 affected patients and the other hand, building systemic responses both by dissemination of adequate public health approaches, and in parallel, genetic mapping, drug and vaccine development. Every day millions are being infected and thousands have died. This pandemic has put all aspects of normal life on hold. In this scenario mental health care takes a back seat to life or death decisions made by the exhausted health care workers.1

When your patient needs mental health care

2000 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 192-196
Author(s):  
Nada L Stotland
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Patient Needs

scholarly journals EM NOME DO CUIDADO SE NATURALIZA A VIOLÊNCIA: o caso da contenção

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Beltrina Côrte ◽  
Bruna Suelem Mendes Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Palabras Clave

A violência está na agenda dos estudos sobre o envelhecimento, e manifesta-se de forma estrutural, interpessoal e institucional, sinalizando a encruzilhada à qual a humanidade chegou. A naturalização da violência como forma de cuidado é um exemplo. Para prevenir quedas de pessoas idosas residentes em instituições asilares profissionais da saúde fazem uso da contenção, prática de cuidado prejudicial à saúde física e mental que, além de pôr em perigo a integridade e a saúde dos idosos, coloca-os em situações degradantes ou desumanas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Naturalização da violência; idosos; instituições asilares; cuidados; contenção   ABSTRACT Violence is on the agenda of the studies on aging, and it manifests itself in a structural, interpersonal and institutional manner, signaling the crossroad human beings have reached. The naturalization of violence as a form of care is an example. To prevent falls from elderly people residing in nursing homes, the health care professionals make use of restraint, a practice of care detrimental to both the physical and mental health of the elderly, and in addition puts them in degrading or inhumane situations.   KEYWORDS: Naturalization of violence; Elderly; Nursing homes; Care; Containment.   RESUMEN La violencia está en la agenda de los estudios sobre el envejecimiento y se manifiesta de forma estructural, interpersonal y institucional, señalando la encrucijada a la que llegó la humanidad. La naturalización de la violencia como forma de cuidado es un ejemplo. Para prevenir caídas de personas mayores residentes en instituciones asilares, los profesionales de la salud se utilizan de la contención, una práctica de cuidado perjudicial para la salud física y mental que, además de poner en peligro la integridad y la salud de los ancianos, los coloca en situaciones degradantes o inhumanas.   PALABRAS CLAVE: Naturalización de la violencia; personas mayores; Instituciones asilares; Cuidado; Contención.

A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-275
Author(s):  
O. Lawrence ◽  
J.D. Gostin
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Legal Medicine ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
International Institute ◽  
University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

Pediatricians' Mental Health Care Role Suggested

2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (9) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
DOUG BRUNK
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care
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