scholarly journals Modified Palliation in Cancer Patients during COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
Bhawna Wagle ◽  
Eliza Koirala
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Psychosocial Support ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Early Palliative Care ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Demand For Health

Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID 19) has put huge challenge to the health delivery system all across the globe. The risk of mortality due to COVID 19 is highest on critically ill patients and those with preexisting disease. Palliative and end of life care are no exceptions to the surge in increased demand for health care services. It is now an essential part of global health care. The benefits of early palliative care are already well established. In the pandemic like this, we must not pull back the services, particularly in these vulnerable groups. It is important to determine how best to deliver palliative care during this crisis. It may include preparedness to shift the focus of resources to community level and the innovative use of telemedicine. Use of telemedicine is to ease patients and minimize caregiver distress, and to prevent hospitalizations. The fear of contracting COVID-19 and the emotional burden during diagnosis requires the need of continuous psychosocial support. These challenges should be handled by specialized and skilled interdisciplinary palliative care team.

Perceptions of the impact of health-care services provided to palliative care clients and their carers 274

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 274-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Connell ◽  
Ritin S Fernandez ◽  
Rhonda Griffiths ◽  
Duong Tran ◽  
Meera Agar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Impact

Nomadic Clinics as Innovative Concept that Transforms Health Care Services in Mobile Population

2015 ◽  
pp. 90-102
Author(s):  
Siyat Moge Gure
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Evaluation Study ◽  
Staff Perceptions ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Nomadic Pastoralists ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Mobile Population

Nomads have the shared habit of migrating from one area to another. They contribute enormously to the economic development of the world. In Kenya's North Eastern counties, 60-70% of the population practices nomadic pastoralists. These counties has the poorest health indicator as a result of inadequate strategies in extending conventional health care to the nomadic population. In an effort to address this, a unique health delivery model dubbed ‘nomadic clinic'; was unveiled. An evaluation study was carried out to assess access, utilization, impact and cost- effectiveness of the clinic as well as to establish the community and staff perceptions on health service it provides. This was done in comparison to three static health facilities. Nearly all assessed indicators favoured the nomadic clinics. However, the mobile clinics faced myriad of challenges principally due to resource constraints. Fortunately, the new devolved system of governance provides unequivocal opportunities.

Prenatal Care—An Introduction

1985 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 783-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. David Banta ◽  
Susanne Houd ◽  
Elbio Suarez Ojeda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Pregnant Woman ◽  
Prenatal Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Neonatal Period ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Mortality And Morbidity ◽  
Fetal Health ◽  
Care Services

Prenatal care is all of the care that a pregnant woman receives from organized health care services, as well as from family, relatives, and friends. It begins with planning for pregnancy, and should be seen by those who give it as part of a process that continues through labor and delivery and into the neonatal period. The primary aim of prenatal care is promotion of maternal and fetal health, viewed as a unit until the pregnancy reaches full term (3). This encompasses the goals of reducing maternal and infant mortality and morbidity, detecting early factors that heighten the perinatal risk in both individual pregnancies and vulnerable groups, intervening to improve outcomes, educating all who provide or receive prenatal care, and helping women make their pregnancies and birth a positive life experience.

scholarly journals An Analysis of Utilization of Postnatal Care Services Among Mothers in Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (01) ◽  
pp. 20691-20699
Author(s):  
Adigun A.O ◽  
Adigun K.A
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Postnatal Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Universal Coverage ◽  
Cultural Barriers ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Place Of Delivery ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Structured Questionnaire

This study examined the factors influencing postnatal health care attendance among Women in Ekiti State, Nigeria. The data used for the study was gathered by making use of structured questionnaire. Five hypotheses were formulated, chi-square and multiple linear regressions were used to analyze the data. From the result obtained, it was revealed that employment status, nature of settlement, religious belief, and place of delivery of women goes a long way in influencing their postnatal health care attendance. While educational levels of women do not influence their postnatal health care attendance. Based on the findings, it was recommended that effort to strengthen postnatal care should focus on universal coverage by addressing financial, religion, nature of settlement, place of delivery, education and cultural barriers to vulnerable groups, quality improvement to increase women’s satisfaction and carry the less privilege along and integration programmes to maximize the contact between women and health care services during and after delivery and enhance economic development.

scholarly journals The Griffith Area Palliative Care Service: A Pilot Project

2003 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Hatton ◽  
Keith Mcdonald ◽  
Lynette Nancarrow ◽  
Keith Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Palliative Care Service ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Service Development ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Rural And Remote Areas

In September 2000 the Commonwealth released, as part of its National Palliative Care Strategy under the AustralianHealth Care Agreements, a National Framework for Palliative Care Service Development. The new NationalFramework stressed an important set of values to guide models of palliative care delivery. It notes that the challenge isto secure the place of palliative care as an integral part of health care across Australia, routinely available within localcommunities to those people who need it. Care and support for people who are dying and their families need to bebuilt not only into health care services, but also into the fabric of communities and their support networks. While fewwould disagree with this, little is known about how best to achieve it in rural Australia. The Griffith Area PalliativeCare Service (GAPS) is a two-year pilot project delivering a palliative care service through a truly integrated approachto care for patients, their carers and families within the Griffith Local Government Area and Carrathool Shire areas.This paper describes how GAPS is successfully meeting the challenges of service provision to rural and remote areas.

scholarly journals Responding to Traveling Patients' Seasonal Demand for Health Care Services

2015 ◽  
Vol 180 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahed Al-Haque ◽  
Mehmet Erkan Ceyhan ◽  
Stephanie H. Chan ◽  
Deborah J. Nightingale
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Seasonal Demand ◽  
Demand For Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Demand For Health

scholarly journals Uptake of Health Care Services by Refugees: Modelling a Country Response to a Western Balkan Refugee Crisis

Healthcare ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 560
Author(s):  
Milena Santric-Milicevic ◽  
Milena Vasic ◽  
Vladimir Vasic ◽  
Mirjana Zivkovic-Sulovic ◽  
Dragana Cirovic ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Transit Country ◽  
The Right ◽  
Demand For Health ◽  
Political Decision Making

Planning and adjusting health capacities to meet the needs of refugees is a constant issue for transit and destination countries following the 2015/2016 Western Balkans refugee crisis. Understanding this crisis is important for taking the right steps in the future. The study informs about the prediction of the refugees’ health needs and demands for services in correspondence to political decision-making during 2015/2016 Western Balkan Refugee Crisis. Time series analysis, linear regression, and correlation analyses modelled the weekly flux of arrivals of more than half a million refugees to Serbia and the European Union, changes in the utilization of health care services, and disease diagnoses. With strategic planning, in the event of a recurrence of the refugee crises, the demand for health care services in the transit country could increase by 63 (95% CI: 21–105) for every additional 1000 refugees.

scholarly journals The Demand for Health Care Services in Rural Tanzania

2003 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
David E. Sahn ◽  
Stephen D. Younger ◽  
Garance Genicot
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Demand For Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Rural Tanzania ◽  
Demand For Health
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