scholarly journals Perilaku Pencarian Pengobatan Nyeri Odontogenik Pada Masyarakat di Kecamatan Medan Polonia, Medan Petisah, dan Medan Barat

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-217
Author(s):  
Siska Ella Natassa ◽  
Simson Damanik
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Pain Treatment ◽  
Self Healing ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Improve Health

Pelayanan kesehatan merupakan salah satu upaya mencapai derajat kesehatan masyarakat yang setinggitingginya yang diselenggarakan oleh individu, kelompok, masyarakat, lembaga pemerintah ataupun swadaya masyarakat untuk memelihara dan meningkatkan kesehatan, mencegah, menyembuhkan penyakit, serta memulihkan kesehatan perseorangan, keluarga, kelompok, ataupun masyarakat. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengetahui perilaku pencarian pengobatan nyeri odontogenik pada masyarakat berumur 21-50 tahun di Kecamatan Medan Polonia, Medan Baru, dan Medan Barat. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian surveydeskriptif. Populasi penelitian adalah seluruh masyaraka Kecamatan lingkar dalam Kota Medan. Sampel didapatkan dengan multistage random sampling yang berjumlah 300 orang masing-masing dari Kecamatan Medan Polonia, Medan Petisah, dan Medan Barat. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuesioner untuk mengetahui perilaku pencarian pengobatan nyeri odontogenik pada tiga kecamatan tersebut. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sebagian besar masyarakat memilih pergi ke fasilitas pengobatan modern sebesar 47% dalam mengatasi nyeri odontogenik, mengobati diri sendiri sebesar 42%, pergi ke pengobatan tradisional 2%, dan tidak melakukan apa-apa 9%. Sebagai kesimpulannya masih banyak masyarakat yang melakukan tindakan tidak tepat dalam mengobati nyeri odontogenik yang dideritanya. Health service is one of the efforts to achieve the highest level of public health conducted by individuals, groups, communities, government institutions or non-governmental organizations to maintain and improve health, to prevent, to cure diseases, and restore individuals, families, groups or communities health. The aim of the study was to determine the seeking behaviors for odontogenic pain treatment in communities aged 21-50 years in Medan Polonia, Medan Petisah, and Medan Barat sub-districts. The samples were obtained using multistage random sampling. There were 300 people from every sub-district. Data were collected using a questionnaire to determine the seeking behaviors for odontogenic pain treatment in the three sub-districts. The results showed most people chose to go to modern medical facilities 47% in dealing with odontogenic pain, self-healing 42%, applying traditional medicine 2%, and doing nothing 9%. In conclusion, there were still many people who take inappropriate actions in treating odontogenic pain.

Cancer control planning

2016 ◽  
pp. 245-255
Author(s):  
Massoud Samiei
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Cancer Control ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Control Plan ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cancer Data ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
National Cancer Control Plan

Despite all the progress made in cancer research and in the fight against cancer, the disease cannot be completely eradicated in the foreseeable future. A logical public health measure must therefore focus all efforts on preventing and confining the disease, i.e. a systematic and coordinated approach to reduce the impact of cancer on populations. Such an organised approach is called cancer control. It forms part of a holistic and coordinated approach, called a national cancer control plan/ programme (NCCP), involving the public sector, non-governmental organizations, academia, and the private sector. Policy makers and cancer advocacy groups should consider cancer control planning, and its financing and implementation, a public health necessity and not an option. The model proposed here is a hybrid one. The success of cancer control planning depends greatly on the availability and functionality of local cancer data and knowledge, in addition to adequate resources and government commitment.

scholarly journals Food aid in emergencies: a case for wheat?

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 355-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Landman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Food Aid ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Management Ethics ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Total Food ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Pattern Number

As disasters and conflict increase, a higher proportion of total food aid is given as humanitarian aid. Most food aid is in the form of cereals, primarily wheat. The main donors are the USA and the EU, but there is an increase in the numbers of donors, including non-governmental organizations, buying food rather than using surpluses. Alongside the greater diversity and complexity of food aid, there is more controversy about policy and practice. If disasters are development failures, emergency food aid must be a step in the continuum from relief to rehabilitation. Comparisons of the seventeen countries that were major recipients of food aid (> 10 000 t) in 1997, show diversity in social development, dietary pattern, number of refugees, relative food inadequacy and wasting (i.e. % standard weight-for-height > 2 SD). In the absence of information of consistent quality, what influences the scale of emergency aid is unclear and susceptible to politicization, so that need and supply may not be matched. Local considerations seem to be as important as external food aid for the nutrition of the recipients. Challenges for the future include assuring the nutritional quality of rations to solve deficiency problems. The implications for the professional public health nutritionist working on emergency food provision include continuing professional development to enhance the technical expertise necessary to design appropriate feeds or rations. These public health nutritionists, more than others, require a grounding in social science theories that underpin management, ethics of professionalism and the politics of food aid.

scholarly journals Factors Associated with the Decline in HIV and AIDS Prevalence Rate in Volta Region of Ghana

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (06) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bismark Tsorhe ◽  
Richmond Stephen Sorkpor ◽  
Lawson Nyavor
Keyword(s):  
Prevalence Rate ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Medical Personnel ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Volta Region ◽  
The Government

The research aims at finding out factors that contributed to the decline in HIV and AIDS prevalence rate in the Volta Region of Ghana from 2006 to 2008. Three research questions were asked to guide the review of related literature on the above–mentioned research topic.Simple random sampling was used to select 10 hospitals in the region for the study. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 250 respondents, thus 25 from each of the hospitals sampled. Questionnaire was the main instrument for data collection which consisted of 30 close ended items. The study revealed that in the opinion of 82.7% of health and medical personnel who responded to the questionnaire indicated that behaviour change contributed highly to the decline of HIV and AIDS prevalence rate in the Volta Region. Also, 84.4% and of 99.6% of the respondents agreed that specific HIV and AIDS interventions and HIV and AIDS education respectively contributed highly to the reduction in HIV prevalence rate in the Volta Region. The recommendations made were that the government and non-governmental organizations must intensify their strategies that are geared towards the behavior change of their members. They must also carry out specific intervention strategies to curb HIV and AIDS menace.  

Standardizing States of Emergency: Fragmented Legitimacy of Model Public Health Lawmaking

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
Arielle W. Tolman
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Public Health Agencies ◽  
States Of Emergency ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Health Agencies ◽  
Health Laws

The promulgation of model laws—exemplary statutes that states can voluntarily choose to adopt—is a prominent strategy that reformers in public health agencies, the legal academy, and non governmental organizations use to improve US public health law and make it more uniform. This article applies the science and technology studies literature on standardization to the process of model lawmaking to analyze how developers negotiate between alternative forms of expertise and utilize different drafting processes to secure the techno-political legitimacy of their model statutes. Drawing on archival records and interviews with thirty-four experts involved in the development of four model public health laws produced between 1999 and 2007, I show how developers work to satisfy multiple, and, at times, competing, audiences. I observe that developers leveraged forms of legal expertise to secure their model laws’ technical legitimacy and emphasized their objectivity, representativeness, and flexibility to promote their political legitimacy. Comparing the four model laws across several indicia of legitimacy, I find that the developers experienced varying degrees of success. This study contributes to the socio legal scholarship on model laws by revealing how they are able to achieve legitimacy, albeit fragmented, even in the context of scientific uncertainty.

scholarly journals UTILIZATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE HEALTH OF COMMUNITY HEALTH

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Ahmad Yani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Utilization Of Technology ◽  
Socioeconomic Issues ◽  
Change Health Behavior ◽  
The Right ◽  
Health Field ◽  
Smooth System ◽  
Improve Health

The era of globalization is now progressing very rapidly. One of the advances in information technology penetrated the health field. Use and utilization of this technology is one of the right solutions for problem solving public services. At least utilization of it will address the geographical, time and socioeconomic issues. Some research mentioned that the utilization of technology in the field of health can improve health service and can change health behavior. Information is a very important thing, because all things related to public health is information that is well managed and safe, so it takes a safe and smooth system for all information obtained can be used for the benefit of health services more optimal and can benefit the entire community 

scholarly journals Wider Worlds of Research for Health Equity: Public Health NGOs as Stakeholders in Open Access Ecosystems

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2-3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl Holzmeyer
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Academic Knowledge ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Community Information

This article examines research uses and knowledge stakeholder politics that emerged in an exploratory study of the relevance of open access policies to a spectrum of U.S.-based public health non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This study demonstrated the clear relevance to public health NGOs of open access to peer-reviewed articles, as one form of community informatics. Though not always visible to those oriented toward academic knowledge ecosystems, public health NGOs utilize and conduct a wide range of research, both peer-reviewed and otherwise. Hence, findings indicate that public health NGOs should be more fully recognized, by researchers and policymakers in other contexts, as key stakeholders in knowledge, research, and open access ecosystems. These findings contribute to examination of community information seeking and use in the public health field, with an eye to leveraging community informatics on behalf of health equity.

Portugal

2019 ◽  
pp. 219-230
Author(s):  
Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira ◽  
António Leuschner
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Dementia Care ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
People With Dementia ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Formal Services ◽  
Timely Access

Dementia care in Portugal presents a mixed balance of strengths and important problems and challenges. This chapter begins by highlighting the scarcity of health service data on dementia, within a rapidly changing and complex array of health and social care systems. Public, private, and third-sector services are not integrated enough to fully meet the needs of people with dementia and their families. Despite examples of good standards in dementia care, some complex challenges still need tackling. Portugal does not have a National Dementia Plan, although formal efforts are being made and a general strategy has been proposed. The chapter briefly discusses leading issues, while highlighting that any selection of goals and the feasibility of achieving them are constrained by a shortage of resources. Taking the need to improve timely diagnosis and integrated formal services as an example, the exact role of primary care is one of the primary topics for discussion. In short, there are three aspects which Portugal does well in terms of dementia care: (1) every person with dementia has access to emergency services and, in principle, to primary care services within the public National Health Service; (2) there are examples of high-quality standards in clinical dementia care, mainly in urban centres, and an increasing interest from the social sector, non-governmental organizations, and private institutions in community or institutional social care; and (3) there is increasing interest in dementia-related service research, as well as in psycho-geriatric training. For the future, first, primary care should be more involved in early diagnosis of dementia and its appropriate disclosure, as well as in other areas, e.g. treatment monitoring in collaboration with specialized care, counselling and support, and monitoring caregivers’ health. Second, the complex bio-psycho-social needs in dementia should be better met through improvement of: timely access to community formal services or specialized accommodation when necessary; ‘dementia-friendly’ communities and health/social units (e.g. general hospitals, given the multimorbidity in people with dementia); management of behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia (with more emphasis on non-pharmacological approaches, and less on antipsychotics); informal caregivers’ support, ensuring minimum standards of information, counselling, psycho-education, and other family interventions; and legal procedures, access to new technologies, and decent end-of-life care. Finally, gaps should be bridged between health and social care, fostering care coordination and case management in every phase of dementia (with standardization of dementia care processes, e.g. definition of the roles of professionals).

Settings and stakeholders

ESC CardioMed ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 898-909
Author(s):  
Christi Deaton ◽  
Margaret Cupples ◽  
Kornelia Kotseva
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Cardiovascular Disease ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Cardiovascular Prevention ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Care Community ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Prevention Programmes ◽  
Acute Cardiovascular Event

Cardiovascular disease remains a leading cause of death and disability globally, and cardiovascular prevention should take place everywhere. Reducing the burden of cardiovascular disease requires a concerted effort in multiple settings (primary care, acute care, community, and home), and from multiple stakeholders such as government, public health, non-governmental organizations, healthcare, industry, and individuals. Primary care provides the majority of healthcare to populations, and is in an optimal position to screen and assess patients for cardiovascular risk and deliver cardiovascular prevention. Improving screening, risk assessment, and use of evidence-based guidelines requires collaboration between specialist cardiology services and primary care. Nurse-led and multiprofessional teams are effective in delivering prevention across a variety of settings. Prevention should be a priority prior to patient discharge from hospital following an acute cardiovascular event, and should encompass both medications and advice regarding lifestyle behaviours. Secondary prevention through specialized prevention programmes is needed by patients in order to reduce the risk of subsequent events. Cardiac rehabilitation is one of the most effective methods of delivering prevention and improving patient well-being following an acute event or procedure. There is a need to get more patients participating by using alternative methods of delivery and ensuring that women, older patients, and those with low fitness are encouraged and supported to attend. Stakeholders such as government, non-governmental organizations, and industry have important roles to play in improving public health. Healthcare providers should disseminate their research in lay language, and play a role in advising on and supporting public health measures.

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