scholarly journals Editorial: Integrating Oral and Systemic Health: Innovations in Transdisciplinary Science, Health Care and Policy

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha Somerman ◽  
Wendy E. Mouradian
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Innovations ◽  
Transdisciplinary Science ◽  
Systemic Health

scholarly journals Alzheimer's Disease and Oral-Systemic Health: Bidirectional Care Integration Improving Outcomes

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne O. Rice
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Care Integration ◽  
Systemic Health ◽  
Dental Providers

Dentistry is an effective healthcare field that can impact Alzheimer's disease through prevention and education. Every day dental providers use an arsenal of assessment protocols directly coinciding with modifiable Alzheimer's risk factors. An innovative way to help in the prevention of Alzheimer's disease is to utilize oral health professionals who reach the public in ways other health care providers may not. Bidirectional care integration is needed to stifle many systemic diseases and Alzheimer's disease is no different. Ultimately with collaborative care the patient reaps the benefits. Alzheimer's is associated with many etiologies and pathophysiological processes. These include cardiovascular health, smoking, sleep, inflammatory pathogens, and diabetes. In the United States, dental providers assess each of these factors daily and can be instrumental in educating patients on the influence of these factors for dementia prevention. Globally, by 2025, the number of people with Alzheimer's disease is expected to rise by at least 14%. Such increases will strain local and national health care systems, but for the US if Medicare were expanded to include dental services, many older adults could be spared needless suffering. The goal of this perspective article is to highlight existing practices being used in the field of dentistry that can easily be adapted to educate patients in preventive care and treat risk factors. It is the duty of healthcare professionals to explore all opportunities to stem the advance of this disease and by integrating oral and systemic health into transdisciplinary science, health care and policy may do just that.

Negotiating Medical Dominance: The Social Construction of the Care Coordinator within the Tasmanian Coordinated Care Trials

2001 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Simon Kitto
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Coordinated Care ◽  
Care Coordinator ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Medical Dominance ◽  
Systemic Health ◽  
Induced Changes

State and corporate induced changes to health care systems are occurring globally. These changes are altering the environment, which previously supported the medical profession's dominance over all health matters. Health care occupations, in conjunction with systemic health care changes, also threaten the autonomy of general practitioners through new opportunistic attempts to expand their occupational territory. Using a symbolic interactionist approach in tandem with Bucher's natural history framework to trace the emergence of an occupation, this paper analyses the social processes involved in the construction of the care coordinator occupation within the context of the Coordinated Care Trial in Tasmania. An analysis of both the occupational encroachment and defensive strategies employed by government health agencies, general practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists during the construction of the position description of the care coordinator is undertaken. Specifically, the focus of this paper is on how the general practitioners acted to retain their preeminent position within the health care system when facing a dual challenge from above (the state) and below (nursing, pharmacy).

scholarly journals Analysis of socio-demographic and systemic health factors and the normative conditions of oral health care in a population of the Brazilian elderly

Gerodontology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. e206-e214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo Cangussu Mendes ◽  
Fabiano de Oliveira Poswar ◽  
Marcus Vinícius Macedo de Oliveira ◽  
Desirée Sant′Ana Haikal ◽  
Marise Fagundes da Silveira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Oral Health Care ◽  
Health Factors ◽  
Systemic Health

Physician Beliefs Concerning Structural and Institutional Racism in Health Care

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
William Ciurylo ◽  
Carol Brenner ◽  
Victoria Stacey Thieme
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
African Americans ◽  
New England ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Perceived Discrimination ◽  
Perceived Quality Of Care ◽  
College Of Osteopathic Medicine ◽  
Systemic Health ◽  
The University ◽  
Care System

Perceived discrimination in medical settings remains prevalent within the U.S. health care system. However, the details of these experiences and their associations with perceived quality of care are not well understood. This study evaluates any potential difference in African Americans' systemic health care discrimination and Latinx perceived by African American and Latinx patients and physicians. The New England physician alumni from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine were sent surveys. Two hundred fifty-one practicing physicians' responses to the 2018 study address their beliefs toward African Americans and Latinx' racism within the health care system. High scores indicate more significant perceived discrimination among these groups. Physicians have lower discriminatory belief scores across gender, patient racial distribution and specialty.

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