scholarly journals Innovation in rural workforce strategies by a national surgical society

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Keith Bryant ◽  
Nicola R Dean
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Rural Workforce ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Shortage Of Doctors ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Workforce Strategies ◽  
Demand For Health

Health services exist to address the health needs of the community. But in Australia at present there are not enough detailed data to tell us to what extent, community by community, our highly regarded health system is meeting those needs. We know that demand for health care services is growing faster than the overall economy, and that we no longer have a general shortage of doctors, but most problematically there is a significant geographic maldistribution of those doctors away from rural and regional areas.iFor plastic surgery services, there is very little understanding of what the aggregate needs of rural communities are, or how these needs vary by community. We know by anecdote that there is significant inequity in plastic surgery services and that rural and regional locations often have unfilled positions and diminished services. We note that 80 per cent of specialist plastic surgeons live and work wholly within the five largest Modified Monash level 1 (MM1) Australian cities.1 Only 8.5 per cent of specialist plastic surgeons are permanently based outside those five cities. We also note that this is a more serious negative divergence than other comparable surgical specialties.While we briefly explore the basis for some ‘innovative’ solutions in this paper, we are constantly reminded that a prerequisite of any ‘solution’ should be an in-depth study of what Australian rural communities need or want in terms of plastic surgery services.

scholarly journals Health in Brazil: examples for the world

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malaquias Batista Filho ◽  
Anete Rissin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Rural Families ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Intervention Models ◽  
History Of ◽  
Demand For Health ◽  
Information Framework

In the year 2012, for the first time in the history of humanity, the urban population has exceeded the rural population. This change has been conditioned, in large part, by migratory flows in the direction of the field to the cities, singularizing the importance of the situation according to epidemiological, ecological, political, and social aspects. These issues are highlighted by the United Nations (UNICEF and WHO) especially considering the remarkable and growing relevance that the poverty condition of rural families exercises in this displacement, creating a remarkable adverse and conflictive environment, mainly in the health sector. This fact occurs because the infrastructure of urban services is not keeping up with the sprawls in the outskirts of the cities of medium and large sizes. These arguments, of universal character, assume a crucial importance in developing countries, as in the case of Brazil, Latin America, an Asian subcontinent and the greater part of Africa. It is a context that justifies the I Brazilian Workshop on the Health of Subnormal Urban Clusters (old slums) to be held in Recife, as a strategy to consolidate a basic information framework about the epidemiological scenario, the supply and demand for health care services in urban areas of poverty. With an propositional objective: establish an agenda for research and intervention models having as focus the priorities of health of these urban spaces submitted to socio-economic conditions of recognized vulnerability.

Videoconferencing and Dietitian Services: In Rural Ontario Communities

2012 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 176-180
Author(s):  
Diana Stenlund
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Access To Health

Registered dietitians (RDs) are regulated health professionals in short supply in Ontario and throughout Canada. Projected workforce studies indicate the situation will likely worsen. Accessing these nutrition specialists is an even greater concern for residents living in rural or remote regions of the province. Smaller communities are increasingly using telehealth as a way to deliver health care services and to improve access to health care professionals. The adoption of interactive videoconferencing as a telehealth application is examined as an alternative approach for accessing RDs in rural communities. While valid reasons exist for implementing videoconferencing, other issues must be considered. These include costs, technological requirements, organizational readiness, and legal and ethical concerns. Future research must fully address the concept of videoconferencing in relation to the Canadian dietetic workforce and practice requirements.

scholarly journals Strategies for enhancing the use of primary health care services by nomads and rural communities in Saudi Arabia

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 326-333
Author(s):  
Naseem Akhtar Qureshi ◽  
Muzamil H. Abdelgadir ◽  
Aladin Hadi Al Amri ◽  
Talal Hussain Al Beyari ◽  
Philomina Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Services

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 Barriers and Opportunities of Oncofertility Practice in Nine Developing Countries and the Emerging Oncofertility Professional Engagement Network

2020 ◽  
pp. 369-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Salama ◽  
Lauren Ataman-Millhouse ◽  
Fabio Sobral ◽  
Guillermo Terrado ◽  
Anibal Scarella ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Rural Communities ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Insurance Coverage ◽  
Global Network ◽  
International Programs ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
Barriers And Opportunities

PURPOSE Oncofertility practice continues to grow in developing countries despite the lack of health care services, especially those related to cancer care. The purpose of this study is to further explore oncofertility practice in these countries and identify opportunities for field-wide coalescence. METHODS We generated a survey to learn more about oncofertility practice in nine developing countries within our Oncofertility Consortium Global Partners Network—Mexico, Colombia, Guatemala, Argentina, Chile, Nigeria, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, and India. Their responses were collected, reviewed, and discussed. RESULTS Surveyed centers from the nine developing countries continue to experience a similar set of common challenges, including a lack of awareness among providers and patients, cultural and religious constraints, lack of insurance coverage and funding to help to support oncofertility programs, and high out-of-pocket costs for patients. Despite these barriers, many opportunities exist and there is great potential for the future. CONCLUSION The current need is to unify the new technologies and best practices that emerge from rural communities and developing countries with those in large metropolitan cities, both domestically (US based) and abroad, into a functional unit: the Oncofertility Professional Engagement Network. The Oncofertility Professional Engagement Network will bridge the gap between domestic and international programs to establish a strong global network in which members share resources, methodologies and experiences and further build cultural competency.

Partnership

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 532-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella R. Quah
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Family Caregiver ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Burden Of Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Family ◽  
Care At Home ◽  
Demand For Health ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Length Of Hospitalization

This study discusses the main barriers to partnership between family and health services in the context of schizophrenia and de-institutionalization (reduction of the length of hospitalization whenever possible and returning the patient to the community) addressed to deal with the increasing costs and demand for health care services. Thus, in de-institutionalization the burden of care is not resolved but shared with the family, under the assumption that the patient has someone—a family caregiver—who can take up the responsibility of care at home. Despite the high burden of care faced by the family caregiver in mental illness, the necessary systematic partnership between the medical team and the family caregiver is missing. Subjects were 47 family caregivers of persons living with schizophrenia. Data were collected using in-depth interviews, structured questionnaires and attitudinal scales. Data analysis included factor analysis and odds ratios. Two types of barriers to partnership are identified in the literature: health services barriers and barriers attributed to the family. The findings confirm the health services barriers but reject the assumed family barriers.

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