Bridging the Gaps With Nonprofits

2018 ◽  
pp. 293-310
Author(s):  
Laura Caccioppoli
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Care Services

This chapter will examine how nonprofits are both bridging the gaps left behind from health policy, and are at the intersection of institutions, interests, and the policy process. Using cultural competency as a theoretical lens, the chapter will make use of the current literature, demographic trends, and other qualitative and quantitative data to situate three case studies. As the Affordable Care Act, and other health policies tout themselves as solutions to gaps in health care services for minorities, this chapter offers an overview and evaluation of these policies as well as an explanation of the role nonprofits have in filling necessary service delivery and advocacy.

Bridging the Gaps with Nonprofits

2016 ◽  
pp. 233-256
Author(s):  
Laura Caccioppoli
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Demographic Trends ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Care Services

This chapter will examine how nonprofits are both bridging the gaps left behind from health policy, and are at the intersection of institutions, interests, and the policy process. Using cultural competency as a theoretical lens, the chapter will make use of the current literature, demographic trends, and other qualitative and quantitative data to situate three case studies. As the Affordable Care Act, and other health policies tout themselves as solutions to gaps in health care services for minorities, this chapter offers an overview and evaluation of these policies as well as an explanation of the role nonprofits have in filling necessary service delivery and advocacy.

Increasing Pediatric Audiology Services via Telehealth

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
Tommy Evans ◽  
Timothy Nejman ◽  
Erin Stewart ◽  
Ian Windmill
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Access To Healthcare ◽  
Hospital Medical ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Telehealth Service ◽  
Pediatric Audiology

AbstractTelehealth as a means to deliver health care services has been used by physicians for many years, but the use of telehealth in audiology, specifically in pediatrics, has been minimal. Barriers such as licensure, reimbursement, technology, and equipment have been cited as reasons for audiologists not participating in telehealth. However, the COVID-19 pandemic created the need for telehealth services to be widely used to safely increase access to healthcare, and emergent orders helped reduce previous barriers so that audiologists could participate in telehealth service delivery. This article details three cases where audiologists delivered telehealth services to children. These case studies demonstrate portions of the Division of Audiology Telehealth Program of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and how they increased access to hearing healthcare in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

What do malaysian think of the quality of healthcare delivered?: a qualitative analysis of written impression (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Wahida Zulkifli
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Waiting Time ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Care Services

BACKGROUND The public opinion and experience on the health care services are crucial to provide valuable insight towards improving and strengthening the health care systems. OBJECTIVE This study aims to explore the public perspective regarding the quality of health care services rendered by the health care facilities in Malaysia. METHODS The snowballing strategy was used to reach the target through an online opinion poll with three open-ended questions on the strengths of the healthcare facilities, their expectation and suggestion for improvement along with the sociodemographic characteristic. Data were analysed using a thematic approach. RESULTS A total of 800 participants (68% of females and 32% of males) participated. Their responses were grouped into 5 main themes namely: (1) system; (2) input; (3) service delivery; (4) outputs; (5) outcomes. Public feel that they are respected and treated with care by the healthcare providers. However, most of the participants highlighted the issue of long waiting time when they visited healthcare facilities. In relation to this issue, they suggested the facilities to have more staff especially doctors to improve current service. CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, enhancing service delivery by reducing the waiting time, should be the main focus as viewed by the public. The quality of services provided would certainly be improved by having sufficient resources including healthcare workers.

Looking for Better Health in All the Wrong Places: The Road to “Equality” Hits a Dead End

2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Miller
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Road ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Dead End ◽  
Path Dependent

I was initially assigned the working title, “Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile.” I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article reprises and revises the title song of the early 1980s movie, Urban Cowboy, but with Johnny Lee’s original lyrics adapted as “Looking for better health [rather than either ‘love’ or ‘love of equality’] in all the wrong places.” The better goal is to achieve more progress in improving health for more people, including (but not limited to) the elderly. It need not be as futile as the pursuit of the elusive abstraction of “equality” for all — but only if we first move away from a path-dependent approach of recent times that remains too narrowly focused on statistical disparities in health care services received by particular groups.

scholarly journals Public involvement policies in health: exploring their conceptual basis

2006 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Wait ◽  
Ellen Nolte
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Care Services

Despite its obvious appeal, the concept of public involvement is poorly defined and its rationale and objectives are rarely specified when applied to current health policy contexts. This paper explores some of the underlying concepts, definitions, and issues underpinning public involvement policies and proposes a set of criteria and questions that need to be addressed to allow for the evaluation of public involvement strategies and their impact on the health policy process. It aims to further our understanding of the role that public involvement may play in contributing to health systems that are responsive to the needs and priorities of the public, and, ultimately, providing better health and health care services to the community at large.

Following the Money

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
William M. Sage ◽  
Timothy M. Westmoreland
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Affordable Care Act ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Future Health Care ◽  
Health Returns

It is no exaggeration to say that American health policy is frequently subordinated to budgetary policies and procedures. The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was undeniably ambitious, reaching health care services and underlying health as well as health insurance. Yet fiscal politics determined the ACA’s design and guided its implementation, as well as sometimes assisting and sometimes constraining efforts to repeal or replace it. In particular, the ACA’s vulnerability to litigation has been the price its drafters paid in exchange for fiscal-political acceptability. Future health care reformers should consider whether the nation is well served by perpetuating such an artificial relationship between financial commitments and health returns.

scholarly journals Reorienting Primary Health Care Services for Non-Communicable Diseases: A Comparative Preparedness Assessment of Two Healthcare Networks in Malawi and Zambia

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 5044
Author(s):  
Veronica Shiroya ◽  
Naonga Shawa ◽  
Beatrice Matanje ◽  
John Haloka ◽  
Elvis Safary ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Health System Strengthening ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Facility Survey

Despite positive NCD policies in recent years, majority of Sub-Saharan African (SSA) health systems are inadequately prepared to deliver comprehensive first-line care for NCDs. Primary health care (PHC) settings in countries like Malawi and Zambia could be a doorway to effectively manage NCDs by moving away from delivering only episodic care to providing an integrated approach over time. As part of a collaborative health system strengthening project, we assessed and compared the preparedness and operational capacity of two target networks of public PHC settings in Lilongwe (Malawi) and Lusaka (Zambia) to integrate NCD services within routine service delivery. Data was collected and analyzed using validated health facility survey tools. These baseline assessments conducted between August 2018 and March 2019, also included interviews with 20 on-site health personnel and focal persons, who described existing barriers in delivering NCD services. In both countries, policy directives to decentralize disease-specific NCD services to the primary care level were initiated to meet increased demand but lacked operational guidance. In general, the assessed PHC sites were inadequately prepared to integrate NCDs into various service delivery domains, thus requiring further support. In spite of existing multi-faceted limitations, there was motivation among healthcare staff to provide NCD services.

scholarly journals An Integrated Blueprint for Digital Mental Health Services Amidst COVID-19 (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Balcombe ◽  
Diego De Leo
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Services

UNSTRUCTURED In-person traditional approaches to mental health care services are facing difficulties amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis. The recent implementation of social distancing has redirected attention to nontraditional mental health care delivery to overcome hindrances to essential services. Telehealth has been established for several decades but has only been able to play a small role in health service delivery. Mobile and teledigital health solutions for mental health are well poised to respond to the upsurge in COVID-19 cases. Screening and tracking with real-time automation and machine learning are useful for both assisting psychological first-aid resources and targeting interventions. However, rigorous evaluation of these new opportunities is needed in terms of quality of interventions, effectiveness, and confidentiality. Service delivery could be broadened to include trained, unlicensed professionals, who may help health care services in delivering evidence-based strategies. Digital mental health services emerged during the pandemic as complementary ways of assisting community members with stress and transitioning to new ways of living and working. As part of a hybrid model of care, technologies (mobile and online platforms) require consolidated and consistent guidelines as well as consensus, expert, and position statements on the screening and tracking (with real-time automation and machine learning) of mental health in general populations as well as considerations and initiatives for underserved and vulnerable subpopulations.

scholarly journals Have we forgotten about the Person with Disabilities for COVID 19 Vaccination – A need of the hour!!!

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Abhijit Vinodrao Boratne ◽  
Karthikayini Sasinthar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Face Mask ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Nursing Facilities ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
The Times

Persons with disabilities (PwDs) are less likely to access health care facilities, education, and employment in their day-to-day life. They are more likely to experience higher rates of neglect and abuse. The present COVID-19 pandemic situation has further affected the PwDs in terms of physical and social neglect. Moreover, the concept of social distancing, using a face mask, and following cough hygiene, which is fundamental in controlling the spread of COVID 19, is likely to be followed by the person with an intellectual impairment since they are highly dependent on their caretakers for their day to day activities. This scenario is even worse with PwDs who are living in congregate settings like residential camps, nursing facilities, and psychiatric institutions where infectivity is very higher. Thus a pronged approach is needed to assure that PwDs are not left behind during the times of pandemic. This paper argues that PwDs, because of their increased risk for exposure to COVID-19 and its consequences of developing morbidity and even possible deaths, should be prioritized in vaccination strategies. Otherwise, they will be left behind, experiencing disproportionate loss of lives and livelihoods, inaccessible health care services, and disconnection from society.

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