Empowerment and Health Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 332-336
Author(s):  
Mats Edenius
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Right

We know that interest in employing Web portals for communication between the health care sector and the public is constantly increasing (Kapsalis, Charatsis, Georgoudakis, Nikoloutsos, & Papadopoulos, 2004). We can also find an increasing demand for various kinds of such communication (Sciamanna, Clark, Diaz, & Newton, 2003). It promises to become an important and valuable tool for e-health (i.e., computer-based health care and health care management). Patients can log into a Web portal in order to find an appropriate medical treatment, communicate personal matters, and/or find the right way and place to find adequate health care.

Empowerment and Health Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 1567-1573
Author(s):  
Mats Edenius
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Sector ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
General Process ◽  
Improve Health Care ◽  
The Public ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Increasing Demand ◽  
The Right ◽  
Empirical Material

We know that interest in employing Web portals for communication between the health care sector and the public is constantly increasing (Kapsalis, Charatsis, Georgoudakis, Nikoloutsos, & Papadopoulos, 2004). We can also find an increasing demand for various kinds of such communication (Sciamanna, Clark, Diaz, & Newton, 2003). It promises to become an important and valuable tool for e-health (i.e., computer-based health care and health care management). Patients can log into a Web portal in order to find an appropriate medical treatment, communicate personal matters, and/or find the right way and place to find adequate health care. In the last 10 years, we have also seen “empowerment” flourish, not least in an Internet context. In conventional research about Internet and Web portals, empowerment refers to a quite general process of gaining influence over events and outcomes. For example, it is argued that people are becoming more informed and managing their situations in better ways thanks to portal solutions and thereby becoming more empowered (Fergusson, 2004). Empowerment is central in the discourse of health and an important analytical concept to understand how portals work and can improve health care (Cathain et al., 2005). In this article, I will argue that empowerment is indeed a fruitful concept to capture the potential of Web portals (in the health care sector). However, what is largely missing in the contemporary analyses is a more dynamic approach to analysing empowerment than found in conventional research, and how from such an approach we may justify the way Web portals are used to reach better results. The argumentation will be supported and illustrated by empirical material based on how different health portals are used.

Health Care System Structure in the State of Israel

2019 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-46
Author(s):  
Mohammad Yasser Sabbah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right ◽  
To Receive ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Care System

The health care system in the State of Israel consists of two sectors - the public sector, which includes government-owned hospitals and medical institutes. The public health sector includes the community health system, health funds, family medicine, the general care system and the mental health care system. The second sector is the private sector, which includes private hospitals and medical institutes. Both sectors are supervised by the Israeli Ministry of Health, which is the supreme governmental authority through which it implements its policy in the entire health system in Israel. The law provides and guarantees medical insurance for every resident of Israel, the right to receive medical treatment, the prohibition of discrimination, informed consent to medical treatment, the right to receive an additional medical opinion, the dignity and privacy of the patient and the right to attend. Health funds in Israel were established before the State of Israel was established. The ideological concept of the health funds was based on the principle of equality and mutual assistance.

scholarly journals Health system status as an indicator of the realization of the right to health care

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (Extra-A) ◽  
pp. 502-508
Author(s):  
Vitaly V. Goncharov ◽  
Hussein Vakhaevich Idrisov ◽  
Sukhinina Sukhinina
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Medical Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Health Care Management ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
Medical Services ◽  
Right To Health Care ◽  
The Right

This study analyses the impact of legal regulation that ensures the realization of the right to health care and medical care on the state of the health system. This study examines the concept and content of the right to health care and paid and free medical care, reveals the concepts of categories of quality and accessibility of medical services, and draws attention to their various aspects. The analysis of the current state of the health system is carried out. Some features of the provision of medical services to citizens are characterized, and the problems of violation of the right of citizens to medical care, the availability and quality of medical care are analysed. The study examines the varieties of health care management models existing in the world practice and reveals their advantages and disadvantages. The conclusion is made about the possibility of using individual elements of the studied models in Russian health care management.

Issues of modernization of health care management in the regions

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
M.A. Laktaeva ◽  
◽  
E.A. Laktaeva ◽  
V.G. Ivanov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Care Management ◽  
Health Care Management
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