Virtual Worlds and Health

2011 ◽  
pp. 251-270 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Clinical Simulation ◽  
Professional Information

With decades of experience in simulation, the health professions are comparatively well versed in virtual environments for training. More broadly, there is a growing body of experience and supporting evidence on the benefits of virtual worlds for professional information sharing, clinical simulation, healthcare delivery, and as a research tool. Virtual worlds have empirically demonstrated outcomes as a simulation tool that increases knowledge and of health professionals, and initial explorations in regard to healthcare delivery show promise. Key challenges for wider adoption of virtual worlds within the health professions include a lack of established standards around privacy, a fragmented approach to collaboration and marked skepticism toward virtual worlds as a platform for health care delivery. Recommendations for formalised collaboration mechanisms, agreement on standards, and future research avenues are put forward, with a focus on virtual worlds as a tool that increasingly will be central to professional learning and practice.

A Systematic Review of Competency-Based Education Effort in the Health Professions

2017 ◽  
pp. 352-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenxia Wu ◽  
Brian C. Martin ◽  
Chen Ni
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Competency Based Education ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Educational Delivery

Quality healthcare cannot be achieved without competent health professionals. Competency-based education (CBE) is an educational delivery option that may prove to be effective in meeting that need. Through a systematic literature review using content analysis techniques, this chapter explores the conceptual complexity and operational challenges of using CBE in health professions education. Drawing a picture of how competencies are defined and developed in the context of health professions education, this chapter summarizes current practices of integration, delivery, and assessment of competencies. Challenges, emerging trends, and future research directions are also identified. This review found that, unlike in medical education, there are different sets of competencies for most various healthcare disciplines and sub-disciplines and this review suggests that CBE can be a viable model that will enable health professions education to address the diverse needs of health professionals.

A Systematic Review of Competency-Based Education Effort in the Health Professions

2019 ◽  
pp. 1410-1436 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenxia Wu ◽  
Brian C. Martin ◽  
Chen Ni
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Competency Based Education ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Competency Based ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Educational Delivery

Quality healthcare cannot be achieved without competent health professionals. Competency-based education (CBE) is an educational delivery option that may prove to be effective in meeting that need. Through a systematic literature review using content analysis techniques, this chapter explores the conceptual complexity and operational challenges of using CBE in health professions education. Drawing a picture of how competencies are defined and developed in the context of health professions education, this chapter summarizes current practices of integration, delivery, and assessment of competencies. Challenges, emerging trends, and future research directions are also identified. This review found that, unlike in medical education, there are different sets of competencies for most various healthcare disciplines and sub-disciplines and this review suggests that CBE can be a viable model that will enable health professions education to address the diverse needs of health professionals.

Foundations of Interprofessional Communication and Collaboration

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Manthey
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Financial Success ◽  
Future Health ◽  
Interprofessional Communication ◽  
Collaboration Skills ◽  
Future Health Care ◽  
Exciting Development

Communication and collaboration skills are important now among health professionals and are likely to become absolutely vital in the future. Health care team efficiency will be the hallmark of clinical and financial success as care delivery systems continue to evolve. Teaching these skills to beginning health professions students, with reinforcement throughout their education, is an exciting development in academia.

Cultural Competence Interventions for Health Professionals Working with Racialized Foreign-born Older Adults: Protocol for a Systematic Review (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diya Chowdhury ◽  
Leonardo Baiocco-Romano ◽  
Veronica Sacco ◽  
Karen El Hajj ◽  
Paul Stolee
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Culturally Competent ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Person Centered Care ◽  
Centered Care

BACKGROUND Integrating culturally competent approaches in the provision of healthcare services is recognized as a promising strategy for improving health outcomes for racially and ethnically diverse populations. Person-centered care, which ensures patient values guide care delivery, necessitates cultural competence of healthcare providers in order to reduce racial/ethnic health disparities. Previous work has focused on interventions to improve cultural competence among healthcare workers generally; however, little investigation has been undertaken regarding current practices focused on racialized foreign-born older adults. OBJECTIVE We seek to synthesize evidence from existing literature in the field to gain a comprehensive understanding of culturally competent interventions for health professionals who work with racialized foreign-born older adults. The aim of this paper is to describe the protocol for this review. METHODS Our protocol will follow the PRISMA guidelines (PRISMA-P) for systematic review protocols. We will conduct a systematic search for relevant studies from three electronic databases that focus on health and social sciences (PubMed, CINAHL, and Scopus). After selecting relevant papers using the inclusion and exclusion criteria, data will be extracted, analyzed, and synthesized to yield recommendations for practice and for future research. RESULTS The systematic review is currently at the search phase where authors are refining the search strings for the selected databases. We expect that the systematic review will be completed within 18 months from the publication of the protocol paper. CONCLUSIONS This study will inform future development and implementation of interventions to support culturally competent, person-centered care of racialized immigrant older adults.

Interprofessional Education Collaborative Competencies and the Public Health Professional

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-280
Author(s):  
Darson Rhodes ◽  
Joseph D. Visker ◽  
Elizabeth A. Whitney ◽  
Carol Cox
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Interprofessional Education ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Public Health Professionals ◽  
Patient Health

Interprofessional education involves programs that foster the partnerships of two or more individuals studying different health professions, thus allowing students to learn with and about the other professions. The Interprofessional Education Collaborative Competencies were updated in 2016 with a threefold purpose that included a greater emphasis on population health, thereby encouraging the health professions who typically work on an individual level to broaden their understanding of the field of public health. In the professional preparation of public health professionals and health education specialists, both foundational competencies and areas of responsibility imply and/or explicitly state that public health professionals and health education specialists must be able to work with interprofessional teams. Interprofessional collaborative learning activities have been recommended to be offered early and often during health professions training. Not only do public health and health education students benefit from inclusion in these interprofessional education activities but other health professions students also benefit from exposure to public health students and population health concepts. Public health and health education have contributed to leadership in interprofessional education initiatives and are well-situated to lend population health expertise to improve health care delivery as well as population and patient health outcomes.

Governance and coordination in health care: organic processes and structural capacity

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (7/8) ◽  
pp. 757-763
Author(s):  
Peter Nugus ◽  
Jean-Louis Denis ◽  
Denis Chênevert
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Local Agency

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to articulate cutting-edge conceptions of the relationship between local processes in the here-and-now, and the broader influences on those processes, that are both organic and overtly designed, and to discern the implications of this relationship for future research, policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach A focused and structured approach was taken to give effect to this purpose by reviewing the chosen articles in this collection, which from the 2018 Organizational Behavior in Health Care conference papers. Findings Research in coordination within and across health care boundaries increasingly recognizes: the multilevel influences on human action and interaction in health care delivery; the challenge of balancing individual or local agency with overt interventions; the everchanging the local circumstances of healthcare delivery; and the need to foster reflexivity, that is, self-improvement capacity, in healthcare organizations. Research limitations/implications Interventions to improve care coordination must be grounded in the reality of changing local circumstances and incentives for action from the broader environment. Originality/value This paper articulates the implied tension in health care delivery between individual and local agency, and imposed structures that may contradict, but are at the same time necessary, to foster such agency.

The application of virtual reality in health professions� digital education: a narrative review (Preprint)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Tudor Car ◽  
Bhone Myint Kyaw ◽  
Josip Car
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Health Professions ◽  
Health Professions Education ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Educational Content ◽  
Potential Applications

BACKGROUND Digital technology called Virtual Reality (VR) is increasingly employed in health professions’ education. Yet, based on the current evidence, its use is narrowed around a few most applications and disciplines. There is a lack of an overview that would capture the diversity of different VR applications in health professions’ education and inform its use and research. OBJECTIVE This narrative review aims to explore different potential applications of VR in health professions’ education. METHODS The narrative synthesis approach to literature review was used to analyse the existing evidence. RESULTS We outline the role of VR features such as immersion, interactivity and feedback and explain the role of VR devices. Based on the type and scope of educational content VR can represent space, individuals, objects, structures or their combination. Application of VR in medical education encompasses environmental, organ and micro level. Environmental VR focuses on training in relation to health professionals’ environment and human interactions. Organ VR educational content targets primarily human body anatomy; and micro VR microscopic structures at the level of cells, molecules and atoms. We examine how different VR features and health professional education areas match these three VR types. CONCLUSIONS We conclude by highlighting the gaps in the literature and providing suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals Learning from and Leveraging Multi-Level Changes in Responses to the COVID 19 Pandemic to Facilitate Breast Cancer Prevention Efforts

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (13) ◽  
pp. 6999
Author(s):  
Deborah J. Bowen ◽  
Kelly E. Rentscher ◽  
Amy Wu ◽  
Gwen Darien ◽  
Helen Ghirmai Haile ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Breast Cancer Prevention ◽  
Health Care Use ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
And Shifts

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has had multilevel effects on non-COVID-19 health and health care, including deferral of routine cancer prevention and screening and delays in surgical and other procedures. Health and health care use has also been affected by pandemic-related loss of employer-based health insurance, food and housing disruptions, and heightened stress, sleep disruptions and social isolation. These disruptions are projected to contribute to excess non-COVID-19 deaths over the coming decades. At the same time municipalities, health systems and individuals are making changes in response to the pandemic, including modifications in the environmental to promote health, implementation of telehealth platforms, and shifts towards greater self-care and using remote platforms to maintain social connections. We used a multi-level biopsychosocial model to examine the available literature on the relationship between COVID-19-related changes and breast cancer prevention to identify current gaps in knowledge and identify potential opportunities for future research. We found that COVID-19 has impacted several aspects of social and economic life, through a variety of mechanisms, including unemployment, changes in health care delivery, changes in eating and activity, and changes in mental health. Some of these changes should be reduced, while others should be explored and enhanced.

A Scoping Review of Telehealth-Assisted Case Management for Chronic Illnesses

2021 ◽  
pp. 019394592110089
Author(s):  
Jee Young Joo ◽  
Megan F. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Case Management ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Management Practice ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Future Research

This scoping review aimed to examine telehealth-assisted case management for chronic illnesses and assess its overall impact on health care delivery. Guided by the PRISMA statement, this review included 36 empirical studies published between 2011 and 2020. This study identified three weaknesses and four strengths of telehealth-assisted case management. While the weaknesses were negative feelings about telehealth, challenges faced by patients in learning and using telehealth devices, and increased workload for case managers, the strengths included efficient and timely care, increased access to health care services, support for patients’ satisfaction, and cost savings. Future research can be designed and conducted for overcoming the weaknesses of telehealth-assisted case management. Additionally, the strengths identified by this review need to be translated from research into case management practice for chronic illness care. This review not only describes the value of such care strategy, but also provides implications for future nursing practice and research.

scholarly journals Assessing the indirect effects of COVID-19 on healthcare delivery, utilization and health outcomes: a scoping review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte M Roy ◽  
E Brennan Bollman ◽  
Laura M Carson ◽  
Alexander J Northrop ◽  
Elizabeth F Jackson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
High Income ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Local Health

Abstract Background The COVID-19 pandemic and global efforts to contain its spread, such as stay-at-home orders and transportation shutdowns, have created new barriers to accessing healthcare, resulting in changes in service delivery and utilization globally. The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of the literature published thus far on the indirect health effects of COVID-19 and to explore the data sources and methodologies being used to assess indirect health effects. Methods A scoping review of peer-reviewed literature using three search engines was performed. Results One hundred and seventy studies were included in the final analysis. Nearly half (46.5%) of included studies focused on cardiovascular health outcomes. The main methodologies used were observational analytic and surveys. Data were drawn from individual health facilities, multicentre networks, regional registries, and national health information systems. Most studies were conducted in high-income countries with only 35.4% of studies representing low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Conclusion Healthcare utilization for non-COVID-19 conditions has decreased almost universally, across both high- and lower-income countries. The pandemic’s impact on non-COVID-19 health outcomes, particularly for chronic diseases, may take years to fully manifest and should be a topic of ongoing study. Future research should be tied to system improvement and the promotion of health equity, with researchers identifying potentially actionable findings for national, regional and local health leadership. Public health professionals must also seek to address the disparity in published data from LMICs as compared with high-income countries.

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