Domestic Medical Tourism to Study the Expectations of Domestic Medical Tourists

2021 ◽  
pp. 128-146
Author(s):  
Sukanya Roy
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
The State ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Domestic Medical

The objective of the study was to document the features of the medical tourism sector in the state and analyse its possible implications on domestic healthcare in Jaipur, Rajasthan. In the present study, in-depth interviews were conducted with the key stakeholders in the state. The major finding that emerged from the study was that although there will be an improvement in the overall quality and availability of advanced healthcare services, accessibility to the services will be affected particularly for poorer sections due to increased cost of care. Policymakers believed the gradual growth of the private sector in healthcare and the decline of the public health sector will lead to the exclusion of a section of the domestic population from access to quality healthcare.

Corrupt Practices in the Public Health Sector: A Focus on Metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Mohammed Mustapha Namadi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Healthcare Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
The Government

Corruption is pervasive in Nigeria at all levels. Thus, despite recent gains in healthcare provision, the health sector faces numerous corruption related challenges. This study aims at examining areas of corruption in the health sector with specific focus on its types and nature. A sample size of 480 respondents aged 18 years and above was drawn from the eight Metropolitan Local Government Areas of Kano State, using the multistage sampling technique. The results revealed evidence of corrupt practices including those related to unnecessary-absenteeism, diversion of patients from the public health facilities to the private sector, diverting money meant for the purchase of equipment, fuel and diesel, bribery, stealing of medications, fraud, misappropriation of medications and unjustifiable reimbursement claims. In order to resolve the problem of corrupt practices in the healthcare sector, the study recommended the need for enforcement of appropriate code of ethics guiding the conduct of the health professionals, adoption of anti-corruption strategies, and strengthening the government monitoring system to check corruption in public health sector in order to ensure equitable access to healthcare services among the under-privileged people in the society.

Downsizing as a Public Policy and Downsizing Practices in the Health Sector

2022 ◽  
pp. 191-211
Author(s):  
Zafer Koca
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Globalized World

Health services provided by foundations in the pre-Republic period became more systematic and organized after the foundation of the Turkish Republic. Healthcare services, offered by the state in the period between 1920 and 1980 and accepted as one of the main duties of the state, became one of the areas in which the state wanted to withdraw after 1980. As a result of the neoliberal wave in the globalized world, policies aimed at downsizing healthcare services in Turkey have been developed and implemented since the 1980s. Accelerated downsizing practices by the Health Transformation Project (2003) continues today. In this study, literature review and descriptive analysis method were used.The aim of this study is to discuss the downsizing practices in the health sector of Turkey. This debate will take place over two periods (before 2002 and after 2002). Especially, the post-2002 period and works on behalf of health sector downsizing in this period will be discussed as to whether there is downsizing or not.

scholarly journals Arrangement Urgency of Medical Tourism Implementation at Bali Mandara Hospital

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-119
Author(s):  
I Nyoman Bagiastra
Keyword(s):  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
National Scale ◽  
Local Regulation ◽  
Sustainable Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Main Factor

Policy arrangement and a good regulation related to medical tourism at Bali Mandara Hospital that was planned to operate in 2017 are extremely significant to do in order to minimize legal issues after being applied. Bali Mandara Hospital is an international-based health service facility managed by Bali Provincial Government. This international-based hospital’s superiority is medical tourism application. It is known that Bali has a huge comparative aspects to make as tourism destination either in national scale or international scale. Bali has the most-known geographical area by tourists because it has special cultural characteristics. Thus, understanding about Tourism Law philosophically, epistemologically, and axiologically is the main factor, especially for policy maker in determining the success of sustainable tourism development. Collaboration between tourism sector and health sector are the most possible thing to do, but in implementation process, clear regulation is really needed. Therefore, Bali is better to make a local regulation especially for the collaboration.Int. J. Soc. Sc. Manage. Vol. 4, Issue-2: 115-119

scholarly journals Challenges and Achievements of Medical Tourism from the viewpoint of Medical tourists and Service Providers in the Public Hospitals of Shiraz (2017)

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 258-262
Author(s):  
Khadijeh Ghanbari ◽  
Abbas Yazdanpanah ◽  
Parviz Aghaei
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Medical Tourism ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Friedman Test ◽  
The Public ◽  
Strategic Plans ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
And Control

Introduction: Obviously, medical tourism is growing rapidly. This study aimed to identify the challenges and achievements of medical tourism from the viewpoint of medical tourists and service providers in the public hospitals of Shiraz in 2007. Method: This descriptive study was carried out through structural and thematic analysis, using a method called SWOT. The study sample included all tourists, medical tourists, and service providers in the public hospitals of Shiraz. Accordingly, 21 medical staff and 31 medical tourists were investigated. The Friedman Test was used to prioritize and rank the most important weaknesses, strengths, opportunities, and threats of medical tourism. Results: The results showed that medical tourism in the public hospitals of Shiraz had 9 strengths, 8 weaknesses, 8 opportunities, and 6 threats. A total of 17 strategies, including four SO strategies, three ST strategies, six WO strategies, and four WT strategies for medical tourism in the public hospitals of Shiraz were developed. Some of the major parts of these strategies included the development of medical tourism in the public hospitals of Shiraz, the establishment of medical justice for medical tourists through the optimal distribution of services and control over price and quality, the fight against corruption and collusion, plans for supporting the officials, financial support and investment in the medical tourism sector, and the development of strategic plans for supporting medical tourism. Conclusion: It seems that appropriate policies should be legislated by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education to improve the medical tourism in Shiraz.  

Using RFID and Wi-Fi in Healthcare

2015 ◽  
pp. 771-788
Author(s):  
Alexiei Dingli ◽  
Dylan Seychell
Keyword(s):  
Detection System ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Fall Detection ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Elderly Parents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Health

Europe faces a considerable challenge in providing good quality health care in the forthcoming future as the aging population increases. The phenomenon also results in a considerable cost on society due to the dependency on the public health sector particularly because such individuals would not be able to contribute to the economy. On the other hand, younger persons would need to make alternative arrangements to assist their elderly parents or relatives, potentially affecting productivity. The project PervasIve Nursing And docToral Assistant (PINATA) seeks to tackle this matter through the merging of Ambient Intelligence (AmI) and semantic web technologies. PINATA utilises pervasive devices to aid doctors and nurses to focus on the patient and thus improve the quality of healthcare services. This project proves the significant importance of using wireless technology in healthcare. This paper focuses on the use of Wi-Fi and RFID in an effort to enable continuous and intelligent monitoring of patients' conditions remotely. Results show that the detection system performs well (over 80%) accuracy on fall detection and the manual readings mapped 100% with the results collected by the system over the Wi-Fi infrastructure discussed in this paper.

Access to health insurance in Zimbabwe and associated factors: Insights from data from the Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey, 2015

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Godfrey Nyangadzayi Musuka ◽  
Tafadzwa Dzinamarira ◽  
Diego F Cuadros ◽  
Innocent Chingombe ◽  
Grant Murewanhema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Insurance ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Wealth Quintile ◽  
Hiv Status ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Hiv Negative

Abstract Objective: To determine factors associated with access to health insurance among adults in Zimbabwe. We used statistical analysis to determine the association between various variables and access to health insurance using the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey, 2015-16 data. Results: Overall, only 11% of 7397 females and 12% of 7420 males included in the analysis had access to health insurance. Age, educational level, marital status, religion, area of residence and wealth quintile were associated with access to health insurance for both females and males. For females, HIV status was associated with access to health insurance. Although not statistically significant, a smaller proportion of HIV positive males (10%) had access to a medical insurance compared to their HIV negative counterparts (12%), p=0.189. Our study showed that geospatial distribution of individuals with access to health insurance in Zimbabwe is concentrated around urban areas. Since the bulk of Zimbabweans do not have access to health insurance and mainly use the public health sector for services, there isa need for the Ministry of Health to enhance its investment in these facilities so that the bulk of the population can also get quality healthcare.

scholarly journals Staff Retention in Developing Countries: A Case Study of an NGO in the Health Sector

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhoda Cynthia Bakuwa ◽  
Francis Chasimpha ◽  
Joyce Masamba
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Staff Retention ◽  
Retention Strategies ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Intention To Continue ◽  
Skilled Staff

Given the importance of human resources as a source of competitive advantage and the fact that staff turnover is inevitable, the retention of skilled staff is vital in any organizational set up. In the health sector, particularly in developing countries, staff retention is regarded as an important human resource management issue. Any critical shortages prevent the delivery of quality healthcare services. Therefore, it is imperative for managers to identify factors that employees’ value and which consequently influence their intention to continue working for an organization. It is against this backdrop that this paper attempted to examine the key determinants of staff retention in developing countries based on a case study of an NGO in the health sector in Malawi. Using survey data collected from 299 employees, the results of this study revealed that it was the non financial/intangible rewards and not the financial package that significantly contributed to employees’ feelings of satisfaction and their intention to continue working for the case NGO. These results imply that when designing retention strategies, it is not just about money, but rather, it is important to factor in intangible rewards which could provide psychological satisfaction and may indeed have a deeper and longer lasting effect.

scholarly journals A Need of Good Governance in Public Health Sector

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 507-508
Author(s):  
Runa Paul
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Quality Healthcare ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Health Sector ◽  
The People ◽  
Medical Facilities ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Good Food

A good governance is the essence of a better economic growth. It enhances the satisfaction level of the multitude with efficiency and effectiveness. It promotes affordability and availability. In the health sector there is a need of good governance so that we can promote inclusive growth and provide healthcare to all. The people of India deserve good food, shelter, housing and medical facilities. The private healthcare is unaffordable but due to the provision of quality healthcare people prefer to take their services. The present paper focused on the ineffectiveness of the governance in the public health sector and suggested points to remove loopholes through good governance.

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