scholarly journals Article Commentary: Integral Healthcare: The Benefits and Challenges of Integrating Complementary and Alternative Medicine with a Conventional Healthcare Practice

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. IMI.S2239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina L. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Alternative Medicine ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Integrative Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Practice

Today's medicine is in the midst of an undeniable crisis. Calls to reform healthcare are in the forefront of economic and political discussions worldwide. Economic pressures reduce the amount of time physicians can spend with patients contributing to burnout among medical staff and endangering the patient iatrogenically. Politicians are getting involved as the public is calling for more affordable healthcare. A new paradigm must be embraced in order to address all aspects of this dilemma. It is clear that science and technology have resulted in vastly improved understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, but the emphasis on science and technology to the exclusion of other elements of healing has also served to limit the development of a model that humanizes healthcare. The healing of a patient must include more than the biology and chemistry of their physical body; by necessity, it must include the mental, emotional and spiritual aspects. Because of these challenges, the development of an integral healthcare system that is rooted in appropriate regulation and supported by rigorous scientific evidence is the direction that many models of integrative healthcare are moving towards in the 21st century.

scholarly journals Healthcare workers’ legal liability and immunity during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Nasser Hammad Al-Azri
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Disaster Response ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Legal Liability ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Healthcare Workforce ◽  
Healthcare Practice

Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic is the most unprecedented crisis facing modern healthcare governance in a century. Many healthcare activities are attracting scrutiny from ethical and legal perspectives. Therefore, healthcare professionals are concerned about legal ambiguity regarding legal liability and immunity in their areas of practice. Law is a key response activity that promotes a sense of safety and security among healthcare workers. This article describes why it is important formally to address issues of altered operations in healthcare practice during emergencies. Furthermore, this article provides suggestions regarding solutions to the issue of legal liability during disasters. Implementing ethical and legal clarity during disaster response is a necessity for a strong healthcare system at every level from international to local in order to achieve a stable healthcare workforce operating for the public good within a safe and secure working environment.

scholarly journals The Experience of an Italian Public Homeopathy Clinic during the COVID-19 Epidemic, March–May 2020

Homeopathy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 109 (03) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
Elio Giovanni Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare System ◽  
Outpatient Clinic ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Rapid Test ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Health Surveillance ◽  
Capillary Blood ◽  
Outpatient Clinics ◽  
The Public

AbstractDuring the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy, hospital outpatient clinics progressively decreased their activities; in March 2020 they were closed except for emergencies. During this period, the activities of the public Homeopathy Outpatient Clinic of Lucca aimed at guaranteeing therapeutic continuity to patients by means of telephone or video consultations, and searching for homeopathic medicines that best responded to early COVID-19 symptoms. In March 2020, the Complementary Medicine Working Group participated in the organization of a mission of COVID-19 Chinese experts for the online training of professionals working in the Tuscan Healthcare System. The medical staff of the Lucca Clinic also cooperated in telephone health surveillance of infected patients at home, seroprevalence investigations using the capillary blood rapid test, and the implementation of the CLIFICOL (Clinical Files Collection) project.

The Role of Science and Technology in the 21st Century

2004 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 357-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cowan Coventry
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Millennium Development Goals ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Useful Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Poor Women ◽  
Development Goals

While our world is being transformed by rapid developments in ‘new’ technology, nearly one-third of humanity continues to be deprived of the benefits available from technologies centuries old. Northern markets rather than Southern needs increasingly determine what scientific and technological advances are developed and for whom. We urgently need to reclaim science and technology for the public good as well as private gain if we are to meet the poverty targets of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. However, rather than simply applying technologies to poverty, we need to help poor women and men access useful knowledge so that they can choose and use appropriate technologies.

A Survey on Crypto-Steganographic Schemes and A Use Case in Healthcare System

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Mei Ling Phang ◽  
Swee Huay Heng
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Electronic Devices ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Comparison Analysis ◽  
Information Assets

Information sharing has become prevalent due to the expansion of social networking in this 21st century. However, electronic devices are vulnerable to various kinds of attacks. Information might be disclosed, modified and accessed by an unauthorised third party which consequently leads to the breach of confidentiality, integrity and availability of the information. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to employ the technology of cryptography and steganography to protect information assets. Cryptography and steganography have weaknesses when they are working alone. Therefore, crypto-steganography, the combination of cryptography and steganography are introduced to overcome the weaknesses in order to provide a double layer of security and protection. This paper provides a general overview of steganography and cryptography as well as a comparison analysis of different crypto-steganographic schemes. A secure crypto-steganographic system for healthcare is then developed with the implementation and integration of the secure crypto-steganographic scheme proposed by Juneja and Sandhu. This healthcare system enables users to store and deliver message in a more secure way while achieving the main goals of both cryptography and steganography.

Odyssey without Nostos, or, From Globe to Planet

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-156
Author(s):  
Hans-Christian von Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Cosmic Scale

We are witnessing a return of cosmology in 20th and 21st century thinking. It is cosmology in the ancient greek sense of the word which addressed the entirety of what surrounds and carries us. Another term for this ongoing transformation is the ›planetary‹ which isn’t simply a synonym for the ›global‹. The planetary means a kind of boundless pervasion based on science and technology and transposing planet earth and human life from a culture-historical to a cosmic scale.

Trend of Parental Refusal or Delay of Childhood Vaccinations

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meagan Marie Daoust
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Educational Context ◽  
Health Consequences ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Parental Refusal

The healthcare trend of parental refusal or delay of childhood vaccinations will be investigated through a complex Cynefin Framework component in an economic and educational context, allowing patterns to emerge that suggest recommendations of change for the RN role and healthcare system. As a major contributing factor adding complexity to this trend, social media is heavily used for health related knowledge, making it is difficult to determine which information is most trustworthy. Missed opportunities for immunization can result, leading to economic and health consequences for the healthcare system and population. Through analysis of the powerful impact social media has on this evolving trend and public health, an upstream recommendation for RNs to respond with is to utilize reliable social media to the parents’ advantage within practice. The healthcare system should focus on incorporating vaccine-related education into existing programs and classes offered to parents, and implementing new vaccine classes for the public.

ADVERTISING IN THE CONTEXT OF EMPATHY

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-207
Author(s):  
Kamen Kirilov
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Consumer Sovereignty ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Effective Contact ◽  
Human Ability ◽  
Asymmetric Pattern ◽  
Broad Variety

Globalization, commodity parity, consumer sovereignty, super competition and a broad variety of other factors, including the roll-out of the mass media, the emergence and rapid rise of the new media formats and platforms as well as the exchange of information provided by social networks pose new challenges for the advertising industry. Throughout its 150 years of history, since we have known it as a distinct occupation and practice, advertising shows adaptive sustainability quality and greatly enhance its capacity as features, forms, user approaches and distribution channels. Nevertheless, by its very nature, advertising retains the constant of an asymmetric pattern of communication in which, in nowadays environment, the success of effort is expressed in the formula of understanding others and the willingness they to understand us in return. In practice, beyond the abstract of this formula, the effort of advertisers in the process of creating and planning a certain campaign would be greatly facilitated by putting the basic principles of empathy theory. Numerous experiments and studies of this human ability establish working models to achieve effective contact both at the level of personal communication and in the cases of direct and indirect communication with huge quantity and variety of audiences with specific composition. Synthesized and brought to a universal level of application, the basic principle of empathy is the ability, rather cognitive than emotional, to understand and to feel the feelings of others. The achievements in this psychology field currently apply mainly to psychotherapy, clinical psychiatry, pedagogy and political rhetoric theories and ractices. Experience proves that empathic skills help the communicator for faster, easier, more effective and more properly understood and accordingly more efficient as a moderator. This article provokes a new paradigm for advertisers in communicating with the public - about the content, forms and planning of communication activities of the principles of empathy. The goal of the effort is clear - creating more effective communication and achieving a sustainablecompetitive advantage.

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