Role of health care infrastructure and expenditure on COVID19 pandemic: Scenario from most affected countries

2022 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
E Patra ◽  
Shakti Mishra ◽  
Subhra Mallisha ◽  
Jatindra Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure

scholarly journals Development inequalities of Romanian physical public healthcare infrastructure: the case of hospital beds

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Giorgian Guțoiu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Public Hospital ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Hospital Services ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Hospital Beds ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure

The main aim of this paper is to analyse the spatial dynamic of public hospital beds in Romania (1992-2018) in order to grasp the potentially uneven development of the health care infrastructure following state policies of austerity and cost reduction. The paper uses quantitative data and descriptive statistics to show the reduction of public hospital beds after 1990 in line with the state’s health care reform aiming to decrease the use of hospital services and strengthen the role of alternative types of care. The results show that public hospital beds significantly decreased (approx. by 40%), mostly in smaller towns and rural areas. The main conclusion of the paper is that the neoliberal healthcare policies generated patterns of uneven spatial development. Public hospital beds were used in the paper as an indicator of public healthcare physical infrastructure, and across time they follow a pattern of clustering in more prosperous and more competitive areas

scholarly journals A Study on Management of Health Care Infrastructure Development in Rural India: Critical analysis of current status and future challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. i35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nenavath Sreenu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Rural Health ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Health Infrastructure ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure

The study has focused on the role of rural health infrastructure development in India. Currently the health infrastructure development of India is poor and it needs fundamental reforms to deal with new emerging challenges. The role of private providers is increasing but simultaneously healthcare facilities are becoming costly. The study surveys the present position of rural health care infrastructure growth, the development of infrastructure, health care facilities, position of human resource, and quality of service delivery. The paper suggests future challenges of Indian healthcare infrastructure development in rural area, as the burden of disease, financial deficiency in a large section of the population, vaccination policy and poor access to health care. Longevity, literacy and per capita income are further considerations.

scholarly journals Advancing pediatric lung health in Africa: COVID-19 and beyond

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Marco Zampoli ◽  
Diane Gray ◽  
Lorinda Lake ◽  
Michael Levin ◽  
Aneesa Vanker ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Lung Diseases ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Respiratory Illnesses ◽  
Global Epidemiology ◽  
Immunodeficiency Virus ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Health Care Infrastructure ◽  
Lung Health

Respiratory illnesses in children are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa where poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, and human immunodeficiency virus infection are aggravating factors in many countries. These factors, in addition to under resourced health-care infrastructure, remain important barriers to improving child lung health outcomes in Africa. However, despite these challenges, there have been significant recent advancements in understanding the epidemiology, causes, measurement tools, and treatment of childhood respiratory illnesses. In this review, we highlight some advances in childhood pneumonia, tuberculosis, asthma, and other important non-communicable lung diseases common in children. Furthermore, we discuss the role of environmental influences on children’s lung health in Africa and highlight novel methods of measuring lung function in children. Although children contribute a small role in the global epidemiology of COVID-19 pandemic, socioeconomic and health-care delivery disruptions caused by government responses to contain the pandemic have resulted in significant indirect setbacks to child health. We further highlight how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted areas of pediatric lung health and discuss ways to mitigate effects of COVID-19 in Africa.

The Role of Caring in Contemporary Health Care

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (10) ◽  
pp. 871-872
Author(s):  
Linda Baumann
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Contemporary Health Care

The Role of Nurses in the Implementation of Patient Safety and Protection of Patient Rights at the Rahayu Yakkum Purwodadi Hospital

SOEPRA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Christina Nur Widayati ◽  
Endang Wahyati Yustina ◽  
Hadi Sulistyanto
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Patient’S Rights ◽  
Nurses Role ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Service Standards

Patient Safety was the right of a patient who was receiving health care. A nurse was one of the health professionals in a hospital having a very important role in realizing Patient Safety. In realizing Patient Safety Panti Rahayu Yakkum Hospital of Purwodadi had involved the role of the nurses. In carrying out their role the nurses could support the protection of the patient’s rights. The nurses performed health care by conducting six Patient Safety goals that were based on professional standards, service standards and codes of conduct so that the Patient Safety would be realized.This research applied a socio-legal approach to having analytical-descriptive specifications. The data used were primary and secondary those were gathered by field and literature studies. The field study was conducted by having interviews to, among others, the Director of Panti Rahayu Yakkum Hospital of Purwodadi, Head of Room and Chairman of Patient Safety Committee, nurses and patients. The data were then qualitatively analyzed.The arrangement of nurses’ role in implementing Patient Safety and the patient’s rights protection was based on the Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia of 1945, Health Act, Hospital Act, Labor Act, and Nursing Act. These bases made the hospital obliged to implement Patient Safety. The regulations leading the hospital to provide Patient Safety were Health Minister’s Regulation Nr. 11 of 2017 on Patient Safety, Statute of Panti Rahayu Yakkum Hospital of Purwodadi (Hospital ByLaws), Internal Nursing Staff ByLaws. In implementing Patient Safety Panti Rahayu Yakkum Hospital of Purwodadi had established a committee of Patient Safety team consisting of the nurses that would implement six targets of Patient Safety. Actually, the Patient Safety implementation had been accomplished but it had not been optimally done because of several factors, namely juridical, social and technical factors. The supporting factors in influencing the implementation were, among others, the establishment of the Patient Safety team that had been well socialized whereas the inhibiting factors were limitedness of time and funds to train the nurses besides the operational procedure standard (OPS) that was still less understood. Lack of learning motivation among the nurses also appeared as an inhibiting factor in understanding Patient Safety implementation.

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