Factors Affecting Awareness and Perception of Youth Regarding the Public Health and Hygiene Related Campaigns though Social Marketing

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Roktim Sarmah ◽  
Dheeraj Nim
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Marketing ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals Towards a Shariah Compliance Model for Healthcare Centres with reference to Spiritual Healers: Issues and Challenges

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramizah Wan Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Healthcare Delivery System ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Healthcare Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Spiritual Healers

Generally, a good healthcare centre comprises of qualified manpower, right policies and right procedures in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care for the patients as well as in public health. Other than manpower, healthcare centres must also look at social, religious and cultural factors affecting the recipients of the healthcare services given by the healthcare centres. In this paper, the author will look at some pertinent issues such as the need to have spiritual healers in any healthcare centre to help the patients in dealing with fatal illness. The spiritual healer is to help the patient and give him motivation so that he could have a positive mind throughout his journey in battling with his illness. Sometimes we have patients who refused to listen to the doctor's advice. Thus, the role of the spiritual healer would be important in assisting the healthcare centres and its management to convince him. Another issue is the privacy, respect and trust between patients and doctors as well as with the management of the healthcare centres. One of the duties of the healthcare centres’ management and doctors is, to respect the patient's religion and his faith. These three issues are amongst the important issues which every healthcare centre must look upon. Definitely there are a lot of challenges in addressing the above mentioned issues such as the procedures, methods on how to execute these issues and most importantly the perception of the public. In Islam, health care is one of the five important elements in which the Prophet SAW has mentioned in one hadith to be taken care of. A study has shown that a nation-building efforts has no meaningwithout the best public health and healthcare delivery system to the people.

scholarly journals Prioritizing public health? Factors affecting the issuance of stay-at-home orders in response to COVID-19 in Africa

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e0000112
Author(s):  
Gregg R. Murray ◽  
Joshua Rutland
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Political Factors ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
At Home

COVID-19 has sickened and killed millions of people globally. Conventional non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly stay-at-home orders (SAHOs), though effective for limiting the spread of disease have significantly disrupted social and economic systems. The effects also have been dramatic in Africa, where many states are already vulnerable due to their developmental status. This study is designed to test hypotheses derived from the public health policymaking literature regarding the roles played by medical and political factors as well as social, economic, and external factors in African countries’ issuance of SAHOs in response to the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using event history analysis, this study analyzed these five common factors related to public health policy to determine their impact on African states’ varying decisions regarding the issuance of SAHOs. The results of this analysis suggest that medical factors significantly influenced decisions as did factors external to the states, while the role of political factors was limited. Social and economic factors played no discernible role. Overall, this study suggests how African leaders prioritized competing factors in the early stages of a public health crisis.

scholarly journals Factors That Affect Solid Waste Management in Adjumani Town Council Adjumani District.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Franco Aluma ◽  
Innocent Justine Amani
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Public Health Department ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Town Council

Background: The study was carried out at the Adjumani town council located in the Adjumani district. The researcher sought to determine factors affecting solid waste management in Adjumani Town Council. The study objectives were to identify the types of solid waste management, the methods of solid waste management, and to identify the challenges faced by solid waste management. Methodology: The study involved descriptive cross-sectional employing qualitative data collection using methods of simple random sampling with a sample size of 10 respondents, the study population included public health workers handling solid wastes with the help of questionnaires, oral interview and observation were the major data collection tools basing on both dependent and independent study variables. The data was analyzed and presented in tables. Results: 70% were males and 30% females. Majority of the services related to waste management were rated 60% good and 20% fair, 10% very good and 10% bad while none were got a rating of excellent. The poor roads to the final disposal site, mechanical problems with the lorry, accumulated heaps of garbage, and lack of fences were among the problems associated with transportation. Conclusion: The study thus concluded that through the capacity of government in liaison with administrators, the public health department should put more effort into continuing education to enable the staff to improve their skills at the work that is, by training, teaching, and well sensitizing all health workers and the public in the community and become aware of solid waste management and this will help to eliminate /reduce the factors affecting solid waste management in Adjumani Town Council while aiming at higher results with good performance at the workplace.

scholarly journals Quality of polyclinic services at public health centers in Padang city, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 4207
Author(s):  
Puteri Fannya ◽  
Delmi Sulastri ◽  
Rosfita Rasyid
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Influencing Factor ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Health Centers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Quality Of Health Services

Background: One of the efforts in health development is the improvement of service quality at Public Health Center. The two main factors affecting service quality are expected service and perceived service. The objective of this study was to analyze factors associated to the quality of polyclinic services at public health centers in Padang, Indonesia.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in three selected polyclinics at public health centers in Padang, Indonesia, during September to October 2017. One hundred eight participants who has visited public health centers were selected. Data was collected by using questionnaire.Results: 86.1% respondents stated the quality of health services was good. The dimension of tangible (p=0.0001), reliability (p=0.0001), responsiveness (p=0.002), assurance (p=0.027), and empathy (p=0.0001) were associated with the quality of polyclinic service in the Public Health Centers at Padang. Empathy dimension (Exp B=6.182) was the most influencing factor of service quality in polyclinic.Conclusions: Overall the quality of polyclinic service was good, but it suggests that officers should increase attention and communication to patients as it were the most influencing factors of patient satisfaction.

scholarly journals Study of Relationship between Self-rated Health and Objective Health in Different Socio-economic Groups of Tehran in 2014

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Khalili ◽  
Saharnaz Nejat ◽  
Kazem Mohammad ◽  
Kamran Yazdani ◽  
Ghasem Yadegarfar
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Close Correlation ◽  
The Self ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Objective Health ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Reliable Tool

The evaluation of health by an individual or self-rated health is a popular international index which is widely practiced for evaluating the individuals’ health in the public health researches and epidemiology. Many studies have revealed that self-rated health is a reliable predictor of mortality, illness, and loss of physical capacity. In addition, it has close correlation with the objective health indexes. The findings of this study have revealed the strong relationship between self-rated health and objective health. As self- rated health can be used as a reliable tool in the evaluation of objective health, this questionnaire can be used as a probable tool of screening the individuals’ health in the society and determining the individuals who need care. Further studies are suggested to be done in other regions for studying the quality of the questionnaire and also the factors affecting the self-rated health.

scholarly journals An Analysis of the Structural Factors Affecting the Public Participation in Health Promotion

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Raheleh Ghaumi ◽  
Tayebe Aminee ◽  
Akram Aminaee ◽  
Mojgan Dastoury
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Social ◽  
Health Related

<p>The present study focuses on analyzing national and international Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) studies published from 2000 to 2010 in order to identify and categorize the possible factors that affect social participation for improving the public health. Clearly, improving the public health necessitates a combination of the participation and responsibility by the social members and the attempts by public health policy-makers and planners. CBPR studies are selected as the corpus since they seek to encourage active and informed participation of the social members in fulfilling the health related goals. The present study is conducted through meta-synthesis within a qualitative framework. The results revealed a set of factors within the structural capacities which were employed by the CBPR researchers for achieving the health promotion goals. The structural capacities employed in the interventions could be considered on the cultural and social grounds. The cultural grounds were divided into scientific and religious attempts. For the scientific attempts, the results highlighted the participation of higher education institutes including universities and research centers as well as educational institutes such as schools and the relevant institutions. And regarding the religious attempts, the results indicated that the cooptation of religious centers played the greatest role in enhancing the public participation.</p>

scholarly journals THE EMPOWERMENT OF VILLAGE HEALTH FORUM (VHF) IN ALERTED VILLAGE DEVELOPMENT

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 115
Author(s):  
Didik G. Suharto ◽  
Kristina Setyowati
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
The Public ◽  
Partnership Development ◽  
Village Government ◽  
Public Health Promotion ◽  
Operating Fund ◽  
Village Health

<p>The problem the partner (Village Health Forum/VHF) encountered in developing alerted village could be approached from managerial capacity aspect and from the aspect of technical understanding capacity of members’ health. Considering the activity of service conducted, it could be explained that the activity focused on improving the members’ capacity in managing the institutionalism of VHF (particularly activity management, infrastructure and operating fund); and how the basic health knowledge capacity of VHF members as initiator, facilitator, and motivator supported the public health promotion. The activity of service to public in partner institution included: need assessment, institution capacity development, partnership development, and monitoring and evaluation. The factors affecting the program’s smoothness and success were: the factor deriving from VHF administrator/cadre, VHF institution, village government, Health Office/Public Health Center, private sector/company, and society.</p><p>Keywords: empowerment; Village Health Forum, alerted village</p>

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