It is our understanding that eradicating healthcare disparities is culturally, politically, and has been traditionally thought-provoking due in part of it causes and reasons that are tangled with a belligerent history of race and gender in the American account. However, to a growing citizenry base, there is need to guarantee countless fairness and accountability of the health care system, including health plan purchasers, payers, and providers of care. To the extent that inequities in the health care system result in
What are some of the things you would do to attract new patients and create interest in others considering the alliance to follow with your direction? Building and maintaining strong patient-centered services and differentiated service brand that will identify the alliance. Solidifying and leveraging physician relationships to patient services. Increasing and finding ways to provide customer engagement, responsiveness and loyalty is important. What internal costs would you consider cutting or merging with others if you did form an alliance or ACO? A
There is a growing interest in the application of economics to health care as it is recognized that health care is an economic good like any other: health care resources are limited and the potential use of those resources are unbounded. Choices must be made about what quantity and mix of health care to produce, how to produce it, who pays for it and how it is distributed. Japan’s healthcare system signifies a problem for the American system. This is
Nejad, S. B., Allegranzi, B., Syed, S. B., Ellis, B., & Pittet, D. (2011). Health-care-associated infection in Africa: a systematic review. Bulletin Of The World Health Organization, 89(10), 757-765. doi:10.2471/BLT.11.088179 The article by Nejad, Allegranzi, Syed, Ellis & Pittet (2011) aimed at assessing the epidemiological approach of healthcare related infection in Africa. Three best, scholarly and peer-reviewed databases, i.e. Cochrane Library, the WHO regional Medical database for Africa and PubMed, were searched as the methods of research
Physicians who take a patient-centered orientation, attitude are more likely to treat patients like close associates and assist them in making informed choices among several options. This technique has been linked with a range of helpful outcomes, such as keen patient satisfaction, better adherence, and improved health outcomes. In terms of legislative health policy implementation, I have learned that epidemiology will likely aims at helping to set objectives for the well-researched policies that will affect general or specific population, inform need-based
Drill-and-practice software is used to teach skills that require memorization. The basic drive of drill and practice software is to have the learner memorize information. It does not act as the teacher, but as a kind of automated flash card. The program presents a question to the learner, the learner responds, and the software then gives feedback as to whether the answer is correct or incorrect. Most drill and practice software will accept two incorrect answers, and then provide the
The impact of a cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP) on decreasing blood pressure is one that emphasize on cohort study. The one evidence-based solution I might use to address public health problem of diabetes in Manila is the use and impact of cardiovascular health awareness program (CHAP) on reducing blood pressure — a cohort study approach. According to CHAP, hypertension is a significant and variable cardiovascular risk factor that remains under-achievable, under-noticed and under-cured, especially in the older populations
Computerized warning systems can be used to prevent ADEs. Serious ADEs occur in about 7 percent of patients admitted to hospitals. Many of these are caused by a physician prescribing either the wrong drug or the wrong dosage, because of lack of knowledge of either the patients or the drug. In 1994, a computerized warning system was designed and put into place in one hospital. The hospital already had in place a database with patient information; the existing system warned
Development of effective public health information systems requires understanding of public health informatics (PHI), the systematic application of information and computer science and technology to public health practice, research, and learning. PHI is well-known from other informatics specialties by its focus on deterrence in populations, use of a wide range of interventions to achieve its goals, and the constraints of functioning in a governmental context. The current need for PHI arises from dramatic improvements in information technology, new pressures on
Telemedicine is defined as a form of medical application/technology that uses computers and telecommunication equipment to bring about medical care at a distance. Telemedicine incorporates many subspecialties of medicine including radiology, pathology, oncology, ophthalmology, cardiology, neurology, dermatology, and psychiatry. Telemedicine remains to expand among the prison population; progressively used in prisons. It can also melodramatically reduce the time a patient must wait and the distance a patient must travel. It brings in more satisfaction at the comfort of patient’s house.
