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The World Health Organization (WHO) Stop TB Strategy calls for involvement of all healthcare providers in tuberculosis (TB) control. There is evidence that many people with TB seek care from informal providers before or after diagnosis, but very little has been done to engage these i...
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PMID: 21677530
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The purpose of this paper is to study patients' attitudes to nurses and investigate what hampering factors occur in the actual nursing situation and what patient features might affect cooperative climates.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 11 male inpatients suf...
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PMID: 21916145
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The distribution of power in the Danish health care sector is debated. It is often claimed that persons with a social science background have taken over the most powerful positions. The aim of this study was to test whether doctors have lost their power to people with a background in economic, polit...
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PMID: 21156108
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The quality indicators program in the community has existed in Clalit Health Services for over a decade. As a part of this program, approximately 70 evidence-based quality indicators have been defined, in 11 different domains. The indicators relate to preventive medicine (immunizations, early detect...
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PMID: 20812490
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This methodology proved to be useful for modeling a health care network. An auto-referral process was observed where options were available, with opportunities for improvement in diagnostic resolution at the primary health care centers, as well as at the specialty centers. Moderate increases in diag...
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PMID: 20414509
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In 2008, the population per physician in Qatar was 444; the population per general practitioner (GP) was 949; the population per hospital bed was 716; and nurses per physician ratio was 2.6. During the last decade, the population of Qatar has more than doubled, which has resulted in a similar increa...
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PMID: 20162749
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We evaluated the importance of incomes, administration, and medical interventions in this difference. Pooling various sources, we calculated medical personnel incomes, administrative expenses, and procedure volume and intensity for the United States and Canada. We found that Canada spent $1589 per c...
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PMID: 20812461
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Executive compensation in health care organizations, particularly tax-exempt organizations, has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. This paper identifies the implications for tax-exempt health care organizations of recent efforts to regulate executive pay, as well as some changes that th...
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PMID: 20464951
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The aim of the paper was to describe and analyse health services management in Serbia, commencing with present status and projecting, as accurately as possible, future changes over the next years, skills and required competencies of the health management workforce. The study was done as a part of Mi...
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PMID: 21086769
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Different governance arrangements and approaches to governance can influence health outcomes through their impact on commissioning strategies, public health practice and performance management regimes. Failure to address these issues will hamper the development of a stewardship role in local organiz...
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PMID: 20036406
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This chapter gives an educational overview of: * the concept of project management and its role in modern management * the generic project lifecycle process * processes used in developing a plan for the management of resources - time, cost, physical resources and people * the concept of managing ris...
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PMID: 20407175
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Acquiring these skills will lead to providing users with a quality service through better management practice in public health establishments....
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PMID: 20379671
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The objective of this article is to know the profile and check the competencies, management attributions and abilities in the level of structure of Basic Attention; to identify the difficulties and easiness in relation to their attributions and management of people. The research is a subject of stud...
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PMID: 19750364
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Gestosis remains to be serious complication of pregnancy, major cause of maternal mortality (MM) and perinatal losses. The aim of the investigation was the analyses of case histories of women who died from gestosis and its complications. The prevalence of gestosis in 1996 -2005 was 8.72%. Based on a...
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PMID: 19893116
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Difficult social conditions are accompanied by poor health status and limited access to quality social services. Accessibility to the health care is one of the important patient right universally. Although formally in place, health services are deprived of any means to assist the population. From 16...
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PMID: 19893131
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Administrative social influence is a principal tool for motivating employee behavior. The authors argue that the compliance of professional employees (e.g., doctors) with administrative social influence will depend on the degree to which these employees identify with their profession and organizatio...
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PMID: 19702374
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4,022 PI concerning "immigration" were identified. The main content concerned statistical information about the immigrant population (57.2 %). 116 PI about "immigration and health" were analysed. The most frequently recurring topics were health-care strategies (25 %), health-service access (24.1 %)...
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PMID: 20169207
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Mexican immigrants are the most likely to seek medical, dental, and prescription services in Mexico. A large number, but small percentages, of US-born nonLatino whites purchase prescription drugs there. Although proximity facilitates use, access and acceptability barriers in the US medical care syst...
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PMID: 19434002
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The objective of this study, carried out in municipalities located in a metropolitan region of Brazil, was to promote the early diagnosis and prompt treatment of visceral leishmaniasis. In the intervention model a health professional underwent training that covered all procedures involved in assisti...
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PMID: 19488502
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In the U.S.A., direct care workers and licensed practical nurses are the professionals who provide the most hands-on care to people with dementia in nursing homes and residential care facilities--yet they do not receive adequate training in dementia care. Dementia care training needs to be universal...
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PMID: 19288968
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This paper presents a strategy for training primary care physicians in the identification, diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. The strategy uses evidence-based practice guidelines to establish quality benchmarks and then provides training and other interventions to...
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PMID: 19288963
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The (re)construction of the Unified National Health System (SUS) in the Municipality of São Paulo, Brazil, from 2001 to 2008 was analyzed by means of a case study, using different sources: documents, interviews with key informants, and participant observation. Health policy and health management...
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PMID: 19347219
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There are many ways to understand self-management. They vary from Government-dependent technical-administrative meanings (i.e. hospital self-management, in the context of health reform in Chile), to those related to efforts to abolish the State. Thus, the "self-management" concept was developed from...
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PMID: 19621187
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In this article the critical analysis of a state of geriatric service in the Russian Federation is given. It is marked, that actually geriatric service is submitted by a wide network of establishments of various functional orientation and specialization: the establishments rendering the medico-socia...
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PMID: 19827689
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The evaluation exposes the health improvement leadership needs of a multi-organisation cohort, offers some explanations for successful achievement of learning needs while also exposing of the challenges and paradoxes faced in this endeavour. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: There are limited reported templates of...
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PMID: 19711778
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The health sector is dynamic with change endemic. But role assignment in the workplace is varying little by little because of the rigidities associated with professional demarcations, the long training times for many health professions and the pace and ability of educational institutions to respond...
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PMID: 19521150
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The healthcare system continues to evolve, requiring innovation to promote patient-centred, fiscally responsible healthcare delivery. This evolution includes changes to the skills and competencies required of the health human resources (HHR), both regulated and unregulated, who are central supports...
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PMID: 19521147
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The article presents some aspects on the relevance of the information systems as tool of support to the management of the work of the health professionals, a time that is a computational resource capable to potential the knowledge search. Know that the information systems available of fast form, eas...
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PMID: 19597670
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As military physician Tyrbas de Chamberet was a witness of his time. In 1804 he arrived in Paris and became a medical student. Later he followed the army in Italy, Spain and took part to a mission in Poland where cholera epidemic had broken. As chief of the Hospital Val-de-Grâce he knew people ar...
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PMID: 19852383
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There is a need to instigate organizational development and institutional strengthening initiatives. These may include defining the structure of organizations; specifying the roles, responsibilities and defining a career structure; managing resources; overhauling the training activity, right from ne...
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PMID: 19213369
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The structural equation modeling representation provides a comprehensive picture that allows healthcare constructs and patient satisfaction causality to be tested. The goodness-of-fit statistics supported the healthcare quality-patient status-satisfaction model. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: The model has been...
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PMID: 19725210
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Analysis showed that the cost of implementing current RFID technology is too expensive for broad and sweeping implementation within the healthcare sector at this time. However, several example applications have been identified in which this technology can be effectively leveraged in a cost-effective...
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PMID: 19284172
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