Definition: New instrumental medical interventionsquot;nlead to new financial problems and some questionsquot;nmust be answered for service receivers and insurancequot;ncompanies (payers) and scientific, academic andquot;ngovernmental societies and organs about the safety,quot;nefficiency and cost of ...
In the introductory part of the paper the authors discuss briefly an approach to and the adopted definition of professional competence. The body is devoted to the assessment of competence acquired and the methods applied after a 2-year postgraduate studies for public health managers. Seventeen ...
Public health emergencies (PHEs), such as the COVID-19 crisis, are threats to global health and public order. We recommend that countries bolster their PHE responses by investing in health technology assessment (HTA), defined as a systematic process of gathering pertinent information on and evalua...
as this exercise requires a common definition and understanding of the elements and functioning of health systems to be described, and a common way of describing, analyzing and interpreting these elements. It requires an inventory of consensual indicators ...
The complexity, phrasing and definition were recurring in the interviews, and it is a worth discussing why this is an issue. Supervisors rarely had any training in how to use the assessment instruments and as described, the more experience supervisors did not excel in their knowledge of the ...
Based on the elaborations on current status of eco environmental health risk assessment standards at home and abroad, this article analyzed the main contents of the guideline,and interpreted it from the aspects of standard name, standard positioning, term definition, standard application and so on....
The pre-defined hypotheses will be further analysed and published in subsequent papers, along with extensive literature reviews that summarise their suitability for grouping. These publications will include definition of key terms and suggestions of either thresholds or similarity assessment criteria for inc...
As China has entered a new stage of high-quality development, clarifying the mechanism and spatial characteristics of green development for urban agglomerations are critical to sustainable development. Based on the data of 11 major cities in the Harbin-C
Meaningful activity participation has shown good predictability for healthy ageing in older adults, and their participation can be assessed using the Meaningful Activity Participation Assessment (MAPA). However, the MAPA has never been validated in any T
Given the still recent definition of HIL and inconsistency of its assessment at the international level, this review includes HIL and related constructs such as health insurance knowledge, understanding, familiarity, comprehension, and numeracy, with the goal of identifying assessment tools that cover th...