Background: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, highlighting the virus's widespread impact across numerous countries. This study evaluated the economic challenges
AI-enabled capacity management is beneficial for surgical scheduling. Since operating rooms are high-cost, high-demand hospital areas, AI can minimize OR downtime by optimizing procedure scheduling and staff availability. Some hospitals have also started usingdigital twinsto improve operational manage...
Disruptions to healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic are well-recognised problems. However, a dearth of research exists on disabled people’s experiences with accessing these services. A scoping review was undertaken to identify and explore research on the experience of disabled people in ...
Regarding system satisfaction in New Zealand, a Gallup World Poll in 2018 asked citizens “if they were satisfied with the availability of quality healthcare in the city or area where they lived.” OECD reported that 82% of New Zealand citizens reported they were satisfied. The average citizen ...
People with health problems unrelated to the epidemic find it harder to access healthcare services during the pandemic [6], which results in reduced essential healthcare availability and accessibility. The health systems framework assumes that four components affect the coverage of services: availability...
pandemic35. Such control can ensure the distribution of reliable pandemic information. Still, the added control could severely curtail information delivery effectiveness and reduce the availability of potentially useful VA apps for the end-users. Therefore, an emergency digital health and VA use action...
The availability of sex-specific health data also differs by country. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for instance, 76 percent of high-income countries reported COVID-19 case data by sex, compared with 37 percent of low-income countries.18Sex-disaggregated data provides important insights into the...
(B). Impact of infection rates on healthcare workers availability during the peak of infected healthcare workers. Minimum fraction of healthy workers during a simulation as a function of the infection rates. (i) Normal strategy. (ii) Desynchronization strategy α stands for α1 during the odd ...
Kowanda, Michelle, Lindsey Cartner, Catherine Kentros, Alexa R. Geltzeiler, Kaitlyn E. Singer, W. Curtis Weaver, Christopher D. Lehman, et al. 2021. Availability of services and caregiver burden: Supporting individuals with neurogenetic conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of Child ...
The aim of this study is to examine the relationship between depression, anxiety, and psychological resilience factors in healthcare professionals who are actively working during the pandemic process and working conditions (how many hours they come into contact with COVID-19-positive patients during ...