Background Introducing Health and Social Care Professional (HSCP) teams to the emergency department (ED) has increasingly demonstrated benefits for ED patient and process outcomes. However, there is a dearth of research exploring the views of key ED stakeholders on the r...
President Franklin Roosevelt and Congress joined together to pass social legislation to help those in need, including children; and how the current Reagan administration, despite such actions as the “Baby Doe” regulations, has sought to reduce federal involvement in health care financing, Congress’...
Doctors, patients, and scientists use the principles of open source and generation of content so that users can be brought in the same platform to personalise healthcare by Health 2.0. Social media (SM) tools such as Facebook, WhatsApp, blogs, Twitter and others are widely used around the ...
The resulting 2013 document consisted of a reaffirmation of the one-sentence 1996 definition, while updating supporting documentation to align with the current social, economic, political, and health care context. The 2013 document was strongly endorsed by vote of the APHA Public Health Nursing ...
The Dictionary of Civil Society provides a generic definition of the term, as “the set of institutions, organizations and behaviors situated between the state, the business world and the family. This would include voluntary organizations of many different kinds, philanthropic institutions, social, A...
To a large extent the health care needs of people with learning disabilities living in the community have been neglected by policy makers, purchasers and providers. One result is that the role of carers, paid and unpaid, in monitoring and promoting healt
Health systems are defined as the six components of the WHO Building Blocks, comprising all the resources, organizations and institutions that are devoted to producing interdependent actions aimed principally at improving, maintaining or restoring health. This definition also includes the WHO common goods...
Once the causes of illness are identified and consequences evaluated, it is the entire family or group that participates in the finances which bring about treatment. In this study, we show the role of social capital in the processes of financial solidarity for access to modern health care ...
At the same time, these must be open to the same criteria for rigour and reliability as techniques used elsewhere in health and social service evaluation. To this end, a developmental stage of exploratory research was undertaken at the start of a major multicentre trial of palliative day care ...
摘要: PROFESSOR Sue Hill is not only the Department of Health's Chief Scientific Officer, but until recently was still clinical service lead for respiratory medicine at University of Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, where she was a consultant clinical scientist....