Quality of STIs and HIV/AIDS care as perceived by biomedical and traditional health care providers in Zambia: Are there common grounds for collaboration?

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 155-162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Berthollet Bwira Kaboru ◽  
Maureen Muchimba ◽  
Torkel Falkenberg ◽  
Bengt Höjer ◽  
Elisabeth Faxelid
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Traditional Health Care ◽  
Stis And Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Pengalaman Pasien Pertama Kali Terdiagnosis HIV/AIDS: Studi Fenomenologi Dalam Perspektif Keperawatan

2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Welly Vitriawan ◽  
Ratna Sitorus ◽  
Yati Afiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Nursing Service ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
First Time ◽  
Hiv Aids

AbstrakSuatu studi fenomenologi telah dilakukan untuk mengeksplorasi berbagai pengalaman pasien pertama kali terdiagnosis HIV/AIDS termasuk pengalaman menerima pelayanan kesehatan dari para praktisi kesehatan. Data studi ini diperoleh dari 6 partisipan, dikumpulkan melalui wawancara formal tidak berstruktur yang mendalam sebanyak dua kali di ruang rawat khusus HIV/AIDS RS X di Jakarta. Wawancara direkam kemudian dibuat dalam bentuk transkrip wawancara. Hasil penelitian mengungkapkan variasi berbagai pengalaman pasien pertama kali terdiagnosis HIV/AIDS. Setiap pasien dalam studi ini saat pertama kali terdiagnosis HIV/AIDS mengalami stress. Pasien juga mengalami proses berduka. Berbagai mekanisme koping dan adaptasi telah dilakukan pasien. Selain itu setiap pasien pertama kali terdiagnosis HIV/AIDS membutuhkan dukungan dari lingkungan sekitarnya terutama dari keluarga, pasangan, teman terdekat, dan petugas kesehatan. Pasien juga membutuhkan pelayanan keperawatan termasuk membutuhan perawat yang bersikap baik dan komunikatif. Hasil studi ini diharapkan perawat medikal bedah akan lebih memahami harapan pasien HIV/AIDS untuk dapat meningkatkan kualitas hidup. AbstractThis a phenomenology study which aims to understand the diverse of patients’ first time experiences when they were diagnosed with HIV/AIDS included experience accepted of health care. The data collection from six participants with deep interviewed in the X Hospital in Jakarta. Interview recorded thus transcripted. The findings showed that the patients’ first time experiences when diagnosed with HIV/AIDS were depicted emotionally and filled with thematic expressions. It was concluded from this study that the physical, psychological and social stress were considered as the first time experiences of patients when diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Whilst the first grieving process experienced by the patients. The coping mechanisms identified as the first time experiences were the openness to others, self motivated, and struggled to adapt to the any circumstances. The research findings suggested that the first time experiences of every patient when diagnosed with HIV/AIDS required supports primarily from relatives, spouse, significant friends and health care providers. The needs to the nursing care and good behaviors and communication of nurses were also included as the first needs and expectations of the patients to the nurses. Furthermore, the study also made suggestions that supports, recognition and improvement of the nursing service provided for the first time experience of patients being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, in turn, would lead to the better patients’ live and reassure the quality of nursing care

Client characteristics and satisfaction with the quality of primary health-care services in Calabar, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
H. C. Okeke ◽  
P. Bassey ◽  
O. A. Oduwole ◽  
A. Adindu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Client Satisfaction ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Client Characteristics ◽  
Study Objective ◽  
Primary Health

Different mix of clients visit primary health care (PHC) facilities, and the quality of services is critical even in rural communities. The study objective was to determine the relationship between socio-demographic characteristics and client satisfaction with the quality of PHC services in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State, Nigeria. Specifically to describe aspects of the health facilities that affect client satisfaction; determine the health-care providers’ attitude that influences client satisfaction; and determine the socio-demographic characteristics that influence client satisfaction with PHC services. A cross-sectional survey was adopted. Ten PHCs and 500 clients utilizing services in PHC centers in Calabar Municipality were randomly selected. Clients overall satisfaction with PHC services was high (80.8%). Divorced clients were less (75.0%) satisfied than the singles and the married counterparts (81%), respectively. Clients that were more literate as well as those with higher income were less satisfied, 68.0% and 50.0%, respectively, compared to the less educated and lower-income clients, 92.0% and 85.0% respectively. These differences in satisfaction were statistically significant (P = 0.001). Hence, it was shown that client characteristics such as income and literacy level show a significant negative relationship with the clients satisfaction with the quality of PHC services in Calabar Municipality.

Medical Informatics and the Quality of Health: New Approaches to Support Patient Care

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (02) ◽  
pp. 185-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Haux ◽  
C. Kulikowski ◽  
A. Bohne ◽  
R. Brandner ◽  
B. Brigl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Informatics ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Future Challenges

Summary Objectives: The Yearbook of Medical Informatics is published annually by the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and contains a selection of excellent papers on medical informatics research which have been recently published (www.yearbook.uni-hd.de). The 2003 Yearbook of Medical Informatics took as its theme the role of medical informatics for the quality of health care. In this paper, we will discuss challenges for health care, and the lessons learned from editing IMIA Yearbook 2003. Results and Conclusions: Modern information processing methodology and information and communication technology have strongly influenced our societies and health care. As a consequence of this, medical informatics as a discipline has taken a leading role in the further development of health care. This involves developing information systems that enhance opportunities for global access to health services and medical knowledge. Informatics methodology and technology will facilitate high quality of care in aging societies, and will decrease the possibilities of health care errors. It will also enable the dissemination of the latest medical and health information on the web to consumers and health care providers alike. The selected papers of the IMIA Yearbook 2003 present clear examples and future challenges, and they highlight how various sub-disciplines of medical informatics can contribute to this.

scholarly journals What methods and challenges for taking account of context when transferring complex interventions?

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (Supplement_5) ◽  
Author(s):  
S Villadsen ◽  
S Dias
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Reproductive Health ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Complex Interventions ◽  
Health Interventions ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Public Health Interventions ◽  
Reproductive Health Care

Abstract For complex public health interventions to be effective their implementation needs to adapt to the situation of those implementing and those receiving the intervention. While context matter for intervention implementation and effect, we still insist on learning from cross-country comparison of implementation. Next methodological challenges include how to increase learning from implementation of complex public health interventions from various context. The interventions presented in this workshop all aims to improve quality of reproductive health care for immigrants, however with different focus: contraceptive care in Sweden, group based antenatal care in France, and management of pregnancy complications in Denmark. What does these interventions have in common and are there cross cutting themes that help us to identify the larger challenges of reproductive health care for immigrant women in Europe? Issues shared across the interventions relate to improved interactional dynamics between women and the health care system, and theory around a woman-centered approach and cultural competence of health care providers and systems might enlighten shared learnings across the different interventions and context. Could the mechanisms of change be understood using theoretical underpinnings that allow us to better generalize the finding across context? What adaption would for example be needed, if the Swedish contraceptive intervention should work in a different European setting? Should we distinguish between adaption of function and form, where the latter might be less important for intervention fidelity? These issues will shortly be introduced during this presentation using insights from the three intervention presentations and thereafter we will open up for discussion with the audience.

scholarly journals Patient Suffering in Chronic Digestive Diseases: Will Primary Care-Specialist Collaboration With Effective Interactive Communication and Integrative Medicine in the Plan of Care Improve Quality of Life?

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 989-993
Author(s):  
Andrew Thomas ◽  
Annie Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Physician Visits ◽  
Digestive Diseases ◽  
Care Specialist

Acute and chronic digestive diseases are causing increased burden to patients and are increasing the United States health care spending. The purpose of this case report was to present how nonconfirmatory and conflicting diagnoses led to increased burden and suffering for a patient thus affecting quality of life. There were many physician visits and multiple tests performed on the patient. However, the primary care physician and specialists could not reach a confirmatory diagnosis. The treatment plans did not offer relief of symptoms, and the patient continues to experience digestive symptoms, enduring this burden for over 2 years. The central theme of this paper is to inform health care providers the importance of utilizing evidence-based primary care specialist collaboration models for better digestive disease outcomes. Consistent with patient’s experience, the authors propose to pilot/adopt the integrative health care approaches that are proven effective for treating digestive diseases.

HIV/AIDS training for health care providers working with women at risk

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 74-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Miramontes ◽  
Katie Tom ◽  
Marion Gillen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Aids Training ◽  
Hiv Aids

scholarly journals Mandatory HIV testing in China: the perception of health-care providers

2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 476-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li ◽  
Zunyou Wu ◽  
Sheng Wu ◽  
Sung-Jae Lee ◽  
Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Hiv Testing ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Hiv Aids

Health-care providers in China are facing an exponential increase in HIV testing and HIV-positive patients. A total of 1101 service providers were recruited to examine attitudes toward people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) in China. Logistic regression models were used to assess factors associated with providers' attitudes toward mandatory HIV testing. Providers were most likely to endorse mandatory HIV testing for patients with high-risk behaviour and for all patients before surgery. Over 43% of providers endorsed mandatory testing for anyone admitted to hospital. Controlling for demographics, multivariate analyses indicated that providers with higher perceived risk of HIV infection at work, higher general prejudicial attitudes toward PLWHA, and previous contact with HIV patients were more likely to endorse mandatory HIV testing for anyone admitted to hospital. Results underscore the importance of implementing universal precautions in health-care settings and call attention to social and ethical issues associated with HIV/AIDS control and treatment in China.

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