Laying the digital and analytical foundations for Canada’s future health care system

Abstract Objectives This article aimed to find out Iraqi people’s opinions on possible dental health care changes and their knowledge, attitude, and expectation toward infection controls in dental settings during and after the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Materials and Methods Different questions were presented regarding possible health care system changes, to gather people’s opinions concerning patients, dentists, and dental clinic tests for contagious viral infections, their history of vaccination, and their readiness to get vaccinated, and finally, how they would feel about visiting their local dental clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic if they faced dental problems. Results Generally, 69% of the respondents believed that the health care system will change in Iraq. A higher percentage of health care workers than nonhealth workers had been vaccinated against hepatitis virus and approximately equal numbers indicated their readiness to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and other contagious viral diseases. Additionally, a higher percentage of health care workers than Non health care workers expressed fear of contracting the infection from dental clinics and the relation was significant. More than two-thirds of respondents stated their inability to visit a dentist because all the dental clinics are closed, and they cannot find a trusted dental clinic. Likewise, the majority preferred to wait until after the outbreak or when the government provides strict control measures and guidelines for dental clinics. Conclusion There was a common belief that the health care system will change after COVID-19 in Iraq. All agreed that dental clinics and the population should be protected against microbial cross-transmission through appropriate infection control measures and vaccination. Future health care changes should include public health education and dental health care personnel training.

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Proposals for the future health care system: family oriented primary health care

Pflege ◽

10.1024/1012-5302.12.3.163 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 12 (3) ◽

pp. 163-171

Author(s):

Margaret Cotroneo ◽

Michael Zimmer ◽

Angelika Zegelin-Abt

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Health Care System ◽

Future Health ◽

Primary Health ◽

The Future ◽

Future Health Care ◽

Care System

Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit einer der wichtigsten gegenwärtigen Entwicklungen im Gesundheitswesen: der familienorientierten primären Gesundheitsversorgung. Im Folgenden werden die Hintergründe dieser Entwicklung und ihre Implikationen für die zukünftige Praxis, Ausbildung und Forschung in den Vereinigten Staaten und in Deutschland beschrieben und verglichen. Dieser Artikel ist das Ergebnis eines andauernden Dialogs zwischen der ersten Autorin, gegenwärtig Fulbright-Professorin an der Universität Witten/Herdecke, und dem zweiten und der dritten Autorin. Wir sind überzeugt, daß eine solche Kontextualisierung jüngster Entwicklungen in der Gesundheitsversorgung dazu beitragen kann, zu klären, worin die Unterschiede wie auch die potentiellen und tatsächlichen Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen verschiedenen Ländern bestehen.

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Interoperability: The Key To The Future Health Care System

Health Affairs ◽

10.1377/hlthaff.w5.19 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 24 (Suppl1) ◽

pp. W5-19-W5-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 76

Author(s):

David J. Brailer

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care System ◽

Future Health ◽

The Future ◽

Future Health Care ◽

Care System

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A Principled Approach to Essential Health-Care Delivery System Reforms

Health Care as a Right of Citizenship ◽

10.7312/columbia/9780231170130.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 159-201

Author(s):

Gunnar Almgren

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Population Health ◽

Health Care System ◽

Health Care Delivery ◽

Care Delivery ◽

Right To Health Care ◽

Competing Interests ◽

Political Feasibility ◽

Future Health Care ◽

Care System

The basic premise of this chapter is that we have at our disposal a wealth of evidence-based knowledge of critical health care delivery strategies that would, if implemented on a large scale, yield both a social right to health care for all citizens and favorable population health care outcomes at lower cost. This chapter provides a synthesis of this knowledge, and then identifies a limited set of very specific health care system delivery reforms that meet three evaluative criteria: equity, sustainability, and political feasibility. Equity refers to the extent to which any particular health care system delivery reform achieves a fair balance between the competing interests of different segments of the patient population and society at large. Sustainability refers to the extent to which a health care system delivery reform initiative yields favorable impacts on population health while realizing large reductions in immediate and future health care costs. Finally, political feasibility refers to the likelihood of a given health care system delivery reform in view of the competing interests of different stakeholder groups affected. This chapter offers a principled and empirically justified blueprint for the most promising health care system delivery reforms towards the fulfillment of these three ends.

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School nurses’ contribution to schoolchildren’s future health

Medicina ◽

10.3390/medicina45090095 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 45 (9) ◽

pp. 724

Author(s):

Elvyra Grinienė ◽

Neringa Liutaitė

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Health Care System ◽

Health Indicators ◽

Daily Basis ◽

Health Problems ◽

School Nurses ◽

School Nursing ◽

Future Health ◽

Educational Approach ◽

Care System

In the changing contemporary society, certain demands for health care system become evident. In recent years, declining health indicators of Lithuanian schoolchildren prompt to analyze the situation of schoolchildren’s health care: whether health care at schools is sufficient and effective and how school nurses deal with schoolchildren’s health problems on a daily basis. Objective. To analyze how school nursing specialists work at school and what problems they encounter while providing health care to schoolchildren. Material and methods. A total of 202 school nurses from five main Lithuanian cities participated in the survey in 2005. More than three-fourths (77.7%) of the respondents had been working at school for more than 10 years. For the survey, an original closed questionnaire, consisting of 28 questions, was used. Results. The survey showed that most of school nurses were approached by schoolchildren with the following health problems: visual impairment, anomalous posture, and scoliosis. More than three-fourths (75.5%) of the school nurses noted that schoolchildren’s health was getting worse over the last five years. School nurses usually provide care to 11–30 schoolchildren per day. Most of their time is spent on schoolchildren’s health check-ups, health education, and documentation. The school nurses noted that the efficiency of health care system at school was reduced by a number of problems, including poor working conditions, the lack of medical equipment, inadequate computer systems. Therefore, the cooperation among nurses, school administration, and parents must be substantially improved. Conclusions. The competence of school nurses should be maintained through an educational approach by developing their qualification, as well as through a social approach by improving their cooperation with school community and parents.

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