scholarly journals A study to assess the patterns of self medication practice among women employees working in health care services

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-17
Author(s):  
Hafeez SA ◽  
Jyotsna MM ◽  
Ramanamurthy KV
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Medication Practice ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Women Employees ◽  
The Social ◽  
Study Results

Objective: To assess the patterns of self medication practice among women employees working in health care services. Study design: A non experimental survey approach with descriptive design was selected to understand the patterns of self medication among women employees working in health care services. Study was conducted in OMNI group of Hospitals, Hyderabad, India. Methods: Interview schedule was prepared with systematic reviewed literature and data was obtained from 600 sample selected using convenient sampling technique. Collected data was analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics using statistical package for the social sciences software version-20. Graphical representation was made for significant findings. Results: Women employees under study, 437 (72.8%) stated that they are self medication users which was considerably the highest percentage, majority 250(41.7%) of them have family and friends as there source of knowledge. The study results showed that majority of the sample are using self medication in specific patterns. It also proved that maximum number of sample i.e., 455 (75.8%) inform the physician about self medicated drugs on consultation, 434 (72.3%). Procure drug only from pharmacy, 424 (70.7%) avoid self medication with old prescription and 419 (69.8%) stated that they avoid sharing drugs prescribed to someone else. Conclusion: Self medication is widely practiced among women employees in health care services and is an emerging cause of self induced risk factor for healthy living, due to the knowledge and hand to hand availability of drugs.

The Impact of War on Population Health

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Turkan Ahmet
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
The Past ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
The Social ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Impact

The past few decades of ongoing war in Iraq has had a dramatic impact on the health of Iraq’s population. Wars are known to have negative effects on the social and physical environments of individuals, as well as limit their access to the available health care services. This paper explores the personal experiences of my family members, who were exposed to war, as well as includes information that has been reviewed form many academic sources. The data aided in providing recommendations and developing strategies, on both local and international levels, to improve the health status of the populations exposed to war.

scholarly journals Service providing scenario of urban primary health care services delivery project working in selected municipality

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 2764
Author(s):  
Hasan M. Reza ◽  
M. Abdul M. Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Primary Health Care Services ◽  
Study Results

Background: The urbanization and urban growth is going through very rapid in Bangladesh. This growth is being fuelled by rising incomes due to rapid expansion of commerce and industry. The rapid and incessant growth of urbanization on Kushtia district is creating continuous pressure on urban health care services. Urban poor people are also a vital factor for promoting urban primary health care services delivery project (UPHCSDP) to provide health care facilities.Methods: A cross sectional survey was carried out among 576 patients in 3 selected urban primary health care centres in Kushtia Municipality with a major concentration of people residing in urban areas. Data were collected using questionnaires regarding type of care or treatment patients demanded and type of care they received from the clinic.Results: Study results showed that total of 46.5% of the subjects demanded maternal and obstetric health services and 8.6% demanded child health diagnosis and care. It was found that a total of 22.0% of the subjects received physical diagnosis from the centres. About 7.1% clients received advice or suggestions and 8.0% received normal delivery service from the centres.Conclusions: The result shows that these clinics provide a lot of health care services to the clients especially on maternal and child health care delivery system. These services are provided to the patient with less or free of cost. Study exhibited that the overall health care services of health care centres are good. The clients come to these centres for the good quality of treatment.

First Step in Obtaining Child Health Care: Selecting a Physician

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-338
Author(s):  
Gerald B. Hickson ◽  
David W. Stewart ◽  
William A. Altemeier ◽  
James M. Perrin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Patient Decision Making ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Patient Decision ◽  
Study Results

To investigate the process by which families identified and selected their children's current physicians, a close-ended questionnaire was administered to 750 families in a mail panel. Of 630 responses (84.0%), 244 had children in the home; 229 (93.9%) identified a regular and current physician for their youngest child. However, parents did not spend much time or energy selecting a physician and rarely explored medical expertise in their decisions. Families averaged 1.2 sources of information consulted per decision; few considered more than two physician choices and infrequently considered alternative types of doctors (pediatricians v family or general practitioners). selection priorities ranked in order of importance concerned parents' perceptions of their doctors' communication skills, accessibility, and quality as determined by recommendations of friends or physicians. Parents appeared less concerned with issues of cost and convenience. Families selecting pediatricians differed from those selecting family and general practitioners in sources of information used and selection priorities. The survey also identified 84 families who had changed or seriously considered changing the physician who was caring for their youngest child. The most frequent dissatisfaction was the perception that an illness was not being managed adequately, followed by believing that the doctor or staff were rude or unconcerned. Families unhappy with pediatricians expressed different reasons from those unhappy with family or general practitioners. The study results provide insight about the first step in obtaining child health care services, a relatively unexplored area of patient decision making.

scholarly journals How to Screen Suitable Service Improve Community Health Care Services by University Students in Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guey-Shin Shyu ◽  
Shinn-Jou Lin ◽  
Wei-Ta Fang ◽  
Bai-You Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Services ◽  
University Students ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Community Health Services ◽  
Community Health Care ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Study Results

Engaging in social contributions to enhance social participation and attending community experiential service learning or internship courses have become an essential learning experience for university students. On the basis of postmodern education theories, this study adopted images and oral accounts involving personal experiences to construct a postmodern education research scheme by using the method of collaborative ethnography. This study selected and performed the following services: filming a community documentary, administering community health dance classes, and archiving community cultural artifacts in databases. Interviews were also administered to facilitate implementation of the actual services. Community health services commonly seen in Taiwan and abroad were compiled, and the resources required for each service were examined. Subsequently, factor analysis was performed to explore the characteristic of these services in order to recommend feasible services for university students to undertake. The results indicated that the eight resources required for the 59 common community health services were (1) a designated space or venue, (2) materials, (3) monetary resources, (4) human resources, (5) expertise, (6) professional equipment, (7) patience, and (8) empathy. The results revealed three principal components, namely labor services, high-resource services, and professional services, for a total explanatory power of 67.99%; the individual explanatory power of these components accounted for 25.04%, 21.81%, and 21.15%, respectively. Next, community health care services suitable for university students to perform were selected and implemented, and these services were well received. The study results indicated that community and environmental justice can be realized by identifying with the value of community health services and promoting postmodern education theories and social norms. The research results are suitable for implementation after the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF HEALTH LITERACY IN PREDICTING PATIENT SATISFACTION WITH HEALTH CARE

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Vineta Silkane ◽  
Agnese Davidsone ◽  
Linda Veliverronena
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Technical Quality ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Prevention And Health Promotion

Patient satisfaction has become one of the central indicators to measure quality of provision of health care services. However, it has been made clear in previous literature that the effectiveness and efficiency of the health care services is not directly proportional to the satisfaction level, because an array of patient’s personal, psychological, and cognitive factors such as beliefs, expectations, knowledge and others may come into play. In this current article, we report on a study aiming to examine the role of health literacy in predicting patient satisfaction with health care in Latvia. In summer-autumn 2017, data were collected from a random sample of 451 participants (44 % male) in age from 18 to 81 years. The participants filled-in the questionnaire consisting of: Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ-III, Ware, Snyder, & Wright, 1976) and European Health Literacy Survey Questionnaire (HLS-EU-Q, HLS-EU Consortium, 2012). We measured four out of the seven aspects of PSQ, namely, general satisfaction, technical quality, interpersonal aspects, and communication. HLS-EU-Q contains three subscales: health care, disease prevention, and health promotion. Study results confirm that one of the health literacy aspects - health care - was the most important predictor of all patient satisfaction aspects, while health promotion predicted technical quality.  

scholarly journals Magnitude and factors associated with anti-malarial self-medication practice among residents of Kasulu Town Council, Kigoma-Tanzania

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 2457-2461
Author(s):  
Stanley Mwita ◽  
Omary Meja ◽  
Deogratias Katabalo ◽  
Catherine Richard
Keyword(s):  
Health Care Services ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
P Value ◽  
Self Medication ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Medication Practice ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Cost

Background: Anti- malarial self-medication practice in Africa is very common. It is considered as an alternative way for people who cannot afford the cost of health care services. This study was conducted to assess the magnitude and factors associated with anti-malarial self-medication practice among residents of Kasulu Town Council.Materials and methods: The study was a descriptive cross sectional study. Two hundred and eighty consenting respondents were selected by systematic random sampling and interviewed with the aid of a semi structured questionnaire to assess anti-malarial self- medication practice. A p value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant, at 95% confidence interval.Results: Prevalence of anti-malarial self-medication was (69.6%). Majority of the respondents (83.1%) reported that, they did not get better after self- medication. About 36% of the respondents metioned time taken in health facilities as the main factor for self- medication.Conclusion: This study revealed that, self-medication practice is very common among community members in Kasulu district. The main reasons identified for self-medication was long time taken to get treatment in health facilities.Keywords: Anti-malarial, Self- medication, Practice, Kasulu, Tanzania.

scholarly journals The contribution of CSR during the covid-19 period in Greece: A step forward

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Kritas ◽  
Stylianos - Ioannis Tzagkarakis ◽  
Zoi Atsipoulianaki ◽  
Symeon Sidiropoulos
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Institutions ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social

The spread of the Covid-19 brought global institutions, societies, states and economies in a critical position as they encounter a new worldwide multilevel crisis. At the same time, states have had to handle this crisis acquiring an interventionist role, protecting the social and economic cohesion, providing better health care services for their citizens and investing in scientific research, as a means to restrict this new pandemic. In order to handle that situation and its consequences, the use of all the available resources became necessary as well as the improvement of the cooperation between the private and the public sector. In Greece private sector has shown an unprecedented willingness for Greece’s CSR tradition, to contribute government’s efforts.

The ERDs: Part One – The Social Mission of Catholic Health Care Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 002436392110381
Author(s):  
Christine Sybert
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Human Dignity ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Secular Culture ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Catholic Health Care ◽  
History Of

The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) exist to guide administrators, providers, and patients regarding the Church’s principles for maintaining human dignity while providing ethical patient care. A brief history of the document itself is presented followed by a discussion of selected portions of Part One of the ERDs, which relate directly to the mission of Catholic healthcare and why this is important as the secular culture becomes increasingly hostile to religious beliefs.

Ohjauksen käsitteet mielenterveys- ja päihdetyössä – näkyykö asiakkaan osallisuus?

Kuntoutus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-35
Author(s):  
Suvi Saarinen ◽  
Nina Kilkku
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Substance Abuse ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Health Care Services ◽  
Substance Abuse Services ◽  
Care Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Client Involvement ◽  
Recovery Approach

Sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon suunniteltujen uudistusten myötä asiakkaiden ja palveluiden ohjaus on noussut esiin yhtenä keskeisenä kehittämisen kohteena. Ohjauksen käsitteitä on useita, ja niiden käyttö vaihtelee kontekstin mukaan. Tässä tutkimuksessa mielenkiinnon kohteena oli erityisesti osallisuuden näkyminen ohjauksen eri käsitteissä ja niiden sisällöllisissä kuvauksissa. Osallisuus liittyy keskeisesti sosiaali- ja terveysalalla sekä asiakaslähtöisyyteen että mielenterveys- ja päihdetyössä yhtenä lähtökohtana olevaan toipumisorientaatioon. Tutkimuksen tarkoituksena oli selvittää, mitä ohjauskäsitteitä suomalaisissa mielenterveys- ja päihdetyötä koskevissa raporteissa on käytetty, mitkä ovat näitä käsitteitä kuvaavat tekstisisällöt ja mitkä näkökulmat näissä sisällöissä kuvastuvat. Tutkimus toteutettiin dokumenttianalyysina, ja aineisto analysoitiin sekä määrällisesti että laadullisesti. Analyysin tuloksena tunnistettiin kolme käytettyä ohjauksen käsitettä sekä kolme näkökulmaa, joista työntekijän näkökulma painottui eniten ja asiakkaan näkökulma vähiten. Tulosten perusteella voidaan todeta, että mielenterveys- ja päihdetyön alueella ohjauksen käsitteitä tulisi sekä sisällöllisesti kuvata tarkemmin että edelleen kehittää, jotta ne mahdollistavat asiakkaan osallisuuden. Tätä kehittämistyötä tulisi toipumisorientaation lähestymistavan mukaisesti tehdä yhdessä mielenterveys- ja päihdepalvelujen käyttäjien kanssa.  Abstract Concepts of guidance in the context of mental health and substance abuse care – is client involvement enabled?   Changes in the social and health care services as well as the development and utilization of the new technological methods in the everyday practice of the social and health care, have revealed a need to increase the competence of staff in different guidance activities. This need was recognized in several studies especially in the planning phase of the social and health care reform. In practice, several concepts are nowadays used when describing guidance. In the presented study the main interest was on the concepts used in the context of mental health and substance abuse care, in which the recovery approach with strong emphasis on client involvement is the main approach today. With the document analysis the aim was to describe which concepts of guidance have been used in the Finnish reports on mental health and substance abuse care, the content of these concept descriptions and the perspectives their present. Data was gathered with stepwise PRISMA process. As a result, three concepts describing the guidance were found and the most common perspective in these concepts was the employee’s perspective, two others being the client’s and service perspectives. Client perspective was the least described in the contents of these concepts, which indicates that the participation of the client is not made visible or well-supported in practice.  It should be noted that this study has certain limitations, but the results are suggesting a need to develop the concepts of guidance towards more client-inclusive descriptions. It is recommended to work together with people with lived experience on mental health and substance abuse problems in this development process. Keywords: guidance, involvement, mental health and substance abuse services, document analysis  

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