scholarly journals Aspetti evolutivi ed implicazioni etiche della legge 833

2008 ◽  
Vol 57 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Ricciardi
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health System ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
World Health ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Italian Regions ◽  
The World ◽  
Northern Regions ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Regional Health Systems

Secondo le conclusioni del Rapporto 2000 dell’Organizzazione Mondiale della Sanità l’Italia aveva il secondo miglior sistema sanitario al mondo e gli Italiani una delle più elevate aspettative di vita del pianeta, ma dal 2001, in seguito ad una riforma costituzionale, le 19 regioni e le due province autonome hanno acquisito una fortissima autonomia in tema di programmazione, organizzazione e gestione dei servizi sanitari che viene esercitata con grandissima eterogeneità. Queste variazioni regionali riflettono (ed accentuano) le differenze di contesto politico, economico e culturale che caratterizzano le diverse aree del nostro Paese. Un’analisi comparata recente ha evidenziato che 14 delle 21 regioni e province autonome offrono servizi sanitari adeguati ai cittadini in un quadro di compatibilità finanziaria, ma anche che 6 regioni sono in profonda crisi e sull’orlo di una catastrofe finanziaria. Questo lavoro analizza l’evoluzione del sistema sanitario italiano e le sue performance a discutere sulle sfide che lo coinvolgono, in primis quella di contenere i costi e garantire un equo sistema di offerta di servizi a tutti i cittadini. ---------- According to the conclusions of the World Health Organisation’s 2000 report Italy had the second best health system in the world with Italians having one of the highest life expectancy, but since 2001 the 19 Italian Regions and 2 Autonomous Provinces exercise their autonomy very differently, with Northern regions being more successful in establishing effective structures of health care delivery, management and monitoring, compared to the regions in the South. This regional variation in health care reflects (and exacerbates) differences of contextual, i.e. political, economic and cultural factors as well as differences between regional health systems. A recent survey showed that in 14 of the 21 Regions and Autonomous Provinces the system is fairly well performing and well perceived by citizens but also that 6 Regions are on the verge of financial and service breakdown. This article outlines the structure of Italy health system, analyses its performance and discusses the challenges it faces, not least in trying to contain costs and offer equitable care to all citizens.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 1195-1198
Author(s):  
Wioletta Świeboda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
World Health ◽  
Concept Of Health ◽  
The World ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Care System

The purpose of this paper is to present the main data about the health care sector depends on how it is financed and thus the choice of an appropriate model healthcare system. The article shows a comparative analysis of health care systems in European countries of the OECD. Based on the literature, the general characteristics of Beveridge and Bismarck systems are presented. The evolution of the health care system in the world arises from a different history, conditions for economic development, diversity, under State policy, geographical location and cultural. Every country in the world takes part in the financing of health care, which is 20-80% of the expenditure on health. According to t. Szumlicza you must distinguish between concepts: "model" and "standard". The "formula" is understood in the context of the broader concept of "model of the health system". As the author of finding "patterns express different real concept of health policy while the term" pattern "prejudge the specific choice of health policy, which is a reference to the health care system". The World Health Organisation defines the term "health system" as a system covering all organizations, investment and institutions whose concept is to create actions on improved health. According to the Organization's objectives is the basis for the operation of the system of health protection, which targets focus on: constant improving population health, meeting the demand needs of health services, where the recipient is you as a consumer. On the other hand, the term "health care" defined by the WHO as a program of benefits in accordance with medical knowledge necessary to promote and maintain health by sharing individuals and entire populations. C. Wlodarczyk stresses that for the proper definition of the concept of health system you must extract the three spheres of the impact of health policy: health, administrative institutions and finance health and traditional public health activities. Many definitions that appear in the literature points to the narrower scope of the definition of the concept of "health care system" than those WHO suggested.. Author B. McPake and colleagues present the thesis that the health system consists of payers, healthcare providers and regulatory bodies together with relationships that occur between them. These relationships are presented for four health system functions: regulatory, financial, allocation of resources and the provision of services. C. Bailey and S. Poździoch describe that the health system is a whole, consisting of a variety of elements, the associated affinity, between which there are relationships. S. Poździoch is used for the definition of the system: "organized and coordinated team actions, whose aim is the realization of benefits and services and awareness campaign-therapeutic and rehabilitation aimed at protection and improvement of the health status of the individual and the collective ". The fact is the large role played by the State in the health system.

scholarly journals Strategies for post-conflict development of the Health Systems in Somalia: lessons from selected countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maye Omar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Status ◽  
Health System ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
World Health ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
Care System

Until the beginning of 1991, Somalia had a reasonable health care system with a good number of tertiary hospitals in Mogadishu and Hargeisa, some regional hospitals, district hospitals, clinics, child and mother health centres (CMH) and out-patient dispensaries. However, the conflict resulting from the civil war has destroyed the public health care system which existed in the country. Somalia was not alone in having conflicts. The total number of conflicts in the world in 2017 was 49, many of them have now entered post-conflict phases, where open warfare has come to an end. There is growing evidence that conflict has a devastating impact on health systems and the health status of the population. In Somalia, the post-conflict phase provides a unique window of opportunity for health sector development and reform. At this juncture, health systems in Somalia face the double burden of a flawed pre-conflict health system, characterised by deficiencies and inequities, and the long-term impact of conflict on the health status of the population and its resultant strain on the health system. This review article analyses the framework for the rehabilitation of health systems in post-conflict countries. Such knowledge can be applied in the rehabilitation and development of health systems in Somalia along the lines of the World Health Organization’s health system building blocks. The impact of conflict on the health status of the population as well as the health system can be catastrophic and be felt for years after the State has entered the post-conflict phase, but also provides an opportunity for reforms of the affected State’s health sector.

The Great Awakening - Digitalization in Dental Healthcare during the pandemic COVID-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 380-384
Author(s):  
Priyanka Paul Madhu ◽  
Yojana Patil ◽  
Aishwarya Rajesh Shinde ◽  
Sangeeta Kumar ◽  
Pratik Phansopkar
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Health Care Service ◽  
Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facility ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
World Health ◽  
Record System ◽  
The World

disease in 2019, also called COVID-19, which has been widely spread worldwide had given rise to a pandemic situation. The public health emergency of international concern declared the agent as the (SARS-CoV-2) the severe acute respiratory syndrome and the World Health Organization had activated significant surveillance to prevent the spread of this infection across the world. Taking into the account about the rigorousness of COVID-19, and in the spark of the enormous dedication of several dental associations, it is essential to be enlightened with the recommendations to supervise dental patients and prevent any of education to the dental graduates due to institutional closure. One of the approaching expertise that combines technology, communications and health care facilities are to refine patient care, it’s at the cutting edge of the present technological switch in medicine and applied sciences. Dentistry has been improved by cloud technology which has refined and implemented various methods to upgrade electronic health record system, educational projects, social network and patient communication. Technology has immensely saved the world. Economically and has created an institutional task force to uplift the health care service during the COVID 19 pandemic crisis. Hence, the pandemic has struck an awakening of the practice of informatics in a health care facility which should be implemented and updated at the highest priority.

COVID 19 and Special Care Dentistry: A Narrative Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL1) ◽  
pp. 1473-1476
Author(s):  
Ashwika Datey ◽  
Soumya Singhai ◽  
Gargi Nimbulkar ◽  
Kumar Gaurav Chhabra ◽  
Amit Reche
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Special Care ◽  
World Health ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Oral Diseases ◽  
Care Needs

The COVID 19 outbreak has been declared a pandemic by the world health organisation. The healthcare sector was overburdened and overstretched with the number of patient increasing and requiring health services. The worst-hit population always are the people with special needs, whether it is children, pregnant females or the geriatric population. The need for the emergency kind of health services was so inflated that the other special population which required them equally as those patients with the COVID 19 suffered a lot. Dentistry was not an exception, and even that is also one of the important components of the health care delivery system and people requiring oral health care needs were also more. Those undergoing dental treatments would not have completed the treatment, and this would have resulted in various complications. In this situation, some dental emergency guidelines have been released by Centres for Disease Control (CDC) for the urgent dental care those requiring special care dentistry during the COVID 19 pandemic. Children with special care needs were considered more vulnerable to oral diseases; hence priority should have been given to them for dental treatments moreover in the future also more aggressive preventive measures should be taken in order to maintain oral hygiene and prevent many oral diseases. Guardians/caregivers should be made aware and motivated to maintain the oral health of children with special health care needs. This review mainly focuses on the prevention and management of oral diseases in children's with special care needs.

Infodemiological patterns in searching medication errors: relationship with risk management and shift work (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Fabbian ◽  
Emanuele Di Simone ◽  
Sara Dionisi ◽  
Noemi Giannetta ◽  
Luigi De Gennaro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Shift Work ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
World Health ◽  
Noncommunicable Diseases ◽  
Western World ◽  
The World ◽  
Google Search

BACKGROUND Western world health care systems have been trying to improve their efficiency and effectiveness in order to respond properly to the aging of the population and the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases. Errors in drugs administration is an actual important issue due to different causes. OBJECTIVE Aim of this study is to measure interest in online seeking medical errors information online related to interest in risk management and shift work. METHODS We investigated Google Trends® for popular search relating to medical errors, risk management and shift work. Relative search volumes (RSVs) were evaluated for the period November 2008-November 2018 all around the world. A comparison between RSV curves related to medical errors, risk management and shift work was carried out. Then we compared world to Italian search. RESULTS RSVs were persistently higher for risk management than for medication errors during the study period (mean RSVs 74 vs. 51%) and RSVs were stably higher for medical errors than shift work during the study period (mean RSVs 51 vs 23%). In Italy, RSVs were much lower than the rest of the world, and RSVs for medication errors during the study period were negligible. Mean RSVs for risk management and shift work were 3 and 25%, respectively. RSVs related to medication errors and clinical risk management were correlated (r=0.520, p<0.0001). CONCLUSIONS Google search query volumes related to medication errors, risk management and shift work are different. RSVs for risk management are higher, are correlated with medication errors, and the relationship with shift work appears to be even worse, by analyzing the entire world. In Italy such a relationship completely disappears, suggesting that it needs to be emphasized by health care authorities.

scholarly journals Southern social world-regionalisms: The place of health in nine African regional economic communities

2020 ◽  
pp. 146801812096185
Author(s):  
Nicola Yeates ◽  
Rebecca Surender
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
World Health ◽  
Regional Health ◽  
Regional Economic

This article presents key results from a comparative qualitative Social Policy study of nine African regional economic communities’ (RECs) regional health policies. The article asks to what extent has health been incorporated into RECs’ public policy functions and actions, and what similarities and differences are evident among the RECs. Utilising a World Health Organization (WHO) framework for conceptualising health systems, the research evidence routes the article’s arguments towards the following principal conclusions. First, the health sector is a key component of the public policy functions of most of the RECs. In these RECs, innovations in health sector organisation are notable; there is considerable regulatory, organisational, resourcing and programmatic diversity among the RECs alongside under-resourcing and fragmentation within each of them. Second, there are indications of important tangible benefits of regional cooperation and coordination in health, and growing interest by international donors in regional mechanisms through which to disburse health and -related Official Development Assistance (ODA). Third, content analysis of RECs’ regional health strategies suggests fairly minimal strategic ambitions as well as significant limitations of current approaches to advancing effective and progressive health reform. The lack of emphasis on universal health care and reliance on piecemeal donor funding are out of step with approaches and recommendations increasingly emphasising health systems development, sector-wide approaches (SWAPs) and primary health care as the bedrock of health services expansion. Overall, the health component of RECs’ development priorities is consistent with an instrumentalist social policy approach. The development of a more comprehensive sustainable world-regional health policy is unlikely to come from the African Continental Free-Trade Area, which lacks requisite social and health clauses to underpin ‘positive’ forms of regional integration.

scholarly journals Risk and the Republican National Convention: Application of the Novel COVID-19 Operational Risk Assessment

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
David Callaway ◽  
Jeff Runge ◽  
Lucia Mullen ◽  
Lisa Rentz ◽  
Kevin Staley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Mass Gathering ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
National Convention

Abstract The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization broadly categorize mass gathering events as high risk for amplification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread in a community due to the nature of respiratory diseases and the transmission dynamics. However, various measures and modifications can be put in place to limit or reduce the risk of further spread of COVID-19 for the mass gathering. During this pandemic, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security produced a risk assessment and mitigation tool for decision-makers to assess SARS-CoV-2 transmission risks that may arise as organizations and businesses hold mass gatherings or increase business operations: The JHU Operational Toolkit for Businesses Considering Reopening or Expanding Operations in COVID-19 (Toolkit). This article describes the deployment of a data-informed, risk-reduction strategy that protects local communities, preserves local health-care capacity, and supports democratic processes through the safe execution of the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina. The successful use of the Toolkit and the lessons learned from this experience are applicable in a wide range of public health settings, including school reopening, expansion of public services, and even resumption of health-care delivery.

scholarly journals Electrochemical design of a new nanosensor based on cobalt nanoparticles, chitosan and MWCNT for the determination of daclatasvir: a hepatitis C antiviral drug

RSC Advances ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1118-1126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shereen M. Azab ◽  
Amany M. Fekry
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C ◽  
Health System ◽  
Antiviral Drug ◽  
Cobalt Nanoparticles ◽  
Essential Medicines ◽  
World Health ◽  
Spectroscopic Methods ◽  
Basic Health ◽  
The World

Daclatasvir (DAC) is listed on the World Health Organization's list of essential medicines needed in a basic health system, therefore, electrochemical and impedance spectroscopic methods are necessary.

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