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Catherine A O'Donnell Maria Higgins Rohan Chauhan Kenneth Mullen 《BMC health services research》2007,7(1):75
Background
The provision of healthcare for asylum seekers is a global issue. Providing appropriate and culturally sensitive services requires us to understand the barriers facing asylum seekers and the facilitators that help them access health care. Here, we report on two linked studies exploring these issues, along with the health care needs and beliefs of asylum seekers living in the UK. 相似文献2.
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Self‐responsibility,rationing and treatment decision making – managing moral narratives alongside fiscal reality in the obesity surgery clinic
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Background
Addressing the prevalence of severe obesity and its concomitant morbidities is widely acknowledged as one of the most pressing global health priorities. Nevertheless, a paucity of effective interventions and universal pressure on health‐care budgets means that access to obesity treatments is often limited. Although health‐care rationing can be conceived as a socially constructed process, little is known about how decisions emerge within the context of face‐to‐face doctor–patient interactions.Methods
In this study, we used in‐depth interviews and clinic observations to investigate clinicians’ (n = 11) and patients’ (n = 22) experiences of the rationing of obesity surgery and to examine how broader cultural assumptions around personal responsibility for health emerged in the context of clinical interactions.Results
Patients and clinicians worked within similar frameworks when it came to self‐responsibility for health and the appropriateness of providing publicly‐funded weight loss surgery. Issues around personal accountability dominated consultations, and patients were expected to provide narratives of the development of their obesity and to account for the failure of previous interventions. Clinicians faced the added pressure of having to prioritise a limited number of patients for surgery, which was predominantly managed through mandating pre‐referral weight loss targets.Discussion
Although clinicians sought to maintain an empathic attitude towards individual patients, in practice they were conflicted by their responsibility to ration health‐care resources and tended to rely on entrenched models of behaviour change to allocate treatment. As a result, the content of consultations was mostly focused on issues of personal responsibility, reflecting wider stigmatized attitudes towards extreme obesity. 相似文献4.
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Low health literacy is considered a worldwide health threat. The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence and socio-demographic covariates of low health literacy in Taiwanese adults and to investigate the relationships between health literacy and health status and health care utilization. 相似文献6.
Marie Deom Thomas Agoritsas Patrick A Bovier Thomas V Perneger 《BMC health services research》2010,10(1):331
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How doctors perceive managed care tools and incentives is not well known. We assessed doctors' opinions about the expected impact of eight managed care tools on quality of care, control of health care costs, professional autonomy and relations with patients. 相似文献7.
Gina R Kruse Bushimbwa Tambatamba Chapula Scott Ikeda Mavis Nkhoma Nicole Quiterio Debra Pankratz Kaluba Mataka Benjamin H Chi Virginia Bond Stewart E Reid 《Human resources for health》2009,7(1):55
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Well-documented shortages of health care workers in sub-Saharan Africa are exacerbated by the increased human resource demands of rapidly expanding HIV care and treatment programmes. The successful continuation of existing programmes is threatened by health care worker burnout and HIV-related illness. 相似文献8.
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Hala Ibrahim Awadalla Emad Girgis Kamel Eman Mohamed Mahfouz Tahany Mahmoud Refaat 《Zeitschrift fur Gesundheitswissenschaften》2009,17(5):321-329
Background
Primary health-care centers provide outpatient health care and primary preventive activities for people in general and for mothers and children in particular. Medical care aims not only to improve health status, but also to respond to patients’ needs and wishes and to ensure their satisfaction with care. The patient-clinician relationship is a central feature of primary care. 相似文献10.
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Out-of-pocket payments make up about 80% of medical care spending at hospitals in Laos, thereby putting poor households at risk of catastrophic health expenditure. Social security schemes in the form of community-based health insurance and health equity funds have been introduced in some parts of the country. Drug and Therapeutics Committees (DTCs) have been established to ensure rational use of drugs and improve quality of care. The objective was to assess the appropriateness and expenditure for treatment for poor patients by health care providers at hospitals in three selected provinces of Laos and to explore associated factors. 相似文献11.
C Raina Elley M Clare Robertson Ngaire M Kerse Sue Garrett Eileen McKinlay Beverley Lawton Helen Moriarty A John Campbell 《BMC public health》2007,7(1):185
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Guidelines recommend multifactorial intervention programmes to prevent falls in older adults but there are few randomised controlled trials in a real life health care setting. We describe the rationale, intervention, study design, recruitment strategies and baseline characteristics of participants in a randomised controlled trial of a multifactorial falls prevention programme in primary health care. 相似文献12.
Empowerment interventions,knowledge translation and exchange: perspectives of home care professionals,clients and caregivers 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Denise St-Cyr Tribble Frances Gallagher Linda Bell Chantal Caron Pierre Godbout Jeannette Leblanc Pascale Morin Marianne Xhignesse Louis Voyer Mélanie Couture 《BMC health services research》2008,8(1):177
Background
Few studies have examined empowerment interventions as they actually unfold in home care in the context of chronic health problems. This study aims to document the empowerment process as it plays out in interventions with adults receiving home care services. 相似文献13.
Ketan Vegda Jason X Nie Li Wang C Shawn Tracy Rahim Moineddin Ross EG Upshur 《BMC health services research》2009,9(1):217-7
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Population aging poses significant challenges to primary care providers and healthcare policy makers. Primary care reform can alleviate the pressures, but these initiatives require clinical benchmarks and evidence regarding utilization patterns. The objectives of this study is to measure older patients' use of health services, number of health conditions, and use of medications at the level of a primary care practice, and to investigate age- and gender-related utilization trends. 相似文献14.
Hester Wessels Alexander de Graeff Klaske Wynia Miriam de Heus Cas LJJ Kruitwagen Saskia CCM Teunissen Emile E Voest 《BMC health services research》2010,10(1):198
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Health care for cancer patients is primarily shaped by health care professionals. This raises the question to what extent health care professionals are aware of patients' preferences, needs and values. 相似文献15.
Yolanda Mueller Susanna Cristofani Carmen Rodriguez Rohani T Malaguiok Tatiana Gil Rebecca F Grais Renato Souza 《Conflict and health》2011,5(1):3
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For more than forty years, episodes of violence in the Mindanao conflict have recurrently led to civilian displacement. In 2008, Medecins Sans Frontieres set up a mental health program integrated into primary health care in Mindanao Region. In this article, we describe a model of mental health care and the characteristics and outcomes of patients attending mental health services. 相似文献16.
Teresa Janevic Pooja Sripad Elizabeth Bradley Vera Dimitrievska 《International journal for equity in health》2011,10(1):53
Introduction
Roma, the largest minority group in Europe, face widespread racism and health disadvantage. Using qualitative data from Serbia and Macedonia, our objective was to develop a conceptual framework showing how three levels of racism--personal, internalized, and institutional--affect access to maternal health care among Romani women. 相似文献17.
Thomas Rosemann Richard Grol Katja Herman Michel Wensing Joachim Szecsenyi 《The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity》2008,5(1):4
Objective
To assess the association of obesity with quality of life, health service utilization and physical activity in a large sample of primary care patients with osteoarthritis (OA). 相似文献18.
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In spite of the fact that self-rated health is such an important factor, little is known about the aetiological background to poor perceived health and also less is known about the impact of life satisfaction on health in a primary care practice population. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyle factors, symptoms, somatic and psychiatric conditions as well as health status measures and life satisfaction on perceived health in a multi-ethnic Swedish health practice population. 相似文献19.
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The Spanish National Health System recognised multidisciplinary care as a health priority in 2006, when a national strategy for promoting quality in cancer care was first published. This institutional effort is being implemented on a co-operative basis within the context of Spain's decentralised health care system, so a high degree of variability is to be expected. This study was aimed to explore the views of professionals working with multidisciplinary cancer teams and identify which barriers to effective team work should be considered to ensure implementation of health policy. 相似文献20.
Ibrahim JE McInnes JA Andrianopoulos N Evans S 《International journal of public health》2012,57(2):297-304