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Health Equity and Equal Access to Care for Better Health Globally
Published in Connie White Delaney, Charlotte A. Weaver, Joyce Sensmeier, Lisiane Pruinelli, Patrick Weber, Nursing and Informatics for the 21st Century – Embracing a Digital World, 3rd Edition, Book 4, 2022
Rohana Basil Marasinghe, Ranige Maheshika Madhuwanthi
When it comes to health administration, there are private and government healthcare services in Sri Lanka. All government health services are free to all citizens. The private sector is available to those who carry health insurance or who can pay the fees and it provides care according to the market demand. Both the public and private facilities have outpatient and inpatient curative care, but these facilities are limited to urban and semi-urban areas of the country. Many health insurance schemes are available for those who can afford to purchase them.
European national public healthcare systems compared
Published in Linda Hantrais, Marie-Thérèse Letablier, Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union, 2020
Linda Hantrais, Marie-Thérèse Letablier
Since hospital care accounts for more than half of expenditure on health, the number of curative care beds in relation to population size provides an indication of the resources available for delivering services to inpatients. The data are, however, not directly comparable because some countries exclude psychiatric and private sector beds (OECD, 2019a, p. 194). Since 2000, the number of beds per capita has been decreasing in most EU member states. By 2016, the largest reduction occurred in Finland, where the fall was over 50%, mainly affecting long-term care beds and psychiatric care beds. Part of the decrease can be attributed to advances in medical technology, allowing more surgery to be performed on a same-day basis, or as part of a broader policy strategy to reduce the number of hospital admissions.
Djibouti
Published in Salah Hassan, Kidd Michael, Family Practice In The Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2018
The private health-care sector consists of 23 medical clinics and practices and 23 pharmacies. The private health sub-sector is restricted to Djibouti City. In most cases, private facilities offer curative care through general medical wards and emergency services, under the framework of PHC. In terms of prevention activities, it is mainly immunization services which are carried out by private facilities. However, the lack of price harmonization in the private sector has led to difficulties in terms of affordability for the population.
Hearts above water: Palliative care during a pandemic
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2021
Jennifer Currin-McCulloch, Brooke Chapman, Colleen Carson, Kathleen Fundalinski, Magan Hays, Peggy Budai, Shivani Kaushik
With an emphasis on comfort over curative care, the integration of palliative medicine provides patients and families with the assurance that their holistic needs are acknowledged, with a compassionate team striving to meet their specified end-of-life goals. Palliative medicine social workers and nurses exercise an aptitude to empathically translate patient needs into practice to improve quality outcomes and person-centered care (Raftery et al., 2020). Moreover, social work underscores the coping and resilience strategies necessary for patients and families to persist, while acknowledging the unique, existential distress associated with an unpredictable pandemic. This empowerment provides reassurance to patients and families that they are doing their best while coping with the extraordinary circumstances of a pandemic.
Perceptions of community health workers on their training, teamwork and practice: a cross-sectional study in Tshwane district, Gauteng, South Africa.
Published in South African Family Practice, 2019
SLN Nyalunga, JV Ndimande, GA Ogunbanjo, A Masango-Makgobela, T Bogongo
Tshwane district had a population of 3 089 314 according to the revised data extracted from STATS SA 2014 mid-year estimates.18 Service delivery platforms included 62 clinics, 8 CHCs, 4 satellite clinics, 8 mobile clinics and 9 health posts. There are four district hospitals that provide curative care including primary health care through a well-defined referral system. The health facilities included in this study were the 8 Community Health Centres (Kgabo, Soshanguve, Themba, Suurman, Stanza, Mamelodi, Ekangala and Dark City) and 11 clinics (Boekenhout, Kekana Gardens, Folang, Pretoria North, Bophelong, Olivenhoutbosch, Mooiplaas mobile clinic, Refilwe, Onverwaagt, Kameeldrift and Nelmapius) from within the seven sub-districts of Tshwane. Eleven clinics with functional WBOTs were randomly selected. The list of these health facilities was provided by the WBOT champion in Tshwane district.
Integrating palliative care to improve the care of children living with HIV in Indonesia
Published in Progress in Palliative Care, 2019
Suryadi Limardi, Ricky Saunders, Yenna Tasia, Poon Wing Hong
The introduction of potent antiretroviral drugs in HIV care has rendered HIV infection a chronic condition with a markedly reduced morbidity and mortality rate.10 While ART brings about a higher life expectancy, CLHIV and their families are still facing physical, psychological, psychosocial and spiritual issues.10 The standard HIV care regime fails to address and manage these issues, thus a more holistic approach is needed.1,3 Moving forward, the World Health Organization (WHO) has highlighted that integrating palliative care alongside curative care into the healthcare system will provide a more holistic treatment regime.3 As one of the countries with the largest number of pediatric HIV infections in Asia, Indonesia would greatly benefit from this integration to improve the care for CLHIV. With very little knowledge of the issues relating to integration of palliative care into the HIV treatment regime, further exploration of these issues is needed.