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Negligence and professional responsibilities
Published in Michael Weir, Law and Ethics in Complementary Medicine, 2023
A healthcare provider is defined in section 3 to include a ‘health practitioner’ or ‘any other person who provides, or holds himself or herself out as providing, health services to the public or to any section of the public, whether or not any charge is made for those services’. ‘Health practitioner’ is defined to include a registered health practitioner under the Health Practitioner Competence Assurance Act 2003—that is, it would include chiropractors and osteopaths. ‘Health services’ is defined to include services to promote health or protect health, or to prevent disease or ill-health. Accordingly, this definition would include unregistered complementary medicine practitioners.
Overview (2) - pandemics, politics, climate change and global solidarity
Published in Nigel Crisp, Turning the World Upside Down Again, 2022
Many health services have also gone online, providing virtual and phone consultations and greater availability of information. It has been in effect a trial of the effectiveness of these methods. Some will no doubt be maintained for the longer term but there will have to be a return to a greater level of face-to-face consultations than at present to meet the needs of some groups in the population such as elderly or disabled people and where a clinician needs to examine their patients in person or to create the right environment for confidential and difficult discussions. There have also been some gains from better teamwork both within the health service and, in the UK's case, between the NHS and social services and other public and voluntary services externally.
We Interrupt This Pandemic to Bring You Some Good News
Published in Tom Lawry, Hacking Healthcare, 2022
Intelligent Health Systems are taking new approaches to overcome the age-old challenges of improving access, quality, and effectiveness, while lowering the costs of health services. In the future, they will become the health systems of choice as connected health consumers become the new norm.
The Use of Telehealth to Provide Continuity of Cancer Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Advantages, Disparities, and Implications to Promote Health Equity
Published in Hospital Topics, 2022
Victoria K. Marshall, Melody N. Chavez, Tina M. Mason, Dinorah Martinez Tyson
During the pandemic, the use of telehealth in oncology care has increased rapidly to meet the needs of vulnerable patients with cancer. Telehealth is defined as the use of electronic information and telecommunication technologies to promote remote clinical health care, health-related education, and health management services (Health Services and Resources Administration 2021; National Institutes of Health 2020). Stay at home orders and the emphasis on social distancing by local, state, and federal guidelines to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 has resulted in immediate and unparalleled adoption of telehealth in the oncology setting. Telehealth is not a completely new concept for the oncology setting and has been used for cancer survivorship care (Cox et al. 2017), cancer-related symptom management (de Veer et al. 2020; Xu, Wang, and Wu 2019), promotion of perioperative physical activity among patients with cancer (Lafaro et al., 2020), and nurse navigation for cancer patients living in rural areas with limited access to oncology services (Rowett and Christensen 2020). However, less is known about the use of telehealth in ongoing, routine cancer care when such services are rapidly implemented and how COVID-19 has impacted these services.
Health literacy of cardiology patients: determinants and effects on patient outcomes
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2021
People usually promptly receive health care when they need it. However, people with limited health literacy may delay this process due to their lack of knowledge regarding preventive health services and the disease symptoms that motivate people to seek medical care. Adults with limited health literacy may feel uncomfortable in medical environments, worry that their limited health literacy would be revealed and frequently feel shy. The use of preventive health services usually requires patients’ applying for primary health care organizations. Thus, it is not surprising that people with limited health literacy use preventive health services less frequently (Paasche-Orlow & Wolf, 2007). Patients with limited health literacy should establish verbal and written communication, integrate complex information and use numerical skills. For example, the proper use of medications (as recommended) usually requires understanding complex timing and dosage details. In addition, information about diet choices and timing, as well as symptoms and side effects, also require attention (Bennett et al., 2009). Patients with chronic disease usually need more frequent regulation of their treatment. Patients with limited health literacy may fail to administer complex treatments (using insulin and inhalers, etc.) and make necessary decisions regarding their disease (receiving additional diuretics when needed, contact to providers, etc.) due to poor analytic and functional skills.
Are university health services meeting the needs of transgender college students? A qualitative assessment of a public university
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2021
Theodore C. Santos,, Emily S. Mann,, Carla A. Pfeffer,
While the literature on transgender health and health care, including research on transgender youth, has grown significantly in recent years, less is known specifically about transgender college students’ health care experiences.10,11 In this exploratory study, individual, in-depth interviews were conducted with eleven transgender college student participants attending a 4-year public university in order to assess the extent to which university health services (UHS) were meeting their needs. These health services included primary, gynecological, and mental health care. Thematic narrative analysis12 revealed that participants did not find the structure, organization, and practices of UHS and its staff to be sufficiently respectful of or responsive to their needs and concerns. By centering the perspectives and experiences of transgender college students, the study sheds light on changes that could be made to improve the quality of campus-based health care delivery to this population.13,14