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Equity in health services and policy advice for developing countries
Published in Songül Çınaroğlu, Equity and Healthcare Reform in Developing Economies, 2020
Developing countries have failed to provide and sustain financial access to high-quality healthcare services. Increases in government expenditures to strengthen the primary healthcare system are priority strategies to provide healthcare equity in developing countries (Tangcharoensathien et al., 2015). Most developing countries have highly competitive pharmaceutical markets; they are known as “pharmerging” countries. In these countries, healthcare equity is poor because the research capacity of these countries is weaker than that of developed nations (Mitsumori, 2019). Thus, the gap in health equity is widening between and within countries. Strengthening health research capacity in developing countries is a way to achieve health equity in developing countries (Sitthi-amorn and Somrongthong, 2000). To fight against inequities in healthcare, strong cooperation between developed and developing countries and a global commitment to improve equity are essential (Sitthi-amorn and Somrongthong, 2000).
Patient Care
Published in Christopher M. Hayre, William A. S. Cox, General Radiography, 2020
Chandra Makanjee, Deon Xu, Drishti Sarswat
For radiographers and radiologists, to be task orientated is important in acquiring optimal image quality, but it is equally important to keep PT informed of what is happening and take the PT construction of the understanding of the event into account (Murphy, 2001). It can be useful, for example, to demonstrate what is required before positioning PT. We have to do like step by step’ [S1]. Of importance is the sharp skill of remaining vigilant when conducting the X-ray exposure. That is, the precision, efficiency, and accuracy with which the image is captured of the desired projection. The cooperation of the patient plays an important role.
Rehabilitation team
Published in Claudio F. Donner, Nicolino Ambrosino, Roger S. Goldstein, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, 2020
Inês Machado Vaz, Sofia Viamonte, João Carlos Winck
Simply bringing individual professionals together does not necessarily imply that they will cooperate and work effectively as a team (3). The characteristics of effective interdisciplinary team care include cooperation of all participants in a structured way directed towards common goals to develop individualized plans and evaluate the processes used to achieve these goals (7). Insufficient educational opportunities exist for acquiring skills and attitudes necessary for effective teamwork − mainly communication, cooperation and leadership. Consequently, teamwork is compromised and rehabilitation effectiveness reduced (5).
Predictors of patient satisfaction and perceived quality of healthcare: College healthcare providers and students’ communication
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2023
Prince Adu Gyamfi, MS, Lance Lippert, PhD, John R. Baldwin, PhD, John F. Hooker, PhD
Communication plays an invaluable role in health care delivery.1–4 As Thornton and Kreps3 argue, communication helps healthcare providers to gather relevant information “for guiding health care activities and eliciting cooperation in the provision of health care” (p. 1). Also, through communication, healthcare consumers can “make their health care needs known and for gathering relevant health information to direct their own health care” (p. 1). A large body of literature has paid much attention to the aspect of interpersonal communication in healthcare provision, particularly healthcare provider-patient communication.5–7 Evidence suggests that healthcare providers’ communicative behaviors are related to patient satisfaction8–11 and perceived quality of healthcare delivery.12 Thus, some health communication scholars have divided these communicative behaviors into instrumental and affective behaviors and have extensively examined them. While the instrumental behaviors focus on accomplishing the technical, medical goals of solving health problems through gathering information, asking questions, and counseling, the affective behaviors deal with achieving the socio-emotional goals such as showing concern and empathy, legitimizing feelings, and showing approval.13–15
Barriers to teamwork in caring for patients with COVID-19: A qualitative analysis of nurses’ perceptions in a secondary care setting in Iran
Published in International Journal of Healthcare Management, 2023
Nasrin Rezaee, Marjan Mardani-Hamooleh, Hadi Hamidi
According to the nurses, communication in teamwork was weak, disrupted, and ineffective. Their communication ultimately leads to poor cooperation and communication failure in the team: In my opinion, the teams caring for patients with COVID-19 are weak and non-cooperative in terms of communication. Communication between different specialists in interdisciplinary teams is weak and uncoordinated, and effective interactions do not take place. (P 28)When we talk about teamwork, we have to pay attention to the way people communicate, especially those from different professions. Unsuccessful teams are teams where communication between members and even the leader with team members is not good. For example, in the hospital where I am working, there is no good communication and cooperation among healthcare staff and teams. (P 5)
Defining and enhancing collaboration between community pharmacists and primary care providers to improve medication safety
Published in Expert Opinion on Drug Safety, 2022
Annesha White, Kimberly G. Fulda, Rachel Blythe, Michelle A. Chui, Emily Reeve, Richard Young, Anna Espinoza, Noah Hendrix, Yan Xiao
This review adds to the current literature on collaboration between PCPs and community pharmacists. These two types of professionals do not usually work within the same organizations and infrequently communicate directly, yet they play critical roles in medication safety for patients living in community settings. Collaboration has been defined broadly as ‘cooperation among health care professionals in working together to solve problems with shared responsibility and decision making to ensure quality patient care’ [17]. This overarching definition focuses on end results in patient care while covering a large variety of collaborative activities through different means of coordination and communication. This definition also highlights key concepts that are related to the barriers that we identified, that is, shared responsibility and decision-making. Lack of explicit role specifications and the gap in awareness of shared responsibility for medication safety between community pharmacists and PCPs were identified as barriers to collaboration. Although medication safety is a shared responsibility between PCPs and community pharmacists, opportunities to learn about the expertise and responsibilities of the other profession are often limited. Interprofessional education is believed to enable future ability to work within an interdisciplinary team, which in turn optimizes care and improves health outcomes [39]. Further research is needed to explore whether interdisciplinary training with community pharmacists and PCPs could lead to optimizing medication safety activities.