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Meeting people’s health needs
Published in Michael Kidd, Cynthia Haq, Jan De Maeseneer, Jeffrey Markuns, Hernan Montenegro, Waris Qidwai, Igor Svab, Wim Van Lerberghe, Tiago Villanueva, Charles Boelen, Cynthia Haq, Vincent Hunt, Marc Rivo, Edward Shahady, Margaret Chan, The Contribution of Family Medicine to Improving Health Systems, 2020
Michael Kidd, Cynthia Haq, Jan De Maeseneer, Jeffrey Markuns, Hernan Montenegro, Waris Qidwai, Igor Svab, Wim Van Lerberghe, Tiago Villanueva, Charles Boelen, Cynthia Haq, Vincent Hunt, Marc Rivo, Edward Shahady, Margaret Chan
Family medicine also serves to link those concerned with population health and those who are at the forefront of delivering health care to individuals. The convergence of public health and person-centered care expands opportunities to deliver better-quality health care that is more cost-effective, relevant, equitable, and sustainable. Consequently, this approach is likely to address the needs of patients, health care providers, and decision makers, regardless of their country’s state of economic development.
Order in a self-organised system
Published in John Spiers, Patients, Power and Responsibility, 2018
Economic development isn’t a matter of imitating nature. Rather, economic development is a matter of using the same universal principles that the rest of nature uses. The alternative isn’t to develop some other way. Some other way doesn’t exist.... Economic development is a version of natural development.16
Ancient origins and modern approaches to health care delivery in China
Published in Roger Worthington, Robert Rohrbaugh, Health Policy and Ethics, 2017
Roger Worthington, Robert Rohrbaugh
Economic development has significantly changed the dynamics of health care delivery. Prior to economic reforms, the Cooperative Medical System (CMS) provided basic health care and medicines (predominantly Western medicine) to small village clinics covering up to 90% of rural areas and constituting around 70% of the total Chinese population. The financing of CMS was derived from rural collective welfare funds, consisting of a fraction of local agricultural production or rural enterprises profits. The change in economic model resulted in the collapse of the rural collective economy5 through financial restructuring and migration to urban areas in search of better paid jobs (which in turn caused disruption to agricultural productivity).
Low Efficiency in a Five-Year Hospital Performance Assessment According to Pabon Lasso Model: State-Affiliated Hospitals of Abadan
Published in Hospital Topics, 2022
Mohammad Roshani, Sasan Ghorbani Kalkhajeh, Mehdi Raadabadi
Last, but not the list concern is related to negative impacts of world sanctions against Iran. Although recently Iran has allocated a considerable amount of GDP to health field, sanctions negatively affect patient’s health, as well as purchasing raw materials (for Iranian pharmaceutical companies) and eventually medical equipment for hospitals. Seemingly medicine has not been included in the list of the sanctions, however, transactions and shipments of all materials and hospital equipment were affected by possible U.S. sanction on companies and international banks dealing with Iranian companies. These conditions have aggregated the shortage of certain drugs and medical facilities for decades in Iranian hospitals. A sudden rise in the price of drugs could be another contributing concern (Abdoli 2020) that affects hospitals efficacy and consequently patient’s health. During the history, similar sanctions, as a tool of harsh foreign policy, have been applied to several nations, such as Iraq, Cuba, Libya and former Yugoslavia, over the past few decades. Although original objectives of such sanctions are rarely met, these sanctions nevertheless end in humanitarian problems (Gorji 2014; Hussain et al. 2020). In fact, economic development of countries has multifaceted role in the trajectory of health financing and economic growth leads to more spending across all society layers as well as on health; moreover, economic growth is likely to aid more health spending (Dieleman et al. 2017).
Medical education in the United Arab Emirates: Challenges and opportunities
Published in Medical Teacher, 2021
Hatem Alameri, Hossam Hamdy, Danica Sims
The major causes of mortality and morbidity in the UAE are noncommunicable diseases (NCDs); in particular, cardiovascular diseases account for 29% of all-cause mortality followed by injuries (16%) and cancer (10%) (Hajat et al. 2012; Loney et al. 2013; Koornneef et al. 2017). Addressing NCDs has been identified as a public health priority, with the national response being led by the Department of Health (DOH) in Abu Dhabi, which is the largest and most populous Emirate (Hajat et al. 2012). The strategies and recommendations to meet these burdens of disease include improvements in surveillance, monitoring, reporting, local research and training of health professionals; promotion of preventative over curative healthcare; education of the public; and introduction of additional federal legislation, such as population-level policies (Hajat et al. 2012; Loney et al. 2013; Koornneef et al. 2017). These healthcare challenges must be addressed, as they threaten the national development goals of sustainability and economic development by introducing risk for negative effects on human capital and productivity (Hajat et al. 2012).
Substance use and non-communicable diseases in India: evidence from National Family Health Survey-4
Published in Journal of Substance Use, 2021
Nutan Kumari, Pradeep S. Salve
An understanding of the association between tobacco and alcohol consumption and NCDs in men aged 15–54 years is crucial from the health policy perspective. As the population aged between 15 and 54 is an economically productive aspect of the country, economic development is driven by this productive segment of the population or, conversely, hampered by the lack of productivity in this group. The association between substance use and NCDs is presented in Table 3. Results show that about 9% of the men aged 50–54 years who consumed tobacco reported suffering from diabetes or heart disease, which is higher than the prevalence in men aged 15–19 years (1%). Men who were divorced, separated or deserted, and residing in urban areas had a higher prevalence of diabetes or heart disease than their counterparts who were married and living in rural areas. Tobacco users with higher educational attainments (4%), Christian men (8%) and those from the highest wealth quintile (5%) were found to have diabetes or heart disease. With respect to consumption of alcohol, men aged 50–54 (11% of the sample in this age group), whose marital status was in the “others” category (5%) and those residing in urban areas (5%) showed a higher prevalence of diabetes or heart disease as compared to the men in their respective segments. Six percent of the men in the richest wealth quintile, 8% of those engaged in other occupations and 8% of men who drank daily suffered from diabetes or heart disease.