Health Outcomes and Patient Empowerment: The Case of Health Budgets in Italy
Scholars claim that the outcomes of health interventions are the products of three factors: the size, the penetration and the sustainability of their effects. Nonetheless, the prevailing biomedical ethic of care engenders a mere ‘fix-it’ approach, which focuses on the clinical treatment of the disease and neglects the role of patients in the process of care. This approach undermines both the size and the penetration of health interventions. From this standpoint, the authors examine different health interventions aimed at improving the size and the penetration of their effects through the empowerment of the pati...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Adinolfi, P., Starace, F., Palumbo, R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
What Determines Performance Gap Index of Health Care in Gujarat?
The health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing to the HDI ranking of the state. It is, therefore, crucial to review the status of health performance of Gujarat among the other states for improving its relative standing in human development. In this context, the present article attempts to identify the gaps in performance of the health-related outcome, output and input indicators from the best performers in each indicator. Moreover, the article al...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Iyengar, S., Dholakia, R. H. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Importance of Quality in Health Care Sector: A Review
Customer satisfaction is the most important parameter for judging the quality of service being provided by a service provider to the customer. Positive feedback from the customer leads to the goodwill of service providers in the market, which indirectly expands their business, whereas negative feedback makes it shrink. This theory is also applicable to health care providers. Nowadays, patients are aware of their rights in terms of health care services and the quality of health care services being delivered to them. There are various tools or indicators which are set to provide the quality of services for patients without a...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Gupta, K. S., Rokade, V. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Standards, Frameworks and Practices in Health Management Information and Evaluation Systems (HMIES) in Australia and India: Lessons for Future Transition in India?
India has a long history of the Health Management Information and Evaluation System (HMIES). Though it has well served its purpose of administrative reporting, however, it has failed to provide relevant and sufficient information to users of health services, planners and policy makers as available information is fragmented, incomplete and sometimes inconsistent. The National Health Policies of 1983 and 2002 and the National Statistical Commission of India 2005 have laid down clear benchmarks for HMIES. In spite of several efforts in the past, the national HMIES does not fully conform to ‘International Data Quality Fr...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Tiwari, V. K., Kumar, K., T.P., S. R., Kulkarni, P. D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
An Investigation of Service Quality--Willingness to Recommend Relationship across Patient and Hospital Characteristics
This study investigates onto which dimensions of service quality have more impact on patients’ overall quality perceptions of a hospital and seeks to determine the nature of relationship between service quality and patients’ willingness to recommend a hospital to their friends and family. The study also uncovers if the levels of service quality and recommendation behaviours and the relationship between service quality and recommendation behaviour exhibit similar patterns among male versus female, black versus white patients and small/medium versus large hospitals. Data gathered via mail questionnaires and phone...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Yavas, U., Babakus, E., Westbrook, K. W., Grant, C. C., Deitz, G. D., Rafalski, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Emerging Disease Death Profile of Goa: What Changed with Time?
This article attempts to understand the emerging disease death profile of the state of Goa, by using the deaths data from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), in the Annual Reports of Registrar of Births and Deaths of the Government of Goa. It takes a closer look at the different types of disease deaths for five major mortality cause groups, namely, infectious diseases, neoplasms (cancers), circulatory diseases, digestive diseases and respiratory diseases, which together account for majority of disease deaths for Goa. It is observed that in the recent times, digestive (liver) deaths, circulatory (ischaemic h...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Borkar, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Optimization in Workflow Management: Ophthalmology
This article treats problems in its workflow, and ways to make it accessible and affordable. The widening demand–supply gap makes waiting long, with major impact on Indian eye care and the management of eye care hospitals. We analyze the causes and solutions for handling waiting time by innovative workflow management methods. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Munavalli, J. R., Rao, S. V., Srinivasan, A., Srinivas, A., van Merode, F. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A Study on Quality of Women Employees in Medical Transcription
‘Tele’ means distance. The term ‘teleport’, means ‘distant place of working’. In practice, however, it refers to a specific mode of distant working, their services, using telemetric, on a site which is geographically separated from the main office. ‘Telemetries’ refers to a combination of information and technologies which connect the computers of employees to the computer of the main employing organization. As the current ratio of services being delivered on-site is 40 per cent or more, most Indian companies have a long way to go to move up the value chain in promoting home-...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Padminii, K., Venkatramaraju, D., Brindha, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Maternal Nutritional Status, Food Intake and Pregnancy Weight Gain in Nepal
This study examined the relationships between maternal nutritional status, food intake and pregnancy weight gain (PWG) which may account for risk of LBW in Nepal.
A prospective cross-sectional study was undertaken in rural and urban Nepalese population using simple random sampling to select eligible subjects. Retrospective data was extracted from records and dietary intake was assessed using a Food Frequency Questionnaire and 24 Hour Dietary Recall.
A total of 376 women were recruited. A high prevalence of LBW (27.9 per cent) and preterm (14 per cent) delivery were observed. LBW was higher in rural than urban subjects (p &...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 21, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Acharya, O., Zotor, F. B., Chaudhary, P., Deepak, K., Amuna, P., Ellahi, B. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Menarche and Menstruation in Rural Adolescent Girls in Maharashtra, India: A Qualitative Study
Conclusions:
Suitable strategy needs to be developed for providing correct knowledge about menstruation among adolescent girls, such as inclusion of adolescent friendly services in school curriculum and training of mothers and teachers to provide friendly counselling to the girls. Further, menstrual pad vending machines could be installed in schools and colleges, for easy access of sanitary pads at subsidized rate. Special care and support during menstruation can prevent several adverse events from occurring in adolescent girls’ lives. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Behera, D., Sivakami, M., Behera, M. R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Gender and Power: Womens Vulnerability to HIV/AIDS in India
In a patriarchal society like India, women remain more vulnerable towards human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). In order to control HIV among women, the powerlessness of women needs to be understood in the broader sociocultural context. It is hypothesized that due to less knowledge and their socio-economic status, women are refrained from exercising reproductive and sexual rights, and thus remain powerless. Such powerlessness could significantly increase women’s vulnerability towards HIV. The study was carried out in Karnataka and West Bengal, India, and 200 HIV-positive women...
Source: Journal of Health Management - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Sahu, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Economic Burden of Diabetes Management in the University Teaching Hospital in South India
Conclusion:
High cost of care of diabetes and diabetes-related complications by both direct and indirect costs drive the urgency to have governmental/insurance support for chronic disease management for better living. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Singh, S., Govindan, U. A., Unnikrishnan, V., Raghav, V., Thakadiyal, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Government Spending on Health in India: Some Hopes and Fears of Policy Changes
The macroeconomic and health policy changes in India have generated some hopes, fear and complexity in public health spending. Health policies turned ineffective even to meet the required level of resources for providing basic health facilities. Fund allocation towards rural area (with missing health facility), preventive services, medicines and equipments was recorded to be noticeably low and inadequate with a declining trend. After the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM, 2005), public funds in health somewhat increased but remained lower than ambitious commitment of 2–3 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP). Ce...
Source: Journal of Health Management - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Hooda, S. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Physician Emotional Labour and Job Performance: The Mediating Effects of Emotional Exhaustion
This study explores the relationship between emotional labour and job performance and examines the mediation effects of emotional exhaustion on the relationship between the emotional labour and job performance of physicians.
Data were collected from a sample of 530 physicians in Taiwanese hospitals. To achieve these objectives a mediated model was tested using structural equation modelling (SEM) to examine if the hypothesized model fit the data.
The hypothesized model fits the data best (2 = 173.048, df = 69, p < 0.0001, goodness of fit index GFI = 0.956, comparative fit index (CFI) = 0.968, root-mean-square error of ap...
Source: Journal of Health Management - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Lin, Y.-W., Chang, W.-P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
The Government-sponsored Health Insurance Schemes for the Gross Domestic Healthiness
This article details the role of GSHIS in the health insurance segment, taking the performances of the Indian health insurance sector in the year 2012–2013. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - December 10, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Pugazhenthi, V., Sunitha, C. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
