Prevalence of Occupational Health Problems among Female Hospital Health Assistants Working in a Rural Hospital, Ramanagara District, Karnataka
The objective of this study was to investigate occupational injuries and associated factors among female health assistants working in a rural hospital in Karnataka. All the health assistants (46) working in a rural hospital were interviewed utilizing a schedule, adapted from Occupational Health Manual. Simple descriptive statistics and tests of association were performed. Among all the health assistants surveyed, 33 (71.7 per cent) of the employees were exposed to blood and body fluids, 27 (58.7 per cent) reported history of needle-stick injuries in the last three month...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: N., C., R., N., B., J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Profitable Public Health Venture!
Public health goes beyond the domain of curative medicine. It has always taken a backseat with no immediate tangible outcome. Moreover, it generally falls in the ambit of government services, inadequate due to lack of resources. This paper proposes to revitalize some aspects of preventive and curative health service delivery, based on the felt need of the society. Changing demographics and disease pattern warrants modification in health service delivery. Economic growth of the country has made larger section of population capable to pay for quality health services at reasonable costs. Business in these identified domains w...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Bhatnagar, N., Grover, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Impact of Health on Labour Supply and Wages: A Case of Agricultural Workers in West Bengal
In an agrarian economy economic impact of illness acts not only through out of pocket expenditure, but also through loss of labour time and wages at the individual level. Using the information collected from 676 respondents at selected villages in West Bengal from 2009 to 2010, the present paper examines the impact of health on labour supply behaviour and wages. Theoretically the study borrows the idea of nutrition-based efficiency wage hypothesis and builds a conceptual framework based on capability approach. The methodology follows a household production function model. Nutritional dimension of health as indicated by bod...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Ghatak, A., Madheswaran, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Exploring Vulnerability of Undernutrition among Wives: Do Husbands' Attributes Matter?
Generally, at household level, cultural norms and practices regarding intra-household food allocation and distribution, and other demographic and socio-economic factors determine the extent of nutritional status among women. Arguably, husbands’ background attributes such as educational attainment, employment, nutritional status and health habits such as smoking and drinking could also contribute in determining their wives’ nutritional status. It was hypothesized that risk of undernourishment is higher among wives whose husbands are less educated, engaged in low-paid jobs, undernourished and possessing unhealthy...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Ghosh, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Critical Analysis of an Intervention to Improve Maternal and Child Health: The Case of Janani Shuraksha Yojana
This paper critically analyzes Janani Shuraksha Yojana (JSY), the intervention to improve maternal and child health. It highlights that there has been a huge difference in the annual percentage growth rate of JSY beneficiaries and Institutional deliveries for each year, which implies that the increasing JSY beneficiaries did not have proportionate increase in institutional delivery. It argues that the achievement of JSY is more on increasing of JSY beneficiaries, rather than the increasing of institutional delivery as a whole. It further argued that the marginal increases of JSY beneficiaries are not from home delivery but...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Piang, L. L. K., T.P., S. R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Socio-economic Disparities in Health Care Seeking Behaviour, Health Expenditure and Its Source of Financing in Orissa: Evidence from NSSO 2004-05
Over the years various plans and programmes have been initiated and implemented by the state government of Orissa. But, state’s health indicators have not improved substantially. Moreover, in recent years, health seeking behaviour of the people has been affected due to increasing cost of health care. Health care is not free of cost any more due to introduction of user fee, increasing trend of privatization and the technological innovation. As a result, out of pocket expenditure has increased enormously affecting the socio-economically disadvantaged groups the most. In consequence, they tend to depend more upon borrow...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Sahoo, A. K., Madheswaran, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Do High Income Earners Have Better Health? The Case Study in Kedah, Malaysia
This study attempts to determine the effect of income, measured at household level, on individual health within the Malaysian context. The sample consists of individuals aged 18 and above from selected households. The self-assessed health (SAH) is used in this study to represent health status. Given that the response of SAH is in the form of ordinal, the ordered logit model, which is more appropriate than the widely used linear regression techniques, is utilized in estimating the effect of income. Controlling for other socio-economic and other health-related factors, there is evidence that income is statistically significa...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Samsudin, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Prevalence of Occupational Health Problems among Female Hospital Health Assistants Working in a Rural Hospital, Ramanagara District, Karnataka
The objective of this study was to investigate occupational injuries and associated factors among female health assistants working in a rural hospital in Karnataka. All the health assistants (46) working in a rural hospital were interviewed utilizing a schedule, adapted from Occupational Health Manual. Simple descriptive statistics and tests of association were performed. Among all the health assistants surveyed, 33 (71.7 per cent) of the employees were exposed to blood and body fluids, 27 (58.7 per cent) reported history of needle-stick injuries in the last three months. Stress, headache and back pain were most common com...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: N., C., R., N., B., J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Human Resource Management in Health and Performance of Work Process in the Primary Health Care--An Efficiency Analysis in a Brazilian Municipality
The objective of this study was to analyze how management practices of human resources (HR) in health can be associated with efficiency in fulfilling the work process of family health teams in primary health care (PHC) strategy adopted in a Brazilian municipality. To do so, were analyzed indicators of HR vis-à-vis an efficiency score obtained from data envelopment analysis (DEA). The analysis model used was based on the dimensions of structure, process as sources of information about the quality of care delivery actions, considering Donabedian’s model of evaluation of health services. The results indicate that...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Rocha, T. A. H., Silva, N. C. d., Barbosa, A. C. Q., Rodrigues, J. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Trends and Differentials in Health Care Utilization Pattern in India
The results from this study indicate that a vast majority of people (almost 80 per cent) in India use the private sector for outpatient care curative services, albeit a slight decline is noted between 1995–96 and 2004. The utilization of private sector for outpatient services has become more inequitable across expenditure quintiles, favouring the rich at the national level during the period 1995–96 to 2004. There are also large inter-state variations in the choice between private and public provision for poor and non-poor people at the state level. The results indicate that Himachal Pradesh is the only state wh...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Ghosh, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Technical and Scale Efficiency of Public District Hospitals in Kedah, Malaysia: A Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
The objectives of this study are to measure technical and scale efficiencies among district public hospitals in the state of Kedah, Malaysia. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) technique was used in estimating the efficiency score of these hospitals. Data were obtained from nine public hospitals in Kedah for three years from 2008 to 2010. The DEA technique was used on pooled data which consists of 27 decision-making units (DMUs). The input data comprised the number of doctors, nurses and beds while the number of outpatients, inpatients, surgeries and deliveries performed represented the outputs. Of 27 DMUs, 74 per cent were t...
Source: Journal of Health Management - October 7, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Applanaidu, S.-D., Samsudin, S., Ali, J., Dash, U., Chik, A. R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Stress, Coping and Gender Differences in Third Year Medical Students
This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of stress, examine gender differences in stress experience and coping in a sample of 94 third year medical students. Consenting students were administered Professional Student Stress Survey and Carver’s Brief COPE. All students reported stress and majority experienced stress to a moderate degree (50.5 per cent). Academic performance and professional identity issues were of greatest concerns. Female students had more academic performance stress. Among coping strategies, support seeking was more in females as shown by the increased use of instrumental support seeking (problem...
Source: Journal of Health Management - June 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Madhyastha, S., Latha, K. S., Kamath, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A Study of Organizational Values in Government Run Primary Health Centres in India
Conclusion:
More research is needed in the area of OC with focus on values. The overall culture in PHCs can be further improved by encouraging free sharing of ideas and expression of feelings and thoughts. More importantly, employees of health centres should be given more autonomy and freedom to take decisions in their work to improve the OC. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - June 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Purohit, B., Patel, D., Purohit, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Tracking Benefits of Janani Suraksha Yojana--A Maternal Cash Transfer Scheme: Evidence from Rajasthan, India
Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) is more often than not recognized only as a cash transfer scheme for institutional deliveries. Since its pan India introduction in 2005, the scheme has passed through various stages which affected its implementation in multiple ways. The scheme, however, could not earn the reputation of an intervention which affected maternal health in any phenomenal way other than increasing institutional deliveries. After five years of its implementation, the present paper attempts to highlight the areas where JSY has positively contributed; if not directly, indirectly in affecting maternal health and the psy...
Source: Journal of Health Management - June 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Purohit, N., Mehra, V., Govil, D. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Determinants of Employee Satisfaction with Services of Human Resource Departments in the Fujairah Medical District (FMD) of the United Arab Emirates
Conclusions and Recommendations:
This study shows that the employees were not satisfied with the services within Human Resource Departments in the FMD. It is recommended that FMD management overcome the determinant factors to reduce the level of dissatisfaction of their employees in the following four dimensions: organizational factors, work conditions/facility structure, training and career development. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - June 10, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Naqbi, S. A. A., Hamidi, S. A., Younis, M. Z., Rivers, P. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
