ICT Based Health Governance Practices: The Indian Experience
Electronic health commonly described as the health sector use of information and communication technology (ICT), has rapidly spread around the world. Increased use of ICT is stimulating the technology insertion into the health sector and is enabling the effective functioning of public health systems. A steering committee on health constituted by the Planning Commission suggested in its report for the 12th Plan (2012–17) that all the district hospitals, primary health centres and sub centres should be linked to leading tertiary care centres through telemedicine, Skype and similar audio visual media. The committee also...
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 13, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Nair, P. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
On the Move against Tuberculosis: Transforming the Fight-towards Elimination of Tuberculosis
This article attempts to examine the steps on the move against tuberculosis in terms of safe and reliable prevention, development of new tools for diagnosis and drugs for treatment, access of quality care and community outreach activities. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 13, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Muniyandi, M., Singh, N. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Exploring the Role of Organizational and Personal Resources in Explaining Nurse Performance in Public Hospitals in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
This article investigates the role of organizational and personal resources in explaining nurses’ in-role and extra-role performances. A sample of 124 nurses working for public hospitals in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) serves as the study setting. Results of the study reveal that organizational and personal resources included in the scope of this study cannot explain the nurses’ in-role and extra-role performances. Implications of the results are discussed and future research directions are offered. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - March 13, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Yavas, U., Karatepe, O. M., Babakus, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Self-Esteem, Job Satisfaction and Burnout between General and Psychiatric Nursing Staff: A Comparative Study
In this study, 30 psychiatric nurses and 30 general nurses were selected through a purposive sampling method. This was a one-time cross-sectional hospital-based study, data was collected during the period September, 2008 to November, 2008 and written consent was taken from the subjects. Statistical measures like descriptive statistics, Chi-square test, t-test and Pearson’s correlation-coefficient were used to analyze the data. In this study psychiatric nurses had been found to have higher level of self-esteem than general nurses. Nurses working in a general hospital had been observed to have a higher level of burnout...
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Mathew, J., Ram, D., Bhattacharjee, D., Sharma, A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Managerial Skills of Hospital Administrators: Case Study of Turkey
The aim of this study is to identify the decision-making and problem-solving skill levels of hospital administrators and to determine these skills’ interrelations with other administrative skills. The study comprised a population of 494 hospital administrators (head doctors, hospital managers, head nurses and their assistants) and was carried out in 26 hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health in the city centre of Ankara. Three hundred and thirty-four administrators (67 per cent of the population) participated in the study. To identify the decision-making, problem-solving and other administrative skill levels o...
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Toygar, S. A., Akbulut, Y. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Patient Satisfaction and Consumer Behavioural Intentions: An Outcome of Service Quality in Health Care Services
This study analyzes the suitability of service quality to improve customer satisfaction and in the process positively impacts behavioural intentions in the health care setting. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Murti, A., Deshpande, A., Srivastava, N. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Exploring Competitiveness of the Indian Health Sector: A Service Quality Perspective
Purpose
The Indian health care industry, on account of its cost advantage, is fast emerging as the first choice of patients throughout the globe. The modern day Indian health care industry, as a matter of fact, has a dual role to play. First, coming up to the expectations of global and elite Indian patients. Second, fulfilling its social obligations by catering to the needs of a huge lower-middle class of people suffering from various ailments. The litmus test for the Indian health care industry is the way in which strikes a balance in between its commercial and social obligations. The best way under the prevailing situati...
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Bhardwaj, S. S., Chawla, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Drug Cost Containment: Impact of a Drug Policy on Cost and Availability of Essential Medicines
In the absence of a well implemented Drug Policy, paucities in access, affordability, efficiency, quality and effectiveness of health services and limited resources continue to handicap the functioning of the health system. Higher accessibility and quality was taken to be synonymous with higher costs. The main objective of the study was to study the impact of a drug policy on availability of essential drugs and cost containment in a tertiary care hospital from 1996 through 2007. The interventions consisted of selection of list of essential drugs and procurement through centralized pooled system in 1996–1997, followed...
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Sharma, S., Gupta, M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Choice of Delivery Facility among Expectant Mothers in Ghana: Does Access to Health Insurance Matter?
This article examines the effect of health insurance ownership among expectant mothers on facility-based delivery, having controlled for a host of socio-economic and demographic characteristics. Home deliveries often endanger the health of women, where complications are often referred to appropriate health facilities only when the condition has already deteriorated. Consequently, this study examines the extent to which expectant mothers’ access to health insurance influence their choice of delivery facilities broadly categorized into public health facilities, private health facilities and home delivery. Methodologica...
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Nketiah-Amponsah, E., Arthur, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Changing Landscape of Health Care in India: Need for Capacity Building in Health Economics and Financing
This article attempts to address this knowledge gap through a systematic research by identifying various institutions offering courses in health economics across India, their intake capacity, areas of specialization and accreditation standards. The article also attempts to estimate the demand for professionals having expertise in health economics and intends to stimulate the discussion around pertinent issues around need and demand mismatch. (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Hasan, H., Pandey, A., Sharma, K., Zodpey, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Using Adult Children to Enhance Participation in Colorectal Cancer Screening
We pre-tested if a new communication strategy addressed to adult children could be effective in helping to improve colorectal cancer screening (CRCS) participation rates. In a first study we used a sample of undergraduate students who participated in an experiment with six different conditions to analyze their risk perceptions regarding CRCS and their family role. A second study with a portion of that sample was also achieved to give robustness to the findings. In addition, we achieved a third study using the first sample to replicate previous findings. In a fourth study we used a sample of participants above 50 years old ...
Source: Journal of Health Management - January 22, 2014 Category: Health Management Authors: Garcia, J. A. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
An Evaluation of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Odisha
An agrarian structure predominated by small and marginal farmers; and repeated natural calamities like droughts, floods and cyclones and poor infrastructural development in the hilly terrain of western and southern Odisha have an adverse effect on the health status of the people of Odisha. As a result of which the birth rate, death rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy rate, maternal mortality ratio, total fertility ratio, etc., of Odisha lags behind the national average. To improve the prevailing situation, the Government of Odisha launched the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) programme in the state on 17 June ...
Source: Journal of Health Management - September 16, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Patra, S. K., Murthy, D. S., Rath, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Investing in Company Wellness Programs: Does it make Financial Sense?
In this study, we explore one company’s wellness program and analyze the investment it has made in the wellness of its employees. We make the assumption, based on western economic models, that companies are concerned with the cost of company expenditures and their future return on investment (ROI). (Source: Journal of Health Management)
Source: Journal of Health Management - September 16, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Kocakulah, M. C., Cherry, A., Morris, J. T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
Improving the Method of GDP Estimation of Private Health Care Service in India
It is observed that in India there is a wide gap between health care service output and the health care expenditure. In 2004–05 health care expenditure was 4.25 per cent of the GDP whereas the output, measured in terms of GDP was 1.8 per cent of the total GDP. This poor inefficient performance might be a misleading picture due to the application of improper estimation methods. As a major part of the health care services in India is delivered by the private sector (consisting of private organized and private unorganized segments), serious attention is required for the method of estimation of private health care servic...
Source: Journal of Health Management - September 16, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Pal, S. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
A Study of Human Resource Development Climate in Government Health Centres in India
While Human Resource Management (HRM) has gained significant importance in healthcare, very few studies have focused at assessing the Human Resource Development (HRD) climate at the organizational level in Public Healthcare Delivery Centres. The present study is aimed as assessing the HRD climate in Public Health Centres consisting of Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Community Health Centres (CHCs) and District Hospitals (DHs) in two districts of India.
The assessment is based on perception of 42 Medical Officers (MOs) about the overall importance given to various dimensions of the HRD climate. The study instrument measured ...
Source: Journal of Health Management - September 16, 2013 Category: Health Management Authors: Purohit, B., Verma, R. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research
