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21	A assistência em saúde mental: os sentidos de uma prática em construção / Mental Health Assistance: the senses of a practice in the process of construction Brêda, Mércia Zeviani 20 October 2006 (has links) Esta Pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar os sentidos construídos acerca da assistência prestada e recebida em Hospital Psiquiátrico e em Centro de Atenção Psicossocial, sob a ótica de usuários e profissionais de saúde deste último. Para tanto, adota a Estratégia Qualitativa de Pesquisa, dentro das perspectivas teóricas da pós-modernidade, do social construcionismo e da desinstitucionalização. Seus resultados foram ordenados sob dois eixos temáticos e respectivas categorias que emergiram da fala dos sujeitos. Seguindo a trajetória histórica da assistência em saúde mental, o primeiro eixo temático diz respeito à assistência em Hospital Psiquiátrico e, o segundo em serviço substitutivo do tipo CAPS. Em relação ao primeiro, na ótica dos usuários, este espaço assistencial é tido como aprisionamento, onde vêem perdida a sua autonomia e obrigados a seguir normas rígidas e repetitivas; espaço pobre em relações, afeto e escuta, mas rico em produção de violência. Para estes mesmos sujeitos, o CAPS surge como uma porta que se abre às relações, aos contratos, à convivência mais estreita e respeitosa, com possibilidades que podem ser ativadas para a maior compreensão da pessoa que vivencia o sofrimento psíquico e melhoria da assistência recebida. Entre os profissionais, apesar das experiências negativas no processo de formação em Hospital Psiquiátrico, há a defesa da sua manutenção para o atendimento do usuário em crise. Por outro lado, o CAPS, para a maioria destes profissionais, é uma nova e criativa experiência, com aprendizados e faltas sentidas que se traduzem ainda num processo incipiente, porém, em construção de uma nova prática em saúde mental. Ao final, é realizada uma análise das dimensões políticas, históricas e culturais locais que condicionam os sentidos produzidos acerca da assistência em saúde no serviço substitutivo em questão e, são apontados desafios a serem superados; responsabilidades a serem compartilhadas e, caminhos possíveis e necessários para a mudança paradigmática. / This research has the objective of investigating the senses constructed by users and professionals of health about the assistance given and received both in the Psychiatric Hospital and in a Center for Psycho-Social Attention (CAPS). It adopts the Qualitative Strategy of Research, under the theoretical perspectives of Postmodernity; Social-Constructionism and Des - institutionalization guidelines. Its results were organized in two themes and respective categories that emerged from the interviews. Following the historical trajectory of assistance in Mental Health, the first theme refers to the assistance in the Psychiatric Hospital and the second to the CAPS. In the perspective of the users, the Hospital is like a prision, where they lose their autonomy and follow rigid and repetitive norms; it is a space poor in relationships, affection and listening, but rich in violence. For the same subjects, the CAPS appears as a door that opens to relationships, contracts, and respectful acquaintanceship, with the possibility of better understanding of the person who suffers and improvement of the assistance. The professionals, in spite of negative experiences during their formation in the Hospital environment, defend its maintenance for the attendance of the user in crisis. On the other hand, the CAPS, for the majority of these professionals, is a new and creative experience. Although the learning and the achievements are still in an incipient process, they point to the construction of a new practice in Mental Health. The analysis of the categories covers political, historical and cultural aspects that condition the produced meanings concerning Mental Health assistance in open services. It also detects the challenges to be surpassed; responsibilities to be shared and the possible and necessary ways for a change of paradigm. construcionismo social desinstitucionalização desinstitutionalization health care delivery mental health services pós-modernidade posmodernity prestação de cuidados de saúde serviços de saúde mental socia construcionism
22	Does Patient-Centered Care affect Racial Disparities in Health? Slade, Catherine Putnam 30 November 2007 (has links) This thesis presents a challenge to policy initiatives that presume that patient-centered care will reduce racial disparities in health. Data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey were used to test patient assessment of provider behavior defined as patient-centered care according to the National Health Disparities Report of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the Department of Health and Human Services. Results indicated patient-centered care improves self-rated health status, but blacks still report worse health status than whites experiencing comparable patient-centered care. Further, black-white differences in patient-centered care had no affect on health status. Rival theories of black-white differences in health, including social class and health literacy, provided better explanations of disparities than assessment of provider behaviors. These findings suggest that policies designed to financially incentivize patient-centered care practices by providers should be considered with caution. While patient-centered care is better quality care, financial incentives could have a negative effect on minority health if providers are deterred from practices that serve disproportionate numbers of poor and less literate patients and their families. Measurement of the concept of patient-centered care in future health disparities research was also discussed. discrimination in medical care allied health personnel and patient health policy pay-for-performance health care delivery race interaction terms
23	A assistência em saúde mental: os sentidos de uma prática em construção / Mental Health Assistance: the senses of a practice in the process of construction Mércia Zeviani Brêda 20 October 2006 (has links) Esta Pesquisa tem como objetivo investigar os sentidos construídos acerca da assistência prestada e recebida em Hospital Psiquiátrico e em Centro de Atenção Psicossocial, sob a ótica de usuários e profissionais de saúde deste último. Para tanto, adota a Estratégia Qualitativa de Pesquisa, dentro das perspectivas teóricas da pós-modernidade, do social construcionismo e da desinstitucionalização. Seus resultados foram ordenados sob dois eixos temáticos e respectivas categorias que emergiram da fala dos sujeitos. Seguindo a trajetória histórica da assistência em saúde mental, o primeiro eixo temático diz respeito à assistência em Hospital Psiquiátrico e, o segundo em serviço substitutivo do tipo CAPS. Em relação ao primeiro, na ótica dos usuários, este espaço assistencial é tido como aprisionamento, onde vêem perdida a sua autonomia e obrigados a seguir normas rígidas e repetitivas; espaço pobre em relações, afeto e escuta, mas rico em produção de violência. Para estes mesmos sujeitos, o CAPS surge como uma porta que se abre às relações, aos contratos, à convivência mais estreita e respeitosa, com possibilidades que podem ser ativadas para a maior compreensão da pessoa que vivencia o sofrimento psíquico e melhoria da assistência recebida. Entre os profissionais, apesar das experiências negativas no processo de formação em Hospital Psiquiátrico, há a defesa da sua manutenção para o atendimento do usuário em crise. Por outro lado, o CAPS, para a maioria destes profissionais, é uma nova e criativa experiência, com aprendizados e faltas sentidas que se traduzem ainda num processo incipiente, porém, em construção de uma nova prática em saúde mental. Ao final, é realizada uma análise das dimensões políticas, históricas e culturais locais que condicionam os sentidos produzidos acerca da assistência em saúde no serviço substitutivo em questão e, são apontados desafios a serem superados; responsabilidades a serem compartilhadas e, caminhos possíveis e necessários para a mudança paradigmática. / This research has the objective of investigating the senses constructed by users and professionals of health about the assistance given and received both in the Psychiatric Hospital and in a Center for Psycho-Social Attention (CAPS). It adopts the Qualitative Strategy of Research, under the theoretical perspectives of Postmodernity; Social-Constructionism and Des - institutionalization guidelines. Its results were organized in two themes and respective categories that emerged from the interviews. Following the historical trajectory of assistance in Mental Health, the first theme refers to the assistance in the Psychiatric Hospital and the second to the CAPS. In the perspective of the users, the Hospital is like a prision, where they lose their autonomy and follow rigid and repetitive norms; it is a space poor in relationships, affection and listening, but rich in violence. For the same subjects, the CAPS appears as a door that opens to relationships, contracts, and respectful acquaintanceship, with the possibility of better understanding of the person who suffers and improvement of the assistance. The professionals, in spite of negative experiences during their formation in the Hospital environment, defend its maintenance for the attendance of the user in crisis. On the other hand, the CAPS, for the majority of these professionals, is a new and creative experience. Although the learning and the achievements are still in an incipient process, they point to the construction of a new practice in Mental Health. The analysis of the categories covers political, historical and cultural aspects that condition the produced meanings concerning Mental Health assistance in open services. It also detects the challenges to be surpassed; responsibilities to be shared and the possible and necessary ways for a change of paradigm. construcionismo social desinstitucionalização pós-modernidade prestação de cuidados de saúde serviços de saúde mental desinstitutionalization health care delivery mental health services posmodernity socia construcionism
24	Combining Conformance Quality and Experiential Quality in the Delivery of Health Care Senot, Claire 24 June 2014 (has links) No description available. Health Care Management Organizational Behavior conformance quality experiential quality combined quality health care delivery hospitals econometric analyses system GMM, multiple-case study
25	Improving health delivery in rural communities through the use of mobile phones : a case study in Windhoek Iyawa, Gloria Ejehiohen 11 1900 (has links) Poor health care delivery in rural communities is a major problem facing the health sector in Namibia. Patients who visit rural communities often wait on queues for several hours every day before they can be examined by a medical practitioner. This is detrimental to the health care process and impacts negatively on the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Mobile phones can however be employed as tools to improve work processes in such hospitals and as a result improve health care delivery in rural communities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the health care services provided to patients at Outpatient Departments (OPDs) in rural hospitals through the use of data collection instruments such as interviews, questionnaires, document analysis, expert validation and photographs in order to compile a Mobile Health Service Framework (MHSF) to improve healthcare delivery processes in OPDs. From an interpretive paradigm perspective, the qualitative design was used together with a case study approach. Three hospitals in rural communities were used as case studies. These were Okuryangava Hospital, Katutura Hospital and Khomasdal Hospital. Interviews were conducted and questionnaires distributed to the participants. The findings revealed that there is a high concentration of mobile phone usage in rural communities and there is a high usage of the SMS feature on such mobile phones. / Computing / M. Sc. (Computing) M-health Mobile phones Health care delivery Information and communication technology Outpatient departments Framework Activity theory Technology acceptance model Case study Rural hospitals 610.285096881
26	Improving health care delivery in rural communities through the use of mobile phones : a case study in Windhoek Iyawa, Gloria Ejehiohen 11 1900 (has links) Poor health care delivery in rural communities is a major problem facing the health sector in Namibia. Patients who visit rural communities often wait on queues for several hours every day before they can be examined by a medical practitioner. This is detrimental to the health care process and impacts negatively on the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Mobile phones can however be employed as tools to improve work processes in such hospitals and as a result improve health care delivery in rural communities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the health care services provided to patients at Outpatient Departments (OPDs) in rural hospitals through the use of data collection instruments such as interviews, questionnaires, document analysis, expert validation and photographs in order to compile a Mobile Health Service Framework (MHSF) to improve healthcare delivery processes in OPDs. From an interpretive paradigm perspective, the qualitative design was used together with a case study approach. Three hospitals in rural communities were used as case studies. These were Okuryangava Hospital, Katutura Hospital and Khomasdal Hospital. Interviews were conducted and questionnaires distributed to the participants. The findings revealed that there is a high concentration of mobile phone usage in rural communities and there is a high usage of the SMS feature on such mobile phones. / Computing / M. Sc. (Computing) M-health Mobile phones Health care delivery Information and communication technology Outpatient departments Framework Activity theory Technology acceptance model Case study Rural hospitals 610.285096881
27	Disruptive Transformations in Health Care: Technological Innovation and the Acute Care General Hospital Lucas, D. Pulane 24 April 2013 (has links) Advances in medical technology have altered the need for certain types of surgery to be performed in traditional inpatient hospital settings. Less invasive surgical procedures allow a growing number of medical treatments to take place on an outpatient basis. Hospitals face growing competition from ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs). The competitive threats posed by ASCs are important, given that inpatient surgery has been the cornerstone of hospital services for over a century. Additional research is needed to understand how surgical volume shifts between and within acute care general hospitals (ACGHs) and ASCs. This study investigates how medical technology within the hospital industry is changing medical services delivery. The main purposes of this study are to (1) test Clayton M. Christensen’s theory of disruptive innovation in health care, and (2) examine the effects of disruptive innovation on appendectomy, cholecystectomy, and bariatric surgery (ACBS) utilization. Disruptive innovation theory contends that advanced technology combined with innovative business models—located outside of traditional product markets or delivery systems—will produce simplified, quality products and services at lower costs with broader accessibility. Consequently, new markets will emerge, and conventional industry leaders will experience a loss of market share to “non-traditional” new entrants into the marketplace. The underlying assumption of this work is that ASCs (innovative business models) have adopted laparoscopy (innovative technology) and their unification has initiated disruptive innovation within the hospital industry. The disruptive effects have spawned shifts in surgical volumes from open to laparoscopic procedures, from inpatient to ambulatory settings, and from hospitals to ASCs. The research hypothesizes that: (1) there will be larger increases in the percentage of laparoscopic ACBS performed than open ACBS procedures; (2) ambulatory ACBS will experience larger percent increases than inpatient ACBS procedures; and (3) ASCs will experience larger percent increases than ACGHs. The study tracks the utilization of open, laparoscopic, inpatient and ambulatory ACBS. The research questions that guide the inquiry are: 1. How has ACBS utilization changed over this time? 2. Do ACGHs and ASCs differ in the utilization of ACBS? 3. How do states differ in the utilization of ACBS? 4. Do study findings support disruptive innovation theory in the hospital industry? The quantitative study employs a panel design using hospital discharge data from 2004 and 2009. The unit of analysis is the facility. The sampling frame is comprised of ACGHs and ASCs in Florida and Wisconsin. The study employs exploratory and confirmatory data analysis. This work finds that disruptive innovation theory is an effective model for assessing the hospital industry. The model provides a useful framework for analyzing the interplay between ACGHs and ASCs. While study findings did not support the stated hypotheses, the impact of government interventions into the competitive marketplace supports the claims of disruptive innovation theory. Regulations that intervened in the hospital industry facilitated interactions between ASCs and ACGHs, reducing the number of ASCs performing ACBS and altering the trajectory of ACBS volume by shifting surgeries from ASCs to ACGHs. 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