Health And Health Care Monitoring In A Period Of Considerable Social Change
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Health And Health Care Monitoring In A Period Of Considerable Social Change
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Author : Mikael Rahmqvist
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Health And Health Care Monitoring In A Period Of Considerable Social Change written by Mikael Rahmqvist and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Using Performance Monitoring To Improve Community Health
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1997-01-02
Using Performance Monitoring To Improve Community Health written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-02 with Medical categories.
This report summarizes the proceedings of a May 1995 workshop, which reviewed a variety of public and private activities in health-related performance monitoring. An opening presentation focused on the experiences in conducting and using an assessment of health status in New York City's Washington Heights/Inwood neighborhood. The subsequent presentation explored characteristics and limitations of health plan performance indicators and how they might be applied in a broader community context. The final presentation in this portion of the workshop reviewed the development of measures of public health practice for assessing the performance of local health departments and Illinois' application of such assessments in certification of its local health departments.
Evidence Based Medicine And The Changing Nature Of Health Care
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2008-09-06
Evidence Based Medicine And The Changing Nature Of Health Care written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-06 with Medical categories.
Drawing on the work of the Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine, the 2007 IOM Annual Meeting assessed some of the rapidly occurring changes in health care related to new diagnostic and treatment tools, emerging genetic insights, the developments in information technology, and healthcare costs, and discussed the need for a stronger focus on evidence to ensure that the promise of scientific discovery and technological innovation is efficiently captured to provide the right care for the right patient at the right time. As new discoveries continue to expand the universe of medical interventions, treatments, and methods of care, the need for a more systematic approach to evidence development and application becomes increasingly critical. Without better information about the effectiveness of different treatment options, the resulting uncertainty can lead to the delivery of services that may be unnecessary, unproven, or even harmful. Improving the evidence-base for medicine holds great potential to increase the quality and efficiency of medical care. The Annual Meeting, held on October 8, 2007, brought together many of the nation's leading authorities on various aspects of the issues - both challenges and opportunities - to present their perspectives and engage in discussion with the IOM membership.
The Future Of Public Health
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Author : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1988-01-15
The Future Of Public Health written by Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-15 with Medical categories.
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Monitoring And Evaluation In Health And Social Development
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Author : Stephen Bell (Social researcher)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Monitoring And Evaluation In Health And Social Development written by Stephen Bell (Social researcher) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Medical categories.
New approaches are needed to monitor and evaluate health and social development. Existing strategies tend to require expensive, time-consuming analytical procedures. The growing emphasis on results-based programming has resulted in evaluation being conducted in order to demonstrate accountability and success, rather than how change takes place, what works and why. The tendency to monitor and evaluate using log frames and their variants closes policy makers' and practitioners' eyes to the sometimes unanticipated means by which change takes place. Two recent developments hold the potential to transcend these difficulties and to lead to important changes in the way in which the effects of health and social development programming are understood. First, there is growing interest in ways of monitoring programmes and assessing impact that are more grounded in the realities of practice than many of the 'results-based' methods currently utilised. Second, there are calls for the greater use of interpretive and ethnographic methods in programme design, monitoring and evaluation. Responding to these concerns, this book illustrates the potential of interpretative methods to aid understanding and make a difference in real people's lives. Through a focus on individual and community perspectives, and locally-grounded explanations, the methods explored in this book offer a potentially richer way of assessing the relationships between intent, action and change in health and social development in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Social Analytics For Health Integration Intelligence And Monitoring
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Author : Xiang Ji
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Social Analytics For Health Integration Intelligence And Monitoring written by Xiang Ji and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Nowadays, patient-generated social health data are abundant and Healthcare is changing from the authoritative provider-centric model to collaborative and patient-oriented care. The aim of this dissertation is to provide a Social Health Analytics framework to utilize social data to solve the interdisciplinary research challenges of Big Data Science and Health Informatics. Specific research issues and objectives are described below. The first objective is semantic integration of heterogeneous health data sources, which can vary from structured to unstructured and include patient-generated social data as well as authoritative data. An information seeker has to spend time selecting information from many websites and integrating it into a coherent mental model. An integrated health data model is designed to allow accommodating data features from different sources. The model utilizes semantic linked data for lightweight integration and allows a set of analytics and inferences over data sources. A prototype analytical and reasoning tool called “Social InfoButtons” that can be linked from existing EHR systems is developed to allow doctors to understand and take into consideration the behaviors, patterns or trends of patients’ healthcare practices during a patient’s care. The tool can also shed insights for public health officials to make better-informed policy decisions. The second objective is near-real time monitoring of disease outbreaks using social media. The research for epidemics detection based on search query terms entered by millions of users is limited by the fact that query terms are not easily accessible by non-affiliated researchers. Publically available Twitter data is exploited to develop the Epidemics Outbreak and Spread Detection System (EOSDS). EOSDS provides four visual analytics tools for monitoring epidemics, i.e., Instance Map, Distribution Map, Filter Map, and Sentiment Trend to investigate public health threats in space and time. The third objective is to capture, analyze and quantify public health concerns through sentiment classifications on Twitter data. For traditional public health surveillance systems, it is hard to detect and monitor health related concerns and changes in public attitudes to health-related issues, due to their expenses and significant time delays. A two-step sentiment classification model is built to measure the concern. In the first step, Personal tweets are distinguished from Non-Personal tweets. In the second step, Personal Negative tweets are further separated from Personal Non-Negative tweets. In the proposed classification, training data is labeled by an emotion-oriented, clue-based method, and three Machine Learning models are trained and tested. Measure of Concern (MOC) is computed based on the number of Personal Negative sentiment tweets. A timeline trend of the MOC is also generated to monitor public concern levels, which is important for health emergency resource allocations and policy making. The fourth objective is predicting medical condition incidence and progression trajectories by using patients’ self-reported data on PatientsLikeMe. Some medical conditions are correlated with each other to a measureable degree (“comorbidities”). A prediction model is provided to predict the comorbidities and rank future conditions by their likelihood and to predict the possible progression trajectories given an observed medical condition. The novel models for trajectory prediction of medical conditions are validated to cover the comorbidities reported in the medical literature.
Improving Health In The Community
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1997-05-21
Improving Health In The Community written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-05-21 with Medical categories.
How do communities protect and improve the health of their populations? Health care is part of the answer but so are environmental protections, social and educational services, adequate nutrition, and a host of other activities. With concern over funding constraints, making sure such activities are efficient and effective is becoming a high priority. Improving Health in the Community explains how population-based performance monitoring programs can help communities point their efforts in the right direction. Within a broad definition of community health, the committee addresses factors surrounding the implementation of performance monitoring and explores the "why" and "how to" of establishing mechanisms to monitor the performance of those who can influence community health. The book offers a policy framework, applies a multidimensional model of the determinants of health, and provides sets of prototype performance indicators for specific health issues. Improving Health in the Community presents an attainable vision of a process that can achieve community-wide health benefits.
The Future Of The Public S Health In The 21st Century
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Author : Institute of Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2003-02-01
The Future Of The Public S Health In The 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-01 with Medical categories.
The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Communities In Action
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 2017-04-27
Communities In Action written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-27 with Medical categories.
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.
The Transformation Of Contemporary Health Care
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Author : Tiago Moreira
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-07
The Transformation Of Contemporary Health Care written by Tiago Moreira and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-07 with Health & Fitness categories.
The past three decades have seen enormous changes in the organisation of health care. This book explores the role of knowledge production and technology on these transformations, focusing on the market (attempts to embed principles of economic rationality and efficient use of resources in the shaping and delivery of health care), the laboratory (science, experiments and 'evidence' in the management of research, practice and policy) and the forum (the application of deliberative procedures and other forms of public consultation to health care decision making).