Democratizing Health Care

Author : the late Hans Löfgren,Evelyne de Leeuw,Michael Leahy
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857931818

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Democratizing Health by the late Hans Löfgren,Evelyne de Leeuw,Michael Leahy Pdf

This book examines the important role of consumer activism in health policy in different national contexts. In an age of shifting boundaries between state and civil society, consumer groups are potentially drivers of democratisation in the health domain. The expert contributors explore how their activities bring new dynamics to relations between service providers, the medical profession, government agencies, and other policy actors. This book is unique in comprehensivelyanalysing the opportunities and dilemmas of this type of activism, including ambiguous partnerships between consumer groups and stakeholders such as the pharmaceutical industry. These themes are explored within aninternationally comparative framework, with case studies from various countries.

Author : Marcy Cohen
Publisher : Canadian Centre Policy Alternatives
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Health care reform
ISBN : 9780886274092

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Democratizing Public Services: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions and Implications for Health Care Reform in BC by Marcy Cohen Pdf

Introduction; Four Case Studies of Democratic Reform; Lessons from the Four Case Studies; Linking Democratic Forms of of Governance to Progressive Health Care Reform in BC; Conclusion; ADDEND; A Proposal for Community Con ... ; Notes.

Author : Illan Nam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137537126

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Democratizing Health Care by Illan Nam Pdf

This book provides an account of milestone health insurance reforms that took place in Korea and Thailand, which significantly advanced equitable access and redistribution in health care. Thai and Korean welfare champions were deeply informed by their experiences as activists in their countries' democracy movements.

Author : Eric Von Hippel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262250177

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Democratizing Innovation by Eric Von Hippel Pdf

The process of user-centered innovation: how it can benefit both users and manufacturers and how its emergence will bring changes in business models and in public policy. Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology, increasingly can develop their own new products and services. These innovating users—both individuals and firms—often freely share their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation. He explains why and when users find it profitable to develop new products and services for themselves, and why it often pays users to reveal their innovations freely for the use of all.The trend toward democratized innovation can be seen in software and information products—most notably in the free and open-source software movement—but also in physical products. Von Hippel's many examples of user innovation in action range from surgical equipment to surfboards to software security features. He shows that product and service development is concentrated among "lead users," who are ahead on marketplace trends and whose innovations are often commercially attractive. Von Hippel argues that manufacturers should redesign their innovation processes and that they should systematically seek out innovations developed by users. He points to businesses—the custom semiconductor industry is one example—that have learned to assist user-innovators by providing them with toolkits for developing new products. User innovation has a positive impact on social welfare, and von Hippel proposes that government policies, including R&D subsidies and tax credits, should be realigned to eliminate biases against it. The goal of a democratized user-centered innovation system, says von Hippel, is well worth striving for. An electronic version of this book is available under a Creative Commons license.

Author : Illan Nam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137537126

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Democratizing Health Care by Illan Nam Pdf

This book provides an account of milestone health insurance reforms that took place in Korea and Thailand, which significantly advanced equitable access and redistribution in health care. Thai and Korean welfare champions were deeply informed by their experiences as activists in their countries' democracy movements.

Author : Michael Ferro,Robin Farmanfarmaian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798986507606

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How AI Can Democratize Healthcare by Michael Ferro,Robin Farmanfarmaian Pdf

Reimagining the Patient Experience and What it Means to Deliver HealthcareAI is revolutionizing the Where, When, What and How people access healthcare. Trained healthcare professionals and physical clinics are a limited and expensive resource. With location removed from the equation, shifting care to the point of the patient increases access and lowers the cost of delivery. The negligible incremental cost to provide an AI based software program per person makes AI infinitely scalable and accessible.The patient experience is changing, expectations are evolving, and the major healthcare stakeholders are recognizing healthcare can be delivered in new ways that improve patient outcomes. AI advancements across Vocal Biomarkers, Remote Patient Monitoring, Digital Therapeutics, Voice Recognition, Decision Support Tools, Virtual Reality, and Predictive Care are converging together to create Ambient Healthcare Computing: the ever-present healthcare assistant that monitors, analyzes, and provides the right interventions to the right person at the right time. This future of ambient computing promises a reimagined healthcare paradigm from sick-care to continuous-care.

Author : Caroline W. Lee,Michael McQuarrie,Edward T. Walker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781479880607

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Democratizing Inequalities by Caroline W. Lee,Michael McQuarrie,Edward T. Walker Pdf

Opportunities to “have your say,” “get involved,” and “join the conversation” are everywhere in public life. From crowdsourcing and town hall meetings to government experiments with social media, participatory politics increasingly seem like a revolutionary antidote to the decline of civic engagement and the thinning of the contemporary public sphere. Many argue that, with new technologies, flexible organizational cultures, and a supportive policymaking context, we now hold the keys to large-scale democratic revitalization. Democratizing Inequalities shows that the equation may not be so simple. Modern societies face a variety of structural problems that limit potentials for true democratization, as well as vast inequalities in political action and voice that are not easily resolved by participatory solutions. Popular participation may even reinforce elite power in unexpected ways. Resisting an oversimplified account of participation as empowerment, this collection of essays brings together a diverse range of leading scholars to reveal surprising insights into how dilemmas of the new public participation play out in politics and organizations. Through investigations including fights over the authenticity of business-sponsored public participation, the surge of the Tea Party, the role of corporations in electoral campaigns, and participatory budgeting practices in Brazil, Democratizing Inequalities seeks to refresh our understanding of public participation and trace the reshaping of authority in today’s political environment.

Author : Paul Crawford,Brian Brown,Andrea Charise
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032570342

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The Routledge Companion to Health Humanities by Paul Crawford,Brian Brown,Andrea Charise Pdf

Divided into two main sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections" - offers current thinking and definitions within health humanities, and "Applications" comprises a wide selection of a range of arts and humanities modalities from comedy and writing to dancing, yoga and horticulture.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309474290

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Building the Case for Health Literacy by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Roundtable on Health Literacy Pdf

The field of health literacy has evolved from one focused on individuals to one that recognizes that health literacy is multidimensional. While communicating in a health literate manner is important for everyone, it is particularly important when communicating with those with limited health literacy who also experience more serious medication errors, higher rates of hospitalization and use of the emergency room, poor health outcomes, and increased mortality. Over the past decade, research has shown that health literacy interventions can significantly impact various areas including health care costs, outcomes, and health disparities. To understand the extent to which health literacy has been shown to be effective at contributing to the Quadruple Aim of improving the health of communities, providing better care, providing affordable care, and improving the experience of the health care team, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a public workshop on building the case for health literacy. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop, and highlights important lessons about the role of health literacy in meeting the Quadruple Aim, case studies of organizations that have adopted health literacy, and discussions among the different stakeholders involved in making the case for health literacy.

Author : Liam Donaldson,Walter Ricciardi,Susan Sheridan,Riccardo Tartaglia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783030594039

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Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management by Liam Donaldson,Walter Ricciardi,Susan Sheridan,Riccardo Tartaglia Pdf

Implementing safety practices in healthcare saves lives and improves the quality of care: it is therefore vital to apply good clinical practices, such as the WHO surgical checklist, to adopt the most appropriate measures for the prevention of assistance-related risks, and to identify the potential ones using tools such as reporting & learning systems. The culture of safety in the care environment and of human factors influencing it should be developed from the beginning of medical studies and in the first years of professional practice, in order to have the maximum impact on clinicians' and nurses' behavior. Medical errors tend to vary with the level of proficiency and experience, and this must be taken into account in adverse events prevention. Human factors assume a decisive importance in resilient organizations, and an understanding of risk control and containment is fundamental for all medical and surgical specialties. This open access book offers recommendations and examples of how to improve patient safety by changing practices, introducing organizational and technological innovations, and creating effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable care systems, in order to spread the quality and patient safety culture among the new generation of healthcare professionals, and is intended for residents and young professionals in different clinical specialties.

Author : Julia Lane
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262542746

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Democratizing Our Data by Julia Lane Pdf

A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data. Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently high-quality information from trustworthy sources. In the new economy, wealth is generated by access to data; government's job is to democratize the data playing field. Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In Democratizing Our Data, Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy. Her book is a wake-up call to America to fix its broken public data system.

Author : Marion Laboure,Nicolas Deffrennes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674987227

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Democratizing Finance by Marion Laboure,Nicolas Deffrennes Pdf

We are only in the early stages of a broader revolution that will impact every aspect of the global economy, including commerce and government services. Coming financial technology innovations could improve the quality of life for all people. Over the past few decades, digital technology has transformed finance. Financial technology (fintech) has enabled more people with fewer resources, in more places around the world, to take advantage of banking, insurance, credit, investment, and other financial services. Marion Laboure and Nicolas Deffrennes argue that these changes are only the tip of the iceberg. A much broader revolution is under way that, if steered correctly, will lead to huge and beneficial social change. The authors describe the genesis of recent financial innovations and how they have helped consumers in rich and poor countries alike by reducing costs, increasing accessibility, and improving convenience and efficiency. They connect the dots between early innovations in financial services and the wider revolution unfolding today. Changes may disrupt traditional financial services, especially banking, but they may also help us address major social challenges: opening new career paths for millennials, transforming government services, and expanding the gig economy in developed markets. Fintech could lead to economic infrastructure developments in rural areas and could facilitate emerging social security and healthcare systems in developing countries. The authors make this case with a rich combination of economic theory and case studies, including microanalyses of the effects of fintech innovations on individuals, as well as macroeconomic perspectives on fintech's impact on societies. While celebrating fintech's achievements to date, Laboure and Deffrennes also make recommendations for overcoming the obstacles that remain. The stakes--improved quality of life for all people--could not be higher.

Author : Michael Ferro,Robin Farmanfarmaian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798986507613

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How AI Can Democratize Healthcare by Michael Ferro,Robin Farmanfarmaian Pdf

AI is revolutionizing the Where, When, What and How people access healthcare. Trained healthcare professionals and physical clinics are a limited and expensive resource. With location removed from the equation, shifting care to the point of the patient increases access and lowers the cost of delivery. The negligible incremental cost to provide an AI based software program per person makes AI infinitely scalable and accessible.The patient experience is changing, expectations are evolving, and the major healthcare stakeholders are recognizing healthcare can be delivered in new ways that improve patient outcomes. AI advancements across Vocal Biomarkers, Remote Patient Monitoring, Digital Therapeutics, Voice Recognition, Decision Support Tools, Virtual Reality, and Predictive Care are converging together to create Ambient Healthcare Computing: the ever-present healthcare assistant that monitors, analyzes, and provides the right interventions to the right person at the right time. This future of ambient computing promises a reimagined healthcare paradigm from sick-care to continuous-care.

Author : Alberto Cardelle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Democratization
ISBN : UCSD:31822028140432

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Democratization, Health Care Reform, and NGO-government Collaboration by Alberto Cardelle Pdf

Author : International Development Research Centre (Canada)
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780889369238

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Reshaping Health Care in Latin America by International Development Research Centre (Canada) Pdf

Reshaping Health Care in Latin America: A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Reform in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico